Deep Chandra Studies of LMXB Populations in Elliptical Galaxies

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #175.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The study of Low Mass X-ray Binary (LMXB) populations in early type galaxies is flourishing thanks to the sub-arcsecond resolution Chandra images, that make these faint and crowded X-ray sources visible outside of the Milky Way. The properties of these LMXB populations (spatial distribution, spectra and X-ray colors, time variability and X-ray luminosity function) are a useful tool for understanding their nature, relation to the underlying stellar population, and evolution. In this talk I will review what we have learned from these Chandra observations. In particular, I will report on the most recent results of our on-going very large program of deep monitoring Chandra observations of the two nearby elliptical galaxies NGC 3379 and NGC 4278.

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