| Name: RAJDEEP SARKAR |
| Affiliation: INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES) DHANBAD |
| Conference ID: ASI2026_338 |
| Title: Multiwavelength study of compact objects in MAVERIC globular clusters |
| Abstract Type: Poster |
| Abstract Category: High Energy Phenomena, Fundamental Physics and Astronomy |
| Author(s) and Co-Author(s) with Affiliation: RAJDEEP SARKAR(INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY(INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES), DHANBAD - 826004, INDIA), ESHA KUNDU(INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY(INDIAN SCHOOL OF MINES), DHANBAD - 826004, INDIA) |
| Abstract: Globular clusters (GCs) are dense systems in our universe where stars and stellar remnants are held together within a small volume by mutual gravitational attraction. Studies suggested that these clusters contain compact objects (COs), such as neutron stars, white dwarfs, and stellar-mass black holes. To unravel the nature of these COs, we carried out a combined X-ray and optical study of compact objects in a few MAVERIC GCs present in our Milky Way Galaxy. Analyzing the Hubble Space Telescope images of these GCs and the recent Chandra X-ray catalogs, which contain more than 100 low luminosity X-ray sources for each GC, we investigate the nature of the compact objects present in those GCs. Focusing on objects mainly present within the half-light radii of these GCs, as objects within them have a much higher probability of being associated with a given cluster, we found that there exists a mixed population of stellar objects in these clusters. |
