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

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ID# 68

MAXI J0637-430

(Russell2019d)

RA     (ICRS)     DEC

[hh:mm:ss.ss]          [dd:mm:ss.ss]

06:36:23.70  -42:52:04.70


ℓ                      b

[deg]                            [deg]

251.5320370  -20.67473903

Year of discovery: 2019  
(Negoro2019c)

# 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]
6.29E-09
[2-10]
Remillard2020
Outburst magnitude (AB) r’=15.80±0.01 Baglio2020Murata2019
Quiescent magnitude (AB) i’>20.7 Johar2020
E(B-V) [mag] 0.064 – 0.12 Kennea2019Strader2019
Spectral type


NOTES

MAXI J0637-430 showed at least 1 rebrightening during the decay (Baglio2020).
The true quiescent magnitudes are unknown but the system is not detected by LCO and Faulkes since MJD58999 (Johar2020). Lower limits of the quiescent magnitudes are shown for completeness.
From the state-transition luminosity and the inner edge of the accretion flow in X-rays, Jana2021 estimate the mass of the black hole to be in the range of 5 - 12 M, assuming the distance is <10 kpc.




Optical/NIR magnitudes

Mag. Outburst (AB)
Baglio2020Murata2019
u∼14.9 g’=16.078±0.08 r’=15.80±0.01
J=17.40±0.01 H=17.69±0.02 Ks=17.96±0.05
Mag. Quiescent (AB)
Johar2020
g’>21.1
i’>20.7 z’>>18.3
Additional information
Light Curve by XB-NEWS (Russell2019)
Aladin finding chart
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MAXI J0637-430 in Simbad

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.