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dc.contributor.authorIyer, Nirmal-
dc.contributor.authorPaul, Biswajit-
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-10T07:09:56Z-
dc.date.available2017-11-10T07:09:56Z-
dc.date.issued2017-10-
dc.identifier.citationMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 2017, Vol. 471, p. 355-363en_US
dc.identifier.issn0035-8711-
dc.identifier.issn1365-2966 - (online)-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/6784-
dc.descriptionOpen Accessen_US
dc.description.abstractIGR J16318−4848 is an X-ray binary with the highest known line-of-sight absorption column density among all known X-ray binary systems in our Galaxy. In order to investigate the reason behind such a large absorption column, we looked at the variations in the X-ray intensity and spectral parameters as a function of the tentatively discovered ∼80 d orbit of this source. The orbital period is firmly confirmed in the long-term (∼12 yr) Swift BAT light curve. Two peaks about half an orbit apart, one narrow and small, and the other broad and large, are seen in the orbital intensity profile. We find that while most orbits show enhanced emissions at these two peaks, the larger peak in the folded long-term light curve is more a result of randomly occurring large flares spread over ∼0.2 orbital phase. As opposed to this, the smaller peak is seen in every orbit as a regular increase in intensity. Using archival data spread over different phases of the orbit and the geometry of the system as known from previously published infrared observations, we present a possible scenario that explains the orbital intensity profile, flaring characteristics and large column density of this X-ray binary.en_US
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dc.publisherOxford University Press for The Royal Astronomical Societyen_US
dc.relation.urihttp://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2017MNRAS.471..355Ien_US
dc.relation.urihttp://arxiv.org/abs/1706.07199en_US
dc.relation.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1575en_US
dc.rights2017 The authors & the Royal Astronomical Societyen_US
dc.subjectX-ray binariesen_US
dc.titleOrbital variations in intensity and spectral properties of the highly obscured sgHMXB IGR J16318−4848en_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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