Chandra observations of SINGS galaxies Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Lehmer B.D.
  2. Eufrasio R.T.
  3. Tzanavaris P.
  4. Basu-Zych A.
  5. Fragos T.,Prestwich A.
  6. Yukita M.
  7. Zezas A.
  8. Hornschemeier A.E.
  9. Ptak A.
  10. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present 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=3.4-29Mpc). Our galaxy sample is drawn primarily from the Spitzer Infrared Nearby Galaxies Survey (SINGS) and contains a wealth of Chandra (5.8Ms total) and multiwavelength data, allowing for star formation rates (SFRs) and stellar masses (M_*_) to be measured on subgalactic scales. We 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, we fit 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. We find 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 our global model to XLF data for each individual galaxy, we discover a few galaxy XLFs that significantly deviate from our model beyond statistical scatter. Most notably, relatively low-metallicity galaxies have an excess of HMXBs above ~10^38^erg/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.

Keywords
  1. Galaxies
  2. X-ray binary stars
  3. X-ray sources
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2019ApJS..243....3L
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/ApJS/243/3
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/ApJS/243/3
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.22430003

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History

2020-02-05T09:19:18Z
Resource record created
2020-02-05T09:19:18Z
Created
2020-09-30T10:33:58Z
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