Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Aug 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004head....8.4004w&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #8, #40.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.1205
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
GRO J2058+42 is a 195-s transient X-ray pulsar discovered in 1995 with BATSE. In 1996, RXTE located GRO J2058+42 to a 90% confidence error circle with a 4' radius. On 20 February 2004, the region including the error circle was observed with Chandra ACIS-I. No X-ray sources were detected within the error circle, however, 2 faint sources were detected in the ACIS-I field-of-view. We obtained follow-up optical observations of the brightest object, that had about 64 X-ray counts and was just 0.3' outside the error cirle. The optical spectrum contained a strong H-alpha line and corresponded to an infrared object in the 2MASS catalog, indicating a Be/X-ray system. Although X-ray pulsations were undetectable due to the low count rate, this object is most likely the optical counterpart to GRO J2058+42. We present results from the Chandra observation and from the optical observations.
Coe Malcolm J.
Finger Mark H.
Greiner Jochen
Papamastorakis Giannis
Reig Pablo
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