Bibcode
Wijnands, R.; Lewis, F.; Russell, D. M.; Kong, A. K. H.; Yang, Y. J.
Bibliographical reference
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 427, Issue 4, pp. 2876-2880.
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2012
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Description
We report the result of a new Chandra observation of the black hole
X-ray transient H 1705-250 in quiescence. H 1705-250 was barely detected
in the new ˜50 ks Chandra observation. With five detected counts,
we estimate the source quiescent luminosity to be LX ˜
9.1 × 1030 erg s-1 in the 0.5-10 keV band
(adopting a distance of 8.6 kpc). This value is in line with the
quiescent luminosities found among other black hole X-ray binaries with
similar orbital periods. By using images taken with the Faulkes
Telescope North, we derive a refined position of H 1705-250. We also
present the long-term light curve of the optical counterpart from 2006
to 2012, and show evidence for variability in quiescence.
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