A Chandra observation of GRO J1744-28: the bursting pulsar in quiescence

Details A Chandra observation of GRO J1744-28: the bursting pulsar in quiescence A Chandra observation of GRO J1744-28: the bursting pulsar in quiescence

2002-01-17

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0201293v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters, 20 February 2002

Scientific paper

10.1086/340332

We present a Chandra/ACIS-I observation of GRO J1744-28. We detected a source at a position of R.A = 17h 44m 33.09s and Dec. = -28degr 44' 27.0'' (J2000.0; with a 1sigma error of ~0.8 arcseconds), consistent with both ROSAT and interplanetary network localizations of GRO J1744-28 when it was in outburst. This makes it likely that we have detected the quiescent X-ray counterpart of GRO J1744-28. Our Chandra position demonstrates that the previously proposed infrared counterpart is not related to GRO J1744-28. The 0.5-10 keV luminosity of the source is 2 - 4 x 10^{33} erg/s (assuming the source is near the Galactic center at a distance of 8 kpc). We discuss our results in the context of the quiescent X-ray emission of pulsating and non-pulsating neutron star X-ray transients.

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