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Recent Chandra and Swift Observations of New X-ray Transients in M31
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Recent Chandra and Swift Observations of New X-ray Transients in M31

A. K. H. Kong, J. L. Galache, M. R. Garcia, R. di Stefano, F. Primini, J. Liu, B. Patel, W. Pietsch, M. Orio and T. Nelson
The Astronomer's Telegram
2009

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X-ray;Binaries;Black Holes;Transients
We report recent observations of M31 taken with Chandra/ACIS-I on 2009-05-29.1 UT and with Swift/XRT on 2009-06-07.08 UT. In the 4ks Chandra/ACIS-I image, we found a faint transient located at R.A.(J2000)=00h42m26.7s, Decl. (J2000)=+41:13:46.5 with a 90% absolute error of 0.6 arcsec. It is therefore identified as CXOM31 J004226.7+411346. The unbinned energy spectrum can be fit (using C statistic) with an absorbed power-law model (Gamma=2.1, N_H fixed at 7e20 cm^-2).

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