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

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ID# 12

XTE J0929-314

Confirmed UCXB

RA                 Dec     [hh:mm:ss.ss]          [dd:mm:ss.ss] 09:29:20.19  -31:23:03.2                      [ICRS]

ℓ                      b [deg]                            [deg] 260.105098  14.214563

Year of discovery: 2002

(Remillard2002a)

Basic data

Location in Globular Cluster
Type of accretor	NS AMXP (185.11 Hz / 5.40 ms)	Transient Remillard2002
Distance [kpc] (other distances)	assumed 10	Campana2005
z [kpc]	2.46	Campana2005
Orbital period (Porb) [min]	43.57910±0.00005	Galloway2002
Porb determination method	X-ray pulsation
Thermonuclear X-ray burst
Peak X-ray flux [erg s-1 cm-2] (2 - 10 keV)	2.70E-10	Juett2003a
NH [x1022 cm-2]	0.076	Juett2003a
E(B-V) [mag]
Magnitude	V=18.63±0.03 qV=27.58±0.12	Giles2005 Monelli2005
Proposed companion	C/O system (Opt spectra)	Nelemans2006

NOTES

A radio counterpart was identified during the 2002 outburst (4.86GHz; Rupen2002b). The source was detected during quiescence with an unabsorbed flux of ~6E-15 erg s-1 cm-2 (0.5-10 keV; Campana2005, Wijnands2005).

Spectral data

UV
Optical	Emission at ~4640 Å (C or N)	Nelemans2006
X-ray	Interstellar O absorption line (23.52 Å)	Juett2003a

Peak Optical/NIR magnitudes

If the system is transient, quiescent magnitudes are indicated with a "q" superindex Giles2005 Monelli2005
I=18.14±0.04, B=18.45±0.01, V=18.63±0.03, R=18.83±0.02 qV=27.58±0.12, qR=27.21±0.13, qI=27.23±0.22

Aladin finding chart

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XTE J0929-314 in Simbad

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References to finding charts

Giles2005