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

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ID# 59

IGR J17454-2919

(Paizis2015)

RA     (ICRS)     DEC [hh:mm:ss.ss]          [dd:mm:ss.ss] 17:45:27.68  -29:19:53.45

ℓ                      b [deg]                            [deg] 359.6444754  -00.17656165

Year of discovery: 2014  
(Chenevez2014)

# 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]	2.78E-10 [2-10]	Chenevez2014a
Outburst magnitude (AB)
Quiescent magnitude (AB)	Ks=13.22±0.02	Paizis2015
E(B-V) [mag]	10	Schlafly2011
Spectral type

NOTES

IGR J17454-2919: the nature of this transient source is still unclear. Paizis2015 has proposed that 2MASS J17452768-2919534 is the IR counterpart although it is 2.4” away from the X-ray position.

Optical/NIR magnitudes

Mag. Outburst (AB)
Mag. Quiescent (AB) Paizis2015
J=17.137	H=14.43±0.06	Ks=13.22±0.02

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IGR J17454-2919 in Simbad

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