XMM-NEWTON OBSERVATIONS OF FIVE INTEGRAL SOURCES LOCATED TOWARD THE SCUTUM ARM
- Space Sciences Laboratory, 7 Gauss Way, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720 (United States)
- Laboratoire AIM, CEA/IRFU-Universite Paris Diderot-CNRS/INSU, CEA DSM/IRFU/SAp, Centre de Saclay, F-91191 Gif-sur-Yvette (France)
Results are presented for XMM-Newton observations of five hard X-ray sources discovered by INTEGRAL in the direction of the Scutum Arm. Each source received {approx}>20 ks of effective exposure time. We provide refined X-ray positions for all five targets enabling us to pinpoint the most likely counterpart in optical/infrared archives. Spectral and timing information (much of which is provided for the first time) allow us to give a firm classification for IGR J18462-0223 and to offer tentative classifications for the others. For IGR J18462-0223, we discovered a coherent pulsation period of 997 {+-} 1 s, which we attribute to the spin of a neutron star in a highly obscured (N{sub H} =2 Multiplication-Sign 10{sup 23} cm{sup -2}) high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB). This makes IGR J18462-0223 the seventh supergiant fast X-ray transient candidate with a confirmed pulsation period. IGR J18457+0244 is a highly absorbed (N{sub H} =8 Multiplication-Sign 10{sup 23} cm{sup -2}) source in which the possible detection of an iron line suggests an active galactic nucleus (AGN) of type Sey-2 situated at z = 0.07(1). A periodic signal at 4.4 ks could be a quasi-periodic oscillation which would make IGR J18457+0244 one of a handful of AGNs in which such features have been claimed, but a slowly rotating neutron star in an HMXB cannot be ruled out. IGR J18482+0049 represents a new obscured HMXB candidate with N{sub H} =4 Multiplication-Sign 10{sup 23} cm{sup -2}. We tentatively propose that IGR J18532+0416 is either an AGN or a pulsar in an HMXB system. The X-ray spectral properties of IGR J18538-0102 are consistent with the AGN classification that has been proposed for this source.
- OSTI ID:
- 22036968
- Journal Information:
- Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 753, Issue 1; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0004-637X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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