Spectroscopic identication of INTEGRAL high-energy sources with VLT/ISAAC
Abstract
INTEGRAL has been observing the γ-ray sky for 15 years and has discovered many high-energy sources of various nature. Among them, active galactic nuclei (AGN), low or high-mass X-ray binaries (LMXB and HMXB) and cataclysmic variables (CV) are rather difficult to differentiate from one another at high energies and require further optical or near-infrared observations to constrain their exact nature. Using near-infrared photometric and spectroscopic data from ESO VLT/ISAAC, we aim to reveal the nature of 14 high-energy INTEGRAL sources and improve the census of X-ray binaries. By comparing their spectral features to stellar spectra atlases, we identified 5 new CVs, 2 low or intermediate mass X-ray binaries, 2 HMXBs and 5 AGNs.
- Publication:
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High-mass X-ray Binaries: Illuminating the Passage from Massive Binaries to Merging Compact Objects
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- DOI:
- Bibcode:
- 2019IAUS..346...49F
- Keywords:
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- infrared: stars;
- X-rays: binaries;
- binaries: general