Swift detects a flare from IGR J16418-4532
ATel #7454; P. Romano (INAF-IASFPA), S. D. Barthelmy (GSFC), H. A. Krimm (CRESST/GSFC/USRA), P. A. Evans (U Leicester), N. Gehrels (NASA/GSFC), J. A. Kennea (PSU), C. Gronwall (PSU), D. Malesani (DARK/NBI), K. L. Page (U Leicester), B. Sbarufatti (INAF-OAB/PSU), M. H. Siegel (PSU)
on 28 Apr 2015; 13:43 UT
Credential Certification: Pat Romano (romano@ifc.inaf.it)
Subjects: X-ray, Gamma Ray, Binary, Transient, Pulsar
Referred to by ATel #: 14924
The Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) triggered on the high mass
X-ray binary IGR J16418-4532 on 2015 April 27 at
14:18:02 UT (image trigger 639199). Swift immediately slewed to
the target.
Using the data set from T-239 to T+963 s from recent telemetry
downlinks, we report that this is a very weak source in BAT,
and as such a description of the mask-weighted light curve is
problematic.
The time-averaged spectrum from T+0.0 to T+376 s is best fit
by a simple power-law model with a photon index of 3.18 +/- 0.78.
The fluence (same time interval) in the 15-150 keV band is
(4.4 +/- 1.6)E-7 erg cm-2. All quoted errors are at the 90% c.l.
The XRT began observing the field at 14:25:34.6 UT, 452 s after
the BAT trigger. The XRT light curve shows the descending part
of a flare that reached about 4 counts s-1.
The mean XRT/PC spectrum (T+461 to 1025 s) can be fit by an
absorbed power-law model with a photon index of 0.7+/-0.6
and an absorbing column density of NH=(6+3-2)E22 cm-2.
The average 0.3-10 keV observed (unabsorbed) flux is
3.5E-10 (4.7E-10) erg cm-2 s-1.
The historical light curve from the BAT hard X-ray transient monitor
(Krimm et al, 2013, ApJS, 209, 14; 15-50 keV) can be found at http://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/docs/swift/results/transients/weak/IGRJ16418-4532 .
Scaled Map Transient Analysis for IGR J16418-4532