XTE J1701-462: possible radio counterpart
ATel #710; Rob Fender (Southampton), Bob Sault (ATNF), Michael Dahlem (ATNF)
on 25 Jan 2006; 10:19 UT
Credential Certification: Rob Fender (rpf@phys.soton.ac.uk)
Subjects: Radio, Binary, Black Hole, Neutron Star, Transient
An observation of the field of the new X-ray transient XTE J1701-462
(ATEL #696, #702, #708) was performed with the Australia Telescope
Compact Array on 2006 Jan 22. The observation was made simultaneously
at 4.8 and 8.6 GHz over a period of approximately 75 minutes beginning
21:45 UT.
A radio source is detected at the location (within uncertainties of
order one arcsec) of the infrared counterpart reported by Maitra et
al. (ATEL #706), with a flux density of approximately 0.5 mJy at 4.8 GHz.
If associated with the X-ray transient, this radio emission is likely to
be the signature of a relativistic ejection event.
