The Path to Buried Treasure: Paving the Way to the FLAMINGOS-2 Galactic Center Survey with IR and X-ray Observations
Reba M. Bandyopadhyay, Stephen S. Eikenberry, Curtis Dewitt Andrew J. Gosling Michael P. Muno and the F2GCS Team
(1) Dept. of Astronomy, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611
(2) Dept. of Astrophysics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3RH, UK
(3) California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125
Paper: AIP Conf. Proc., 2008, in press
Abstract:
I describe the IR and X-ray campaign we have undertaken to determine
the nature of the faint discrete X-ray source population discovered by
\Chandra in the Galactic Center. These results will provide the input
to the FLAMINGOS-2 Galactic Center Survey (F2GCS). With FLAMINGOS-2's
multi-object IR spectrograph we will obtain 1000s of IR spectra of
candidate X-ray source counterparts, allowing us to efficiently
identify the nature of these sources, and thus dramatically increase
the number of known X-ray binaries and CVs in the Milky Way.
Preprints available from the authors at reba@astro.ufl.edu
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