Hunting the nature of IGR J17497-2821 with X-ray and NIR observations

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2006-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611344v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 5 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJL

Scientific paper

10.1086/513313

We report on a Chandra grating observation of the recently discovered hard X-ray transient IGR J17497-2821. The observation took place about two weeks after the source discovery at a flux level of about 20 mCrab in the 0.8-8 keV range. We extracted the most precise X-ray position of IGR J17497-2821, RA=17 49 38.037, DEC= -28 21 17.37 (90% uncertainty of 0.6"). We also report on optical and near infra-red photometric follow-up observations based on this position. With the multi-wavelength information at hand, we discuss the possible nature of the source proposing that IGR J17497-2821 is a low-mass X-ray binary, most likely hosting a black hole, with a red giant K-type companion.

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