OA01657-415: A 'Missing link' in high-mass X-ray binaries?
OA01657-415 is only the seventh eclipsing X-ray pulsar known and therefore has the potential to yield only the seventh mass of a neutron star in an X-ray binary. Here we report photometric and spectroscopic observations of candidates for the optical counterpart to the system and identify a B5III or...
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| author | Maxwell, D Norton, A Roche, P |
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| description | OA01657-415 is only the seventh eclipsing X-ray pulsar known and therefore has the potential to yield only the seventh mass of a neutron star in an X-ray binary. Here we report photometric and spectroscopic observations of candidates for the optical counterpart to the system and identify a B5III or B6V star as a possible companion to the neutron star. We measure the observational parameters of the star and suggest reasons why OAO1657-415 may be unlike other high mass X-ray binaries. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:0a548af1-86e7-423f-900b-9fe2937009aa2022-03-26T09:23:16ZOA01657-415: A 'Missing link' in high-mass X-ray binaries?Conference itemhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_5794uuid:0a548af1-86e7-423f-900b-9fe2937009aaSymplectic Elements at Oxford2001Maxwell, DNorton, ARoche, POA01657-415 is only the seventh eclipsing X-ray pulsar known and therefore has the potential to yield only the seventh mass of a neutron star in an X-ray binary. Here we report photometric and spectroscopic observations of candidates for the optical counterpart to the system and identify a B5III or B6V star as a possible companion to the neutron star. We measure the observational parameters of the star and suggest reasons why OAO1657-415 may be unlike other high mass X-ray binaries. |
| spellingShingle | Maxwell, D Norton, A Roche, P OA01657-415: A 'Missing link' in high-mass X-ray binaries? |
| title | OA01657-415: A 'Missing link' in high-mass X-ray binaries? |
| title_full | OA01657-415: A 'Missing link' in high-mass X-ray binaries? |
| title_fullStr | OA01657-415: A 'Missing link' in high-mass X-ray binaries? |
| title_full_unstemmed | OA01657-415: A 'Missing link' in high-mass X-ray binaries? |
| title_short | OA01657-415: A 'Missing link' in high-mass X-ray binaries? |
| title_sort | oa01657 415 a missing link in high mass x ray binaries |
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