Infrared and X-ray variability of the transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsar XTE J1810-197

Details Infrared and X-ray variability of the transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsar XTE J1810-197 Infrared and X-ray variability of the transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsar XTE J1810-197

2004-08-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0408087v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted by A&A Letters

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:200400052

We report on observations aimed at searching for flux variations from the proposed IR counterpart of the Anomalous X-ray Pulsar XTE J1810-197. These data, obtained in March 2004 with the adaptive optics camera NAOS-CONICA at the ESO VLT, show that the candidate proposed by Israel et al. (2004) was fainter by Delta H=0.7+/-0.2 and Delta Ks=0.5+/-0.1 with respect to October 2003, confirming it as the IR counterpart of XTE J1810-197. We also report on an XMM-Newton observation carried out the day before the VLT observations. The 0.5-10 keV absorbed flux of the source was 2.2x10^-11 erg/s/cm^2, which is less by a factor of about two compared to the previous XMM-Newton observation on September 2003. Therefore, we conclude that a similar flux decrease took place in the X-ray and IR bands. We briefly discuss these results in the framework of the proposed mechanism(s) responsible for the IR variable emission of Anomalous X-ray Pulsars.

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