Thongpoyai, K., Luangtip, W., Sawangwit, U. et al. (4 more authors) (2019) Thai national telescope studies of ultraluminous X-ray sources. In: Laosiritaworn, Y., Tepnual, T., Kessaratikoon, P. and Thountom, S., (eds.) Journal of Physics: Conference Series. Siam Physics Congress 2019 (SPC2019): Physics beyond disruption society, 06-07 Jun 2019, Songkhla, Thailand. IOP Publishing
Abstract
Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are extra-galactic, non-nuclear sources with X-ray luminosity in excess of 10^39 erg s^–1. It has been thought that the majority of ULX populations are stellar-mass objects accreting matter at a super-Eddington rate. Although ULX studies are often focused in the X-ray regime, this work studied the ULXs in the optical regime, identified as the ULX counterparts (CTPs). The optical variability of nine CTPs were observed using the 2.4-m Thai National Telescope. Out of the nine ULXs, we detected three ULXs exhibiting strong variability up to ~1 magnitude, suggesting that the CTP light does not come from the donor star's emission. The paper discusses the physical origins of the variability which potentially explain the observed light curves.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2019 IOP Publishing. Content from this work may be used under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0). Any further distribution of this work must maintain attribution to the author(s) and the title of the work, journal citation and DOI. |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Science (Sheffield) > Department of Physics and Astronomy (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 08 Jan 2020 12:46 |
Last Modified: | 08 Jan 2020 12:46 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | IOP Publishing |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1088/1742-6596/1380/1/012089 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:155363 |
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