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Sep 2006
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006head....9.0156t&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #9, #1.56; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.338
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With recent and archival Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer observations of the heavily absorbed X-ray pulsars IGR J17252-3616 (hereafter J17252) and IGR J16393-4643 (hereafter J16393), we carried out a pulse timing analysis to determine the orbital parameters of the two binary systems. We find that both INTEGRAL sources are High Mass X-ray Binary (HMXB) systems. The orbital solution to J17252 has a projected semi-major axis of 101 ± 3 lt-s and a period of 9.7403 ± 0.0004 days, implying a mass function of 11.7 ± 1.2 M_sun. The orbital solution to J16393, on the other hand, is not unambiguously known due to weaker and less-consistent pulsations. The most likely orbital solution has a projected semi-major axis of 43 ± 2 lt-s and an orbital period of 3.6875 ± 0.0006 days, yielding a mass function of 6.5 ± 1.1 M_sun. The orbits of both sources are consistent with circular, with e < 0.2-0.25 and the 90% confidence level. The orbital and pulse periods of each source place the systems in the region of the Corbet diagram populated by supergiant wind accretors. J17252 is an eclipsing binary system, and provides an exciting opportunity to obtain a neutron star mass measurement.
in't Zand Johannes
Rothschild Richard
Thompson Thomas
Tomsick John
Walter Robert
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