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Swift/XRT observations of unidentified INTEGRAL/IBIS sources

The 4th IBIS/ISGRI survey lists 723 hard X-ray sources many still unidentified. We cross-correlated the list of the sources included in the 4th IBIS catalogue with the Swift/XRT data archive, finding a sample of 20 objects for which XRT data could help in the search for the X-ray and hence optical counterpart and/or in the study of the source spectral and variability properties below 10 keV. Four objects (IGR J00465-4005, LEDA 96373, IGR J1248.2-5828 and IGR J13107-5626) are confirmed or likely absorbed active galaxies, while two (IGR J14080-3023 and 1RXS J213944.3+595016) are unabsorbed AGN. We find three peculiar extragalactic objects, NGC 4728 being a Narrow Line Seyfert galaxy, MCG+04-26-006 a type 2 LINER and PKS 1143-693 probably a QSO; furthermore, our results indicate that IGR J08262+4051 and IGR J22234-4116 are candidate AGN, which require further optical spectroscopic follow-up observations to be fully classified. In the case of 1RXS J080114.6-462324 we are confident that the source is a Galactic object. For IGR J10447-6027, IGR J12123-5802 and IGR J20569+4940 we pinpoint one X-ray counterpart, although its nature could not be assessed despite spectral and sometimes variability information being obtained. Clearly, we need to perform optical follow-up observations in order to firmly assess their nature. There are five objects for which we find no obvious X-ray counterpart (IGR J07506-1547 and IGR J17008-6425) or even no detection (IGR J17331-2406, IGR J18134-1636 and IGR J18175-1530); apart from IGR J18134-1636, all these sources are found to be variable in the IBIS energy band, therefore it is difficult to catch them even in X-rays.