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.


31
aug 2025

Coordinates:

13:58:09.7 -64:44:05.0

Time: 14:23:18
Exposure time: 18083 s
Position Error: 0.50"
Flux: 7.0e-14 ± 7.6e-15 erg cm2 s-1
EPIC detection maximum likelihood: 420.6
Hardness ratio: 0.58
Long term variability: 4451.3
Simbad: Unknown (V* BW Cir)
Spectral warning: False
Alert type: Low Flux State
30
aug 2025

Coordinates:

05:03:37.8 -69:24:10.0

Time: 06:03:46
Exposure time: 40895 s
Position Error: 0.01"
Flux: 4.4e-11 ± 2.7e-14 erg cm2 s-1
EPIC detection maximum likelihood: 5160213.5
Hardness ratio: -1.00
Long term variability: 34.3
Simbad: Unknown (2MASS J05033739-6924111)
Spectral warning: True
Alert type: First Detection
29
aug 2025

Coordinates:

15:55:38.6 +11:20:35.5

Time: 14:12:09
Exposure time: 25154 s
Position Error: 0.83"
Flux: 1.9e-13 ± 3.9e-14 erg cm2 s-1
EPIC detection maximum likelihood: 227.9
Hardness ratio: 0.53
Long term variability: 7.9
Simbad: Galaxy (SDSS J155538.56+112034.4)
Spectral warning: True
Alert type: Past Variability
29
aug 2025

Coordinates:

15:55:38.4 +11:21:40.2

Time: 14:12:09
Exposure time: 25154 s
Position Error: 0.92"
Flux: 1.6e-13 ± 4.0e-14 erg cm2 s-1
EPIC detection maximum likelihood: 149.1
Hardness ratio: 0.54
Long term variability: 10.1
Simbad: Unknown (SDSS J155538.46+112139.5)
Spectral warning: True
Alert type: High Flux State