We present the first combined study of the recently discovered source IGR J16283–4838 with Swift , INTEGRAL , and RXTE .
The source , discovered by INTEGRAL on April 7 , 2005 , shows a highly absorbed ( variable N _ { H } = 0.4 - 1.7 \times 10 ^ { 23 } cm ^ { -2 } ) and flat ( \Gamma \sim 1 ) spectrum in the Swift /XRT and RXTE /PCA data .
No optical counterpart is detectable ( V > 20 mag ) , but a possible infrared counterpart within the Swift /XRT error radius is detected in the 2MASS and Spitzer /GLIMPSE survey .
The observations suggest that IGR J16283–4838 is a high mass X-ray binary containing a neutron star embedded in Compton thick material .
This makes IGR J16283–4838 a member of the class of highly absorbed HMXBs , discovered by INTEGRAL .