Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-12-12
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
24 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20000469
I analyze 101 observations from the ROSAT archive to search for X-ray sources in or near 55 globular clusters. New sources are found in the cores of NGC362 (a double source), NGC6121 (marginally significant), NGC6139, and NGC6266; and outside the cores of NGC6205, NGC6352 and NGC6388. More accurate positions are determined for the X-ray sources in some ten clusters. The improved position for the source in NGC6341 excludes the suggested ultraviolet counterpart. It is shown that one of the two sources reported near the core NGC6626 is spurious, as is the detection of a pulsar period in the PSPC data of this cluster; the central source is resolved in three sources. One source reported previously in NGC6304 is demoted to an upper limit. For 20 cluster cores better upper limits to the X-ray luminosity are obtained. From a statistical analysis I argue that several sources outside the cluster cores may well belong to the clusters. All spectral energy distributions observed so far are relatively soft, with bremsstrahlung temperatures =~0.9keV; there is evidence however that bremsstrahlung spectra do not correctly describe the spectra. The X-ray luminosity per unit mass for the cluster as a whole does not depend on the concentration; the luminosity per unit mass for the core may increase with the cluster concentration.
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