Bibcode
Maccarone, Thomas J.; Russell, D. M.; Glamorgan, Fraser Lewis
Bibliographical reference
The Astronomer's Telegram, #4247
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7
2012
Citations
2
Refereed citations
2
Description
We report on a rapid fading of GX 339-4 to its lowest ever observed
X-ray flux level. In response to the recent report of the start of an
outburst of GX 339-4 (ATel #4162), we submitted a Swift TOO to check its
X-ray flux. The observations were performed on July 8, 2012, from
14:00:59 to 15:53:55 UT. The live on-source exposure time of the
observations was 2193 seconds. To our surprise, the source was not
significantly detected, with a count rate of 0.0025+-0.0017 cts/sec from
0.3-10 keV, using Phil Evans' standard pipeline (Evans et al.