A variable ultraluminous supersoft x-ray source in "the antennae": Stellar-mass black hole or white dwarf?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 591, Issue 2 I, 2003, Pages 843-849

  Fabbiano, G ^a   King, A R ^b   Zezas, A ^a   Ponman, T J ^c   Rots, A ^a   Schweizer, François ^d  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^d CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: Individual (ngc 4038 4039); Galaxies: Interactions; Galaxies: Peculiar; X rays: Binaries; X rays: Galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141837986     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/375441     Document Type: Article

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