Determining the Nature of Faint X-Ray Sources from the ASCA Galactic Center Survey
arXiv:1505.00006 · doi:10.1134/S1063773715050060
Abstract
We present the results of the identification of six objects from the ASCA Galactic center and Galactic plane surveys: AXJ173548-3207, AXJ173628-3141, AXJ1739.5-2910, AXJ1740.4-2856, AXJ1740.5-2937, AXJ1743.9-2846. Chandra, XMM-Newton, and XRT/Swift X-ray data have been used to improve the positions of the optical counterparts to these sources. Thereafter, we have carried out a series of spectroscopic observations of the established optical counterparts at the RTT-150 telescope. Analysis of X-ray and optical spectra as well as photometric measurements in a wide wavelength range based on optical and infrared catalogs has allowed the nature of the program sources to be determined. Two X-ray objects have been detected in the error circle of AXJ173628-3141: one is a coronally active G star and the other may be a symbiotic star, a red giant with an accreting white dwarf. Three sources (AXJ1739.5-2910, AXJ1740.5-2937, AXJ1743.9-2846) have turned out to be active G-K stars, presumably RS CVn objects, one (AXJ1740.4-2856) is an M dwarf, and another one (AXJ173548-3207) may be a low-mass X-ray binary in its low state. The distances and corresponding luminosities of the sources in the soft X-ray band have been estimated; analysis of deep INTEGRAL Galactic Center observations has not revealed a statistically significant flux at energies higher 20 keV from any of them.
16 pages, 15 figures, 1 table, will be published in Astronomy Letters, 2015, Vol. 41, No. 5, pp. 179-195
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