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.


19
mar 2026

Coordinates:

03:17:31.1 -66:43:23.1

Time: 10:38:22
Exposure time: 14553 s
Position Error: 0.89"
Flux: 5.3e-14 ± 1.5e-14 erg cm2 s-1
EPIC detection maximum likelihood: 146.8
Hardness ratio: 0.49
Long term variability: 7.3
Simbad: Not in Simbad
Spectral warning: True
Alert type: Past Variability
17
mar 2026

Coordinates:

17:12:41.9 -24:01:09.2

Time: 07:02:00
Exposure time: 89151 s
Position Error: 0.91"
Flux: 5.2e-14 ± 1.6e-14 erg cm2 s-1
EPIC detection maximum likelihood: 143.9
Hardness ratio: -0.27
Long term variability: 5.3
Simbad: Unknown (VVVX J171241.45-240115.6)
Spectral warning: True
Alert type: Past Variability
17
mar 2026

Coordinates:

17:13:03.7 -24:02:41.7

Time: 07:02:00
Exposure time: 89151 s
Position Error: 0.89"
Flux: 1.7e-14 ± 6.4e-15 erg cm2 s-1
EPIC detection maximum likelihood: 108.1
Hardness ratio: -0.87
Long term variability: 9.7
Simbad: Unknown (2XMM J171303.7-240242)
Spectral warning: True
Alert type: Past Variability
15
mar 2026

Coordinates:

14:39:35.3 -62:42:21.4

Time: 01:43:31
Exposure time: 72086 s
Position Error: 0.09"
Flux: 1.3e-12 ± 2.6e-14 erg cm2 s-1
EPIC detection maximum likelihood: 28233.6
Hardness ratio: 0.51
Long term variability: 22.2
Simbad: Unknown (2XMM J143935.1-624219)
Spectral warning: False
Alert type: High Flux State