ChaMPlane Survey of Compact Binaries from the Galactic Bulge to Anticenter

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Sep 2006

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American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #9, #1.90; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 38, p.344

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The Chandra Multiwavelength Plane (ChaMPlane) Survey of the low luminosity point source population of the Galaxy has surveyed some 122 ACIS fields in the Galactic plane
(b <11o) of which 85 are in the extended Bulge (| l | < 30o) and nearly 40 fields have multiple observations. Initial results on the first 13 Anticenter fields provided upper limits on the space density of CVs discovered with Chandra (Grindlay et al 2005) and reported both the X-ray (Hong et al 2005) and optical (Zhao et al 2005) processing; our initial IR photometry of the Galactic Center field (Laycock et al 2005) constrained most of these sources to be CVs or LMXBs. Here we summarize new results from a forthcoming suite of papers: numerous CV candidates have been discovered in the central Bulge fields; and candidate quiescent LMXBs or RSCVn binaries and a very large sample of coronal sources and active binaries identified spectroscopically in the unreddened foreground. The obscured central Bulge population of (predominantly) CVs, qLMXBs and luminous ABs has been mapped by X-ray spectral type (from quantile analysis) and temporal variability. Combined with our unobscured "Windows" pointings (see van den Berg et al) and the lower NH Anticenter fields, ChaMPlane is providing the first high resolution view of low luminosity sources and the nature of the Galactic Ridge.

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