X-RAY AND OPTICAL STUDY OF LOW CORE DENSITY GLOBULAR CLUSTERS NGC6144 AND E3

X-RAY AND OPTICAL STUDY OF LOW CORE DENSITY GLOBULAR CLUSTERS NGC6144 AND E3

We report on the Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of two low core-density globular clusters, NGC6144 and E3. By comparing the number of X-ray sources inside the half-mass radius to those outside, we found six X-ray sources within the half-mass radius of NGC6144...

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Main Authors: Lan, Shih-Hao (Author), Kong, Albert K. H. (Author), Verbunt, Frank (Author), Lewin, Walter H. G. (Contributor), Bassa, Cees (Author), Anderson, Scott F. (Author), Pooley, David (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor), MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing, 2015-03-04T20:09:11Z.
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