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X‐Ray Sources and Their Optical Counterparts in the Globular Cluster M4

X‐Ray Sources and Their Optical Counterparts in the Globular Cluster M4

We report on the Chandra X-Ray Observatory ACIS-S3 imaging observation of the Galactic globular cluster M4 (NGC 6121). We detect 12 X-ray sources inside the core and 19 more within the cluster half-mass radius. The limiting luminosity of this observation is LX ≈ 1029 ergs s-1 for sources associated with …