Statistics
Scientific paper
Jan 2010
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010aas...21547306k&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #215, #473.06; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 42, p.521
Statistics
Scientific paper
Given its wide field of view, relatively uniform PSF, and large survey area, the Wide Field X-ray Telescope (WFXT) will have a significant impact on many aspects of Galactic science. The high Galactic latitude surveys can provide unprecedented measurement of the spatial distribution and thermal structure of the Galactic halo using the large catalogue of shadows detected by the ROSAT mission, without the solar wind charge exchange (SWCX) contamination affecting current studies. The dense coverage in space and time will allow correlation studies with the solar wind, allowing isolation of the emission due to the Local Hot Bubble from the SWCX.
A proposed extended mission survey of the Galactic plane can provide complete flux-limited surveys of young stellar populations over nearby molecular cloud complexes, and thus an unprecedented census of local star formation in the solar neighborhood, with exciting implications for studies of the initial mass function and cluster dynamics. The census of X-ray sources in the Galactic plane will produce much deeper luminosity functions and the statistics required for constraining binary population synthesis models.
Kuntz Kip D.
WFXT Team
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