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<i>Chandra</i>X‐Ray Observations of the X‐Ray Faint Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4697

<i>Chandra</i>X‐Ray Observations of the X‐Ray Faint Elliptical Galaxy NGC 4697

A Chandra ACIS S3 observation of the X-ray faint elliptical galaxy NGC 4697 resolves much of the X-ray emission (61% of the counts from within one effective radius) into 90 point sources, of which ~80 are low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) associated with this galaxy. The dominance of LMXBs indicates that …