| Issue |
A&A
Volume 368, Number 2, March III 2001
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | 569 - 571 | |
| Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20010023 | |
| Published online | 15 March 2001 | |
Spectroscopic confirmation of the optical identification of X-ray sources used to determine accurate positions for the anomalous X-ray pulsars 1E 2259+58.6 and 4U 0142+61 *
Astronomical Institute, Utrecht University, PO Box 80000, 3508 TA Utrecht, The Netherlands
Corresponding author: M. van den Berg, m.c.vandenberg@astro.uu.nl
Received:
7
September
2000
Accepted:
14
December
2000
Optical spectra show that two proposed counterparts for X-ray sources detected near 1E 2259+58.6 are late G stars, and a proposed counterpart for a source near 4U 0142+61 is a dMe star. The X-ray luminosities are as expected for such stars. We thus confirm the optical identification of the three X-ray objects, and thereby the correctness of the accurate positions for 1E 2259+58.6 and 4U 0142+61 based on them.
Key words: pulsars: individual: 1E 2259+58.6, 4U 0142+61 / stars: neutron / X-rays: stars
© ESO, 2001
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