INTEGRAL reveals a new class of obscured high mass X-ray binaries: focus on IGR J16318-4848

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Jun 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005chjas...5..104c&link_type=abstract

Chinese Journal of Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 5 Supplement, p. 104-109

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Stars: Circumstellar Matter, Emission-Line, Be-X-Rays: Binaries, Igr J16318-4848

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The X-ray source IGR J16318-4848 is the first source discovered by INTEGRAL on 2003, January 29, exhibiting a very high column density. On 2003, February, 23-25 we triggered a Target of Opportunity (ToO) program using the EMMI (optical) and SOFI (near-infrared, NIR) instruments on the New Technology Telescope of the European Southern Observatory (NTT/ESO La Silla). We discovered the optical counterpart and confirmed the NIR candidate. NIR spectroscopy revealed a large amount of emission lines, including forbidden iron and P-Cygni profiles. We show that the source is a High Mass X-ray binary (HMXB) at a distance between 0.9 and 6.2 kpc, the mass donor being an early-type star, probably a sgB[e] star, surrounded by a dense and absorbing circumstellar material. This would make the second HMXB with a sgB[e] after CI Cam. Other sources, discovered by INTEGRAL near IGR J16318-4848 in the direction of the Norma arm, present the same characteristics. Such sources may represent a different evolutionary state of X-ray binaries previously undetected with the lower energy space telescopes; if it is so, a new class of strongly absorbed X-ray binaries is being unveiled by INTEGRAL.

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