Ultraluminous X-ray source populations in normal galaxies: A preliminary survey with Chandra

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 344, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 134-148

  Humphrey, P J ^a   Fabbiano, G ^b   Elvis, M ^b   Church, M J ^a,c   Balucinska Church M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Accretion, accretion discs; Binaries: close; Black hole physics; X rays: galaxies; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

BLACK HOLES; COLOR; GALAXIES; GRAVITATION; STARS; SURVEYS; X RAY APPARATUS;

ACCRETION: ACCRETION DISKS; BINARIES: CLOSE; BLACK HOLE PHYSICS; CHANDRA; COLOR-COLOR DIAGRAMS; SOURCE POPULATION; SPECTRAL FITTING; X-RAY SOURCES; X-RAY:STARS; X-RAYS: GALAXIES;

ELECTRON SOURCES;

EID: 0141886878     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06802.x     Document Type: Review

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