Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-03-12
Astron.Lett. 29 (2003) 587-593
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Accepted for publication in Astronomy Letters
Scientific paper
10.1134/1.1607496
The hard X-ray source IGR J16318-4848 was recently discovered by the INTEGRAL observatory (Courvoisier et al.) and subsequently uncovered in archival data of ASCA observations in 1994 (Murakami et al.). We present results of a detailed analysis of the ASCA data. The spectrum of the source in the 0.5--10 keV band is extraordinarily hard and is virtually unobservable below 4 keV because of strong photoabsorption NHL L>4e23 cm^-2. The 4--10 keV emission is dominated by a Kalpha line of neutral or weakly ionized iron with an equivalent width of \~2.5 keV. There is also an indication for a second line at ~7 keV. Our analysis of archival observations of the IGR J16318-4848 infrared counterpart, discovered by Foschini et al., shows that the point source is detected at different wavelengths in the 1--15 micron range. The available data suggest that IGR J16318-4848 is an X-ray binary system enshrouded by a dense envelope. It is possible that the source is a wind-fed high-mass X-ray binary similar to GX 301-2. We argue that IGR J16318-4848 might be the first representative of a previously unknown population of highly absorbed galactic X-ray sources, which remained undetected with X-ray missions before INTEGRAL.
Gilfanov Marat
Revnivtsev Mike
Sazonov Sergei
Sunyaev Rachid
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