X-RAY MONITORING OF ULTRALUMINOUS X-RAY SOURCES
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X-ray Monitoring of Ultraluminous X-ray Sources
X-ray monitoring observations were performed with the Swift observatory of the ultraluminous Xray sources Holmberg IX X-1, NGC 5408 X-1, and NGC 4395 X-2 and also of the nuclear X-ray source in NGC 4395. Holmberg IX X-1 remains in the hard X-ray spectral state as its flux varies by a factor of 7 up to an (isotropic) luminosity of 2.8 × 10 erg s. This behavior may suggest an unusually massive co...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Astrophysical Journal
سال: 2009
ISSN: 0004-637X,1538-4357
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637x/702/2/1679