The origin of Scorpius X-1

Astrophysics, abstract
astro-ph/0301580

From: Felix Mirabel <mirabel@discovery.saclay.cea.fr>

Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 15:11:52 GMT   (576kb)

Authors:
I. Felix Mirabel,
Irapuan Rodrigues

Comments: 4 pages, 1 figure. Animation and high resolution figures can be
retrived from the NRAO press release:
this http URL

Journal-ref: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 398, L25–L28 (2003)

We have used multi-wavelength observations of high precision to derive the
space velocity and compute the orbit around the Galactic Centre of the
prototype X-ray binary Scorpius X-1. An origin in the local spiral arm of the
Milky Way is ruled out. The galactocentric kinematics of Scorpius X-1 is
similar to that of the most ancient stars and globular clusters of the inner
Galactic halo. Most probably, this low-mass X-ray binary was formed by a close
encounter in a globular cluster. However, it cannot be ruled out that a natal
supernova explosion launched Scorpius X-1 into an orbit like this from a birth
place in the galactic bulge. In any case, the Galactocentric orbit indicates
that Scorpius X-1 was formed more than 30 Myrs ago.

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