Population of the Galactic X-ray binaries and eRosita
Abstract
The population of the Galactic X-ray binaries has been mostly probed with moderately sensitive hard X-ray surveys so far. The eRosita mission will provide for the first time a sensitive all-sky X-ray survey in the 2-10 keV energy range, where the X-ray binaries emit most of the flux and discover the still unobserved low-luminosity population of these objects. In this paper, we briefly review the current constraints for the X-ray luminosity functions of high- and low-mass X-ray binaries and present our own analysis based the INTEGRAL 9-year Galactic survey, which yields improved constraints. Based on these results, we estimate the number of new XRBs to be detected in the eRosita all-sky survey.
- Publication:
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Astronomy and Astrophysics
- Pub Date:
- July 2014
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1405.0802
- Bibcode:
- 2014A&A...567A...7D
- Keywords:
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- X-rays: binaries;
- Galaxy: structure;
- stars: luminosity function;
- mass function;
- surveys;
- Astrophysics - Astrophysics of Galaxies;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- accepted for publication in A&