The discovery of X-ray binaries in the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

Details The discovery of X-ray binaries in the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy The discovery of X-ray binaries in the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy

2005-09-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0509427v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.Lett. 364 (2005) 61

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 1 figure, 2 tables, accepted to MNRAS Letters

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We report the results of a deep Chandra survey of the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy. We find five X-ray sources with $L_X$ of at least $6\times10^{33}$ ergs/sec with optical counterparts establishing them as members of Sculptor. These X-ray luminosities indicate that these sources are X-ray binaries, as no other known class of Galactic point sources can reach 0.5-8 keV luminosities this high. Finding these systems proves definitively that such objects can exist in an old stellar population without stellar collisions. Three of these objects have highly evolved optical counterparts (giants or horizontal branch stars), as do three other sources whose X-ray luminosities are in the range which includes both quiescent low mass X-ray binaries and the brightest magnetic cataclysmic variables. We predict that large area surveys of the Milky Way should also turn up large numbers of quiescent X-ray binaries.

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