ChaMPlane's Bulge Latitude Survey: infrared follow-up

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Jan 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009aas...21330101v&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #213, #301.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.269

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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The inner bulge contains thousands of compact X-ray binaries, which have been uncovered with Chandra in the Galactic-Center region and a longitudinal strip centered on SgrA*. With 36 Chandra/ACIS-I pointings we are mapping out, for the first time, the latitudinal distribution of X-ray sources in the central 0.8 deg x 2 deg of our Galaxy. Our parallel near-infrared (nIR) JHK survey of the same area provides candidate identifications, constraints on the source extinction/distance, and a rich resource for serendipitous discoveries. We present the X-ray and nIR mosaics of the Bulge Latitude Survey (BLS) which are almost complete and will be finalized in 2009. Our nIR photometry is complete down to at least K˜15 thus we are sensitive to foreground cataclysmic variables, foreground quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries, and X-ray binaries with massive and evolved companions as distant as the Galactic Center. We give constraints on their contributions to the BLS X-ray sources.

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