| Description |
Among the high-energy binary sources, a new type of sources has been recently discovered by the high-energy observatory INTEGRAL. They are constituted of intrinsically highly obscured supergiant High Mass X-ray Binaries, of which IGR J16318-4848, a compact object orbiting around a supergiant Be star, seems to be the archetype. These sources have been partly unveiled by means of multi-wavelength X-ray, optical, near- and mid-infrared observations. However the fundamental questions about these sources, namely their formation, their evolution, and the nature of their environment, are still unsolved. After the successful multi-wavelength observations that we have performed on these intriguing sources, we propose here to get Herschel/PACS photometric observations, in order to detect the presence and characterize the nature of absorbing material (dust and/or cold gas) enshrouding the whole binary systems. This study will allow us to get a better understanding of the formation and evolution of such rare and short-living high mass binary systems in our Galaxy. |
| Keywords |
Herschel Space Observatory data, ESA Herschel mission dataset, far-infrared astronomy observations, submillimeter astronomy data, infrared space telescope observations, PACS photometer data, PACS spectrometer data, SPIRE photometer data, SPIRE Fourier transform spectrometer data, HIFI heterodyne spectroscopy data, far-infrared spectroscopy dataset, submillimeter spectral line observations, cold universe observations dataset, star formation infrared data, molecular cloud far-infrared observations, interstellar medium spectroscopy data, protoplanetary disk infrared observations, galaxy evolution far-infrared data, dust emission submillimeter observations, cosmic infrared background measurements, extragalactic infrared survey data, calibrated level 2 data products, FITS files astronomy, spectral cubes far-infrared, flux-calibrated maps, continuum photometry data, spectral energy distribution measurements, ESA Herschel Science Archive data |
