English

Population synthesis of X-ray sources at the Galactic center

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

We model the evolution of the selected types of X-ray sources (both with BHs and NSs) for the star formation burst at the Galactic center. For the currently assumed starburst age of 4-7 millions years, our results are consistent with the recent {\it GRANAT} X-ray observations of the Galactic center and predict a substantial number of X-ray binaries with black holes. In addition we made a very simple model of the spatial distribution of the X-ray sources, which is also consistent with the {\it GRANAT} observations. The results can be applied to other starformation regions.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9509155,
  title  = {Population synthesis of X-ray sources at the Galactic center},
  author = {S. B. Popov and V. M. Lipunov and L. M. Ozernoy and K. A. Postnov and M. E. Prokhorov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9509155},
  year   = {2007}
}

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8 pages, 3 figures, uuencoded gzip compressed postscript. will be presented as a poster at the conference "From Stars To Galaxies. The Impact of Stellar Physics on Galaxy Evolution"