The Nature of X-Ray Sources in the Andromeda Galaxy
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2023-08
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Nava, Erika Marentes
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Using the Panchromatic Hubble Andromeda Treasury (PHAT) Program and Chandra X-Ray Observatory, we have acquired archival data from ~1/3 of Andromeda Galaxy to study the properties of the X-ray sources. Only a small fraction (~1/3) of the X-ray sources within Andromeda have been classified. We determined a total of 799 x-ray sources with 781 of them containing more than one counterpart. We present preliminary analysis of the archival data including color-magnitude diagrams, x-ray spectral analysis, and theoretical modeling that help us determine what these sources are.
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x-ray binaries, high mass x-ray binaries, low mass x-ray binaries, x-ray sources, stellar evolution, Physics
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Nava, E. M. (2023). The nature of x-ray sources in the andromeda galaxy (Unpublished thesis). Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas.