Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients: A new class of massive X-ray binaries

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Oct 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005xmm..prop...99s&link_type=abstract

XMM-Newton Proposal ID #04024704

Computer Science

White Dwarf Binaries, Neutron Star Binaries, Cataclysmic Variables, Ulxs, Black Holes, Sax J1818.6-170, Xte J1901+014, Xmm-Newton Proposal 04024704

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At least four x-ray binaries (XTE J1739-302, IGR J17544-2619, IGR J16465-4507, and AX J1841.0-0536) have been established as Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients, with outbursts lasting only hours, spectra requiring a BH or NS accretor, faint quiescent emission, and O/B supergiant companions. Since they are difficult to detect and the list is rapidly growing, SFXTs may be the dominant population of x-ray binaries born with two very massive components. They may therefore be the primary progenitors of NS/NS or NS/BH mergers, and key to our understanding of short/hard gamma-ray bursts and the search for sources of gravitational waves. We propose to study the quiescent emission of four candidate sources and use the Newton localizations to test whether a (rare) OB supergiant is in the field.

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