UltraCompCAT A Catalogue of Ultra-Compact and Short Orbital Period X-ray Binaries


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ID# 10

4U 1626-67

KZ TrA, 4U 1627-673

Confirmed UCXB

RA                 Dec    

[hh:mm:ss.ss]          [dd:mm:ss.ss]

16:32:16.79  -67:27:39.3

                     [ICRS]

ℓ                      b

[deg]                            [deg]

321.788351  -13.091711

Year of discovery: 1972

(Giacconi1972)

Basic data

Location in Globular Cluster
Type of accretor NS Persistent
Distance [kpc]
(other distances)
Gaia [kpc]
~8

3.5+2.3-1.3 (not in 1")
Chakrabarty1998
Schulz2019
BailerJones2018
z [kpc] -1.81 Chakrabarty1998
Orbital period (Porb) [min] 41.538±0.002 Middleditch1981
Porb determination method Optical pulsation
Thermonuclear X-ray burst
Peak X-ray flux [erg s-1 cm-2]
(2 - 10 keV)
2.96E-10 Hemphill2021
NH [x1022 cm-2] 0.13+0.04-0.03 Krauss2007
E(B-V) [mag]
Magnitude V=18.54±0.11 McClintock1977
Proposed companion CONe or ONeMg WD CO or ONeMg WD CO WD
(FUV spectrum X-ray spec Opt spec)
Homer2002 Schulz2001 Werner2006 Nelemans2006


NOTES

The magnetic field strength of the pulsar is estimated to be ~(3-4)E12 G, based on the cyclotron resonance scattering feature at ~37 keV (Orlandini1998).
The pulsar spun up until 1990 (Chakrabarty1997), when it began a period of spin-down and dimming. Then, it exhibited a torque reversal back to spin-up in 2008, accompanied by an increase in flux (Camero-Arranz2012).

Spectral data

UV Lyα λ1215; CIII λ1176; O IV Triplet λ1342; O V λ1371; Si IV λλ1394, 1403 Doublet Plus O IV] λ1401 Blend; C IV Double λ1549; O III] Multiplet λλ1661-1669 (see Table 1 more lines). Homer2002
Optical CO emission lines Werner2006 Nelemans2006
X-ray Double-peaked emission lines: Ne X (12.13 Å), Ne IX triple (13.44 Å), O VIII (18.97 Å), O VII triplet (21.6 Å)
Fe-L shell fluorescence emission line (0.73 keV)
Variable Fe Kα (6.4 keV)
Electron cyclotron absorption feature (~37 keV)
Angelini1995Schulz2001Krauss2007

Beri2018 Camero-Arranz2012Iwakiri2012Koliopanos2016 Orlandini1998

Peak Optical/NIR magnitudes

If the system is transient, quiescent magnitudes are indicated with a "q" superindex
Chakrabarty1998 McClintock1977
R=18.68±0.26, V=18.54±0.11, B=18.67±0.11, U=17.47±0.15
Aladin finding chart
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Default image: DSS2 Red
4U 1626-67 in Simbad

References to finding charts

Bradt1977



This research has made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and the SIMBAD database operated at CDS (Strasbourg, France)
Please acknowledge the use of this catalogue in any published work you derive from it.

Last modified: 09 May 2023.