The Peculiar X-ray Transient IGR 16358-4726

Details The Peculiar X-ray Transient IGR 16358-4726 The Peculiar X-ray Transient IGR 16358-4726

2003-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0307542v1

Astrophys.J.602:L45-L48,2004

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

4 pages, 3 figures, Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/382210

The new transient IGR 16358-4726 was discovered on 2003 March 19 with INTEGRAL. We detected the source serendipitously during our 2003 March 24 observation of SGR 1627-41 with the Chandra X-ray Observatory at the 1.7 x 10^{-10} ergs s^{-1} cm^{-2} flux level (2-10 keV) with a very high absorption column (N_H=3.3(1) x 10^{23} cm^{-2}) and a hard power law spectrum of index 0.5(1). We discovered a very strong flux modulation with a period of 5880(50) s and peak-to-peak pulse fraction of 70(6)% (2-10 keV), clearly visible in the x-ray data. The nature of IGR 16358-4726 remains unresolved. The only neutron star systems known with similar spin periods are low luminosity persistent wind-fed pulsars; if this is a spin period, this transient is a new kind of object. If this is an orbital period, then the system could be a compact Low Mass X-ray Binary (LMXB).

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