Issue |
A&A
Volume 526, February 2011
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Article Number | A84 | |
Number of page(s) | 5 | |
Section | Stellar structure and evolution | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015563 | |
Published online | 24 December 2010 |
Research Note
Virtual Observatory based identification of AX J194939+2631 as a new cataclysmic variable⋆
1
Observatoire de Paris-Meudon, LERMA, UMR 8112,
61 Av. de l’Observatoire,
75014
Paris,
France
e-mail: iz@sai.msu.ru
2
Sternberg Astronomical Institute, Moscow State University,
Universitetskij pr., 13, 119992
Moscow,
Russia
3
Observatoire de Paris, VO-Paris Data Centre,
61 Av. de l’Observatoire,
75014
Paris,
France
4
Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, UMR 7550, Université de
Strasbourg/CNRS, 11 rue de
l’Université, 67000
Strasbourg,
France
Received:
11
August
2010
Accepted:
11
October
2010
We report the discovery of a new cataclysmic variable (CV) among unidentified objects from the ASCA Galactic Plane Survey made using the Virtual Observatory data mining. First, we identified AX J194939+2631 with IPHAS J194938.39+263149.2, the only prominent Hα emitter among 400 sources in a 1 arcmin field of the IPHAS survey, then secured as a single faint X-ray source found in an archival Chandra dataset. Spectroscopic follow-up with the 3.5-m Calar Alto telescope confirmed its classification as a CV, possibly of magnetic nature. Our analysis suggests that AX J194939+2631 is a medium distance system (d ≈ 0.6 kpc) containing a late-K or early-M type dwarf as a secondary component and a partially disrupted accretion disc revealed by the double-peaked Hα line. However, additional deep observations are needed to confirm our tentative classification of this object as an intermediate polar.
Key words: novae, cataclysmic variables / X-rays: binaries / X-rays: individuals: AX J194939+2631 / stars: individual: IPHAS J194938.39+263149.2
© ESO, 2010
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