XMM-Newton observations of the black hole X-ray transient XTE J1650-500 in quiescence

2005/11/17 by J. Homan, Jeroen Homan, Rudy Wijnands +11
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #Relativity and Gravitational Theory #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09843.x

published as Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.366:235-237,2006 · 3 pages. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

arxiv created 2005/11/17 · openalex publication_date 2006/01/09 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We report the result of an XMM-Newton observation of the black-hole X-ray transient XTE J1650-500 in quiescence. The source was not detected and we set upper limits on the 0.5-10 keV luminosity of 0.9e31-1.0e31 erg/s (for a newly derived distance of 2.6 kpc). These limits are in line with the quiescent luminosities of black-hole X-ray binaries with similar orbital periods (~7-8 hr)

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