TY - JOUR
T1 - The long-term optical evolution of the black hole candidate MAXIJ1659-152
AU - Corral-Santana, Jesús M.
AU - Torres, Manuel A.P.
AU - Shahbaz, Tariq
AU - Bartlett, Elizabeth S.
AU - Russell, David M.
AU - Albert, K. H.Kong
AU - Casares, Jorge
AU - Muñoz-Darias, Teodoro
AU - Bauer, Franz E.
AU - Homan, Jeroen
AU - Peter, G. Jonker
AU - Daniel Mata Śanchez, Mata Śanchez
AU - Wevers, Thomas
AU - Pablo Rodŕiguez-Gil, Rodŕiguez-Gil
AU - Lewis, Fraser
AU - Schreuder, Laurien
N1 - Funding Information:
This article is based on observations made with several telescopes installed in the Spanish Observatorio del Roque de los Muchachos of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, in the island of La Palma. MER is operated by the Flemish Community whereas the INT, WHT, and their service programme are operated by the Isaac Newton Group of telescopes. The Faulkes Telescope Project is an education partner of Las Cumbres Observatory. The Faulkes Tele- scopes are maintained and operated by LCO. Based on observations collected at the European Organization for Astronomical Research in the Southern hemisphere under ESO programmes 091.D-0865(A) and 095.D-0973(A). Based on observations obtained at the Gemini Observatory (under programme ID GS-2013A-Q-58), which is operated by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy, Inc., under a cooperative agreement with the National Science Foundation (NSF) on behalf of the Gemini partnership: the NSF (United States), the National Research Council (Canada), Comisión Nacional de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (Chile), Minis-terio de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación Productiva (Argentina), and Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovac¸ão (Brazil).
Funding Information:
We thank the anonymous referee for the useful comments. JMC-S acknowledges partial support from CONICYT-Chile through the FONDECYT Postdoctoral Fellowship 3140310. MAPT acknowledges support via a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (RYC-2015-17854). TS acknowledges support by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness (MINECO) under the grant AYA2013-42627. JC acknowledges support by the Leverhulme Trust through the Visiting Professorship grant VP2-2015-04. TM-D acknowledges support via a Ramón y Cajal Fellowship (RYC-2015-18148). FEB acknowledges support from CONICYT-Chile grants Basal-CATA PFB-06/2007, FONDECYT Regular 1141218, and the Ministry of Economy, Development and Tourism’s Millenium Science Initiative through grant IC120009, awarded to The Millenium Institute of Astrophysics, MAS. PGJ acknowledges support from the European Research Council (ERC CoG-647208).
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2018/3/21
Y1 - 2018/3/21
N2 - We present 5 yr of optical and infrared data of the black hole candidate MAXI J1659-152 covering its 2010 outburst, decay, and quiescence. Combining optical data taken during the outburst decay, we obtain an orbital period of 2.414 ± 0.005 h, in perfect agreement with the value previously measured from X-ray dips. In addition, we detect a clear Ha excess in MAXI J1659-152 with data taken during the outburst decay. We also detect a single hump modulation most likely produced by irradiation. Assuming that the maximum occurs at orbital phase 0.5, we constrain the phase of the X-ray dips to be ~0.65. We also detect the quiescent optical counterpart at r' = 24.20 ± 0.08, I = 23.32 ± 0.02, and H = 20.7 ± 0.1. These magnitudes provide colour indices implying an M2-M5 donor star assuming 60 per cent contribution from a disc component in the r' band.
AB - We present 5 yr of optical and infrared data of the black hole candidate MAXI J1659-152 covering its 2010 outburst, decay, and quiescence. Combining optical data taken during the outburst decay, we obtain an orbital period of 2.414 ± 0.005 h, in perfect agreement with the value previously measured from X-ray dips. In addition, we detect a clear Ha excess in MAXI J1659-152 with data taken during the outburst decay. We also detect a single hump modulation most likely produced by irradiation. Assuming that the maximum occurs at orbital phase 0.5, we constrain the phase of the X-ray dips to be ~0.65. We also detect the quiescent optical counterpart at r' = 24.20 ± 0.08, I = 23.32 ± 0.02, and H = 20.7 ± 0.1. These magnitudes provide colour indices implying an M2-M5 donor star assuming 60 per cent contribution from a disc component in the r' band.
KW - Binaries: close
KW - Stars: black holes
KW - X-rays: binaries
KW - X-rays: individual: MAXI J1659-152
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U2 - 10.1093/mnras/stx3156
DO - 10.1093/mnras/stx3156
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85041363768
VL - 475
SP - 1036
EP - 1045
JO - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
JF - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
SN - 0035-8711
IS - 1
M1 - stx3156
ER -