Computer Science
Scientific paper
Jul 2007
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2007hst..prop11200k&link_type=abstract
HST Proposal ID #11200. Cycle 16
Computer Science
Scientific paper
Ultraluminous X-ray sources ULXs are bright, irregularly variable, non-nuclear, X-ray sources with apparent luminosities exceeding the Eddington limit for stellar-mass black holes. There is great interest in ULXs because they may represent a new class of black holes with masses intermediate between stellar-mass and supermassive black holes. Recently, it has been found that X-ray emission from the nebula MF 16 in the galaxy NGC 6946, previously thought to be an usually luminous supernova remnant, actually arises from an accreting compact object. Optical spectroscopy of nebula shows that it is powered via photoionization by an extreme ultraviolet EUV source with a luminosity exceeding that measured from the X-ray source. If correct this would be the first ultraluminous UV source and may be a 10,000 solar mass black hole. We propose an FUV observation with the ACS/SBC to determine if a highly luminous EUV source is indeed, present within MF 16.;
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