[44.03] X-ray Emission from Stellar Clusters near the Galactic Center

AAS 200th meeting, Albuquerque, NM, June 2002
Session 44. The Milky Way: Center and Halo
Display, Tuesday, June 4, 2002, 10:00am-6:30pm, SW Exhibit Hall

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[44.03] X-ray Emission from Stellar Clusters near the Galactic Center

C.J. Law (Harvard-Smithsonian CfA/Northwetsern University), F. Yusef-Zadeh (Northwestern University)

Existing Chandra observations of the Galactic center have been used to determine X-ray properties of known stellar clusters (e.g. the Quintuplet, Sgr A East, the IRS 16 and the Arches cluster), near-IR cluster candidates and HII regions associated with massive star forming regions. Preliminary results indicate more than half of the known and candidate stellar clusters in the inner 2^o\times0.8^o of the Galactic center region appear to have X-ray counterparts. The X-ray and radio continuum properties of these known clusters and cluster candiates will be described. This research is supported by a NASA grant to the Chandra X-ray Center and Northwestern University.

The author(s) of this abstract have provided an email address for comments about the abstract: claw@cfa.harvard.edu

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