Studying binary evolution in the oldest open clusters: Collinder 261

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Sep 2009

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2009cxo..prop.2859v&link_type=abstract

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We propose to extend our study of close interacting binaries in old open clusters by obtaining the first X-ray observation (55 ks) of the rich cluster Collinder 261 (7 Gyr). Based on our previous work we expect to detect a variety of binaries: active binaries, cataclysmic variables, and also anomalous binaries that formed in dynamical encounters. The latter are key to constraining the complex interaction between binary evolution and open-cluster dynamics that models are now trying to understand; X-ray observations are an efficient way to discover these rare and otherwise difficult-to-find systems. Since their age and distance are accurately known, the X-ray sources in Collinder 261 will be important benchmarks for the study of binary evolution and coronal activity.

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