Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2006-07-17
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20065029
In the last years, the persistent source 1E 1743.1-2843 has been observed in the X-rays, but never above 20 keV. In previous works, it was stressed that a possible high energy emission could give further indications on the accreting object nature which remains still unknown. We present here more than two years of 1E 1743.1-2843 monitoring with INTEGRAL/IBIS as well as public XMM-Newton and Chandra X-ray observations. The temporal study in the 20-40 keV band shows a rather constant flux on few months time scale. Based on this result we have performed the broad-band spectral analysis using EPIC/IBIS non simultaneous data and ACIS-I/IBIS data collected during 2004. In ~2 Ms, we report a detection of 6 sigma in the energy range 35-70 keV. The first broad-band study (2-70 keV) shows a steep slope (~3) and a black body temperature of 1.7 keV. Combining spectral parameters and discussion about the luminosity evaluations for different possible distances, our conclusions are in favour of a LMXB system with a neutron star at distance higher than the Galactic Centre, even though a firm conclusion can not be stated.
Bazzano Angela
Cocchi Massimo
de Cesare Giovanni
Del Santo Melania
Paizis Ada
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