Bibcode
Binder, Breanna A.; Williams, B. F.; Anderson, S. F.; Dalcanton, J. J.; Eracleous, M.; Gaetz, T. J.; Garcia, M. R.; Kong, A. K. H.; Plucinsky, P. P.; Seth, A. C.; Skillman, E. D.; Weisz, D. R.
Bibliographical reference
American Astronomical Society, AAS Meeting #219, #408.05
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Description
NGC 300 was observed by the Chandra X-ray Observatory on 24 Sept. 2010
for 63 ks as part of the Chandra Local Volume Survey. Roughly one
hundred highly significant X-ray point sources were detected down to a
limiting luminosity of 1035 erg/s, including high- and
low-mass X-ray binaries, supernova remnants, and background AGN. Many of
these X-ray sources have been tentatively classified using X-ray
color-color diagrams, spectral modeling, and temporal variability
analysis. We have additionally examined the radial source distribution
and X-ray luminosity function of NGC 300. The high quality of our
Chandra X-ray data has enabled us to perform a detailed study of the
X-ray emission associated with the SN 2010da outburst (a suspected high
mass X-ray binary) and the Wolf-Rayet + black hole binary NGC 300 X-1.
This work has been supported by Chandra grant GO1-12118X.