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ID# 41

XTE J1726-476

IGR J17269-4737

(Maitra2005)

RA     (ICRS)     DEC

[hh:mm:ss.ss]          [dd:mm:ss.ss]

17:26:49.28  -47:38:24.90

ℓ                      b

[deg]                            [deg]

342.2032857  -06.92293655

Year of discovery: 2005  
(Levine2005bTurler2005)

# of outbursts after discovery:


Basic data
Distance [kpc]
Distance to the plane (z) [kpc]
Orbital period (Porb) [h]
Peak X-ray flux [erg s-1 cm-2]
[keV]		 3.53E-09
[2-10]		 XTE/ASM
Outburst magnitude (AB) Ks=18.05 Steeghs2005bMaitra2005
Quiescent magnitude (AB) Ks>17.9 Lopez2019Maitra2005
E(B-V) [mag] 0.428 Schlafly2011
Spectral type


NOTES




Optical/NIR magnitudes
Mag. Outburst (AB)
Steeghs2005bMaitra2005
I=17.4±0.1
J=21.0±0.3 Ks=18.05
Mag. Quiescent (AB)
Lopez2019Maitra2005
V>19.0
J=21.0±0.3 Ks>17.9
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This research has made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System (ADS), the SIMBAD database operated at CDS (Strasbourg, France) and APLpy
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Last modified: 22 September 2025.