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

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ID# 46

Swift J1539.2-6227

(Krimm2011c)

RA     (ICRS)     DEC [hh:mm:ss.ss]          [dd:mm:ss.ss] 15:39:11.96  -62:28:02.30

ℓ                      b [deg]                            [deg] 321.0186501  -05.64277055

Year of discovery: 2008  
(Krimm2008b)

# 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]	6.47E-09 [2-10]	Krimm2011c
Outburst magnitude (AB)	uvw2=18.07±0.03	Krimm2011c
Quiescent magnitude (AB)	i’>19.8	Lopez2019
E(B-V) [mag]	0.386	Schlafly2011
Spectral type

NOTES

Optical/NIR magnitudes

Mag. Outburst (AB) Krimm2011c
uvw2=18.07±0.03	uvm2=17.96±0.04
Mag. Quiescent (AB) Lopez2019
		g’>19.6
r’>20.1		i’>19.8	z’>18.9
J>18.9	H>16.8	Ks>17.6

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Swift J1539.2-6227 in Simbad

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