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2019MNRAS.485.2259A - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 485, 2259-2275 (2019/May-2)

Multiwavelength survey of X-ray sources in the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy.

ARNASON R.M., BARMBY P., BAHRAMIAN A., MACCARONE T.J. and ZEPF S.E.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present an unprecedented, deep study of the primordial low-mass X-ray binary population in an isolated, lower metallicity environment. We perform follow-up observations of previously identified X-ray binary candidates in the Sculptor Dwarf Galaxy by combining a second Chandra observation with Spitzer and Gemini photometry, as well as Gemini spectroscopy of selected targets. Of the original nine bright X-ray sources identified, we are able to classify all but one as quasars, active galactic nuclei, or background galaxies. We further discover four new X-ray sources in the second-epoch Chandra observation. Three of these new sources are background sources and one is a foreground flaring star. We have found that Sculptor is effectively devoid of X-ray sources above a few 1034 erg s–1. If Sculptor is able to retain primordial binaries at a similar rate to globular clusters, this implies that bright X-ray binaries observed in globular clusters in the present epoch are all formed dynamically.

Abstract Copyright: © 2019 The Author(s) Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society

Journal keyword(s): galaxies:individual:Sculptor dwarf spheroidal - X-rays:binaries - X-rays:galaxies

Status at CDS : Examining the need for a new acronym.

Simbad objects: 27

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