Optical counterparts of ultraluminous X-ray sources identified from archival HST WFPC2 images

Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

Volumn 166, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 154-187

  Ptak, Andrew ^a   Colbert, Ed ^a   Van Der Marel, Roeland P ^b   Roye, Erin ^b   Heckman, Tim ^a   Towne, Brian ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b AURA for the European Space Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

Catalogs; X rays: binaries; X rays: galaxies

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749838698     PISSN: 00670049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/505218     Document Type: Article

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