BlackCAT A Catalog of Stellar-Mass Black Holes in X-ray Binaries

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ID# 45

Swift J1842.5-1124

(Markwardt2008)

RA     (ICRS)     DEC [hh:mm:ss.ss]          [dd:mm:ss.ss] 18:42:17.45  -11:25:03.90

ℓ                      b [deg]                            [deg] 021.7270436  -03.17903051

Year of discovery: 2008  
(Krimm2008)

# of outbursts after discovery: 1

Basic data

Distance [kpc]
Distance to the plane (z) [kpc]
Orbital period (Porb) [h]
Peak X-ray flux [erg s-1 cm-2] [keV]	9.85E-09 [2-10]	Krimm2008c
Outburst magnitude (AB)	Ks=16.75±0.05	Torres2008
Quiescent magnitude (AB)	Ks∼19.25	Torres2008
E(B-V) [mag]	0.767	Schlafly2011
Spectral type

NOTES

Swift J1842.5-1124: A new outburst was detected in May 2020 (Shidatsu2020)

Optical/NIR magnitudes

Mag. Outburst (AB) Torres2008
			Ks=16.75±0.05
Mag. Quiescent (AB) Torres2008
		Ks∼19.25

Aladin finding chart

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Swift J1842.5-1124 in Simbad

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Pan-STARRS1 finding chart

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Finding charts

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Finding chart reference: Torres2008

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