Investigation of the transient X-ray burster IGR J17380-3749 discovered by the INTEGRAL observatory |
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Authors: | I V Chelovekov S A Grebenev |
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Institution: | 1.Space Research Institute,Russian Academy of Sciences,Moscow,Russia |
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Abstract: | Details of the discovery (in February 2004) and results of subsequent (in 2004–2009) INTEGRAL observations of the transient
X-ray burster IGR J17380-3749 (IGR J17379-3747) are presented. Over the period of its observations, the INTEGRAL observatory
recorded two hard X-ray flares and one type I X-ray burst from the source, which allowed the nature of IGR J17380-3749 to
be determined. The burster radiation spectrum during the flares was hard—a power law with a photon index α = 1.8–2.0 or bremsstrahlung corresponding to a plasma with a temperature kT = 90–140 keV. The spectral shape at the flare peaks turned out to be the same, despite a more than twofold difference in
flux (the peak flux recorded in the energy range 18–100 keV reached ∼20 mCrab). The upper limit on the flux from the source
in its quiescent (off) state in the range of 18–40 keV was 0.15 mCrab (3σ). |
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