Bibcode
Kennea, Jamie A.; Kouveliotou, Chryssa; Younes, George A.; Miller, Jon M.; Palmer, David; Krimm, Hans A.; Linares, M.
Referencia bibliográfica
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #14, #122.05
Fecha de publicación:
8
2014
Número de citas
0
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0
Descripción
GRO J1744-28, AKA "The Bursting Pulsar", first discovered in 1995 by the
Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, has lay dormant since its 2nd outburst in
1996. On January 18th, 2014, it was detected again by Swift's Burst
Alert Telescope and by the Japanese MAXI scanning X-ray telescope.
Swift's BAT triggered many times on the bright bursts seen from GRO
J1744-28 during this latest outburst, and detected over 600 bursts. The
reappearance of this exciting transient triggered a high cadence
monitoring program by Swift/XRT to provide flux, timing and spectral
coverage of the entire outburst. Here we report on these observations of
this new outburst by Swift's BAT and XRT, including analysis of burst
rates, periodicity and pulse profile. We also show the spectral
evolution of the source as seen by Swift/XRT throughout the latest
outburst.