SIGMA OBSERVATIONS OF THE LOW-MASS X-RAY BINARIES OF THE GALACTIC BULGE

被引:10
作者
GOLDWURM, A
DENIS, M
PAUL, J
FAISSE, S
ROQUES, JP
BOUCHET, L
VEDRENNE, G
MANDROU, P
SUNYAEV, R
CHURAZOV, E
GILFANOV, M
FINOGENOV, A
VIKHLININ, A
DYACHKOV, A
KHAVENSON, N
KOVTUNENKO, V
机构
[1] CTR ETUD SPATIALE RAYONNEMENTS,F-31029 TOULOUSE,FRANCE
[2] SPACE RES INST,MOSCOW 117296,RUSSIA
来源
GAMMA RAY ASTRONOMY | 1995年 / 15卷 / 05期
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D O I
10.1016/0273-1177(94)00032-V
中图分类号
V [航空、航天];
学科分类号
08 ; 0825 ;
摘要
The soft gamma-ray telescope (35-1300 keV) SIGMA aboard the high energy GRANAT space observatory has been monitoring the Galactic Bulge region for more than 2000 h of effective time since March 1990. In the resulting average 35-75 keV image we detected ten sources at a level of > 5 standard deviations, 6 of which can be identified with low mass X-ray binaries (LMXB). Among them, one is the 1993 X-ray nova in Ophiuchus (GRS 1726-249), one is an X-ray pulsar (GX 1+4), two are associated with X-ray bursters (GX 354-0 and A 1742-294) and two with bursting X-ray binaries in the globular clusters Terzan 2 and Terzan 1. Their spectral and long term variability behavior as measured by SIGMA are presented and discussed.
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