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ID# 60

MAXI J1535-571

GRB 170902A

(Russell2017)

RA     (ICRS)     DEC

[hh:mm:ss.ss]          [dd:mm:ss.ss]

15:35:19.71  -57:13:47.58

ℓ                      b

[deg]                            [deg]

323.7240835  -01.12885997

Year of discovery: 2017  
(Negoro2017Markwardt2017Kennea2017)

# 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]		 1.44E-07
[2-10]		 Shidatsu2017
Outburst magnitude (AB) i’=21.8±0.2 Scaringi2017Dincer2017b
Quiescent magnitude (AB)
E(B-V) [mag] 4.5 Schlafly2011
Spectral type


NOTES
MAXI J1535-571: It had at least 5 rebrightenings between July 2018 and Jan 2019 (Lepingwell2018,Parikh2019).




Optical/NIR magnitudes
Mag. Outburst (AB)
Scaringi2017Dincer2017b
i’=21.8±0.2
J=15.59 H=14.18
Mag. Quiescent (AB)
Additional information
Finding chart
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MAXI J1535-571 in Simbad

Finding charts

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Finding chart reference: Scaringi2017

Finding chart
Finding chart

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.