Chandra Exposes the Core Collapsed Globular Cluster NGC 6397

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2001-08-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0108265v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

submitted to ApJ Letters. 4 pages (emulateapj) and 3 figures (figs. 1 and 2 are color)

Scientific paper

10.1086/338499

We report results of the Chandra deep imaging observation of the closest post-core collapse globular cluster, NGC 6397. Some 25 sources are detected within 2 arcmin of the cluster center of which about 20 are likely cluster members with L_x ~ 3x10^29 erg/s. The x-ray spectra suggest identifications with 1 quiescent low mass x-ray binary (qLMXB) detected by the thermal emission from its neutron star (NS) and 9 cataclysmic variables (CVs), 8 of which are identified in our deep HST imaging survey (reported separately). Three (of 16) BY Draconis main sequence binary candidates identified in our earlier HST imaging study (Taylor et al) are detected of which one is indeed the counterpart of the eclipsing millisecond pulsar (MSP) recently located by D'Amico et al. Two other BY Dra candidates are also detected, whereas none of the probable He white dwarf (WD) binaries identified by Taylor et al are indicating they do not contain MSP primaries. The x-ray color magnitude diagram suggests that the remaining 5 probable cluster sources are a mixture of faint CVs, BY Dra binaries and MSPs. Compact binaries containing WDs appear to dominate this cluster, in contrast to those containing NSs in 47Tuc.

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