Globular cluster X-ray sources in M31.

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Aug 2004

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004head....8.1701t&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #8, #17.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.936

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We present the results of M31 globular cluster (GC) X-ray source survey, based on the data of XMM-Newton and Chandra observations of M31. We detected 43 globular cluster candidate sources with X-ray luminosities between ˜ 1035 and ˜ 1039 ergs s-1, 5 of them were detected for the first time. The spectral properties and variability of M31 GC X-ray sources are consistent with that of the low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXB) in the bulges of M31 and the Milky Way galaxy. The X-ray luminosity function of GC sources is found to be significantly different from that of the point sources in the bulge and disk of M31 and that of the Galactic GC sources. The contribution of the GC sources to the total number of bright sources found in M31 is much higher than in the Milky Way galaxy, but close to that of the early-type galaxies. The brightest M31 GC sources tend to reside at large galactocentric distances outside the central bulge. We found that globular clusters hosting bright X-ray sources are optically brighter and more metal rich than the rest of M31 globular clusters. The brightest sources with luminosities above 1038 ergs s-1 tend to reside in more metal poor clusters.
This work was supported in part by NASA grant NAG5-12390.

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