  In this paper we report on a long multi-wavelength observational campaign of
the supergiant fast X-ray transient prototype IGR J17544-2619. A 150 ks-long
observation was carried out simultaneously with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR, catching
the source in an initial faint X-ray state and then undergoing a bright X-ray
outburst lasting about 7 ks. We studied the spectral variability during
outburst and quiescence by using a thermal and bulk Comptonization model that
is typically adopted to describe the X-ray spectral energy distribution of
young pulsars in high mass X-ray binaries. Although the statistics of the
collected X-ray data were relatively high we could neither confirm the presence
of a cyclotron line in the broad-band spectrum of the source (0.5-40 keV), nor
detect any of the previously reported tentative detection of the source spin
period. The monitoring carried out with Swift/XRT during the same orbit of the
system observed by XMM-Newton and NuSTAR revealed that the source remained in a
low emission state for most of the time, in agreement with the known property
of all supergiant fast X-ray transients being significantly sub-luminous
compared to other supergiant X-ray binaries. Optical and infrared observations
were carried out for a total of a few thousands of seconds during the
quiescence state of the source detected by XMM-Newton and NuSTAR. The measured
optical and infrared magnitudes were slightly lower than previous values
reported in the literature, but compatible with the known micro-variability of
supergiant stars. UV observations obtained with the UVOT telescope on-board
Swift did not reveal significant changes in the magnitude of the source in this
energy domain compared to previously reported values.

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