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X-ray Emission from the Sombrero Galaxy: Discrete Sources

  • Authors: Zhiyuan Li, Lee R. Spitler, Christine Jones, William R. Forman, Ralph P. Kraft, Rosanne Di Stefano, Shikui Tang, Q. Daniel Wang, Marat Gilfanov, and Mikhail Revnivtsev

LI et al. 2010 The Astrophysical Journal 721 1368.

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Caption: Figure 7.

Differential NFR of field sources detected between 0 farcm1 and 4′ (A1; black) and 4′–9′ (A2; green), and sources associated with GCs (red). The count rates are measured in the F band (0.4–6 keV) for A1 sources and GC-LMXBs and in the M band (0.7–2 keV) for A2 sources. Data points are adaptively grouped to have a minimum of six sources per bin. The black histogram represents an acceptable fit to the A1 NFR, consisting of a broken power law for the galactic component (dashed curve) and a cosmic component from Moretti et al. (dotted curve). The red histogram represents an acceptable power-law fit to the GC NFR. The green dotted curve represents the expected cosmic component in the A2 NFR. Note the turnover of the NFRs and models at low count rates, which results from the incompleteness and Eddington bias in the source detection.

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