Publication Date
2005
Journal or Book Title
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Abstract
We present near-infrared imaging of a sample of the faint, hard X-ray sources discovered in the 2001 Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer (ACIS)-I survey towards the Galactic Centre (GC) by Wang et al. These ∼800 discrete sources represent an important and previously undetected population within the Galaxy. From our Very Large Telescope observations of 77 X-ray sources, we identify candidate K-band counterparts to 75 per cent of the Chandra sources in our sample. The near-infrared magnitudes and colours of the majority of candidate counterparts are consistent with highly reddened stars, indicating that most of the Chandra sources are likely to be accreting binaries at or near the GC.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09607.x
Pages
1195-1202
Volume
364
Issue
4
Recommended Citation
Bandyopadhyay, RM; Miller-Jones, JCA; Blundell, KM; Bauer, FE; Podsiadlowski, Ph; Gosling, AJ; Wang, QD; Pfahl, E; and Rappaport, S, "An infrared imaging survey of the faint Chandra sources near the Galactic Centre" (2005). Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 1054.
https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09607.x
Comments
This is the pre-published version harvested from ArXiv. The published version is located at http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09607.x/abstract