November 2024:
The HMXB catalogue is now available on the Astro-COLIBRI platform for multi-messenger and time domain astrophysics. Check out the link below to access the web application.
August 2024:
A new version is available: v2024-08.
A couple fields were updated thanks to community input.
February 2024:
A new version is available: v2024-02-14.
164 HMXBs and counting...
November 2023:
A new version is available: v2023-11-22.
161 HMXBs and counting... and the new addition of the second ever RSG HXMB, Swift J0850.8-4219.
October 2023:
The download page will now always link to the latest version of the catalogue in the "Latest version" section.
September 2023:
A new version is available: v2023-09.
159 HMXBs and counting...
May 2023:
Individual field of views are now powered by Aladin Lite v3.
This catalogue is meant to be updated as new information on HMXBs is published in the literature. We have linked the original studies that derived/measured each parameters we provide to the best of our knowledge. If you wish to submit a suggestion or update a specific field in the catalogue, please visit the "Contributing" section.
The original version of the catalogue is available at the CDS.
On this website, we will issue updated downloadable versions regularly; in between major updates, any new piece of information will be stored in the "Notes" section and will also be available to the users within the browsable table in the "Catalogue" section.
If you wish to contact us directly, visit the "About" section.
The original version of the catalogue is available at the CDS.
On this website, we will issue updated downloadable versions regularly; in between major updates, any new piece of information will be stored in the "Notes" section and will also be available to the users within the browsable table in the "Catalogue" section.
If you wish to contact us directly, visit the "About" section.
Catalogue Credits and Acknowledgements
If you used the products from this website or the catalogue stored in CDS/Vizier for your own work, please cite the original paper:
Fortin et al. (2023) A&A 671, A149 (2023)
A catalogue of high-mass X-ray binaries in the Galaxy: from the INTEGRAL to the Gaia era.
Fortin et al. (2023) A&A 671, A149 (2023)
A catalogue of high-mass X-ray binaries in the Galaxy: from the INTEGRAL to the Gaia era.
Please also use the following aknowledgement:
This work has made use of the HMXB catalogue (https://binary-revolution.github.io/HMXBwebcat/) maintained by the Binary rEvolution team (https://github.com/Binary-rEvolution).
LaTeX version:
This work has made use of the HMXB catalogue (\url{https://binary-revolution.github.io/HMXBwebcat/}) maintained by the Binary rEvolution team (\url{https://github.com/Binary-rEvolution}).
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