Sculpting a true representation of the NGC 300 X-ray population

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Oct 2006

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2006xmm..prop...68b&link_type=abstract

XMM-Newton Proposal ID #05020001

Computer Science

White Dwarf Binaries, Neutron Star Binaries, Cataclysmic Variables, Ulxs, Black Holes, Ngc 300, Xmm-Newton Proposal 05020001

Scientific paper

The nearby spiral galaxy NGC 300 is ideal for studying X-ray populations of normal galaxies. We propose a 130 ks observation of NGC 300 for studying its evolving population, as well as the 11th Z-source candidate, and a contraversial supersoft transient. We will conduct a comprehensive follow-up counterpart program, using guaranteed time on the 11 m SALT telescope. The main drive is to construct an accurate X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of the point source population. XLFs have a long been used as diagnostic tools for examining external galaxies. However, almost all XLFs to date have assumed a single emission model when converting from intensity to flux. This approach is misleading, because the observed X-ray spectra are so varied.

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