THE MEGASECOND CHANDRA X-RAY VISIONARY PROJECT OBSERVATION OF NGC 3115. II. PROPERTIES OF POINT SOURCES

We carried out an in-depth study of low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) detected in the nearby lenticular galaxy NGC 3115 using the Megasecond Chandra X-ray Visionary Project observation (total exposure time 1.1 Ms). In total we found 136 candidate LMXBs in the field and 49 in globular clusters (GCs) ab...

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Autores principales: Lin, Dacheng, Irwin, Jimmy A., Wong, Ka-Wah, Jennings, Zachary G., Homan, Jeroen, Romanowsky, Aaron J., Strader, Jay, Sivakoff, Gregory R., Brodie, Jean P., Remillard, Ronald A
Otros Autores: MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research
Formato: Artículo
Lenguaje:en_US
Publicado: IOP Publishing 2015
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/98341