New hard X-ray sources discovered in the ongoing INTEGRAL Galactic plane survey after 14 yr of observations
Abstract
The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) continues to successfully work in orbit after its launch in 2002. The mission provides the deepest ever survey of hard X-ray sources throughout the Galaxy at energies above 20 keV. We report on a catalogue of new hard X-ray source candidates based on the latest sky maps comprising 14 yr of data acquired with the IBIS telescope onboard INTEGRAL in the Galactic Plane (|b| < 17.5°). The current catalogue includes in total 72 hard X-ray sources detected at S/N > 4.7σ and not known to previous INTEGRAL surveys. Among them, 31 objects have also been detected in the on-going all-sky survey by the BAT telescope of the Swift observatory. For 26 sources on the list, we suggest possible identifications: 21 active galactic nuclei, two cataclysmic variables, two isolated pulsars or pulsar wind nebulae and one supernova remnant; 46 sources from the catalogue remain unclassified.
- Publication:
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
- Pub Date:
- May 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1093/mnras/stx1276
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1704.03364
- Bibcode:
- 2017MNRAS.470..512K
- Keywords:
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- surveys - X-rays: general;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 7 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. Submitted to MNRAS Letters, comments welcome