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


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ID# 37

1A 1246-588

4U 1246-58

Candidate UCXB

RA                 Dec    

[hh:mm:ss.ss]          [dd:mm:ss.ss]

12:49:39.36    -59:05:14.68

                     [ICRS]

ℓ                      b

[deg]                            [deg]

302.702563  03.783544

Year of discovery: 1976

(Seward1976b)

Basic data

Location in Globular Cluster
Type of accretor NS Persistent
Distance [kpc]
(other distances)
Gaia [kpc]
3.0±0.1 (H), 3.8±0.2 (He)

2.03+1.17-2.3
2.0+1.2-2.4
Galloway2020
IntZand2008
BailerJones2018

Arnason2021
z [kpc] 0.25 Galloway2020
Orbital period (Porb) [min]
Porb determination method
Thermonuclear X-ray burst Short-B
IB
Boller1997Piro1997
IntZand2008
Peak X-ray flux [erg s-1 cm-2]
(2 - 10 keV)
9.10E-11 IntZand2008
NH [x1022 cm-2] 0.5 IntZand2008
E(B-V) [mag]
Magnitude V=19.45 Bassa2006
Proposed companion


NOTES

1258-Hz high amplitude kilohertz QPO (Jonker2007a).
Radio flux density < 21 μJy (5GHz), < 24 μJy (9GHz; VanDenEijnden2021).

Spectral data

UV
Optical Featureless IntZand2008
X-ray O (~0.54 keV) and Ne (~0.87 keV) absorption K-edges, Fe (~0.7 keV) absorption L-edge IntZand2008

Peak Optical/NIR magnitudes

If the system is transient, quiescent magnitudes are indicated with a "q" superindex
Bassa2006
V=19.45
Aladin finding chart
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Default image: DSS2 Red
1A 1246-588 in Simbad

References to finding charts

Bassa2006



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.