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19 April 2024

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Spectral Properties of X-ray Binaries in Centaurus A
Mark J. Burke ; Somak Raychaudhury ; Ralph P. Kraft ; Thomas J. Maccarone ; Nicola J. Brassington ; Martin J. Hardcastle ; Jouni Kainulainen ; Kristin A. Woodley ; Joanna L. Goodger ; Gregory R. Sivakoff ; William R. Forman ; Christine Jones ; Stephen S. Murray ; Mark Birkinshaw ; Judith H. Croston ; Daniel A. Evans ; Marat Gilfanov ; Andres Jordan ; Craig L. Sarazin ; Rasmus Voss ; Diana M. Worrall ; Zhongli Zhang ;
Date:	4 Feb 2013
Abstract:	We present a spectral investigation of X-ray binaries in NGC 5128 (Cen A), using six 100 ks Chandra observations taken over two months in 2007. We divide our sample into thermally and non-thermally dominated states based on the behavior of the fitted absorption column, and present the spectral parameters of sources with L >2x10^37 erg/s. The majority of sources are consistent with being neutron star low mass X-ray binaries (NS LMXBs) and we identify three transient black hole (BH) LMXB candidates coincident with the dust lane, which is the remnant of a small late-type galaxy. Our results also provide tentative support for the apparent ’gap’ in the mass distribution of compact objects between ~2-5 Msol. We propose that BH LMXBs are preferentially found in the dust lane, and suggest this is because of the younger stellar population. The majority (~70-80%) of potential Roche-lobe filling donors in the Cen A halo are >12 Gyr old, while BH LMXBs require donors >1 Msol to produce the observed peak luminosities. This requirement for more massive donors may also explain recent results that claim a steepening of the X-ray luminosity function with age at Lx >= 5x10^38 erg/s for the XB population of early-type galaxies; for older stellar populations, there are fewer stars >1 Msol, which are required to form the more luminous sources.
Source:	arXiv, 1302.0851
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