Multiwavelength study of the flaring activity of Sagittarius A in 2014 February−April

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Table 6

Characteristics of the X-ray flares observed by XMM-Newton in 2014 after removing the magnetar contribution.

Flare	Date	Start time^a	End time^a	Duration	total^b	Peak^c
(#)	(yy-mm-dd)	(hh:mm:ss)	(hh:mm:ss)	(s)	(cts)	(count s^-1)

1	2014-03-10	16:44:48	19:05:07	8418.44	900 ± 60	0.159 ± 0.032
2	2014-04-02	16:52:38	17:08:42	964.91	180 ± 12	0.252 ± 0.058

Notes.

^(a)

Start and end times (UT) of the flare time interval defined by the Bayesian-blocks algorithm (Scargle et al. 2013b) on the EPIC/pn data;

^(b)

Total EPIC/pn counts in the 2−10 keV energy band obtained in the smoothed light curve during the flare interval (determined by Bayesian blocks) after subtraction of the non-flaring level obtained with the Bayesian-blocks algorithm;

^(c)

EPIC/pn count rate in the 2−10 keV energy band at the flare peak (smoothed light curves) after subtraction of the non-flaring level.

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