A Search for the Optical Counterpart of the Luminous X-ray Source in NGC 6652

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1998-05-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9805280v1

Astron.J. 116 (1998) 1301

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

15 pages including 5 figures and no tables. Accepted for publication in The Astronomical Journal; to appear in Volume 116, Sep

Scientific paper

10.1086/300512

We examine images of the field of X1832-330, the luminous (Lx ~ 10^36 erg/s) X-ray burst source near the center of the globular cluster NGC 6652, in order to identify the optical counterpart for further study. U and B ground-based images allow us to set a limit M_B > 3.5 for the counterpart at the time of those observations, provided that the color is (U-B)_0 ~ -1, similar to the sources known in other clusters. Archival Hubble Space Telescope observations survey most but not all of the 1 sigma X-ray error circle, and allow us to set limits M_B > 5.9 and M_B > 5.2 in the WF/PC and WFPC2 regions, respectively. In the WF/PC images we do weakly detect a faint object with UV-excess, but it is located 11.7'' from the ROSAT X-ray position. This considerable (2.3 sigma) discrepancy in position suggests that this candidate be treated with caution, but it remains the only reasonable one advanced thus far. We measure for this star m_439 = 20.2 +- 0.2, (m_336 - m_439) = -0.5 +- 0.2, and estimate M_B = 5.5, (U-B)_0 = -0.9, similar to other known optical counterparts. If this candidate is not the identification, our limits imply that the true counterpart, not yet identified, is probably the optically-faintest cluster source yet known, or alternatively that it did not show significant UV excess at the time of these observations. Finally, we assess the outlook for the identification of the remaining luminous globular cluster X-ray sources.

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