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ID# 37

IGR J17091-3624

SAX J1709.1-3624

(Rodriguez2011a)

RA     (ICRS)     DEC [hh:mm:ss.ss]          [dd:mm:ss.ss] 17:09:07.61  -36:24:25.70

ℓ                      b [deg]                            [deg] 349.5247361  02.21273739

Year of discovery: 2003  
(Kuulkers2003)

# of outbursts after discovery: 2

Basic data

Distance [kpc]
Distance to the plane (z) [kpc]
Orbital period (Porb) [h]
Peak X-ray flux [erg s-1 cm-2] [keV]	5.96E-09 [2-10]	Altamirano2011
Outburst magnitude (AB)	I=18.66±0.03	Torres2011
Quiescent magnitude (AB)
E(B-V) [mag]	1.921	Schlafly2011
Spectral type

NOTES

IGR J17091-3624 showed outbursts in 2007 (Capitanio2008) and 2011 (Krimm2011). Re-examination of archival data showed that is was also active in 1994 (Revnivtsev2003a), 1996 and 2001 (intZand2003,Capitanio2006).

Optical/NIR magnitudes

Mag. Outburst (AB) Torres2011
			I=18.66±0.03
Mag. Quiescent (AB)

Aladin finding chart

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IGR J17091-3624 in Simbad

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Finding charts

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Finding chart reference: Torres2011

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