Title:	Near-infrared/optical identification of five low-luminosity X-ray pulsators
Authors:	Kaur, Ramanpreet Wijnands, Rudy Paul, Biswajit Patruno, A. Degenaar, Nathalie
Issue Date:	Mar-2010
Publisher:	Wiley Interscience for the RAS
Citation:	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2010, Vol.402, p2388
Abstract:	We present the identification of the most likely near-infrared (NIR)/optical counterparts of five low-luminosity X-ray pulsators (AX J1700.1-4157, AX J1740.1-2847, AX J1749.2-2725, AX J1820.5-1434 and AX J1832.3-0840) which have long pulse periods (>150 s). The X-ray properties of these systems suggest that they are likely members of persistent high-mass X-ray binaries or intermediate polars (IPs). Using our Chandra observations, we detected the most likely counterparts of three sources (excluding AX J1820.5-1434 and AX J1832.3-0840) in their European Southern Observatory-New Technology Telescope (ESO-NTT) NIR observations, and a possible counterpart for AX J1820.5-1434 and AX J1832.3-0840 in the Two Micron All Sky Survey and Digitized Sky Survey observations, respectively. We also performed the X-ray timing and spectral analysis for all the sources using our XMM-Newton observations, which further helped us to constrain the nature of these systems. Our multiwavelength observations suggest that AX J1749.2-2725 and AX J1820.5-1434 most likely harbour accreting neutron stars, while AX J1700.1-4157, AX J1740.1-2847 and AX J1832.3-0840 could be IPs
Description:	Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations)
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/2289/3942
ISSN:	1365-2966 (Online) 0035-8711
Alternative Location:	http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2010MNRAS.402.2388K http://arxiv.org/abs/0908.1533 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2009.15919.x
Copyright:	2010 The authors & the Royal Astronomical Society
Appears in Collections:	Research Papers (A&A)

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