Discovery of a new kind of explosive X-ray transient near M86

We present the discovery of a new type of explosive X-ray flash in Chandra images of the old elliptical galaxy M86. This unique event is characterized by the peak luminosity of 6 × 1042 erg s−1 for the distance of M86, the presence of precursor events, the timescale between the precursors and the ma...

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Main Authors: Jonker, P., Glennie, A., Heida, M., Maccarone, T., Hodgkin, S., Nelemans, G., Miller-Jones, James, Torres, M., Fender, R.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing, Inc. 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/23638