Issue |
A&A
Volume 407, Number 2, August IV 2003
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Page(s) | L41 - L45 | |
Section | Letters | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20031093 | |
Published online | 17 November 2003 |
Letter to the Editor
An XMM-Newton observation of IGR J16320-4751 = AX J1631.9-4752
1
CEA Saclay, DSM/DAPNIA/SAp (CNRS FRE 2591), 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
2
Integral Science Data Center, Chemin d'Ecogia, 16, 1290 Versoix, Switzerland
3
Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences, Code 0424, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA
4
IASF/CNR, sezione di Bologna, via Gobetti 101, 40129 Bologna, Italy
5
Université Paris VII, Fédération APC, 2 place Jussieu, 75251 Paris Cedex 05, France
6
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Corresponding author: J. Rodriguez, jrodriguez@cea.fr
Received:
7
April
2003
Accepted:
3
July
2003
The hard X-ray sensitivity and arcminute position
accuracy of the
recently launched International Gamma-Ray Laboratory (INTEGRAL) has lead
to the (re-)discovery of a class of heavily absorbed hard X-ray sources
lying in the Galactic plane.
We report on the analysis of an XMM observation of such a source
IGR J16320-4751 = AX J1631.9-4752. Our analysis allowed us to obtain
the most accurate X-ray position to date (Rodriguez et al. [CITE]), and
to identify a likely infrared counterpart
(Tomsick et al. [CITE]). We present the detailed analysis of the IGR J16320-4751
XMM spectra. The PN spectrum
can be well represented by a single powerlaw or a comptonized spectrum
with a high equivalent
absorption column density of ~ cm-2.
The current analysis
and the comparison with the properties of other sources favor the
possibility that the source is a Galactic X-Ray Binary (XRB).
The identification of two candidate IR counterparts is in good
agreement with this identification. The hard
spectrum previously seen with ASCA, and the brightness of the
candidate counterparts indicate
that IGR J16320-4751 is most probably a highly absorbed High Mass X-ray Binary,
hosting a neutron star.
Key words: accretion, accretion disk / stars: individual: IGR J16320-4751 / X-rays: binaries / X-rays: general
© ESO, 2003
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