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An Infrared Imaging Survey of the Faint Chandra Sources near the Galactic Centre
- Abstract:
- We present near-IR imaging of a sample of the faint, hard X-ray sources discovered in the 2001 Chandra ACIS-I survey towards the Galactic Centre (GC) (Wang et al. 2002). These ~800 discrete sources represent an important and previously undetected population within the Galaxy. From our VLT observations of 77 X-ray sources, we identify candidate K-band counterparts to 75% of the Chandra sources in our sample. The near-IR magnitudes and colours of the majority of candidate counterparts are consistent with highly reddened stars, indicating that most of the Chandra sources are likely to be accreting binaries at or near the GC.
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- Published
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- 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09607.x
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- Journal:
- Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society More from this journal
- Volume:
- 364
- Issue:
- 4
- Pages:
- 1195-1202
- Publication date:
- 2005-09-13
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1365-2966
- ISSN:
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0035-8711
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English
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pubs:3145
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pubs:3145
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3145
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2012-12-19
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- Copyright date:
- 2005
- Notes:
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Accepted for publication in MNRAS, version with full-resolution
figures available at http://www-astro.physics.ox.ac.uk/~rmb/rmb_mn_f.ps
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