Quiescent NIR and optical counterparts to candidate black hole X-ray binaries

Abstract

We present near-infrared and optical imaging of fifteen candidate black hole X-ray binaries. In addition to quiescent observations for all sources, we also observed two of these sources (IGR J17451-3022 and XTE J1818-245) in outburst. We detect the quiescent counterpart for twelve out of fifteen sources, and for the remaining three we report limiting magnitudes. The magnitudes of the detected counterparts range between $K_s$ = 17.59 and $K_s$ = 22.29 mag. We provide (limits on) the absolute magnitudes and finding charts of all sources. Of these twelve detections in quiescence, seven represent the first quiescent reported values (for MAXI J1543-564, XTE J1726-476, IGR J17451-3022, XTE J1818-245, MAXI J1828-249, MAXI J1836-194, Swift J1910.2-0546) and two detections show fainter counterparts to XTE J1752-223 and XTE J2012+381 than previously reported. We used theoretical arguments and observed trends, for instance between the outburst and quiescent X-ray luminosity and orbital period $P_{orb}$ to derive an expected trend between $\Delta K_s$ and $P_{orb}$ of $\Delta K_s\propto \log P_{orb}^{0.565}$. Comparing this to observations we find a different behaviour. We discuss possible explanations for this result.

arXiv comment18 pages, 6 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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