Sample of LMXBs in the Galactic bulge. I. Optical and near-infrared constraints from the Virtual Observatory

Abstract

We report on the archival optical and near-infrared observations of 6 low mass X-ray binaries situated in the Galactic bulge. We processed several recent Chandra and XMM-Newton as well as Einstein datasets of a binary systems suspected to be ultracompact, which gave us arcsec-scale positional uncertainty estimates. We then undertook comprehensive search in existing archives and other Virtual Observatory resources in order to discover unpublished optical/NIR data on these objects. We found and analysed data from ESO Archive and UKIRT Infrared Deep Sky Survey (UKIDSS) on SLX 1735-269, 3A 1742-294, SLX 1744-299, SLX 1744-300, GX 3+1, IGR J17505-2644 systems and publish their finding charts and optical flux constraints in this paper, as well as simple estimates of the physical parameters of these objects.

8 pages, 6 figures, 1 table; accepted for publication in MNRAS

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• The Multi-INstrument Burst ARchive (MINBAR)
• INTEGRAL/IBIS nine-year Galactic Hard X-Ray Survey
• INTEGRAL/IBIS 17-yr hard X-ray all-sky survey
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• The Galactic LMXB Population and the Galactic Centre Region
• A catalogue of unusually long thermonuclear bursts on neutron stars
• Discovery of the near-infrared counterpart to the luminous neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary GX 3+1
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• Connecting the m-dots: accretion rates and thermonuclear burst recurrence times on neutron stars and white dwarfs