Exploring The Nature Of Weak Chandra Sources Near The Galactic Centre

We present results from the first near-IR imaging of the weak X-ray sources discovered in the Chandra/ACIS-I survey (Wang et al. 2002) towards the. Galactic Centre (GC). These 800 discrete sources, which contribute significantly to the GC X-ray emission, represent an important and previously unknown population within the Galaxy. From our VLT observations we will identify likely IR counterparts to a sample of the hardest sources, which am most likely X-ray binaries, With these data we can place constraints on the nature of the discrete weak X-ray source population of the GC.