A VARIABLE NEAR-INFRARED COUNTERPART TO THE NEUTRON-STAR LOW-MASS X-RAY BINARY 4U 1705 - 440

A VARIABLE NEAR-INFRARED COUNTERPART TO THE NEUTRON-STAR LOW-MASS X-RAY BINARY 4U 1705 - 440

We report the discovery of a near-infrared (NIR) counterpart to the persistent neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1705 - 440, at a location consistent with its recently determined Chandra X-ray position. The NIR source is highly variable, with Ks -band magnitudes varying between 15.2 and 17.3 and...

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Main Authors: Homan, Jeroen (Contributor), Kaplan, David L. (Contributor), van den Berg, Maureen (Author), Young, Andrew J. (Author)
Other Authors: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society, 2015-03-26T14:23:21Z.
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