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

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ID# 14

IGR J16597-3704

Confirmed UCXB

RA                 Dec    

[hh:mm:ss.ss]          [dd:mm:ss.ss]

16:59:32.90  -37:07:14.28

                     [ICRS]

ℓ                      b

[deg]                            [deg]

347.792766  03.306254

Year of discovery: 2017

(Bozzo2017)

Basic data
Location in Globular Cluster NGC 6256
Type of accretor NS
AMXP (105.17 Hz / 9.51 ms) 		Transient
Sanna2018
Distance [kpc]
(other distances)
 		7.242 +0.299-0.288
Baumgardt2021
Valenti2007Harris2010Cadelano2020
z [kpc] 0.42 Baumgardt2021
Orbital period (Porb) [min] 45.97±0.005 Sanna2018
Porb determination method X-ray pulsation
Thermonuclear X-ray burst
Peak X-ray flux [erg s-1 cm-2]
(2 - 10 keV)		 1.97E-10 Sanna2018
NH [x1022 cm-2] 0.82±0.10 Sanna2018
E(B-V) [mag] 1.09±0.11 Harris2010
Magnitude
Proposed companion


NOTES
A radio counterpart was reported during the 2017 outburst (~10 GHz; Tetarenko2018a).

Spectral data
UV
Optical
X-ray Featureless Sanna2018

Peak Optical/NIR magnitudes
If the system is transient, quiescent magnitudes are indicated with a "q" superindex
Aladin finding chart
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IGR J16597-3704 in Simbad

This research has made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System (ADS) and the SIMBAD database operated at CDS (Strasbourg, France)
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Last modified: 09 May 2023.