HMXBs in M33 with Chandra X-ray and HST obs. Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Lazzarini M.
  2. Hinton K.
  3. Shariat C.
  4. Williams B.F.
  5. Garofali K.,Dalcanton J.J.
  6. Durbin M.
  7. Antoniou V.
  8. Binder B.
  9. Eracleous M.
  10. Vulic N.,Yang J.
  11. Wik D.
  12. Gasca A.
  13. Kuauhtzin Q.
  14. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present multiwavelength characterization of 65 high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) candidates in M33. We use the Chandra ACIS survey of M33 (ChASeM33) catalog to select hard X-ray point sources that are spatially coincident with UV-bright point-source optical counterparts in the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury: Triangulum Extended Region catalog, which covers the inner disk of M33 at near-IR, optical, and near-UV wavelengths. We perform spectral energy distribution fitting on multiband photometry for each point-source optical counterpart to measure its physical properties including mass, temperature, luminosity, and radius. We find that the majority of the HMXB companion star candidates are likely B-type main-sequence stars, suggesting that the HMXB population of M33 is dominated by Be X-ray binaries (Be-XRBs), as is seen in other Local Group galaxies. We use spatially resolved recent star formation history maps of M33 to measure the age distribution of the HMXB candidate sample and the HMXB production rate for M33. We find a bimodal distribution for the HMXB production rate over the last 80 Myr, with a peak at ~10 and ~40Myr, which match theoretical formation timescales for the most massive HMXBs and Be-XRBs, respectively. We measure an HMXB production rate of 107-136 HMXBs/(M_{sun}_/yr) over the last 50Myr and 150-199 HMXBs/(M_{sun}_/yr) over the last 80Myr. For sources with compact object classifications from overlapping NuSTAR observations, we find a preference for giant/supergiant companion stars in black hole HMXBs and main-sequence companion stars in neutron star HMXBs.

Keywords
  1. x-ray-binary-stars
  2. effective-temperature
  3. stellar-ages
  4. extinction
  5. stellar-masses
  6. stellar-spectral-types
  7. hst-photometry
  8. visible-astronomy
  9. infrared-astronomy
  10. ultraviolet-astronomy
  11. astronomical-object-identification
  12. galaxies
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2023ApJ...952..114L
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2025-10-30T13:09:33Z
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