Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-03-26
Astrophys.J.661:875-878,2007
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
4 pages, 2 figures; accepted for publication in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/517880
We present an accurate X-ray position of the massive globular cluster G1 by using XMM-Newton and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). The X-ray emission of G1 has been detected recently with XMM-Newton. There are two possibilities for the origin of the X-ray emission. It can be either due to accretion of the central intermediate-mass black hole, or by ordinary low-mass X-ray binaries. The precise location of the X-ray emission might distinguish between these two scenarios. By refining the astrometry of the XMM-Newton and HST data, we reduced the XMM-Newton error circle to 1.5". Despite the smaller error circle, the precision is not sufficient to distinguish an intermediate-mass black hole and luminous low-mass X-ray binaries. This result, however, suggests that future Chandra observations may reveal the origin of the X-ray emission.
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