Glimpse of the highly obscured HMXB IGR J16318-4848 with Hitomi

Steven W. Alle; Felix Aharonian; Hiroki Akamatsu; Fumie Akimoto; Steven W. Allen; Lorella Angelini; Marc Audard; Hisamitsu Awaki; Magnus Axelsson; Aya Bamba; Marshall W. Bautz; Roger Blandford; Laura W. Brenneman; Gregory V. Brown; Esra Bulbul; Edward M. Cackett; Maria Chernyakova; Meng P. Chiao; Paolo S. Coppi; Elisa Costantini; Jelle De Plaa; Cor P. De Vries; Jan Willem Den Herder; Chris Done; Tadayasu Dotani; Ken Ebisawa; Megan E. Eckart; Teruaki Enoto; Yuichiro Ezoe; Andrew C. Fabian; Carlo Ferrigno; Adam R. Foster; Ryuichi Fujimoto; Yasushi Fukazawa; Akihiro Furuzawa; Massimiliano Galeazzi; Luigi C. Gallo; Poshak Gandhi; Margherita Giustini; Andrea Goldwurm; Liyi Gu; Matteo Guainazzi; Yoshito Haba; Kouichi Hagino; Kenji Hamaguchi; Ilana M. Harrus; Isamu Hatsukade; Katsuhiro Hayashi; Takayuki Hayashi; Kiyoshi Hayashida; Junko S. Hiraga; Ann Hornschemeier; Akio Hoshino; John P. Hughes; Yuto Ichinohe; Ryo Iizuka; Hajime Inoue; Yoshiyuki Inoue; Manabu Ishida; Kumi Ishikawa; Yoshitaka Ishisaki; Masachika Iwai; Jelle Kaastra; Tim Kallman; Tsuneyoshi Kamae; Jun Kataoka; Satoru Katsuda; Nobuyuki Kawai; Richard L. Kelley; Caroline A. Kilbourne; Takao Kitaguchi; Shunji Kitamoto; Tetsu Kitayama; Takayoshi Kohmura; Motohide Kokubun; Katsuji Koyama; Shu Koyama; Peter Kretschmar; Hans A. Krimm; Aya Kubota; Hideyo Kunieda; Philippe Laurent; Shiu Hang Lee; Maurice A. Leutenegger; Olivier O. Limousin; Michael Loewenstein; Knox S. Long; David Lumb; Greg Madejski; Yoshitomo Maeda; Daniel Maier; Kazuo Makishima; Maxim Markevitch; Hironori Matsumoto; Kyoko Matsushita; Dan Mccammon; Brian R. Mcnamara; Missagh Mehdipour; Eric D. Miller; Jon M. Miller; Shin Mineshige; Kazuhisa Mitsuda; Ikuyuki Mitsuishi; Takuya Miyazawa; Tsunefumi Mizuno; Hideyuki Mori; Koji Mori; Koji Mukai; Hiroshi Murakami; Richard F. Mushotzky; Takao Nakagawa; Hiroshi Nakajima; Takeshi Nakamori; Shinya Nakashima; Kazuhiro Nakazawa; Kumiko K. Nobukawa; Masayoshi Nobukawa; Hirofumi Noda; Hirokazu Odaka; Takaya Ohashi; Masanori Ohno; Takashi Okajima; Naomi Ota; Masanobu Ozaki; Frits Paerels; Stéphane Paltani; Robert Petre; Ciro Pinto; Frederick S. Porter; Katja Pottschmidt; Christopher S. Reynolds; Samar Safi-Harb; Shinya Saito; Kazuhiro Sakai; Toru Sasaki; Goro Sato; Kosuke Sato; Rie Sato; Makoto Sawada; Norbert Schartel; Peter J. Serlemtsos; Hiromi Seta; Megumi Shidatsu; Aurora Simionescu; Randall K. Smith; Yang Soong; Łukasz Stawarz; Yasuharu Sugawara; Satoshi Sugita; Andrew Szymkowiak; Hiroyasu Tajima; Hiromitsu Takahashi; Tadayuki Takahashi; Shiníchiro Takeda; Yoh Takei; Toru Tamagawa; Takayuki Tamura; Takaaki Tanaka; Yasuo Tanaka; Yasuyuki T. Tanaka; Makoto S. Tashiro; Yuzuru Tawara; Yukikatsu Terada; Yuichi Terashima; Francesco Tombesi; Hiroshi Tomida; Yohko Tsuboi; Masahiro Tsujimoto; Hiroshi Tsunemi; Takeshi Got Suru; Hiroyuki Uchida; Hideki Uchiyama; Yasunobu Uchiyama; Shutaro Ueda; Yoshihiro Ueda; Shiníchiro Uno; C. Megan Urry; Eugenio Ursino; Shin Watanabe; Norbert Werner; Dan R. Wilkins; Brian J. Williams; Shinya Yamada; Hiroya Yamaguchi; Kazutaka Yamaoka; Noriko Y. Yamasaki; Makoto Yamauchi; Shigeo Yamauchi; Tahir Yaqoob; Yoichi Yatsu; Daisuke Yonetoku; Irina Zhuravleva; Abderahmen Zoghbi; Nozomi Nakaniwa

doi:10.1093/pasj/psx154

Glimpse of the highly obscured HMXB IGR J16318-4848 with Hitomi

Steven W. Alle, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu, Fumie Akimoto, Steven W. Allen, Lorella Angelini, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki, Magnus Axelsson, Aya Bamba, Marshall W. Bautz, Roger Blandford, Laura W. Brenneman, Gregory V. Brown, Esra Bulbul, Edward M. Cackett, Maria Chernyakova, Meng P. Chiao, Paolo S. Coppi, Elisa CostantiniJelle De Plaa, Cor P. De Vries, Jan Willem Den Herder, Chris Done, Tadayasu Dotani, Ken Ebisawa, Megan E. Eckart, Teruaki Enoto, Yuichiro Ezoe, Andrew C. Fabian, Carlo Ferrigno, Adam R. Foster, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Yasushi Fukazawa, Akihiro Furuzawa, Massimiliano Galeazzi, Luigi C. Gallo, Poshak Gandhi, Margherita Giustini, Andrea Goldwurm, Liyi Gu, Matteo Guainazzi, Yoshito Haba, Kouichi Hagino, Kenji Hamaguchi, Ilana M. Harrus, Isamu Hatsukade, Katsuhiro Hayashi, Takayuki Hayashi, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Junko S. Hiraga, Ann Hornschemeier, Akio Hoshino, John P. Hughes, Yuto Ichinohe, Ryo Iizuka, Hajime Inoue, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Manabu Ishida, Kumi Ishikawa, Yoshitaka Ishisaki, Masachika Iwai, Jelle Kaastra, Tim Kallman, Tsuneyoshi Kamae, Jun Kataoka, Satoru Katsuda, Nobuyuki Kawai, Richard L. Kelley, Caroline A. Kilbourne, Takao Kitaguchi, Shunji Kitamoto, Tetsu Kitayama, Takayoshi Kohmura, Motohide Kokubun, Katsuji Koyama, Shu Koyama, Peter Kretschmar, Hans A. Krimm, Aya Kubota, Hideyo Kunieda, Philippe Laurent, Shiu Hang Lee, Maurice A. Leutenegger, Olivier O. Limousin, Michael Loewenstein, Knox S. Long, David Lumb, Greg Madejski, Yoshitomo Maeda, Daniel Maier, Kazuo Makishima, Maxim Markevitch, Hironori Matsumoto, Kyoko Matsushita, Dan Mccammon, Brian R. Mcnamara, Missagh Mehdipour, Eric D. Miller, Jon M. Miller, Shin Mineshige, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Takuya Miyazawa, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Hideyuki Mori, Koji Mori, Koji Mukai, Hiroshi Murakami, Richard F. Mushotzky, Takao Nakagawa, Hiroshi Nakajima, Takeshi Nakamori, Shinya Nakashima, Kazuhiro Nakazawa, Kumiko K. Nobukawa, Masayoshi Nobukawa, Hirofumi Noda, Hirokazu Odaka, Takaya Ohashi, Masanori Ohno, Takashi Okajima, Naomi Ota, Masanobu Ozaki, Frits Paerels, Stéphane Paltani, Robert Petre, Ciro Pinto, Frederick S. Porter, Katja Pottschmidt, Christopher S. Reynolds, Samar Safi-Harb, Shinya Saito, Kazuhiro Sakai, Toru Sasaki, Goro Sato, Kosuke Sato, Rie Sato, Makoto Sawada, Norbert Schartel, Peter J. Serlemtsos, Hiromi Seta, Megumi Shidatsu, Aurora Simionescu, Randall K. Smith, Yang Soong, Łukasz Stawarz, Yasuharu Sugawara, Satoshi Sugita, Andrew Szymkowiak, Hiroyasu Tajima, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Tadayuki Takahashi, Shiníchiro Takeda, Yoh Takei, Toru Tamagawa, Takayuki Tamura, Takaaki Tanaka, Yasuo Tanaka, Yasuyuki T. Tanaka, Makoto S. Tashiro, Yuzuru Tawara, Yukikatsu Terada, Yuichi Terashima, Francesco Tombesi, Hiroshi Tomida, Yohko Tsuboi, Masahiro Tsujimoto, Hiroshi Tsunemi, Takeshi Got Suru, Hiroyuki Uchida, Hideki Uchiyama, Yasunobu Uchiyama, Shutaro Ueda, Yoshihiro Ueda, Shiníchiro Uno, C. Megan Urry, Eugenio Ursino, Shin Watanabe, Norbert Werner, Dan R. Wilkins, Brian J. Williams, Shinya Yamada, Hiroya Yamaguchi, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Makoto Yamauchi, Shigeo Yamauchi, Tahir Yaqoob, Yoichi Yatsu, Daisuke Yonetoku, Irina Zhuravleva, Abderahmen Zoghbi, Nozomi Nakaniwa

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Abstract

We report on a Hitomi observation of IGRJ16318-4848, a high-mass X-ray binary system with an extremely strong absorption of NH ∼ 10²⁴cm ². Previous X-ray studies revealed that its spectrum is dominated by strong fluorescence lines of Fe as well as continuum emission lines. For physical and geometrical insight into the nature of the reprocessing material, we utilized the high spectroscopic resolving power of the X-ray microcalorimeter (the soft X-ray spectrometer: SXS) and the wide-band sensitivity by the soft and hard X-ray imagers (SXI and HXI) aboard Hitomi. Even though the photon counts are limited due to unintended off-axis pointing, the SXS spectrum resolves Fe Kα₁ and Kα₂ lines and puts strong constraints on the line centroid and line width. The line width corresponds to a velocity of 160⁺_-³₇⁰₀⁰ km s^-1. This represents the most accurate, and smallest, width measurement of this line made so far from the any X-ray binary, much less than the Doppler broadening and Doppler shift expected from speeds that are characteristic of similar systems. Combined with the K-shell edge energy measured by the SXI and HXI spectra, the ionization state of Fe is estimated to be in the range of Fe I-IV. Considering the estimated ionization parameter and the distance between the X-ray source and the absorber, the density and thickness of the materials are estimated. The extraordinarily strong absorption and the absence of a Compton shoulder component have been confirmed. These characteristics suggest reprocessing materials that are distributed in a narrow solid angle or scattering, primarily by warm free electrons or neutral hydrogen. This measurement was achieved using the SXS detection of 19 photons. It provides strong motivation for follow-up observations of this and other X-ray binaries using the X-ray Astrophysics Recovery Mission and other comparable future instruments.

Original language	English
Article number	psx154
Journal	Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan
Volume	70
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psx154
Publication status	Published - 01-03-2018

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Astronomy and Astrophysics
Space and Planetary Science

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Alle, S. W., Aharonian, F., Akamatsu, H., Akimoto, F., Allen, S. W., Angelini, L., Audard, M., Awaki, H., Axelsson, M., Bamba, A., Bautz, M. W., Blandford, R., Brenneman, L. W., Brown, G. V., Bulbul, E., Cackett, E. M., Chernyakova, M., Chiao, M. P., Coppi, P. S., ... Nakaniwa, N. (2018). Glimpse of the highly obscured HMXB IGR J16318-4848 with Hitomi. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan, 70(2), Article psx154. https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psx154

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abstract = "We report on a Hitomi observation of IGRJ16318-4848, a high-mass X-ray binary system with an extremely strong absorption of NH ∼ 1024cm 2. Previous X-ray studies revealed that its spectrum is dominated by strong fluorescence lines of Fe as well as continuum emission lines. For physical and geometrical insight into the nature of the reprocessing material, we utilized the high spectroscopic resolving power of the X-ray microcalorimeter (the soft X-ray spectrometer: SXS) and the wide-band sensitivity by the soft and hard X-ray imagers (SXI and HXI) aboard Hitomi. Even though the photon counts are limited due to unintended off-axis pointing, the SXS spectrum resolves Fe Kα1 and Kα2 lines and puts strong constraints on the line centroid and line width. The line width corresponds to a velocity of 160+-37000 km s-1. This represents the most accurate, and smallest, width measurement of this line made so far from the any X-ray binary, much less than the Doppler broadening and Doppler shift expected from speeds that are characteristic of similar systems. Combined with the K-shell edge energy measured by the SXI and HXI spectra, the ionization state of Fe is estimated to be in the range of Fe I-IV. Considering the estimated ionization parameter and the distance between the X-ray source and the absorber, the density and thickness of the materials are estimated. The extraordinarily strong absorption and the absence of a Compton shoulder component have been confirmed. These characteristics suggest reprocessing materials that are distributed in a narrow solid angle or scattering, primarily by warm free electrons or neutral hydrogen. This measurement was achieved using the SXS detection of 19 photons. It provides strong motivation for follow-up observations of this and other X-ray binaries using the X-ray Astrophysics Recovery Mission and other comparable future instruments.",

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AU - Allen, Steven W.

AU - Angelini, Lorella

AU - Audard, Marc

AU - Awaki, Hisamitsu

AU - Axelsson, Magnus

AU - Bamba, Aya

AU - Bautz, Marshall W.

AU - Blandford, Roger

AU - Brenneman, Laura W.

AU - Brown, Gregory V.

AU - Bulbul, Esra

AU - Cackett, Edward M.

AU - Chernyakova, Maria

AU - Chiao, Meng P.

AU - Coppi, Paolo S.

AU - Costantini, Elisa

AU - De Plaa, Jelle

AU - De Vries, Cor P.

AU - Den Herder, Jan Willem

AU - Done, Chris

AU - Dotani, Tadayasu

AU - Ebisawa, Ken

AU - Eckart, Megan E.

AU - Enoto, Teruaki

AU - Ezoe, Yuichiro

AU - Fabian, Andrew C.

AU - Ferrigno, Carlo

AU - Foster, Adam R.

AU - Fujimoto, Ryuichi

AU - Fukazawa, Yasushi

AU - Furuzawa, Akihiro

AU - Galeazzi, Massimiliano

AU - Gallo, Luigi C.

AU - Gandhi, Poshak

AU - Giustini, Margherita

AU - Goldwurm, Andrea

AU - Gu, Liyi

AU - Guainazzi, Matteo

AU - Haba, Yoshito

AU - Hagino, Kouichi

AU - Hamaguchi, Kenji

AU - Harrus, Ilana M.

AU - Hatsukade, Isamu

AU - Hayashi, Katsuhiro

AU - Hayashi, Takayuki

AU - Hayashida, Kiyoshi

AU - Hiraga, Junko S.

AU - Hornschemeier, Ann

AU - Hoshino, Akio

AU - Hughes, John P.

AU - Ichinohe, Yuto

AU - Iizuka, Ryo

AU - Inoue, Hajime

AU - Inoue, Yoshiyuki

AU - Ishida, Manabu

AU - Ishikawa, Kumi

AU - Ishisaki, Yoshitaka

AU - Iwai, Masachika

AU - Kaastra, Jelle

AU - Kallman, Tim

AU - Kamae, Tsuneyoshi

AU - Kataoka, Jun

AU - Katsuda, Satoru

AU - Kawai, Nobuyuki

AU - Kelley, Richard L.

AU - Kilbourne, Caroline A.

AU - Kitaguchi, Takao

AU - Kitamoto, Shunji

AU - Kitayama, Tetsu

AU - Kohmura, Takayoshi

AU - Kokubun, Motohide

AU - Koyama, Katsuji

AU - Koyama, Shu

AU - Kretschmar, Peter

AU - Krimm, Hans A.

AU - Kubota, Aya

AU - Kunieda, Hideyo

AU - Laurent, Philippe

AU - Lee, Shiu Hang

AU - Leutenegger, Maurice A.

AU - Limousin, Olivier O.

AU - Loewenstein, Michael

AU - Long, Knox S.

AU - Lumb, David

AU - Madejski, Greg

AU - Maeda, Yoshitomo

AU - Maier, Daniel

AU - Makishima, Kazuo

AU - Markevitch, Maxim

AU - Matsumoto, Hironori

AU - Matsushita, Kyoko

AU - Mccammon, Dan

AU - Mcnamara, Brian R.

AU - Mehdipour, Missagh

AU - Miller, Eric D.

AU - Miller, Jon M.

AU - Mineshige, Shin

AU - Mitsuda, Kazuhisa

AU - Mitsuishi, Ikuyuki

AU - Miyazawa, Takuya

AU - Mizuno, Tsunefumi

AU - Mori, Hideyuki

AU - Mori, Koji

AU - Mukai, Koji

AU - Murakami, Hiroshi

AU - Mushotzky, Richard F.

AU - Nakagawa, Takao

AU - Nakajima, Hiroshi

AU - Nakamori, Takeshi

AU - Nakashima, Shinya

AU - Nakazawa, Kazuhiro

AU - Nobukawa, Kumiko K.

AU - Nobukawa, Masayoshi

AU - Noda, Hirofumi

AU - Odaka, Hirokazu

AU - Ohashi, Takaya

AU - Ohno, Masanori

AU - Okajima, Takashi

AU - Ota, Naomi

AU - Ozaki, Masanobu

AU - Paerels, Frits

AU - Paltani, Stéphane

AU - Petre, Robert

AU - Pinto, Ciro

AU - Porter, Frederick S.

AU - Pottschmidt, Katja

AU - Reynolds, Christopher S.

AU - Safi-Harb, Samar

AU - Saito, Shinya

AU - Sakai, Kazuhiro

AU - Sasaki, Toru

AU - Sato, Goro

AU - Sato, Kosuke

AU - Sato, Rie

AU - Sawada, Makoto

AU - Schartel, Norbert

AU - Serlemtsos, Peter J.

AU - Seta, Hiromi

AU - Shidatsu, Megumi

AU - Simionescu, Aurora

AU - Smith, Randall K.

AU - Soong, Yang

AU - Stawarz, Łukasz

AU - Sugawara, Yasuharu

AU - Sugita, Satoshi

AU - Szymkowiak, Andrew

AU - Tajima, Hiroyasu

AU - Takahashi, Hiromitsu

AU - Takahashi, Tadayuki

AU - Takeda, Shiníchiro

AU - Takei, Yoh

AU - Tamagawa, Toru

AU - Tamura, Takayuki

AU - Tanaka, Takaaki

AU - Tanaka, Yasuo

AU - Tanaka, Yasuyuki T.

AU - Tashiro, Makoto S.

AU - Tawara, Yuzuru

AU - Terada, Yukikatsu

AU - Terashima, Yuichi

AU - Tombesi, Francesco

AU - Tomida, Hiroshi

AU - Tsuboi, Yohko

AU - Tsujimoto, Masahiro

AU - Tsunemi, Hiroshi

AU - Suru, Takeshi Got

AU - Uchida, Hiroyuki

AU - Uchiyama, Hideki

AU - Uchiyama, Yasunobu

AU - Ueda, Shutaro

AU - Ueda, Yoshihiro

AU - Uno, Shiníchiro

AU - Urry, C. Megan

AU - Ursino, Eugenio

AU - Watanabe, Shin

AU - Werner, Norbert

AU - Wilkins, Dan R.

AU - Williams, Brian J.

AU - Yamada, Shinya

AU - Yamaguchi, Hiroya

AU - Yamaoka, Kazutaka

AU - Yamasaki, Noriko Y.

AU - Yamauchi, Makoto

AU - Yamauchi, Shigeo

AU - Yaqoob, Tahir

AU - Yatsu, Yoichi

AU - Yonetoku, Daisuke

AU - Zhuravleva, Irina

AU - Zoghbi, Abderahmen

AU - Nakaniwa, Nozomi

PY - 2018/3/1

Y1 - 2018/3/1

N2 - We report on a Hitomi observation of IGRJ16318-4848, a high-mass X-ray binary system with an extremely strong absorption of NH ∼ 1024cm 2. Previous X-ray studies revealed that its spectrum is dominated by strong fluorescence lines of Fe as well as continuum emission lines. For physical and geometrical insight into the nature of the reprocessing material, we utilized the high spectroscopic resolving power of the X-ray microcalorimeter (the soft X-ray spectrometer: SXS) and the wide-band sensitivity by the soft and hard X-ray imagers (SXI and HXI) aboard Hitomi. Even though the photon counts are limited due to unintended off-axis pointing, the SXS spectrum resolves Fe Kα1 and Kα2 lines and puts strong constraints on the line centroid and line width. The line width corresponds to a velocity of 160+-37000 km s-1. This represents the most accurate, and smallest, width measurement of this line made so far from the any X-ray binary, much less than the Doppler broadening and Doppler shift expected from speeds that are characteristic of similar systems. Combined with the K-shell edge energy measured by the SXI and HXI spectra, the ionization state of Fe is estimated to be in the range of Fe I-IV. Considering the estimated ionization parameter and the distance between the X-ray source and the absorber, the density and thickness of the materials are estimated. The extraordinarily strong absorption and the absence of a Compton shoulder component have been confirmed. These characteristics suggest reprocessing materials that are distributed in a narrow solid angle or scattering, primarily by warm free electrons or neutral hydrogen. This measurement was achieved using the SXS detection of 19 photons. It provides strong motivation for follow-up observations of this and other X-ray binaries using the X-ray Astrophysics Recovery Mission and other comparable future instruments.

AB - We report on a Hitomi observation of IGRJ16318-4848, a high-mass X-ray binary system with an extremely strong absorption of NH ∼ 1024cm 2. Previous X-ray studies revealed that its spectrum is dominated by strong fluorescence lines of Fe as well as continuum emission lines. For physical and geometrical insight into the nature of the reprocessing material, we utilized the high spectroscopic resolving power of the X-ray microcalorimeter (the soft X-ray spectrometer: SXS) and the wide-band sensitivity by the soft and hard X-ray imagers (SXI and HXI) aboard Hitomi. Even though the photon counts are limited due to unintended off-axis pointing, the SXS spectrum resolves Fe Kα1 and Kα2 lines and puts strong constraints on the line centroid and line width. The line width corresponds to a velocity of 160+-37000 km s-1. This represents the most accurate, and smallest, width measurement of this line made so far from the any X-ray binary, much less than the Doppler broadening and Doppler shift expected from speeds that are characteristic of similar systems. Combined with the K-shell edge energy measured by the SXI and HXI spectra, the ionization state of Fe is estimated to be in the range of Fe I-IV. Considering the estimated ionization parameter and the distance between the X-ray source and the absorber, the density and thickness of the materials are estimated. The extraordinarily strong absorption and the absence of a Compton shoulder component have been confirmed. These characteristics suggest reprocessing materials that are distributed in a narrow solid angle or scattering, primarily by warm free electrons or neutral hydrogen. This measurement was achieved using the SXS detection of 19 photons. It provides strong motivation for follow-up observations of this and other X-ray binaries using the X-ray Astrophysics Recovery Mission and other comparable future instruments.

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U2 - 10.1093/pasj/psx154

DO - 10.1093/pasj/psx154

M3 - Article

AN - SCOPUS:85058816791

SN - 0004-6264

VL - 70

JO - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

JF - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan

IS - 2

M1 - psx154

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Glimpse of the highly obscured HMXB IGR J16318-4848 with Hitomi

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