IGR J17091-3624: Newly Formed Periodic Dips and Multiwavelength Activity During the 2025 Outburst
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| author | Lin, Zikun Wang, Yanan Wei, Shuyuan Sun, Yongkang Ji, Long Tinyanont, Samaporn Sun, Meng Wang, Song Altamirano, Diego Buisson, Douglas J. K. Li, Wenxiong Chen, Qian Liu, Jifeng Zhang, Shuang-Nan Wang, Wei Guo, Zhen Butpan, Pathompong Anutarawiramkul, Rungrit |
| author_facet | Lin, Zikun Wang, Yanan Wei, Shuyuan Sun, Yongkang Ji, Long Tinyanont, Samaporn Sun, Meng Wang, Song Altamirano, Diego Buisson, Douglas J. K. Li, Wenxiong Chen, Qian Liu, Jifeng Zhang, Shuang-Nan Wang, Wei Guo, Zhen Butpan, Pathompong Anutarawiramkul, Rungrit |
| contents | The black hole low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) candidate IGR J17091-3624 experienced a hard-state-only outburst in 2025. In this paper, we show that IXPE detected a series of intermittent X-ray dips, spanning a total interval of ~1 day. Subsequent observations with NICER, EP, NuSTAR, and Swift reveal that these dips recur with a period of 2.83$\pm$0.07 days and are accompanied by an increase in spectral hardness. This is the first time such quasi-periodic dipping behavior has been observed in this target since discovery. Our spectral analysis shows that the dips can be explained by obscuration from an ionized absorber characterized by an ionization parameter of $logξ$ ~1-3 erg cm s$^{-1}$ and an equivalent hydrogen column density of $N^{\rm zxipcf}_{\rm H}$~(1-30)$\times10^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$. The periodic reappearance of the absorber is likely caused by obscuring material located in the outer accretion disk, modulated by the binary orbital period. If confirmed, this period would suggest that the donor star in IGR J17091-3624 has deviated from the standard main-sequence evolutionary path and is likely a (partially) stripped giant. In the optical band, no significant periodicity or correlation with the X-ray dips was detected, whereas the radio counterpart exhibited a flat to steep spectrum, in contrast to the inverted spectrum typically observed during the hard state of LMXBs. |
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| spellingShingle | IGR J17091-3624: Newly Formed Periodic Dips and Multiwavelength Activity During the 2025 Outburst Lin, Zikun Wang, Yanan Wei, Shuyuan Sun, Yongkang Ji, Long Tinyanont, Samaporn Sun, Meng Wang, Song Altamirano, Diego Buisson, Douglas J. K. Li, Wenxiong Chen, Qian Liu, Jifeng Zhang, Shuang-Nan Wang, Wei Guo, Zhen Butpan, Pathompong Anutarawiramkul, Rungrit High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena The black hole low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) candidate IGR J17091-3624 experienced a hard-state-only outburst in 2025. In this paper, we show that IXPE detected a series of intermittent X-ray dips, spanning a total interval of ~1 day. Subsequent observations with NICER, EP, NuSTAR, and Swift reveal that these dips recur with a period of 2.83$\pm$0.07 days and are accompanied by an increase in spectral hardness. This is the first time such quasi-periodic dipping behavior has been observed in this target since discovery. Our spectral analysis shows that the dips can be explained by obscuration from an ionized absorber characterized by an ionization parameter of $logξ$ ~1-3 erg cm s$^{-1}$ and an equivalent hydrogen column density of $N^{\rm zxipcf}_{\rm H}$~(1-30)$\times10^{22}$ cm$^{-2}$. The periodic reappearance of the absorber is likely caused by obscuring material located in the outer accretion disk, modulated by the binary orbital period. If confirmed, this period would suggest that the donor star in IGR J17091-3624 has deviated from the standard main-sequence evolutionary path and is likely a (partially) stripped giant. In the optical band, no significant periodicity or correlation with the X-ray dips was detected, whereas the radio counterpart exhibited a flat to steep spectrum, in contrast to the inverted spectrum typically observed during the hard state of LMXBs. |
| title | IGR J17091-3624: Newly Formed Periodic Dips and Multiwavelength Activity During the 2025 Outburst |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.17307 |