[HTML][HTML] Ultraluminous X-ray sources

A King, JP Lasota, M Middleton - New Astronomy Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
The study of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) has changed dramatically over the last
decade. In this review we first describe the most important observations of ULXs in various …

Ultraluminous X-ray sources in the Chandra and XMM-Newton era

H Feng, R Soria - New Astronomy Reviews, 2011 - Elsevier
Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are accreting black holes that may contain the missing
population of intermediate mass black holes or reflect super-Eddington accretion physics …

The impact of mass-transfer physics on the observable properties of field binary black hole populations

SS Bavera, T Fragos, M Zevin, CPL Berry… - Astronomy & …, 2021 - aanda.org
We study the impact of mass-transfer physics on the observable properties of binary black
hole populations that formed through isolated binary evolution. We used the POSYDON …

X-ray emission from star-forming galaxies–I. High-mass X-ray binaries

S Mineo, M Gilfanov, R Sunyaev - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Based on a homogeneous set of X-ray, infrared and ultraviolet observations from Chandra,
Spitzer, GALEX and 2MASS archives, we study populations of high-mass X-ray binaries …

Dark photon superradiance: Electrodynamics and multimessenger signals

N Siemonsen, C Mondino, D Egana-Ugrinovic… - Physical Review D, 2023 - APS
We study the electrodynamics of a kinetically mixed dark photon cloud that forms through
superradiance around a spinning black hole, and design strategies to search for the …

A multimission catalogue of ultraluminous X-ray source candidates

DJ Walton, ADA Mackenzie, H Gully… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
We present a new, multimission catalogue of ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) candidates,
based on recent data releases from each of the XMM–Newton, Swift, and Chandra …

The ultraluminous state

JC Gladstone, TP Roberts… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2009 - academic.oup.com
We revisit the question of the nature of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) through a
detailed investigation of their spectral shape, using the highest quality X-ray data available …

A Chandra perspective on galaxy-wide X-ray binary emission and its correlation with star formation rate and stellar mass: new results from luminous infrared galaxies

BD Lehmer, DM Alexander, FE Bauer… - The Astrophysical …, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
We present new Chandra observations that complete a sample of seventeen (17) luminous
infrared galaxies (LIRGs) with D< 60 Mpc and low Galactic column densities of NH≲ 5× 10 …

Evidence for pulsar-like emission components in the broadband ULX sample

DJ Walton, F Fürst, M Heida, FA Harrison… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present broadband X-ray analyses of a sample of bright ultraluminous X-ray sources
(ULX) with the goal of investigating the spectral similarity of this population to the known …

The ultraluminous state revisited: fractional variability and spectral shape as diagnostics of super-Eddington accretion

AD Sutton, TP Roberts… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Although we are nearing a consensus that most ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) below
1041 erg s− 1 represent stellar mass black holes accreting in a super-Eddington …