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Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21541904l&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #419.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.276
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We present early results of our Chandra study of transient X-ray binaries (XRB) in IC 10, the youngest and most active starburst galaxy in the local universe.
X-ray binaries containing black-holes and neutron stars are the relics of the most massive, short-lived stars, and are highly visible tracers of star formation. Visible at intergalactic distances, XRBs efficiently provide fundamental astrophysical parameters (e.g. orbital periods, spin, mass, mass-transfer rate, age, magnetic field) that are unobtainable at other wavelengths. The star-forming dwarf galaxies of the local group (in particular IC 10 and the Magellanic Clouds), offer perfect laboratories to study complete populations of X-ray binaries segregated by age and metallicity. We are using Chandra to detect X-ray transients and monitor out-bursting XRBs in IC 10 with a series of `whole-galaxy’ monitoring observations. Deep Gemini optical images are used to localize X-ray sources with H-alpha emission-line counterparts.
Camero A.
Corbet Robin H. D.
Galache Jose Louis
Garcia Murillo R.
Laycock Silas
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