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ID# 44

Swift J174540.2-290005

(Kennea2006a)

RA     (ICRS)     DEC

[hh:mm:ss.ss]          [dd:mm:ss.ss]

17:45:40.10  -29:00:06.40


ℓ                      b

[deg]                            [deg]

359.9494702  -00.04315833

Year of discovery: 2006  
(Kennea2006)

# of outbursts after discovery:


Basic data

Distance [kpc]
Distance to the plane (z) [kpc]
Orbital period (Porb) [h]
Peak X-ray flux [erg s-1 cm-2]
[keV]
4.98E-12
[2-10]
Kennea2006
Outburst magnitude (AB) Ks>19.55 Wang2006
Quiescent magnitude (AB)
E(B-V) [mag] 10 Schlafly2011
Spectral type


NOTES

Swift J174540.2-290005 is 1 pc from Sgr A* assuming an 8.5 kpc distance (Kennea2006). If this transient is an X-ray binary it would be a LMXB (Wang2006). VLA observations did not detect a radio counterpart leaving open the possibility of magnetar or a LMXB hosting a NS or BH (Bower2016)




Optical/NIR magnitudes

Mag. Outburst (AB)
Wang2006
Ks>19.55
Mag. Quiescent (AB)
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This research has made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System (ADS), the SIMBAD database operated at CDS (Strasbourg, France) and APLpy
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Last modified: 25 March 2024.