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2024MNRAS.52711491Z - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 527, 11491-11506 (2024/February-1)

Exploration of faint X-ray and radio sources in the massive globular cluster M14: a UV-bright counterpart to Nova Ophiuchus 1938.

ZHAO Y., D'ANTONA F., MILONE A.P., HEINKE C., ZHAO J., LUGGER P. and COHN H.

Abstract (from CDS):

Using a 12 ks archival Chandra X-ray Observatory ACIS-S observation on the massive globular cluster (GC) M14, we detect a total of 7 faint X-ray sources within its half-light radius at a $0.5{\small --}7\, \mathrm{keV}$ depth of $2.5\times 10^{31}\, \mathrm{erg s^{-1}}$. We cross-match the X-ray source positions with a catalogue of the Very Large Array radio point sources and a Hubble Space Telescope (HST) UV/optical/near-IR photometry catalogue, revealing radio counterparts to 2 and HST counterparts to 6 of the X-ray sources. In addition, we also identify a radio source with the recently discovered millisecond pulsar PSR 1737-0314A. The brightest X-ray source, CX1, appears to be consistent with the nominal position of the classic nova Ophiuchi 1938 (Oph 1938), and both Oph 1938 and CX1 are consistent with a UV-bright variable HST counterpart, which we argue to be the source of the nova eruption in 1938. This makes Oph 1938 the second classic nova recovered in a Galactic GC since Nova T Scorpii in M80. CX2 is consistent with the steep-spectrum radio source VLA8, which unambiguously matches a faint blue source; the steepness of VLA8 is suggestive of a pulsar nature, possibly a transitional millisecond pulsar with a late K dwarf companion, though an active galactic nucleus (AGN) cannot be ruled out. The other counterparts to the X-ray sources are all suggestive of chromospherically active binaries or background AGNs, so their nature requires further membership information.

Abstract Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): novae, cataclysmic variables - pulsars: general - globular clusters: individual: NGC 6402 (M14) - X-rays: binaries

Simbad objects: 15

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