Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-12-30
AIP Conf.Proc.797:13-22,2005
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
10 pages, 6 figures, presented at Cefalu Conf. on Interacting Binaries
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.2130210
Our deep Chandra exposures of 47Tuc and moderate exposures of NGC 6397 reveal a wealth of new phenomena for interacting X-ray binaries (IXBs) in globular clusters. In this (late) Review, updated since the conference, I summarize recent and ongoing analysis of the millisecond pulsars, the compact binaries containing white dwarfs and neutron stars, and the chromospherically active binaries in both globular clusters. Spectral variability analysis enables new insights into source properties and evolutionary history. These binary populations, now so ``easily'' visible, are large enough that their properties and spatial distributions reveal new hints of compact object formation and binary interactions with their parent cluster. Neutron stars appear overabundant, relative to white dwarfs, in 47Tuc vs. NGC 6397. The IXBs containing neutron stars (i.e., MSPs and qLMXBs), as the most massive and ancient compact binary sample, may trace the protocluster disk in 47Tuc, whereas compact binaries may have been ejected preferentially along the cluster rotation equator during the recent core collapse in NGC 6397.
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