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Discovery of an Outbursting 12.8 Minute Ultracompact X-Ray Binary

  • Authors: Pawel Pietrukowicz, Przemek Mróz, Andrzej Udalski, Igor Soszyński, and Jan Skowron

2019 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 881 L41.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 7.

Spectral energy distribution (upper panel) and phase distribution (lower panel) of the X-rays detected with Chandra observatory at the location of the discovered system. The X-ray spectrum can be described by an absorbed power law with the photon index Γ = 1.22 ± 0.23. The X-ray signal correlates with the optical variability observed by OGLE. The energy distribution is very similar to the distributions observed in known ultracompact X-ray binaries. Therefore, we name the new system OGLE-UCXB-01.

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