[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

P Kaaret, H Feng, TP Roberts - Annual Review of Astronomy …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
We review observations of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs). X-ray spectroscopic and
timing studies of ULXs suggest a new accretion state distinct from those seen in Galactic …

Periodic fast radio bursts from luminous X-ray binaries

N Sridhar, BD Metzger, P Beniamini… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The discovery of periodicity in the arrival times of the fast radio bursts (FRBs) poses a
challenge to the oft-studied magnetar scenarios. However, models that postulate that FRBs …

bpass predictions for binary black hole mergers

JJ Eldridge, ER Stanway - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Using the Binary Population and Spectral Synthesis code, bpass, we have
calculated the rates, time-scales and mass distributions for binary black hole (BH) mergers …

Understanding the high-mass binary black hole population from stable mass transfer and super-Eddington accretion in bpass

MM Briel, HF Stevance… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
With the remarkable success of the Ligo-Virgo-Kagra consortium in detecting binary black
hole mergers, it has become possible to use the population properties to constrain our …

Stability of mass transfer from massive giants: double black-hole binary formation and ultra-luminous X-ray sources

K Pavlovskii, N Ivanova, K Belczynski… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Mass transfer in binaries with massive donors and compact companions, when the donors
rapidly evolve after their main sequence, determines the formation rates of merging double …

ULXs: Neutron stars versus black holes

A King, JP Lasota - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
We consider ultraluminous X–ray systems (ULXs) where the accretor is a neutron star rather
than a black hole. We show that the recently discovered example (M82 X–2) fits naturally …

Optically thick outflows in ultraluminous supersoft sources

R Urquhart, R Soria - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Ultraluminous supersoft sources (ULSs) are defined by a thermal spectrum with colour
temperatures∼ 0.1 keV, bolometric luminosities∼ a few 1039 erg s− 1, and almost no …

The origin of the ultraluminous X-Ray sources

G Wiktorowicz, M Sobolewska, JP Lasota… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, several ultraluminous X-ray (ULX) sources were shown to host a neutron star (NS)
accretor. We perform a suite of evolutionary calculations, which show that, in fact, NSs are …

The origin of pulsating ultra-luminous X-ray sources: Low-and intermediate-mass X-ray binaries containing neutron star accretors

D Misra, T Fragos, TM Tauris, E Zapartas… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
Context. Ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are those X-ray sources located away from
the centre of their host galaxy with luminosities exceeding the Eddington limit of a stellar …