Swift/XRT follow-up observations of unidentified INTEGRAL/IBIS sources

Landi, R., Bassani, L., Malizia, A., Stephen, J.B., Bazzano, A., Fiocchi, M. and Bird, A.J. (2010) Swift/XRT follow-up observations of unidentified INTEGRAL/IBIS sources. Astronomy & Astrophysics.

Abstract

Many sources listed in the 4th IBIS/ISGRI survey are still unidentified, i.e. lacking an X-ray counterpart or simply not studied at lower energies (< 10 keV). The cross-correlation between the list of IBIS sources in the 4th
catalogue and the Swift/XRT data archive is of key importance to search for the X-ray counterparts; in fact, the positional accuracy of few arcseconds obtained with XRT allows us to perform more efficient and reliable follow-up observations at other wavelengths (optical, UV, radio). In this work, we present the results of the XRT observations for four new gamma-ray sources: IGR
J12123-5802, IGR J1248.2-5828, IGR J13107-5626 and IGR J14080-3023. For IGR J12123-5802 we find a likely counterpart, but further information are needed to
classified this object, IGR J1248.2-5828 is found to be a Seyfert 1.9, for IGR J13107-5626 we suggest a possible AGN nature, while IGR J14080-3023 is classified as a Seyfert 1.5 galaxy.

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Author: A.J. Bird

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