Chandra Observation of a New Galactic Globular Cluster -- FSR 584

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Sep 2008

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We propose a 20 ksec ACIS-S3 observation of the star cluster FSR 584, which was recently discovered in 2MASS data and argued to be a globular cluster. This heavily obscured object lies nearly in the Galactic plane at only 1.4 kpc, making it the closest globular cluster. A relatively short observation will allow us to take a census of the X-ray emitting objects in this cluster (with Lx > 4x10^30 ergs/sec), such as quiescent low-mass X-ray binaries, cataclysmic variables, millisecond radio pulsars, and chromospherically active main-sequence binaries. As our work with another recently discovered globular cluster in the plane (GLIMPSE-C01) has shown, Chandra data can be used to help rule out the alternative for this object, namely, an old open cluster.

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