Galactic Center X-ray Binary Candidate Screams for Attention

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Dec 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aas...207.0603m&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society Meeting 207, #06.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 37, p.1159

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We present a candidate X-ray binary discovered as part of a spectroscopic survey of the Galactic Center. Observations with NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility reveal an object with strong emission lines, including Brackett-gamma and HeI. P-Cygni absorption of the He 2.058-micron line is indicative of probable wind activity around a massive star. The X-ray spectrum has very prominent Fe 6.7-keV emission. We compare the source to both known wind-colliding binaries and high-mass X-ray binaries and tentatively conclude that this is more likely to be a compact object binary. This research is funded in part by an NSF CAREER Award.

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