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Optical Counterpart of the LMXB GX 13+1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2016

P. J. Groot ,
M. van Der Klis ,
J. van Paradijs ,
T. Augusteijn  and
M. Berger
P. J. Groot
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute ‘Anton Pannekoek’/CHEAF, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
M. van Der Klis
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute ‘Anton Pannekoek’/CHEAF, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
J. van Paradijs
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute ‘Anton Pannekoek’/CHEAF, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Physics Department, University of Alabama, Alabama, USA
T. Augusteijn
Affiliation:
ESO, La Silla, Chile
M. Berger
Affiliation:
Astronomical Institute ‘Anton Pannekoek’/CHEAF, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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We have observed the IR counterpart of the Atoll type LMXB GX 13+1, (Naylor, Charles & Longmore 1991), from 1993 July 11…30, with the Dutch 90 cm telescope at ESO using a Gunn z (0.9–1.0 μm) filter. Over this period 110 usable images (integration time 12 m) were obtained. The data were reduced using the ESO-MIDAS/DAPHOT reduction package. A Lomb-Scargle period search was performed with the PERIOD package.

Fig. 1 shows our Gunn z band image with stars labeled as in Naylor et al. (1991). They propose their star 101 as the IR counterpart. Fig. 2 shows the light curve we obtained for this star. The star is clearly variable on a time-scale of ~ 10 d. To estimate any period more accurately we have made a Lomb-Scargle statistics periodigram (see Fig. 3); maximum power is at 12.6 d. We estimate the error to be ~ 1 day.

Type
X-Ray Binaries
Information
International Astronomical Union Colloquium , Volume 158: Cataclysmic Variables and Related Objects , 1996 , pp. 367 - 368
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1996

References

Naylor, T., Charles, P.A., Longmore, A.J., 1991, MNRAS, 252, 203 Google Scholar
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