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探索新的致密天体群:银河系中心的X射线和IR观测

Exploring a New Population of Compact Objects: X-ray and IR Observations of the Galactic Centre

Reba M. Bandyopadhyay, Andrew J. Gosling, Stephen E. Eikenberry, Michael P. Muno, Katherine M. Blundell, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Valerie J. Mikles, Curtis DeWitt

摘要:

我描述了红外和X射线观测活动,我们已经承担的目的是确定的性质,微弱的离散X射线源人口发现钱德拉在银河系中心(GC)。该项目获得的数据包括对银河隆起的钱德拉深度调查;来自VLT/ISAAC、CTIO/ISPI和UKIDSS银河平面调查(GPS)的深度高分辨率红外成像;以及来自VLT/ISAAC和IRTF/SpeX的红外光谱。通过将钱德拉的GC X射线成像与我们的红外巡天进行交叉相关,我们通过天体测量确定了X射线源的候选对应物。使用详细的红外消光图,我们推导出所有候选者的星等和颜色。因此,建立了一个目标列表,我们将使用多目标红外光谱仪FLAMINGOS-2的双子座南进行光谱调查的候选人,寻找发射线的签名,这是一个标志性的吸积双星。通过确定这些X射线源的性质,这次FLAMINGOS-2银河系中心巡天将对我们了解银河系吸积双星种群产生巨大影响。

英文摘要:

I describe the IR and X-ray observational campaign we have undertaken for the purpose of determining the nature of the faint discrete X-ray source population discovered by Chandra in the Galactic Center (GC). Data obtained for this project includes a deep Chandra survey of the Galactic Bulge; deep, high resolution IR imaging from VLT/ISAAC, CTIO/ISPI, and the UKIDSS Galactic Plane Survey (GPS); and IR spectroscopy from VLT/ISAAC and IRTF/SpeX. By cross-correlating the GC X-ray imaging from Chandra with our IR surveys, we identify candidate counterparts to the X-ray sources via astrometry. Using a detailed IR extinction map, we are deriving magnitudes and colors for all the candidates. Having thus established a target list, we will use the multi-object IR spectrograph FLAMINGOS-2 on Gemini-South to carry out a spectroscopic survey of the candidate counterparts, to search for emission line signatures which are a hallmark of accreting binaries. By determining the nature of these X-ray sources, this FLAMINGOS-2 Galactic Center Survey will have a dramatic impact on our knowledge of the Galactic accreting binary population.

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