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X-ray Luminosity Functions and Star Formation Rate

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2006

H.-J. Grimm ,
M. Gilfanov  and
R. Sunyaev
H.-J. Grimm
Affiliation:
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, USA email: hgrimm@head.cfa.harvard.edu Present address: Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA, USA.
M. Gilfanov
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 1, 85471 Garching, Germany
R. Sunyaev
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 1, 85471 Garching, Germany
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Abstract

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I will discuss the connection between the luminosity function of a population of high-mass X-ray binaries in a galaxy and the star formation rate in the this galaxy. The understanding of this connection provides on the one hand an independent measure of an important galaxy property, and on the other hand new insights into populations of high-mass X-ray binaries. In particular, observations with the Chandra X-ray telescope are uniquely suited to investigate the X-ray part of this connection and I will present examples of this.

Keywords

X-rays:binariesX-rays:galaxiesgalaxies:fundamental parameters