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

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ID# 61

Swift J1658.2-4242

(Russell2018d)

RA     (ICRS)     DEC

[hh:mm:ss.ss]          [dd:mm:ss.ss]

16:58:12.70  -42:41:56.09


ℓ                      b

[deg]                            [deg]

343.2512784  00.05342834

Year of discovery: 2018  
(Barthelmy2018)

# 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]
7.20E-10
[2-10]
Mereminskiy2018
Outburst magnitude (AB)
Quiescent magnitude (AB)
E(B-V) [mag] 20 – 29 Russell2018c
Spectral type


NOTES

Swift J1658.2-4242: There is a possible foreground star with r’=20.20 ± 0.09 and i’=19.02 ± 0.04 (Russell2018e) detected with VPHAS images. The field is extremely reddened.




Optical/NIR magnitudes

Mag. Outburst (AB)
Mag. Quiescent (AB)
Aladin finding chart
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Swift J1658.2-4242 in Simbad

Finding chart reference: Russell2018c

Finding chart


This research has made use of NASA's Astrophysics Data System (ADS), the SIMBAD database operated at CDS (Strasbourg, France) and APLpy
Please acknowledge the use of this catalogue in any published work you derive from it.

Last modified: 25 March 2024.