GTO ChICAGO: Chandra Identification of Compact ASCA Galactic Objects

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Sep 2007

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Chandra Proposal ID #09910040

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Chandra Proposal Id #09910040

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The Milky Way teems with thousands of X-ray sources, tracing a variety of exotic stellar populations. Most sources with X-ray fluxes >~1e-10 erg/cm^2/s were long ago identified as luminous X-ray binaries. In contrast, recent Chandra and XMM surveys have characterized the population for X-ray fluxes in the range ~5e-15 to ~5e-13 erg/cm^2/s. However, between these regimes lies a large population which is largely unidentified. We consequently propose to localize the compact, unidentified sources in the ASCA Galactic Plane Survey. We can then complete the demography of Galactic X-ray sources, from Sco X-1 down to the faintest sources known. These observations will also yield important new examples of active stars, magnetars, accreting systems, energetic pulsars, and young supernova remnants.

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