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The twelve bright (Lx>10(36) erg/s) X-ray sources in the globular clusters have lower luminosities than the brightest sources in the bulge of our galaxy. The dim (Lx<10(35) erg/s) X-ray sources in globular clusters reach higher luminosities…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Verbunt

Quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries (qLMXBs) containing neutron stars have been identified in several globular clusters using Chandra or XMM X-ray observations, using their soft thermal spectra. We report a complete census of the qLMXB…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 C. O. Heinke , J. E. Grindlay , P. M. Lugger , H. N. Cohn , P. D. Edmonds , D. A. Lloyd , A. M. Cool

We present new catalogs of likely globular clusters (GCs) in 17 nearby spiral galaxies studied as part of the PHANGS-HST Treasury Survey. The galaxies were imaged in five broad-band filters from the near-ultraviolet through the $I$ band.…

We compare a deep (37 ks) Chandra ACIS-S image of the M31 bulge to deep [O III] Local Group Survey data of the same region. Through precision image alignment using globular cluster X-ray sources, we are able to improve constraints on…

Using X-ray sources as sensitive probes of stellar dynamical interactions in globular clusters (GCs), we study the mass segregation and binary burning processes in $\omega$ Cen. We show that the mass segregation of X-ray sources is quenched…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-16 Zhongqun Cheng , Zhiyuan Li , Wei Wang , Xiangdong Li , Xiaojie Xu

We present a collection of classified X-ray sources in Globular Clusters (GCs) observed by the Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO), including active binaries, cataclysmic variables, millisecond pulsars, and low-mass X-ray binaries. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-10 Steven Chen , Oleg Kargaltsev , Hui Yang , Jeremy Hare

We report the results of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and Chandra X-ray Observatory (CXO) observations of the GLIMPSE-C01 (hereafter GC01) star cluster. Color-magnitude and color-color diagrams suggest a cluster age of $\gtrsim2$ Gyrs up to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-10 Jeremy Hare , Oleg Kargaltsev , Blagoy Rangelov

Hubble Space Telescope Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) images are used to identify and study star cluster candidates in the nearby spiral galaxy M101. About 3000 round, slightly-resolved cluster candidates are identified in 10 ACS…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 P. Barmby , K. D. Kuntz , J. P. Huchra , J. P. Brodie

We have observed two low concentration Galactic globular clusters with the X-ray observatory XMM-Newton. We detect 47 faint X-ray sources in the direction of M 55 and 62 in the field of view of NGC 3201. Using the statistical Log N-Log S…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. A. Webb , P. J. Wheatley , D. Barret

We present a wide field study of the Globular Clusters/Low Mass X-ray Binaries connection in the cD elliptical NGC1399, combining HST/ACS and Chandra high resolution data. We find evidence that LMXB formation likelihood is influenced by GCs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 M. Paolillo , T. Puzia , S. E. Zepf , T. J. Maccarone , P. Goudfrooij , A. Kundu , G. Fabbiano , L. Angelini

A subset of galaxies have dense nuclei, and when these galaxies are accreted and tidally stripped, the nuclei can masquerade as globular clusters in the halos of large galaxies. If these nuclei contain massive central black holes, some may…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-14 S. L. Feyan , R. Urquhart , J. Strader , A. C. Seth , D. J. Sand , N. Caldwell , D. Crnojević , A. Dumont , K. Voggel

We report the results of a joint \chandra-\hst study of the X-ray binary population in the massive, high-density globular cluster NGC 6388. NGC 6388 has one of the highest predicted X-ray binary production rate of any Galactic cluster. We…

We show that the observed relationship between the fraction of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) found in globular clusters (GCs) and the GC-specific frequency for early-type galaxies is consistent with an LMXB formation model in which the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Adrienne M. Juett

The features and make up of the population of X-ray sources in Galactic star clusters reflect the properties of the underlying stellar environment. Cluster age, mass, stellar encounter rate, binary frequency, metallicity, and maybe other…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Maureen van den Berg

We investigate the dependence of the low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) population in early-type galaxies on stellar age, by selecting 20 massive nearby early-type galaxies from the Chandra archive occupying a relatively narrow range of masses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Zhongli Zhang , Marat Gilfanov , Akos Bogdan

We have detected three new x-ray point sources, in addition to the known low-mass x-ray binary (LMXB) X1832-330, in the globular cluster NGC 6652 with a Chandra 1.6 ksec HRC-I exposure. Star 49 (M_{V}~4.7), suggested by Deutsch et al.(1998)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 C. O. Heinke , P. D. Edmonds , J. E. Grindlay

We report the first detection of X-ray emission from the Quintuplet star cluster and compare its X-ray emission to that of the Arches star cluster. Four point sources are significantly detected near the core of the Quintuplet cluster with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. Law , F. Yusef-Zadeh

We know from observations that globular clusters are very efficient catalysts in forming unusual short-period binary systems or their offspring, such as low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs; neutron stars accreting matter from low-mass stellar…

NGC 4472 is home to five ultraluminous X-ray sources hosted by globular clusters. These sources have been suggested as good black hole candidates in extragalactic globular clusters$-$ a highly sought after population that may provide…

We report on the Chandra ACIS-S3 imaging observation of the globular cluster NGC 6752. We detect 6 X-ray sources within the 10.5" core radius and 13 more within the 115" half-mass radius down to a limiting luminosity of Lx approx 10^{30}…