Abstract
The Chandra Local Volume Survey is a deep, volume-limited X-ray survey of five nearby galaxies (NGC 55, NGC 300, NGC 404, NGC 2403, and NGC 4214) with matched Hubble observations down to M_ 0, spanning a range stellar masses, metallicities, morphologies, and star formation histories. The X-ray emission detected in normal, non-active spiral galaxies such as these is dominated by X-ray binaries (XRBs). While studies of XRBs in the Milky Way often suffer from significant distance uncertainties and considerable extinction along Galactic lines of sight, these difficulties are minimized when studying X-ray sources in nearby galaxies: extinction effects are less problematic when observing galaxies away from the Galactic disk, and distance uncertainties are reduced since all X-ray sources are essentially equidistant from the observer. We present preliminary results correlating the X-ray source population properties of these five galaxies - such as the X-ray luminosity functions (XLFs) and radial X-ray source distributions down to ~10^36 erg/s - with the morphologies and recent star formation histories of the host galaxies.