Shedding New Light on the Stellar Graveyard: Compact Objects in the Mid-IR

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Dec 2006

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2007 AAS/AAPT Joint Meeting, American Astronomical Society Meeting 209, #104.01; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society,

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We will present results from our Spitzer Space Telescope program to characterize the infrared emission of interacting binaries containing compact objects (i.e., white dwarfs, neutron stars and black holes). Such binaries have been "traditionally" observed primarily at short wavelengths because accretion-generated luminosity, which peaks in the optical-UV, dominates the radiated energy of most systems. Hence, relatively little is known about their infrared properties. We will present spectral energy distributions for catalcysmic variables and X-ray binaries. In addition, we will also characterize the infrared properties of the local environments of these sources, in particular for the heavily embedded population of X-ray binaries recently identified by INTEGRAL.

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