A Rapidly Varying Red Supergiant X-Ray Binary in the Galactic Center
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Título: | A Rapidly Varying Red Supergiant X-Ray Binary in the Galactic Center |
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Autor/es: | Gottlieb, Amy M. | Eikenberry, Stephen S. | Ackley, Kendall | DeWitt, Curtis | Marco, Amparo |
Grupo/s de investigación o GITE: | Astrofísica Estelar (AE) |
Centro, Departamento o Servicio: | Universidad de Alicante. Departamento de Física, Ingeniería de Sistemas y Teoría de la Señal |
Palabras clave: | X-ray binary stars | Late-type supergiant stars | Infrared astronomy | Infrared sources | X-ray astronomy | X-ray sources |
Área/s de conocimiento: | Física Aplicada |
Fecha de publicación: | 10-jun-2020 |
Editor: | IOP Publishing |
Cita bibliográfica: | The Astrophysical Journal. 2020, 896:32 (11pp). doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab90ff |
Resumen: | We analyzed multiwavelength observations of the previously identified Galactic center X-ray binary CXO 174528.79–290942.8 (XID 6592) and determine that the near-infrared counterpart is a red supergiant based on its spectrum and luminosity. Scutum X-1 is the only previously known X-ray binary with a red supergiant donor star and closely resembles XID 6592 in terms of X-ray luminosity (L X), absolute magnitude, and IR variability (L IR,var), supporting the conclusion that XID 6592 contains a red supergiant donor star. The XID 6592 infrared counterpart shows variability of ~0.5 mag in the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer-1 band (3.4 μm) on timescales of a few hours. Other infrared data sets also show large-amplitude variability from this source at earlier epochs but do not show significant variability in recent data. We do not expect red supergiants to vary by ~50% in luminosity over these short timescales, indicating that the variability should be powered by the compact object. However, the X-ray luminosity of this system is typically ~1000× less than the variable luminosity in the infrared and falls below the Chandra detection limit. While X-ray reprocessing can produce large-amplitude fast infrared variability, it typically requires LX >> LIR,var to do so, indicating that another process must be at work. We suggest that this system may be a supergiant fast X-ray transient (SFXT), and that a large (~1038 ergs s−1), fast (102-4 s) X-ray flare could explain the rapid IR variability and lack of a long-lasting X-ray outburst detection. SFXTs are normally associated with blue supergiant companions, so if confirmed, XID 6592 would be the first red supergiant SFXT, as well as the second X-ray red supergiant binary. |
Patrocinador/es: | A.M. acknowledges support from the Generalitat Valenciana through the grant BEST/2015/242 and from the Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte through the grant PRX15/00030. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10045/108052 |
ISSN: | 0004-637X (Print) | 1538-4357 (Online) |
DOI: | 10.3847/1538-4357/ab90ff |
Idioma: | eng |
Tipo: | info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
Derechos: | © 2020. The American Astronomical Society |
Revisión científica: | si |
Versión del editor: | https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab90ff |
Aparece en las colecciones: | INV - Astrofísica Estelar - Artículos de Revistas |
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