Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jan 2011
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American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #217, #409.04; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 43, 2011
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
M31 hosts the largest and possibly most diverse cluster population in our local group. Its proximity to us makes it an important bridge between the well studied clusters in the Milky Way and the more distant, but often more numerous and diverse, extragalactic cluster systems. We have undertaken a large, multiwavelength, survey of these clusters to investigate their properties. In this talk, I'll present the highlights of this study including the photometric and structural properties of these clusters. I'll also discuss the properties of clusters that are found to host X-ray binaries. From this work, I'll show correlations between the formation of X-ray binaries and the metallicity, mass and stellar collision rate of their host clusters. In particular, I'll demonstrate that stellar interactions appear to be the dominant factor in the formation of X-ray binaries in M31's clusters, consistent with the dynamical formation of these systems.
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