The Spectrum and Accurate Location of GRS 1758-258

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2001-07-24

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0107469v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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6 pages. To appear in "The High Energy Universe at Sharp Focus: Chandra Science", proceedings of the 113th Meeting of the Astr

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We observed the "micro-quasar" GRS 1758-258 four times with Chandra. Two HRC-I observations were made in 2000 September-October spanning an intermediate-to-hard spectral transition (identified with RXTE). Another HRC-I and an ACIS/HETGS observation were made in 2001 March following a hard-to-soft transition to a very low flux state. The accurate position (J2000) of the X-ray source is RA= 18 01 12.40, Dec= -25 44 36.0 (90% confidence radius = 0".6), consistent with the purported variable radio counterpart. All images are consistent with GRS 1758-258 being a point source, indicating that any bright jet is less than ~1 light-month in projected length, assuming a distance of 8.5 kpc. The March spectrum is well-fit with a multi-color disk-blackbody with an inner temperature of 0.50+/-0.01 keV, interstellar absorption of nH = (1.59 +/- 0.05)x10^22 cm^-2, and (un-absorbed) 1-10 keV luminosity of (4.5x10^36)(D/8.5kpc)^2 ergs/sec. No narrow emission lines are apparent in the spectrum and upper limits to line equivalent widths are given.

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