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Nicola La Palombara Patrizia Caraveo Roberto Mignani Evanthia Hatziminaoglou Giovanni F. Bignami Mischa Schirmer 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2005,297(1-4):335-344
Most counterparts of the identified low-latitude γ-ray sources are isolated neutron stars (INSs). Since INSs are characterized by an extremely high value of f
X/f
opt, a systematic X-ray/optical coverage of the fields of unidentified low-latitude γ-ray sources is the best way to unveil INS
counterparts of unidentified sources. Since the low-latitude sources are heavily affected by the interstellar absorption in
both the X-ray and optical bands, we decided to apply the above strategy to two middle-latitude EGRET sources, which could belong to a local galactic population: 3EG J0616-3310 and 3EG J1249-8330. Here we report on the global
X-ray characterization of about 300 objects, on their candidate optical counterparts and on the preliminary results of their
identification. 相似文献
2.
Alberto Carramiñana 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,309(1-4):373-378
The Cygnus region of the Milky Way is prolific in star formation and presents extended diffuse γ-ray emission with a few γ-ray point sources. Among them is 3EG J2020+4017, the brightest of the unidentified EGRET sources, positionally coincident
with the supernova remnant G78.2+2.1. Even though the EGRET and multi-wavelength data have not provided a conclusive identification
for this γ-ray loud, but otherwise faint object, the evidence favors a pulsar like source. The EGRET photon data lack the signal-to-noise
ratio required for a period search, but will serve as a valuable timing baseline extension in the case that GLAST confirms the pulsar nature of the γ-Cygni source.
Work sponsored by CONACyT grant SEP-2003-C02-42611. 相似文献
3.
Statistical studies indicate that the 271 point sources of high-energy gamma rays belong to two groups: a galactic population
and an isotropic extragalactic population. Many unidentified extragalactic sources are certainly blazars, and it is the intention
of this work to uncover gamma-ray blazars missed by previous attempts. Until recently, searches for blazar counterparts to
unidentified EGRET sources have focused on finding AGN that have 5-GHz radio flux densities S
5 near or above 1 Jy. However, the recent blazar identification of 3EG J2006-2321 (S
5 = 260 mJy) and other work suggest that careful studies of weaker flat-spectrum sources may be fruitful. In this spirit, error
circles of four high-latitude unidentified EGRET sources have been searched for 5-GHz sources. The gamma-ray sources are 3EG
J1133+0033, 3EG J1212+2304, 3EG J1222+2315, and 3EG J1227+4302. Within the error contours of each of the four sources are
found six radio candidates; by observing the positions of the radio sources with the 0.81-m Tenagra II telescope it is determined
that 14 of these 24 radio sources have optical counterparts with R < 22. Eight of these from two different EGRET sources have been observed in the B, V, and R bands in more than one epoch and the analysis of these data is ongoing. Any sources that are found to be variable will be
the objects of multi-epoch polarimetry studies. 相似文献
4.
O. Reimer † K.T.S. Brazier A. Carramiñana G. Kanbach P.L. Nolan D.J. Thompson 《Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society》2001,324(3):772-780
The EGRET telescope aboard the NASA Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory ( CGRO ) has repeatedly detected 3EG J1835+5918, a bright and steady source of high-energy gamma-ray emission which has not yet been identified. The absence of any likely counterpart for a bright gamma-ray source located 25° off the Galactic plane initiated several attempts of deep observations at other wavelengths. We report on counterparts in X-rays on a basis of a 60-ks ROSAT HRI image. In order to conclude on the plausibility of the X-ray counterparts, we reanalysed data from EGRET at energies above 100 MeV and above 1 GeV, including data up to CGRO observation cycle 7. The gamma-ray source location represents the latest and probably the final positional assessment based on EGRET data. We especially address the question of flux and spectral variability, here discussed using the largest and most homogeneous data set available at high-energy gamma-rays for many years. The results from X-ray and gamma-ray observations were used in a follow-up optical identification campaign at the 2.2-m Guillermo Haro Telescope at Cananea, Mexico. VRI imaging has been performed at the positions of all of the X-ray counterpart candidates, and spectra were taken where applicable. The results of the multifrequency identification campaign toward this enigmatic unidentified gamma-ray source are given, especially on the one object which might be associated with the gamma-ray source 3EG J1835+5918. This object has the characteristics of an isolated neutron star and possibly of a radio-quiet pulsar. 相似文献
5.
A. A. Lutovinov R. A. Burenin M.G. Revnivtsev V. F. Suleimanov A. Yu. Tkachenko 《Astronomy Letters》2010,36(12):904-909
We present the results of our optical identification of the X-ray source IGR J16547-1916 detected by the INTEGRAL observatory
during a deep all-sky survey. Analysis of the spectroscopic data from the SWIFT and INTEGRAL observatories in the X-ray energy
band and from the BTA (Special Astrophysical Observatory) telescope in the optical band has shown that the source is most
likely an intermediate polar—an accreting white dwarf with the mass ofM
WD μ 0.85M
⊙ binary system. Subsequent studies of the object’s rapid variability with the RTT-150 telescope have confirmed this conclusion
by revealing periodic pulsations of its optical emission with a period of ≈550 s. 相似文献
6.
We present the results of our optical identification of two X-ray sources from the RXTE and INTEGRAL all-sky surveys: XSS J00564+4548 and IGR J00234+6141. Using optical observations with the 1.5-m Russian-Turkish Telescope
(RTT150) and publicly accessible X-ray data from the SWIFT Orbital Observatory, we show that these sources are most likely intermediate polars, i.e., binary systems with accreting
white dwarfs that possess a moderately strong magnetic field (≲10 MG). We have found periodic optical oscillations with periods
of ≈480 and ≈570 s. These periods most likely correspond to the rotation periods of the white dwarfs in these systems. Further
optical RTT150 observations of these systems will allow their parameters to be studied in more detail.
Published in Russian in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2006, Vol. 32, No. 9, pp. 655–661.
The article was translated by the authors. 相似文献
7.
We observed 3EG J1234-1318 with the CANGAROO-II telescope in March, 2002. This source is a steady unidentified EGRET gamma-ray
source at high Galactic latitude which has been associated with a dynamically merging clusters of galaxies, and is therefore
a candidate TeV source. TeV gamma-ray emission is also expected as a result of large-scale cosmological structure formation.
We here report the resulting upper limit on the TeV gamma-ray emission from 3EG J1234-1318.
For the CANGAROO Collaboration. 相似文献
8.
Michael De Becker Gregor Rauw Jean-Pierre Swings 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2005,297(1-4):291-298
We present the results of an intensive spectroscopic campaign in the optical waveband revealing that Cyg OB2 #8A is an O6+O5.5
binary system with a period of about 21.9 days. Cyg OB2 #8A is a bright X-ray source, as well as a non-thermal radio emitter.
We discuss the binarity of this star in the framework of a campaign devoted to the study of non-thermal emitters, from the
radio waveband to γ-rays. In this context, we attribute the non-thermal radio emission from this star to a population of relativistic
electrons, accelerated by the shock of the wind-wind collision. These relativistic electrons could also be responsible for
a putative γ-ray emission through inverse Compton scattering of photospheric UV photons, thus contributing to the yet unidentified
EGRET source 3EG J2033+4118.
Based partly on data Obtained at the Observatoire de Haute-Provence, France. 相似文献
9.
Diego F. Torres Shu Zhang Olaf Reimer Xavier Barcons Amalia Corral Valentí Bosch-Ramon Josep M. Paredes Gustavo E. Romero Jin Qu Werner Collmar Volker Schönfelder Yousaf Butt 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,309(1-4):17-21
The COMPTEL unidentified source GRO J 1411-64 was observed by INTEGRAL and XMM-Newton in 2005. The Circinus Galaxy is the
only source detected within the 4σ location error of GRO J1411-64, but in here excluded as the possible counterpart. At soft X-rays, 22 reliable and statistically
significant sources (likelihood >10) were extracted and analyzed from XMM-Newton data. Only one of these sources, XMMU J141255.6-635932,
is spectrally compatible with GRO J1411-64 although the fact the soft X-ray observations do not cover the full extent of the
COMPTEL source position uncertainty make an association hard to quantify and thus risky. At the best location of the source,
detections at hard X-rays show only upper limits, which, together with MeV results obtained by COMPTEL suggest the existence
of a peak in power output located somewhere between 300–700 keV for the so-called low state. Such a spectrum resembles those
in blazars or microquasars, and might suggest at work by the models accordingly. However, an analysis using a microquasar
model consisting on a magnetized conical jet filled with relativistic electrons, shows that it is hard to comply with all
observational constrains. This fact and the non-detection at hard X-rays introduce an a-posteriori question mark upon the
physical reality of this source, what is discussed here. 相似文献
10.
The X-ray source IGR J16318-4848 was the first source discovered by INTEGRAL on January 29, 2003. The high energy spectrum
exhibits such a high column density that the source is undetectable in X-rays below 2 keV. On February 23–25, 2003 we triggered
a Target of Opportunity (ToO) Program using the EMMI and SOFI instruments on the New Technology Telescope of the European
Southern Observatory (La Silla) to get optical and near-infrared (NIR) observations. We discovered the optical counterpart,
and confirmed the already proposed candidate in the NIR. NIR spectroscopy revealed a large amount of emission lines, including
forbidden iron lines and P-Cygni profiles, showing a strong similarity with CI Cam, another strongly absorbed source. Together
with the spectral energy distribution (SED), these data point to a high luminosity, high temperature source, with an intrinsic
absorption greater than the interstellar absorption, but two orders of magnitude below the X-ray absorption. All these observations
show that IGR J16318-4848 is a high mass X-ray binary (HMXB) at a distance between 0.9 and 6.2 kpc, the mass donor being an
early-type star, probably a sgB[e] star, surrounded by a dense and absorbing circumstellar material. This would make the second
HMXB with a sgB[e] star as the mass donor after CI Cam.
Other sources, discovered by INTEGRAL near IGR J16318-4848 in the direction of the Norma arm, present the same characteristics,
at least in X-rays. Such sources may represent a different evolutionary state of X-ray binaries previously undetected with
the lower energy space telescopes; if it is so, a new class of strongly absorbed X-ray binaries is being unveiled by INTEGRAL.
Out of the 15 sources present in this region, only one might be associated with an unidentified EGRET source: IGR J16393-4643.
Therefore these obscured INTEGRAL sources do not seem to be powerful high energy (E > 100 MeV) emitters.
Based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory, Chile (proposal ESO N∘ 70.D-0340). 相似文献
11.
Christian Motch Adriana M. Pires Frank Haberl Axel Schwope 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,308(1-4):217-224
The excellent spatial resolution of the Chandra observatory offers the unprecedented possibility to measure proper motions
at X-ray wavelength with relatively high accuracy using as reference the background of extragalactic or remote galactic X-ray
sources. We took advantage of this capability to constrain the proper motion of RX J0806.4-4123 and RX J0420.0-5022, two X-ray
bright and radio quiet isolated neutron stars (INSs) discovered by ROSAT and lacking an optical counterpart. In this paper,
we present results from a preliminary analysis from which we derive 2σ upper limits of 76 mas/yr and 138 mas/yr on the proper motions of RX J0806.4-4123 and RX J0420.0-5022 respectively. We use
these values together with those of other ROSAT discovered INSs to constrain the origin, distance and evolutionary status
of this particular group of objects. We find that the tangential velocities of radio quiet ROSAT neutron stars are probably
consistent with those of ‘normal’ pulsars. Their distribution on the sky and, for those having accurate proper motion vectors,
their possible birth places, all point to a local population, probably created in the part of the Gould Belt nearest to the
earth.
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12.
A. V. Meshcheryakov M. G. Revnivtsev M. N. Pavlinsky I. Khamitov I. F. Bikmaev 《Astronomy Letters》2010,36(10):738-751
The variability of the optical and X-ray fluxes from the binary GS 1826-238 is investigated. An epoch-folding analysis of
the optical data obtained with the RTT-150 telescope in 2003–2004 has revealed periodic brightness variations in the source
with a period P
orb = 2.24940 ± 0.00015 h with a high statistical significance. When estimating the detection significance of the periodic signal,
we have specially taken into account the presence of a powerful aperiodic component (“red noise”) in the source’s brightness
variability. The source’s power density spectra in the frequency range ∼10−5–0.01 Hz have been obtained. We have detected a statistically significant break in the power density spectrum of GS 1826-238
at a frequency ν
br ≈ (8.48 ± 0.14) × 10−5 Hz in both optical and X-ray energy bands. We have estimated the orbital period of the binary GS 1826-238 using the correlation
between the break frequency in the power density spectrum and the orbital period of binaries, P
orb ∝ 1/ν
br, found by Gilfanov and Arefiev (2005): P
orb = 3.7 ± 0.8 h and P
orb = 11.3 ± 5.9 h when using Sco X-1 and 1H 16267-273, respectively, as reference sources. It seems to us that the method for
estimating the orbital periods of low-mass X-ray binaries using the correlation P
orb ∝ 1/ν
br may turn out to be very promising, especially for persistent low-luminosity X-ray binaries. 相似文献
13.
Some unidentified EGRET sources have been reported to have probable X-ray counterparts. Periodicities in the X-ray data of
those sources, if found, may help to strengthen the identification and to reveal their nature. We performed a detailed search
of periodicities with a photon-counting method, the H-test, in the XMM and ASCA data of RX J0007.0+7302, which is the most probable X-ray counterpart to the EGRET source 3EG J0010+7309.
Although no periods with enough significance were found, a possible one, at 0.1275433± 0.0000001 s (MJD 52327.03399), is quite
intriguing based on results of cross-checking the two data sets. We suggest future analysis with other data to search the
vicinity of this period. 相似文献
14.
We present the latest results from a multi-epoch timing and spectral study of the Transient Anomalous X-ray Pulsar XTE J1810–197.
We have acquired seven observations of this pulsar with the Newton X-ray Multi-mirror Mission (XMM-Newton) over the course
of two and a half years, to follow the spectral evolution as the source fades from outburst. The spectrum is arguably best
characterized by a two-temperature blackbody whose luminosities are decreasing exponentially with τ
1=870 d and τ
2=280 d, respectively. The temperatures of these components are currently cooling at a rate of 22% per year from a nearly constant
value recorded at earlier epochs of kT
1=0.25 keV and kT
2=0.67 keV, respectively. The new data show that the temperature T
1 and luminosity of that component have nearly returned to their historic quiescent levels and that its pulsed fraction, which
has steadily decreased with time, is now consistent with the previous lack of detected pulsations in quiescence. We also summarize
the detections of radio emission from XTE J1810–197, the first confirmed for any AXP. We consider possible models for the
emission geometry and mechanisms of XTE J1810–197.
XMM-Newton is an ESA science mission with instruments and contributions directly funded by ESA Member States and NASA. This
research is supported by XMM-Newton grant NNG05GJ61G and NASA ADP grant ADP04-0059-0024. 相似文献
15.
We present an analysis of Chandra ACIS observations of the field of TeV J2032+4130, the first unidentified TeV source, detected serendipitously by HEGRA. This
deep (48.7 ks) observation of the field follows up on an earlier 5 ks Chandra director’s discretionary observation. Of the numerous point-like X-ray sources in the field, the brightest are shown to be
a mixture of early and late-type stars. We find that several of the X-ray sources are transients, exhibiting rapid increases
in count rates by factors 3–10, and similar in nature to the one, hard absorbed transient source located in the earlier Chandra observation of the field. None of these transient sources are likely to correspond to the TeV source. Instead, we identify
a region of diffuse X-ray emission within the error circle of the TeV source and consider its plausible association. 相似文献
16.
Tommaso Maccacaro Roberto Della Ceca Valentina Braito Alessandro Caccianiga Paola Severgnini Anna Wolter 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2004,294(1-2):89-94
We present here some initial results from the ongoing XMM-Newton bright serendipitous survey. The survey is aimed at selecting
and spectroscopically identifying a large and statistically representative sample of bright (f
x ≳ 7× 10−14 c.g.s) serendipitous X-ray sources in the 0.5–4.5 keV energy band (BSS) and a complementary (smaller) sample in the 4.5–7.5
keV energy band (HBSS).
The work is partly based on observations obtained with XMM-Newton, an ESA science mission with instruments and contributors directly founded by ESA member states and the USA(NASA) and on
observations collected at TNG. The TNG telescope is operated on the island of La Palma by the Centro Galileo Galilei of the
INAF in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de Los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias.
On behalf of the XMM-Newton Survey Science Center. 相似文献
17.
To form the Hubble diagram for quasi-stellar objects (QSOs),we have made use of the recently published data on X-ray fluxes
of 159 QSOs observed from the Einstein Observatory. The scatter in the Hubble diagram and the lack of an obvious redshift-flux
density correlation for these QSOs have been attributed to the observational selection effect that the intrinsically less
luminous QSOs can be detected only in the nearby region of space. When the optical, radio and X-ray selection effects are
removed, keeping only the intrinsically brighter sources, we obtain a sample of 16 QSOs having a small dispersion in X-ray
luminosities (〈 logL
x〉) = 46.12 ± 0.28), a statistically significant linear correlation between (logf
x, logcz) pairs and a slopeA =-1.906 ± 0.061 of the linear regression oflog f
x on logcz. This slope is consistent, at a confidence level of 95 per cent or greater, with the slope of-2.0 expected theoretically
based on the assumption that the redshifts of QSOs are cosmological in nature. 相似文献
18.
We present results of optical identifications of six hard X-ray sources from the INTEGRAL and Swift all-sky surveys (IGR J03249+4041,
SWIFT J1449.5+8602, SWIFT J1542.0-1410, IGR J17009+3559, IGR J18151-1052, IGR J18538-0102). Our optical observations were
performed in 2009–2011 with the 6-m BTA telescope (Special Astrophysical Observatory, Nizhnii Arkhyz, Russia) and the 1.5-m
RTT-150 telescope (Turkish National Observatory, Antalya, Turkey). The optical spectra obtained for each of the program sources
have allowed us to establish the nature of the objects and to measure their redshifts from the positions of emission and absorption
lines. Five sources are shown to be extragalactic—four of them are identified with Seyfert 1 or 2 galaxies and the fifth source
belongs to the class of X-ray-bright, optically normal galaxies (XBONGs). The sixth object (IGR J18151-1052) is located in
our Galaxy and is an X-ray binary (XRB), a suspected cataclysmic variable. Apart from the optical spectra, we provide the
X-ray spectra for five sources in the 0.6–10 keV energy band obtained from XRT/Swift data. 相似文献
19.
R. A. Burenin I. F. Bikmaev M. G. evnivtsev J. A. Tomsick S. Yu. Sazonov M. N. Pavlinsky R. A. Sunyaev 《Astronomy Letters》2009,35(2):71-74
We present the results of our optical identification of the hard X-ray source IGR J18257-0707 through its spectrophotometric observations with the optical RTT-150 telescope. The accurate position of the X-ray source determined using Chandra observations has allowed this source to be confidently associatedwith a faint optical object (m R ≈ 20.4) whose optical spectrumexhibits a broad H α emission line at redshift z = 0.037. Thus, the source IGR J18257-0707 is a type-1 Seyfert galaxy at redshift z = 0.037. 相似文献
20.
Cindy R. Tam Victoria M. Kaspi Bryan M. Gaensler Eric V. Gotthelf 《Astrophysics and Space Science》2007,308(1-4):519-523
The population of clearly identified anomalous X-ray pulsars has recently grown to seven, however, one candidate anomalous
X-ray pulsar (AXP) still eludes re-confirmation. Here, we present a set of seven Chandra ACIS-S observations of the transient
pulsar AX J1845.0-0258, obtained during 2003. Our observations reveal a faint X-ray point source within the ASCA error circle
of AX J1845.0-0258’s discovery, which we designate CXOU J184454.6-025653 and tentatively identify as the quiescent AXP. Its
spectrum is well described by an absorbed single-component blackbody (kT∼2.0 keV) or power law (Γ∼1.0) that is steady in flux on timescales of at least months, but fainter than AX J1845.0-0258 was during its 1993 period
of X-ray enhancement by at least a factor of 13. Compared to the outburst spectrum of AX J1845.0-0258, CXOU J184454.6-025653
is considerably harder: if truly the counterpart, then its spectral behavior is contrary to that seen in the established transient
AXP XTE J1810-197, which softened from kT∼0.67 keV to ∼0.18 keV in quiescence. This unexpected result prompts us to examine the possibility that we have observed an
unrelated source, and we discuss the implications for AXPs, and magnetars in general.
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