Program: GS-2016B-Q-66

Globular clusters are typically used to test and constrain theories of stellar evolution, since they are assumed to provide a stellar population at one distance, age, and metallicity. However, understanding the evolution of mass accreting binaries requires that we can observe a sample that, unlike globular clusters, is not enhanced by dynamical interactions. Additionally, constraining mass accreting binary evolution requires that binaries in these populations can be distinguished from foreground and background sources. We propose to observe the Sculptor dwarf spheroidal galaxy in H-alpha, r', and i', to identify optical counterparts to existing X-ray observations of this galaxy, as well as to identify new compact binaries.