Chandra observations of the x-ray point source population in NGC 4636

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 695, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 1094-1110

  Posson Brown, Jennifer ^a   Raychaudhury, Somak ^a,b   Forman, William ^a   Donnelly, R Hank ^a,c   Jones, Christine ^a  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c Center for Naval Analysis   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: individual (NGC 4636); X rays: binaries; X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992430088     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/695/2/1094     Document Type: Article

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