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the east and northeast of NGC 1600.
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group, we assumed that they were at
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the group gas than we calculate fro
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90% confidence level errors. Bracke
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we adopted the power-law model as o
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sources could be a non-trivial sour
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ackground source population cannot
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NGC 1600 that has a small spatial s
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with NGC 4697. Columns (1)-(4) list
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duration, ∆tflat, beginning at a
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the uncertainties quoted do not inc
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the field, these different populati
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luminous (MB < −20) elliptical (E
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source list against which to regist
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Table 5.2. : Optical Properties of
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actually be an AGN. Sources 79, 80,
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mass segregation of GCs with the sa
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dependence are allowed to vary. Var
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NGC 4697 to convert the observed so
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LF, there are enough datapoints tha
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5.9 Spectral Analysis We performed
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some data loss, it allows for direc
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for 2 dof and the f-test indicates
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pairs of observations. In Figure 5.
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of states as transient candidates.
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Long-Term Hardness Ratio Variabilit
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In the final observation, there wer
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limits). The 0.3-10 keV X-ray lumin
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eak (Kim et al. 2006a). We find mar
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LMXBs in Galactic GCs (Heinke et al
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identification of point sources, AC
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GCs without LMXBs; however, there a
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dependent IMF (Grindlay 1987), or e
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a 1.4M⊙ neutron star (NS). They s
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