BlackCAT A Catalog of Stellar-Mass Black Holes in X-ray Binaries

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ID# 35

XTE J1908+094

(Miller-Jones2013b)

RA     (ICRS)     DEC [hh:mm:ss.ss]          [dd:mm:ss.ss] 19:08:53.08  +09:23:04.84

ℓ                      b [deg]                            [deg] 043.2633756  00.43407857

Year of discovery: 2002  
(Woods2002)

# of outbursts after discovery: 1

Basic data

Distance [kpc]	6.5±3.5	Chaty2006b
Distance to the plane (z) [kpc]	0.05±0.03	Chaty2006b
Orbital period (Porb) [h]
Peak X-ray flux [erg s-1 cm-2] [keV]	3.77E-09 [2-10]	intZand2002b
Outburst magnitude (AB)	I>22	Wagner2002Garnavich2002
Quiescent magnitude (AB)	H∼20.08±0.04	Chaty2006b
E(B-V) [mag]	5.415	Schlafly2011
Spectral type	A – K	Chaty2006b

NOTES

XTE J1908+094: The K'-band magnitude in quiescence was not transformed into AB system. It showed another outburst in 2013 (Krimm2013e).

Optical/NIR magnitudes

Mag. Outburst (AB) Wagner2002Garnavich2002
		R>23	I>22
Mag. Quiescent (AB) Chaty2006b
J∼21.1±0.1	H∼20.08±0.04	K' (not AB)∼17.77±0.03

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XTE J1908+094 in Simbad

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