Serendipitous alerts

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Welcome to the XMM-Newton serendipitously detected X-ray transient alerts page. You will find the latest transients to be detected by chance in the EPIC field of view, and for which the PI has given prior accord for this information to be made public. Please feel free to follow-up on any of these sources.


04
apr 2025

Coordinates:

17:46:29 -29:03:09

Time: 11:25:48
Exposure time: 52523 s
Position Error: 0.75"
Flux: 6.7e-15 ± 3.4e-15 erg cm2 s-1
EPIC detection maximum likelihood: 101.4
Hardness ratio: -0.94
Long term variability: 8.6
Simbad: Unknown (CXOGCS J174629.4-290311)
Spectral warning: True
Alert type: Past Variability
29
mar 2025

Coordinates:

18:57:00 -38:07:44

Time: 05:18:04
Exposure time: 70830 s
Position Error: 0.49"
Flux: 7.1e-13 ± 6.4e-14 erg cm2 s-1
EPIC detection maximum likelihood: 623.4
Hardness ratio: 0.99
Long term variability: 7.9
Simbad: Not in Simbad
Spectral warning: True
Alert type: High Flux State
29
mar 2025

Coordinates:

18:56:51 -38:03:46

Time: 05:18:04
Exposure time: 70830 s
Position Error: 0.52"
Flux: 1.4e-13 ± 2.1e-14 erg cm2 s-1
EPIC detection maximum likelihood: 505.6
Hardness ratio: 0.53
Long term variability: 7.5
Simbad: Not in Simbad
Spectral warning: False
Alert type: Past Variability
07
feb 2025

Coordinates:

05:23:46 -69:41:50

Time: 01:29:58
Exposure time: 42747 s
Position Error: 1.11"
Flux: 4.1e-14 ± 1.2e-14 erg cm2 s-1
EPIC detection maximum likelihood: 35.1
Hardness ratio: 0.91
Long term variability: 37.9
Simbad: Unknown (OGLE LMC-LPV-50288)
Spectral warning: True
Alert type: Past Variability