Ultraluminous X-ray sources as intermediate-mass black holes fed by tidally captured stars

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 604, Issue 2 II, 2004, Pages

  Hopman, Clovis ^a   Zwart, Simon F Portegies ^b,c   Alexander, Tal ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Black hole physics; Galaxies: star clusters; Stellar dynamics; X rays: binaries

Indexed keywords

EID: 2642526746     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/383616     Document Type: Article

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