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X-ray bursts from bright sources in globular clusters of our galaxy show that at least 11 (of a total 13) of these sources are neutron stars. One of the low-luminosity X-ray sources in omega Cen is a neutron star accreting at a low rate.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Frank Verbunt

We present the results of a pair of 100 ksec Chandra observations in the Small Magellanic Cloud to survey high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), stars and LMXBs/CVs down to Lx = 4.3 x 10^32 erg/s The two SMC Deep Fields are located in the most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-05 Silas Laycock , Andreas Zezas , Jaesub Hong , Jeremy Drake , Valsamo Antoniou

Today's sensitive, high-resolution X-ray observations allow the study of populations of X-ray sources, in the luminosity range of Galactic X-ray binaries, in galaxies as distant as 20-30 Mpc. The traditional astronomical tools of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Fabbiano

We report results of the Chandra deep imaging observation of the closest post-core collapse globular cluster, NGC 6397. Some 25 sources are detected within 2 arcmin of the cluster center of which about 20 are likely cluster members with L_x…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. E. Grindlay , C. O. Heinke , P. D. Edmonds , S. S. Murray , A. M. Cool

Galactic Globular Clusters (GCs) containing bright X sources (L_x > 10^{36} erg/s), commonly associated with Low Mass X-Ray Binaries (LMXBs), are found to be significantly denser and more metal-rich than normal non-X-ray clusters both in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 M. Bellazzini , A. Pasquali , L. Federici , F. R. Ferraro , F. Fusi Pecci

We report on the Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope observation of two low core density globular clusters, NGC6144 and E3. By comparing the number of X-ray sources inside the half-mass radius to those outside, we found 6…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Shih Hao Lan , Albert K. H. Kong , Frank Verbunt , Walter H. G. Lewin , Cees Bassa , Scott F. Anderson , David Pooley

We study a Chandra X-ray Observatory ACIS-S observation of the Galactic globular clusterM12. With a 26 ks exposure time, we detect 6 X-ray sources inside the half-mass radius (2.16 arcminutes) of which two are inside the core radius (0.72…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-02-11 Ting-Ni Lu , Albert K. H. Kong , Cees Bassa , Frank Verbunt , Walter H. G. Lewin , Scott F. Anderson , David Pooley

We report our analysis of a Chandra X-ray observation of the rich globular cluster Terzan 5, in which we detect 50 sources to a limiting 1.0-6 keV X-ray luminosity of 3*10^{31} ergs/s within the half-mass radius of the cluster. Thirty-three…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 C. O. Heinke , R. Wijnands , H. N. Cohn , P. M. Lugger , J. E. Grindlay , D. Pooley , W. H. G. Lewin

(Abridged) Chandra and Hubble ACS observations of 11 early-type galaxies probe the low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) - globular cluster (GC) connection. We explore the optical properties of 270 GCs with LMXBs and 6,488 GCs without LMXBs. More…

We have analyzed the low mass X-ray binary (LMXB) candidates in a Chandra observation of the giant elliptical galaxy NGC 4472. In a region observed by the Hubble Space Telescope, approximately 40% of the bright (L_X >= 10^37 ergs/s) LMXBs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Arunav Kundu , Tom Maccarone , Steve Zepf

The core of the metal poor Galactic Globular Cluster M92 (NGC 6341) has been observed with WFPC2 on the Hubble Space Telescope through visual, blue and mid-UV filters in a program devoted to study the evolved stellar population in a…

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 present an updated catalog of X-ray point sources in the inner 500$\arcsec$ ($\sim$20 parsec) of the Galactic Center (GC), where the {\it nuclear star cluster} (NSC) stands, based on a total of $\sim$4.5 Ms of {\it Chandra} observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 Zhenlin Zhu , Zhiyuan Li , Mark R. Morris

From a deep multi-epoch Chandra observation of the elliptical galaxy NGC 3379 we report the spectral properties of eight luminous LMXBs (LX>1.2E38 erg/s). We also present a set of spectral simulations, produced to aid the interpretation of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 N. J. Brassington , G. Fabbiano , S. Blake , A. Zezas , L. Angelini , R. L. Davies , J. Gallagher , V. Kalogera , D. -W. Kim , A. R. King , A. Kundu , G. Trinchieri , S. Zepf

Summary of abstract: The existence of a new population of yet unrecognized x-ray sources has been often suggested to resolve some pecularities in the properties of the x-ray background (XRB), and has recently been indicated by an analysis…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Eyal Maoz , Jonathan Grindlay

Bright, ultracompact X-ray binaries observed in dense star clusters, such as Galactic globular clusters, must have formed relatively recently, since their lifetimes as persistent bright sources are short (e.g., ~10^8 yr above 10^36 erg/s…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 N. Ivanova , F. A. Rasio , J. C. Lombardi, , K. L. Dooley , Z. F. Proulx

Our Galaxy harbours a large population of X-ray sources of intermediate to low X-ray luminosity (typically Lx from 10^27 to 10^34 erg/s). At energies below 2 keV, active coronae completely dominate the X-ray landscape. However, the nature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-09 C. Motch , M. W. Pakull

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}…

We present a systematic search for periodic X-ray sources in 10 Galactic globular clusters (GCs) utilizing deep archival Chandra observations. By applying the Gregory-Loredo algorithm, we detect 28 periodic signals among 27 independent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-27 Tong Bao , Zhiyuan Li , Zhongqun Cheng , Diogo Belloni

In 2018, we reported our discovery of a dozen quiescent X-ray binaries in the central parsec (pc) of the Galaxy (Hailey et al. 2018). In a recent follow-up paper (Mori et al. 2021), we published an extended analysis of these sources and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-22 Kaya Mori , Shifra Mandel , Charles J. Hailey , Theo Y. E. Schutt , Keri Heuer , Jonathan E. Grindlay , Jaesub Hong , John A. Tomsick