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


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ID# 15

4U 1916-053

XB 1916-05, XB 1916-053, 4U 1915-05, V1405 Aql

Confirmed UCXB

RA                 Dec    

[hh:mm:ss.ss]          [dd:mm:ss.ss]

19:18:47.87  -05:14:17.09

                     [ICRS]

ℓ                      b

[deg]                            [deg]

031.357765  -08.463592

Year of discovery: 1972

(Giacconi1972)

Basic data

Location in Globular Cluster
Type of accretor NS Persistent
Distance [kpc]
(other distances)
5.8±0.3(H), 7.6±0.4(He)
Galloway2020
Smale1988Chelovekov2017
z [kpc] -1.12 Galloway2020
Orbital period (Porb) [min] 49.75±0.16 Walter1982White1982a
Porb determination method X-ray dips
Thermonuclear X-ray burst short-B Becker1977
Peak X-ray flux [erg s-1 cm-2]
(2 - 10 keV)
5.57E-10 Iaria2006
NH [x1022 cm-2] 0.55±0.04 Iaria2021
E(B-V) [mag]
Magnitude V=20.99±0.05 Grindlay1987
Proposed companion He-rich donor
(Optical spectrum)
Nelemans2006


NOTES

Using a baseline of 40 years, Iaria2021 derived an orbital period derivative of ~1.4E-11 s/s. Moreover, they detected a periodic modulation in the orbital ephemeris that they explained as the presence of a third body orbiting around the binary system.
The source shows a positive (~3028 s; Grindlay1988) and a negative (~2979 s; Retter2002) superhump, which suggest the presence of a precessing elliptic accretion disk tilted with respect to the equatorial plane of the system.
A burst oscillation at ~270 Hz was discovered in a single burst observed by RXTE in August 1998 (Galloway2001).

Spectral data

UV
Optical He I, He II, N II and N III lines Nelemans2006
X-ray Fe XXV Kα (~6.65keV), FeXXVI Kα (~6.95keV) absorption lines
Ne X Kα (~1.02 keV), Mg XII Kα (~1.47 keV), Si XIV Kα (~2 keV), S XVI Kα (~2.61 keV) absorption lines
O VIII K (~0.87 keV) absorption edge; Fe XXV Kβ (~7.79 keV), Fe XXVI Kβ (~8.19 keV) absoprtion lines
Si XIV Kα (~2.37 keV), Ca XX Kα (~4.10 keV) absorption lines
Boirin2004

Iaria2006 Gambino2019 Iaria2021

Peak Optical/NIR magnitudes

If the system is transient, quiescent magnitudes are indicated with a "q" superindex
Grindlay1987
V=20.99±0.05, B=21.4±0.05, U=20.88±0.05
Aladin finding chart
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Default image: DSS2 Red
4U 1916-053 in Simbad

Pan-STARRS1 finding chart

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PS1 Finding chart PS1 Finding chart

References to finding charts

Gottwald1991



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.