The lack of very ultraluminous X-ray sources in early-type galaxies

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 601, Issue 2 II, 2004, Pages

  Irwin, Jimmy A ^a   Bregman, Joel N ^a   Athey, Alex E ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; X rays: binaries; X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 1842533226     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/382026     Document Type: Article

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