
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Wu, Kinwah 
T1  - Populations of X-ray Binaries and the Dynamical History of their Host Galaxies
JF  - Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia
JO  - Publ. Astron. Soc.  Aust.
Y1  - 2002
VL  - 18
IS  - 4
SP  - 443
EP  - 450
KW  - galaxies: evolution &#8212; X-ray: binaries
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1071/AS01055 
N2  - The observed luminosity distributions of X-ray sources indicate the presence of several populations of X-ray binaries in the nearby galaxies. Each population has its formation and evolutionary history, depending on the host environment. The features seen in the log N(&#62;S)&#8211;log S curves for different types of galaxies and for different galactic components can be reproduced by a birth&#8211;death model, in which the lifespans of the binaries are inversely proportional to their X-ray brightness. Conversely, the dynamical history of a galaxy can be inferred from the luminosity distributions of its X-ray binary populations. 
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