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2013ApJS..204...14L - Astrophys. J., Suppl. Ser., 204, 14 (2013/February-0)

Deep Chandra monitoring observations of NGC 4649. I. Catalog of source properties.

LUO B., FABBIANO G., STRADER J., KIM D.-W., BRODIE J.P., FRAGOS T., GALLAGHER J.S., KING A. and ZEZAS A.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present the X-ray source catalog for the Chandra monitoring observations of the elliptical galaxy, NGC 4649. The galaxy has been observed with Chandra ACIS-S3 in six separate pointings, reaching a total exposure of 299 ks. There are 501 X-ray sources detected in the 0.3-8.0 keV band in the merged observation or in one of the six individual observations; 399 sources are located within the D25ellipse. The observed 0.3-8.0 keV luminosities of these 501 sources range from 9.3x1036 erg/s to 5.4x1039 erg/s. The 90% detection completeness limit within the D25 ellipse is 5.5x1037 erg/s. Based on the surface density of background active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and detection completeness, we expect ~45 background AGNs among the catalog sources (~15 within the D25ellipse). There are nine sources with luminosities greater than 1039 erg/s, which are candidates for ultraluminous X-ray sources. The nuclear source of NGC 4649 is a low-luminosity AGN, with an intrinsic 2.0-8.0 keV X-ray luminosity of 1.5x1038 erg/s. The X-ray colors suggest that the majority of the catalog sources are low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). We find that 164 of the 501 X-ray sources show long-term variability, indicating that they are accreting compact objects. We discover four transient candidates and another four potential transients. We also identify 173 X-ray sources (141 within the D25ellipse) that are associated with globular clusters (GCs) based on Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based data; these LMXBs tend to be hosted by red GCs. Although NGC 4649 has a much larger population of X-ray sources than the structurally similar early-type galaxies, NGC 3379 and NGC 4278, the X-ray source properties are comparable in all three systems.

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Journal keyword(s): galaxies: active - galaxies: individual: NGC 4649 - globular clusters: general - X-rays: binaries - X-rays: galaxies

VizieR on-line data: <Available at CDS (J/ApJS/204/14): table3.dat table4.dat table5.dat table6.dat table7.dat table8.dat table9.dat table10.dat>

Nomenclature: Table 3: [LFS2013] NNN (Nos 1-501).

Status at CDS : All or part of tables of objects could be ingested in SIMBAD with priority 2.

Simbad objects: 7

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