The Path to Buried Treasure: Paving the Way to the FLAMINGOS-2 Galactic Center Survey with IR and X-ray Observations

TL;DR

This paper discusses an IR and X-ray observational campaign aimed at identifying the nature of faint X-ray sources in the Galactic Center, facilitating a large-scale survey to discover more X-ray binaries and CVs.

Contribution

It introduces a new multi-object IR spectroscopic approach to classify faint X-ray sources, enhancing the identification process in the Galactic Center.

Findings

IR and X-ray data help classify faint X-ray sources

The campaign will increase known X-ray binaries and CVs

Preparation for the FLAMINGOS-2 Galactic Center Survey

Abstract

I describe the IR and X-ray campaign we have undertaken to determine the nature of the faint discrete X-ray source population discovered by Chandra in the Galactic Center. These results will provide the input to the FLAMINGOS-2 Galactic Center Survey (F2GCS). With FLAMINGOS-2's multi-object IR spectrograph we will obtain 1000s of IR spectra of candidate X-ray source counterparts, allowing us to efficiently identify the nature of these sources, and thus dramatically increase the number of known X-ray binaries and CVs in the Milky Way.