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Article Dans Une Revue Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A Année : 2016

Multi-wavelength observations of IGR J17544-2619 from quiescence to outburst

E. Bozzo
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V. Bhalerao
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P. Pradhan
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J. Tomsick
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P. Romano
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C. Ferrigno
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L. Oskinova
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A. Manousakis
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R. Walter
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M. Falanga
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S. Campana
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L. Stella
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M. Ramolla
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R. Chini
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Résumé

In this paper we report on a long multi-wavelength observational campaign of the supergiant fast X-ray transient prototype IGR J17544-2619. A 150 ks-long observation was carried out simultaneously with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, catching the source in an initial faint X-ray state and then undergoing a bright X-ray outburst lasting approximately 7 ks. We studied the spectral variability during outburst and quiescence by using a thermal and bulk Comptonization model that is typically adopted to describe the X-ray spectral energy distribution of young pulsars in high mass X-ray binaries. Although the statistics of the collected X-ray data were relatively high, we could neither confirm the presence of a cyclotron line in the broad-band spectrum of the source (0.5-40 keV), nor detect any of the previously reported tentative detections of the source spin period. The monitoring carried out with Swift /XRT during the same orbit of the system observed by XMM-Newton and NuSTAR revealed that the source remained in a low emission state for most of the time, in agreement with the known property of all supergiant fast X-ray transients being significantly sub-luminous compared to other supergiant X-ray binaries. Optical and infrared observations were carried out for a total of a few thousand seconds during the quiescence state of the source detected by XMM-Newton and NuSTAR. The measured optical and infrared magnitudes were slightly lower than previous values reported in the literature, but compatible with the known micro-variability of supergiant stars. UV observations obtained with the UVOT telescope on-board Swift did not reveal significant changes in the magnitude of the source in this energy domain compared to previously reported values.
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insu-03746216 , version 1 (05-08-2022)

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E. Bozzo, V. Bhalerao, P. Pradhan, J. Tomsick, P. Romano, et al.. Multi-wavelength observations of IGR J17544-2619 from quiescence to outburst. Astronomy and Astrophysics - A&A, 2016, 596, ⟨10.1051/0004-6361/201629311⟩. ⟨insu-03746216⟩
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