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Results of the optical identification of the hard X-ray source IGR J08390-4833 recently discovered in the INTEGRAL all-sky survey are presented. We show that the source is most likely a cataclysmic variable, i.e., an accreting white dwarf in a binary. Analysis of its optical light curve clearly reveals intrinsic variability on timescales of the order of an hour or longer. However, the short time of the source’s optical observations does not allow a definitive conclusion about the periodicity of the detected variability to be reached. Further optical and X-ray observations are required for a more accurate classification of the source.
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Original Russian Text © M.G. Revnivtsev, A.Yu. Kniazev, S.Yu. Sazonov, R.A. Burenin, A. Tekola, D.A.H. Buckley, M.L. Pretorius, J. Menzies, W. Lawson, 2009, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2009, Vol. 35, No. 1, pp. 37–43.
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Revnivtsev, M.G., Kniazev, A.Y., Sazonov, S.Y. et al. Optical identification of the source IGR J08390-4833 from the INTEGRAL all-sky survey. Astron. Lett. 35, 33–38 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773709010046
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