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Within the framework of our program of assessment of the nature of unidentified or poorly known INTEGRAL sources, we present here spectroscopy of optical objects, selected through positional cross-correlation with soft X-ray detections…

The INTEGRAL observatory has discovered a variety of hard X-ray sources in the Galactic plane since its launch. Using GMRT, we have made repeated observations of these sources to search for the radio counterparts of seventeen of them at low…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. Pandey , R. K. Manchanda , A. P. Rao , P. Durouchoux , Ishwara-Chandra

This paper is devoted to determining the nature of the hard X-ray source IGR J17463-2854 located toward the Galactic bulge. Using data from the INTEGRAL and Chandra X-ray observatories, we show that five point X-ray sources with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-20 D. I. Karasev , S. S. Tsygankov , A. A. Lutovinov

Four hard X-ray sources from the INTEGRAL and Swift catalogs have been identified. X-ray and optical spectra have been obtained for each of the objects being studied by using data from the INTEGRAL, Swift, ROSAT, and Chandra X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-11 A. A. Lutovinov , A. I. Mironov , R. A. Burenin , M. G. Revnivtsev , S. S. Tsygankov , M. N. Pavlinsky , I. V. Korobtsev , M. V. Eselevich

Following an extensive survey of the galactic plane by the INTEGRAL satellite, new hard X-ray sources are discovered with a significant fraction of Cataclysmic Variables (CVs) among them. We report here the identification of one of these…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. M. Bonnet-Bidaud , D. de Martino , M. Falanga , M. Mouchet , N. Masetti

A new sample of hard X-ray sources in the Galactic Plane is being revealed by the regular observations performed by the INTEGRAL satellite. The full characterization of these sources is mandatory to understand the hard X-ray sky. Here we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. A. Combi , M. Ribo , J. Marti , S. Chaty

The X-ray source IGR J16318-4848 was the first source discovered by INTEGRAL on 2003, January 29. The high energy spectrum exhibits such a high column density that the source is undetectable in X-rays below 2 keV. On 2003, February, 23--25…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sylvain Chaty , Philippe Filliatre

We present X-ray, infrared, optical and radio observations of four previously unidentified Galactic plane X-ray sources, AX J163252-4746, AX J184738-0156, AX J144701-5919 and AX J144547-5931. Detection of each source with the Chandra X-ray…

IGR J14091-6108 is a Galactic X-ray source known to have an iron emission line, a hard X-ray spectrum, and an optical counterpart. Here, we report on X-ray observations of the source with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR as well as optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 John A. Tomsick , Farid Rahoui , Roman Krivonos , Maica Clavel , Jay Strader , Laura Chomiuk

The International Gamma-ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) has been surveying the sky above 20 keV since its launch in 2002 providing new insights into the nature of the sources that populate our Universe at soft gamma-ray energies. The…

Here we report on X-ray observations of ten 17-60 keV sources discovered by the INTEGRAL satellite. The primary new information is sub-arcsecond positions obtained by the Chandra X-ray Observatory. In six cases (IGR J17040-4305, IGR…

About 30% of the sources in the 4th INTEGRAL-IBIS catalogue are unidentified in that they lack an optical counterpart. To be able to classify them, X-ray observations are of crucial importance as they can place tighter constraints on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 A. Malizia , L. Bassani , V. Sguera , J. B. Stephen , A. Bazzano , M. Fiocchi , A. J. Bird

We present the first combined study of the recently discovered source IGR J16283-4838 with Swift, INTEGRAL, and RXTE. The source, discovered by INTEGRAL on April 7, 2005, shows a highly absorbed (variable N_H = 0.4 - 1.7 x 1e23 1/cm**2) and…

The International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) is discovering a large number of new hard X-ray sources, many of them being HMXBs. The identification and spectral characterization of their optical/infrared counterparts is a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 E. Nespoli , J. Fabregat , R. E. Mennickent

The results of an optical spectroscopy campaign performed at the Astronomical Observatory of Bologna in Loiano (Italy) on three hard X-ray sources detected by INTEGRAL (IGR J17303-0601, IGR J18027-1455 and IGR J21247+5058) are presented.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 N. Masetti , E. Palazzi , L. Bassani , A. Malizia , J. B. Stephen

We report on Chandra, NuSTAR, and MDM observations of two INTEGRAL sources, namely IGR J17528-2022 and IGR J20063+3641. IGR J17528-2022 is an unidentified INTEGRAL source, while IGR J20063+3641 was recently identified as a magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Jeremy Hare , Jules P. Halpern , John A. Tomsick , John R. Thorstensen , Arash Bodaghee , Maica Clavel , Roman Krivonos , Kaya Mori

We present the transient nature of INTEGRAL source IGR J17285-2922, identified from a single period of activity during an IBIS/ISGRI Galactic Centre Deep Exposure in September 2003. The source has a maximum detection significance of 14…

The X-ray source IGR J16318-4848 was the first source discovered by INTEGRAL on 2003, January 29. We carried out optical and near-infrared (NIR) observations at the European Southern Observatory (ESO La Silla) in the course of a Target of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sylvain Chaty , Philippe Filliatre

We present the results of our optical identifications of several hard X-ray sources from the INTEGRAL all-sky survey obtained over 14 years of observations. Having improved the positions of these objects in the sky with the X-ray telescope…

(abridged) We analysed data from observations of 17 INTEGRAL sources made with the Swift satellite. We refine the position of the hard X-ray sources to an accuracy of a few arcsec. We then browsed the online catalogs (e.g., NED, SIMBAD,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Rodriguez , J. A. Tomsick , S. Chaty