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<i>SWIFT</i> DISCOVERY OF A NEW SOFT GAMMA REPEATER, SGR J1745โ€“29, NEAR SAGITTARIUS A*

<i>SWIFT</i> DISCOVERY OF A NEW SOFT GAMMA REPEATER, SGR J1745โ€“29, NEAR SAGITTARIUS A*

Starting in 2013 February, Swift has been performing short daily monitoring observations of the G2 gas cloud near Sgr A* with the X-Ray Telescope to determine whether the cloud interaction leads to an increase in the flux from the Galactic center. On 2013 April 24 Swift detected an order of โ€ฆ