An ultraluminous X-ray source powered by an accreting neutron star

The majority of ultraluminous X-ray sources are point sources that are spatially offset from the nuclei of nearby galaxies and whose X-ray luminosities exceed the theoretical maximum for spherical infall (the Eddington limit) onto stellar-mass black holes. Their X-ray luminosities in the 0.5-10 kilo...

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Main Authors: Bachetti, M. (Author), Harrison, Fiona A. (Author), Walton, D. J. (Author), Grefenstette, Brian W. (Author), Fürst, F. (Author), Barret, D. (Author), Beloborodov, A. (Author), Boggs, S. E. (Author), Christensen, F. E. (Author), Craig, W. W. (Author), Fabian, A. C. (Author), Hailey, Charles J. (Author), Hornschemeier, A. (Author), Kaspi, Victoria (Author), Kulkarni, S. R. (Author), Maccarone, T. J. (Author), Miller, J. M. (Author), Rana, V. (Author), Stern, D. (Author), Tendulkar, S. P. (Author), Tomsick, J. (Author), Webb, N. A. (Author), Zhang, W. W. (Author), Chakrabarty, Deepto (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Physics (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group, 2015-08-06T12:12:00Z.
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