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CHAMP/SDSS Nearby Low-Luminosity AGN Catalog
The combination of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) and the Chandra Multiwavelength Project (ChaMP; Green et al. 2004, ApJS, 150, 43) currently offers the largest and most homogeneously selected sample of nearby galaxies for investigating the relations between X-ray nuclear emission, nebular line emission, black hole masses, and the properties of the associated stellar populations. The authors provide X-ray spectral fits and valid uncertainties for all the galaxies with counts ranging from 2 to 1325 (mean 76, median 19). They present in their paper novel constraints that both X-ray luminosity L<sub>X</sub> and X-ray spectral energy distribution bring to the galaxy evolutionary sequence HII -> Seyfert/Transition Object -> LINER -> Passive suggested by optical data. In particular, the authors show that both L<sub>X</sub> and Gamma, the slope of the power law that best fits the 0.5 - 8 keV spectra, are consistent with a clear decline in the accretion power along the sequence, corresponding to a softening of their spectra. This implies that, at z ~ 0, or at low-luminosity active galactic nucleus (AGN) levels, there is an anticorrelation between Gamma and L/L<sub>Edd</sub>, opposite to the trend which is exhibited by high-z AGN (quasars). The turning point in the Gamma - L/L<sub>Edd</sub> LLAGN + quasars relation occurs near Gamma ~ 1.5 and L/L<sub>Edd</sub> ~ 0.01. Interestingly, this is identical to what stellar mass X-ray binaries exhibit, indicating that the authors have probably found the first empirical evidence for an intrinsic switch in the accretion mode, from advection-dominated flows to standard (disk/corona) accretion modes in supermassive black hole accretors, similar to what has been seen and proposed to happen in stellar mass black hole systems. The anticorrelation the authors find between Gamma and L/L<sub>Edd</sub> may instead indicate that stronger accretion correlates with greater absorption. Therefore, the trend for softer spectra toward more luminous, high-redshift, and strongly accreting (L/L<sub>Edd</sub> >~ 0.01) AGNs/quasars could simply be the result of strong selection biases reflected in the dearth of type 2 quasar detections. The cross-match of all ChaMP sky regions imaged by Chandra/ACIS with the SDSS DR4 spectroscopic footprint results in a parent sample of 15,955 galaxies on or near a chip and a subset of 199 sources that are X-ray detected. Among those, only 107 sources have an off-axis angle (OAA) Theta <0.2 degrees and avoid ccd=8 due to high serial readout noise; these 107 objects comprise the main sample that the authors employ for this study and that are listed in this table. The authors performed direct spectral fits to the X-ray counts distribution using the full instrument calibration, known redshift, and Galactic 21-cm column nH<sub>Gal</sub>. Source spectra were extracted from circular regions with radii corresponding to energy encircled fractions of ~90%, while the background region encompasses a 20 arcsec annulus, centered on the source, with separation 4 arcsecs, from the source region. Any nearby sources were excised, from both the source and the background regions. The spectral fitting was done via yaxx ('Yet Another X-ray eXtractor': Aldcroft 2006, BAAS, 38, 376), an automated script that employs the CIAO Sherpa tool. Each spectrum was fitted in the range 0.5 - 8 keV by two different models: (1) a single power law plus absorption fixed at the Galactic 21-cm value (model 'PL'), and (2) a fixed power law of photon index Gamma = 1.9 plus intrinsic absorption of column nH (model 'PLfix'). For the nine objects with more than 200 counts, the authors employed a third model in which both the slope of the power law and the intrinsic absorption were free to vary (model 'PL_abs'). This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2012 based on <a href="https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/ftp/cats/J/ApJ/705/1336/">CDS Catalog J/ApJ/705/1336/</a> file table1.dat. This is a service provided by NASA
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Chandra ACIS Survey for X-Ray AGN in Nearby Galaxies
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The authors searched the public archive of the Chandra X-ray Observatory as of 2016 March and assembled a sample of 719 galaxies within 50 Mpc with available Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer observations. By cross-correlation with the optical or near-infrared nuclei of these galaxies, 314 of them are identified to have an X-ray active galactic nucleus (AGN). The majority of them are low-luminosity AGNs and are unlikely X-ray binaries based upon their spatial distribution and luminosity functions. The AGN fraction is around 60% for elliptical galaxies and early-type spirals, but drops to roughly 20% for Sc and later types, consistent with previous findings in the optical. However, the X-ray survey is more powerful in finding weak AGNs, especially from regions with active star formation that may mask the optical AGN signature. For example, 31% of the H II nuclei are found to harbor an X-ray AGN. For most objects, a single power-law model subject to interstellar absorption is adequate to fit the spectrum, and the typical photon index is found to be around 1.8. For galaxies with a non-detection, their stacked Chandra image shows an X-ray excess with a luminosity of a few times 1037 erg/s on average around the nuclear region, possibly composed of faint X-ray binaries. This paper reports on the technique and results of the survey; in-depth analysis and discussion of the results were to be reported in forthcoming papers, e.g., She et al. (2017, ApJ, 842, 131). The sample was assembled based on Chandra/ACIS observations that were publicly available as of 2016 March. The authors first generated a full list of ACIS observations, and then searched in the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED) for galaxies within 50 Mpc whose nuclear positions were less than 8 arcminutes from the aim point of any Chandra observation. The adopted distances were taken from NED, in the following order of priority: surface brightness fluctuations, Cepheid variables, tip of the red giant branch, Type Ia supernovae, the fundamental plane, Faber-Jackson relation, Tully-Fisher relation. If more than one reference is available for the distance by the same means, the latest one is selected, unless otherwise specified. Whenever possible, the authors obtain positions of the galaxy nuclei based on measurements from near-infrared images, which suffer from less obscuration by dust or confusion from young star-forming regions. Most of the data come from the Two-Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS) extended source catalog (Skrutskie et al. 2006, AJ, 131, 1163), or NED otherwise. In a few cases, the NED positions come from radio observations. The authors discarded galaxies whose nuclear positions in NED were obtained from X-ray observations. This table was created by the HEASARC in September 2017 based upon the CDS Catalog J/ApJ/835/223 files table1.dat, table2.dat and table4.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
X-Ray Observations of Compact Group Galaxies
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This catalog presents the study of a sample of 15 compact groups (CGs) observed with Chandra/ACIS, Swift/UVOT and Spitzer/IRAC-MIPS for which archival data exist, allowing the authors to obtain SFRs, stellar masses, sSFRs and X-ray fluxes and luminosities for individual, off-nuclear point sources, which they summed to obtain total X-ray luminosities originating in off-nuclear point sources in a galaxy. Details on the Swift and Spitzer observations and data for systems in this sample can be found in Tzanavaris et al. (2010ApJ...716..556T) and Lenkic et al. (2016MNRAS.459.2948L). For Chandra/ACIS observations, see Tzanavaris et al. (2014ApJS..212....9T) and Desjardins et al. (2013ApJ...763..121D; 2014ApJ...790..132D). The authors obtained total galaxy X-ray luminosities, LX, originating from individually detected point sources in a sample of 47 galaxies in 15 compact groups of galaxies (CGs). For the great majority of the galaxies, they found that the detected point sources most likely are local to their associated galaxy, and are thus extragalactic X-ray binaries (XRBs) or nuclear active galactic nuclei (AGNs). For spiral and irregular galaxies, they found that, after accounting for AGNs and nuclear sources, most CG galaxies are either within the +/- 1 sigma scatter of the Mineo et al. LX-star formation rate (SFR) correlation or have higher LX than predicted by this correlation for their SFR. These "excesses" may be due to low metallicities and high interaction levels. For elliptical and S0 galaxies, after accounting for AGNs and nuclear sources, most CG galaxies were found to be consistent with the Boroson et al. LX-stellar mass correlation for low-mass XRBs, with larger scatter, likely due to residual effects such as AGN activity or hot gas. Assuming non-nuclear sources are low- or high-mass XRBs, the authors used appropriate XRB luminosity functions to estimate the probability that stochastic effects can lead to such extreme LX values. They found that, although stochastic effects do not in general appear to be important, for some galaxies there is a significant probability that high LX values can be observed due to strong XRB variability. This table was created by the HEASARC in May 2019 based upon the CDS Catalog J/ApJ/817/95 file table3.dat This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
2XMMi/SDSS Galaxy Cluster Survey
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The authors have compiled a sample of X-ray-selected galaxy groups and clusters from the XMM-Newton Serendipitous Source Catalog (2XMMi-DR3) with optical confirmation and redshift measurement from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). In their paper, they present an analysis of the X-ray properties of this new sample with particular emphasis on the X-ray luminosity-temperature (LX - T) relation. The X-ray cluster candidates were selected from the 2XMMi-DR3 catalog in the footprint of the SDSS-DR7. The authors developed a finding algorithm to search for overdensities of galaxies at the positions of the X-ray cluster candidates in the photometric redshift space and to measure the redshifts of the clusters from the SDSS data. For optically confirmed clusters with good quality X-ray data, they derived the X-ray flux, luminosity, and temperature from proper spectral fits, while the X-ray flux for clusters with low-quality X-ray data was obtained from the 2XMMi-DR3 catalogue. The detection algorithm provides the photometric redshift of 530 galaxy clusters. Of these, 310 clusters have a spectroscopic redshift for at least one member galaxy. About 75 percent of the optically confirmed cluster sample are newly discovered X-ray clusters. Moreover, 301 systems are known as optically selected clusters in the literature while the remainder are new discoveries in X-ray and optical bands. The optically confirmed cluster sample spans a wide redshift range 0.03 to 0.70 (median z = 0.32). In this paper, they present the catalog of X-ray-selected galaxy groups and clusters from the 2XMMi/SDSS galaxy cluster survey. The catalog has two subsamples: (i) a cluster sample comprising 345 objects with their X-ray spectroscopic temperature and flux from the spectral fitting; (these objects are identified by having values for the table_sample parameter of 1 in this HEASARC implementation of the catalog) and (ii) a cluster sample consisting of 185 systems with their X-ray flux from the 2XMMi-DR3 catalog, because their X-ray data are insufficient for spectral fitting (these objects are identified by having values for the table_sample parameter of 2 herein). For each cluster, the catalog also provides the X-ray bolometric luminosity and the cluster mass at R500 based on scaling relations and the position of the likely brightest cluster galaxy (BCG). The updated LX - T relation of the current sample with X-ray spectroscopic parameters is presented in the paper. The authors found the slope of the LX - T relation to be consistent with published ones. They see no evidence for evolution in the slope and intrinsic scatter of the LX - T relation with redshift when excluding the low-luminosity groups. This catalog of X-ray selected galaxy clusters and groups supersedes and subsumes the first release of the 2XMMi/SDSS Galaxy Cluster Survey, comprising 175 clusters of galaxies, which was presented in Takey et al. (2011, A&A, 534, A120). This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2013 based on CDS catalog J/A+A/558/A75 files table1.dat and table2.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
NGC 1399 Chandra X-Ray Source Catalog
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This table contains results from a wide-field study of the globular cluster (GC)/low-mass X-ray binary (LMXB) connection in the giant elliptical NGC 1399. The large field of view of the Advanced Camera for Surveys/WFC, combined with the high resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope and Chandra, allow the authors to constrain the LMXB formation scenarios in elliptical galaxies. They confirm that NGC 1399 has the highest LMXB fraction in GCs of all nearby elliptical galaxies studied so far, even though the exact value depends on galactocentric distance due to the interplay of a differential GC versus galaxy light distribution and the GC color dependence. In fact, LMXBs are preferentially hosted by bright, red GCs out to > 5 Reff of the galaxy light. The finding that GCs hosting LMXBs follow the radial distribution of their parent GC population argues against the hypothesis that the external dynamical influence of the galaxy affects the LMXB formation in GCs. On the other hand, field-LMXBs closely match the host galaxy light, thus indicating that they are originally formed in situ and not inside GCs. The authors measure GC structural parameters, finding that the LMXB formation likelihood is influenced independently by mass, metallicity, and GC structural parameters. In particular, the GC central density plays a major role in predicting which GCs host accreting binaries. Finally, this analysis shows that LMXBs in GCs are marginally brighter than those in the field, and in particular the only color-confirmed GC with LX > 1039 erg/s shows no variability, which may indicate a superposition of multiple LMXBs in these systems. The optical data were taken with the ACS on board the HST (GO-10129), in the F606W filter. A detailed description of the HST data and source catalogs are given in Puzia T.H. et al. 2011, in preparation. The X-ray data were retrieved from the Chandra public archive (CXC). The authors selected observations 319 (ACIS-S; 2000 Jan 18) and 1472 (ACIS-I; 2003 May 26). This table contains the list of 230 X-ray sources detected in the overlap region common to Chandra ACIS-I, Chandra ACIS-S and HST ACS observation (see Fig 1 of the reference paper). Details of the X-ray source detection methodology are given in Section 2.2 of the reference paper. This table was created by the HEASARC in January 2013 based on the CDS Catalog J/ApJ/736/90 file table3.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Extremely Luminous X-Ray Source Candidates Catalog
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Using Chandra archive data, the authors conducted a thorough survey of luminous X-ray sources. They directly analyzed about 9400 Chandra ACIS observations and cross-correlated the detected X-ray sources with 77,000 galaxies within a distance of 250 Mpc. The final catalog includes 119 unique luminous X-ray source candidates with LX > 3 x 1040 erg/s from 93 galaxies or 41 HLX candidates with LX > 1 x 1041 erg/s from 35 galaxies. The authors derive a moderate contamination rate due to foreground or background sources. In the reference paper, they also cross-correlate the catalog with FIRST, perform variability and periodicity tests, and analyze one HLX candidate in particular. This catalog could be a starting point to perform follow-up observations. In order to know whether an X-ray source falls within a particular galaxy, for each galaxy, the authors collected its center's RA, Dec, distance, and D25 isophotal info, which includes major axis length, minor axis length, and the position angle of the major axis from the PGC2003 Catalog (Paturel et al. 2003, A&A, 412, 45), which includes the full RC3 catalog and has all of the necessary parameters except for distance. The authors restricted the minimum major axis length to be 10 arcseconds, and collected their distances from NED as much as possible. Their final sample includes 77,000 galaxies within 250 Mpc. The authors used all of the Chandra ACIS data in TE mode that were released before 2014, which includes 9400 ObsIDs. A roughly linear relation between the flux and count rate derived by PIMMS 4.6b was established assuming a power-law spectral shape and galactic foreground extinction (Kalberla et al. 2005, A&A, 440, 775). Any source with a PIMMS luminosity larger than 5 x 1039 erg s-1 would be recalculated by the CIAO script model flux assuming a power-law index of 1.7 in the 0.3 - 8.0 keV energy band. After the recalculation, 1,809 X-ray sources with Lx > 3 x 1040 erg s-1 falling within 640 D25 contours covered by 905 ObsIDs were picked out. A large fraction of the 1,809 sources are galactic nuclei and some of them are repeated. Only off-nuclear sources are considered in this paper. In addition, the centers of the galaxies given by PGC2003 are not necessarily precise and the specific environments of the 1,809 sources are different. Therefore, the authors visually checked the Chandra and DSS images simultaneously, since two-band inspection can help to exclude the nuclear sources, bright knots, and extended sources. X-ray sources with clear DSS features would be dropped because, for a source with a visual magnitude <20 and a distance >30 Mpc, its absolute magnitude would be brighter than -12.4, which is beyond the limit of the brightest star clusters. This table was created by the HEASARC in February 2017 based on CDS Catalog J/ApJS/222/12 file table1.dat, the list of very luminous X-ray source candidates found within the D25 ellipses of Chandra ACIS-observed PGC2003 galaxies lying within 250 Mpc. Some of the values for the name parameter in the HEASARC's implementation of this table were corrected in April 2018. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
NGC 6334 Chandra X-Ray Point Source Catalog
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The full stellar population of NGC 6334, one of the most spectacular regions of massive star formation in the nearby Galaxy, has not been well sampled in past studies. The authors have analyzed a mosaic of two Chandra X-ray Observatory images of the region using sensitive data analysis methods, giving a list of 1607 faint X-ray sources with arcsecond positions and approximate line-of-sight absorption. About 95% of these are expected to be cluster members, most lower mass pre-main-sequence stars. Extrapolating to low X-ray levels, the total stellar population is estimated to be 20,000 - 30,000 pre-main-sequence stars. The X-ray sources show a complicated spatial pattern with ~10 distinct star clusters. The heavily obscured clusters are mostly associated with previously known far-infrared sources and radio H II regions. The lightly obscured clusters are mostly newly identified in the X-ray images. Dozens of likely OB stars are found, both in clusters and dispersed throughout the region, suggesting that star formation in the complex has proceeded over millions of years. A number of extraordinarily heavily absorbed X-ray sources are associated with the active regions of star formation. This table was created by the HEASARC in August 2009 based on the electronic version of table 1 from the above reference which were obtained from the AJ web site. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Chandra X-Ray Binary Catalog of SINGS Galaxies
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The authors of this catalog presented new Chandra constraints on the X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) of X-ray binary (XRB) populations, as well as their scaling relations, for a sample of 38 nearby galaxies (D = 3.4-29 Mpc). The galaxy sample is drawn primarily from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) and contains a wealth of Chandra (5.8 Ms total) and multiwavelength data, allowing for star formation rates (SFRs) and stellar masses (M*) to be measured on subgalactic scales. The authors divided the 2478 X-ray-detected sources into 21 subsamples in bins of specific SFR (sSFR=SFR/M*) and constructed XLFs. To model the XLF dependence on sSFR, they fitted a global XLF model, containing contributions from high-mass XRBs (HMXBs), low-mass XRBs (LMXBs), and background sources from the cosmic X-ray background that respectively scale with SFR, M*, and sky area. They found an HMXB XLF that is more complex in shape than previously reported and an LMXB XLF that likely varies with sSFR, potentially due to an age dependence. When applying the global model to XLF data for each individual galaxy, the authors discovered a few galaxy XLFs that significantly deviated from their model beyond statistical scatter. Most notably, relatively low-metallicity galaxies have an excess of HMXBs above ~1038erg/s, and elliptical galaxies that have relatively rich populations of globular clusters (GCs) show excesses of LMXBs compared to the global model. Additional modeling of how the XRB XLF depends on stellar age, metallicity, and GC specific frequency is required to sufficiently characterize the XLFs of galaxies. In this work, the authors utilized 5.8 Ms of Chandra ACIS data, combined with UV-to-IR observations, for 38 nearby (D < ~30 Mpc) Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS; Kennicutt+ 2003PASP..115..928K) galaxies to revisit scaling relations of the HMXB and LMXB X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) with SFR and M*, respectively. This table contains the X-ray properties for 4442 X-ray point sources, including those with LX < 1035erg/s, which were excluded from the XLF analysis. This table was created by the HEASARC in April 2023 based upon the CDS Catalog J/ApJS/243/3 file table7.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
ROSAT All-Sky Survey and Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR7 Galaxy Clusters
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The authors use ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) broad-band X-ray images and the optical clusters identified from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 7 (SDSS DR7) to estimate the X-ray luminosities around ~65,000 candidate galaxy clusters with masses >~1013 h-1 Msun based on an optical to X-ray (OTX) code that they developed. They obtain a catalog with X-ray luminosities for all 64,646 clusters. A total of 34,522 (~53%) of these clusters have a signal-to-noise ratio S/N > 0 after subtracting the background signal. According to the reference paper (but see HEASARC Caveats section below), this catalog contains 817 clusters (473 at redshift z <= 0.12) with S/N > 3 for their X-ray detections (an additional 12,629 clusters have 3 >= S/N > 1 and 21,076 clusters have 1 >= S/N > 0). The authors find about 65% of these X-ray clusters have their most massive member located near the X-ray flux peak; for the remaining 35%, the most massive galaxy is separated from the X-ray peak, with the separation following a distribution expected from a Navarro-Frenk-White profile. In the reference paper, the authors investigate a number of correlations between the optical and X-ray properties of these X-ray clusters, and find that the cluster X-ray luminosity is correlated with the stellar mass (luminosity) of the clusters, as well as with the stellar mass (luminosity) of the central galaxy and the mass of the halo, although the scatter in these correlations is large. Comparing the properties of X-ray clusters of similar halo masses but having different X-ray luminosities, they find that massive haloes with masses >~1014 h-1 Msun contain a larger fraction of red satellite galaxies when they are brighter in X-ray. An opposite trend is found in central galaxies in relative low-mass haloes with masses <~1014 h-1 Msun where X-ray brighter clusters have smaller fraction of red central galaxies. Clusters with masses >~1014 h-1 Msun that are strong X-ray emitters contain many more low-mass satellite galaxies than weak X-ray emitters. These results are also confirmed by checking X-ray clusters of similar X-ray luminosities but having different characteristic stellar masses. The cluster catalog containing the optical properties of member galaxies and the X-ray luminosity is also available at http://gax.shao.ac.cn/data/Group.html. The optical data used in this analysis are taken from the SDSS galaxy group catalogs of Yang et al. (2007, ApJ, 671, 153), constructed using the adaptive halo-based group finder of Yang et al. (2005, MNRAS, 356, 1293), here updated to DR7. The parent galaxy catalog is the New York University Value-Added Galaxy Catalog (NYU-VAGC; Blanton et al. 2005, AJ, 129, 2562) based on the SDSS DR7 (Abazajian et al. 2009, ApJS, 182, 543), which contains an independent set of significantly improved reductions. In this study, the authors adopt a Lambda cold dark matter cosmology whose parameters are consistent with the 7-year data release of the WMAP mission: Omegam = 0.275, OmegaLambda = 0.725, h = H0/(100 km s-1 Mpc-1) = 0.702, and sigma8 = 0.816. This table was created by the HEASARC in June 2017 based upon the CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/439/611 file catalog.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
Star-Forming Galaxies High-Mass X-Ray Binaries Catalog
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Based on a homogeneous set of X-ray, infrared and ultraviolet observations from Chandra, Spitzer, GALEX and 2MASS archives, the authors studied populations of high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) in a sample of 29 nearby star-forming galaxies and their relation with the star formation rate (SFR). In agreement with previous results, the authors find that HMXBs are a good tracer of the recent star formation activity in the host galaxy and their collective luminosity and number scale with the SFR, in particular, LX ~ 2.6 x 1039 x SFR. However, the scaling relations still bear a rather large dispersion of rms ~ 0.4 dex, which the authors believe is of a physical origin. This table contains the catalog of 1055 compact X-ray sources detected within the D25 ellipse for galaxies of this sample which the authors used to construct the average X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of HMXBs with substantially improved statistical accuracy and better control of systematic effects than achieved in previous studies. The XLF follows a power law with slope of 1.6 in the log(LX) ~ 35 - 40 luminosity range with a moderately significant evidence for a break or cut-off at LX ~ 1040 erg/s. As before, the authors did not find any features at the Eddington limit for a neutron star or a stellar mass black hole. In their paper, the authors discuss the implications of their results for the theory of binary evolution. In particular, they estimate the fraction of compact objects that once during their lifetime experienced an X-ray active phase powered by accretion from a high mass companion and obtain a rather large number, fX ~ 0.2 x (0.1 Myr/taux), where taux is the life time of the X-ray active phase. This is about 4 orders of magnitude more frequent than in low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). The authors also derive constrains on the mass distribution of the secondary star in HMXBs. Note that, in their paper, the authors estimate that ~ 300 of the 1055 sources are likely to be background AGNs (cosmic X-ray background or CXB sources) and that the majority (<~ 700) of the remaining ~ 750 sources are young HMXB systems associated with star formation in their host galaxies. This table was created by the HEASARC in March 2012 based on CDS Catalog J/MNRAS/419/2095 file hmxb.dat. This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .
XMM-Newton M 33 Survey Catalog
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This table contains a source catalog based om XMM-Newton observations of the nearby galaxy M 33. In an XMM-Newton raster observation of this bright Local Group spiral galaxy, the authors studied the population of X-ray sources (X-ray binaries, supernova remnants) down to a 0.2-4.5 keV luminosity limit of 1035 erg/s, more than a factor of 10 deeper than earlier ROSAT observations. European Photon Imaging Camera (EPIC) hardness ratios and optical and radio information are used to distinguish between different source classes. The survey detects 408 sources in an area of 0.80 square degree. The authors correlated these newly detected X-ray sources with earlier M 33 X-ray catalogs and information from optical, infra-red and radio wavelengths. As M 33 sources, theydetect 21 supernova remnants (SNR) and 23 SNR candidates, 5 super-soft sources and 2 X-ray binaries (XRBs). There are 267 sources classified as hard, which may either be XRBs or Crab-like SNRs in M 33 or background AGN. The 44 confirmed and candidate SNRs more than double the number of X-ray detected SNRs in M 33. 16 of these are proposed as SNR candidates from the X-ray data for the first time. On the other hand, there are several sources not connected to M 33: five foreground stars, 30 foreground star candidates, 12 active galactic nucleus candidates, one background galaxy and one background galaxy candidate. Extrapolating from deep field observations, 175 to 210 background sources are expected in this field. This indicates that about half of the sources which were detected are actually within M 33. This table was created by the HEASARC in October 2004 based on CDS table J/A+A/426/11/table3.dat This is a service provided by NASA HEASARC .