Issue |
A&A
Volume 370, Number 1, April IV 2001
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Page(s) | 170 - 175 | |
Section | Interstellar and circumstellar matter | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20010192 | |
Published online | 15 April 2001 |
The origin of the runaway high-mass X-ray binary HD 153919/4U1700-37*
1
Astronomical Institute "Anton Pannekoek"and Center for High-Energy Astrophysics, University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2
Middle East Technical University, Physics Department, 06531 Ankara, Turkey
3
Sterrewacht Leiden, Leiden University, Postbus 9513, 2300 RA Leiden, The Netherlands
Corresponding author: L. Kaper, lexk@astro.uva.nl
Received:
8
September
2000
Accepted:
31
January
2001
Based on its Hipparcos proper motion, we propose that the high-mass X-ray binary HD 153919/4U1700-37 originates in the OB association Sco OB1. At a distance of 1.9 kpc the space velocity of 4U1700-37 with respect to Sco OB1 is 75 km s-1. This runaway velocity indicates that the progenitor of the compact X-ray source lost about 7 during the (assumed symmetric) supernova explosion. The system's kinematical age is about million years which marks the date of the supernova explosion forming the compact object. The present age of Sco OB1 is 8 Myr; its suggested core, NGC 6231, seems to be somewhat younger (~5 Myr). If HD 153919/4U1700-37 was born as a member of Sco OB1, this implies that the initially most massive star in the system terminated its evolution within 6 million years, corresponding to an initial mass 30 . With these parameters the evolution of the binary system can be constrained.
Key words: stars: early type / stars: mass loss / stars: neutron / stars: individual: HD 153919 / 4U1700-37 / ultraviolet: stars
© ESO, 2001
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