Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 2008
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2008head...10.0114l&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #10, #1.14
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Scientific paper
Luminous supersoft X-ray sources found in the Milky Way and Magellanic Clouds are likely white dwarfs that steadily or cyclically burn accreted matter on their surface, which are promising type Ia supernova progenitors. Observations of distant galaxies with Chandra and XMM-Newton have revealed supersoft sources that are generally hotter and more luminous, including some ultraluminous supersoft sources (ULSs) that are possibly intermediate mass black holes of a few thousand solar masses. Our study of M81-ULS1 with HST observations has identified it with a point-like object, the spectral energy distribution of which reveals the accretion disk as a blue component in addition to the companion of an AGB star. The blue component is consistent with the power-law as expected from the geometrically-thin accretion disk around an IMBH accretor, but inconsistent with the power-law as expected from the X-ray irradiated flared accretion disk around a white dwarf accretor. This result is strong evidence that M81-ULS1 is an IMBH instead of a white dwarf.
Di Stefano Rosanne
Liu Jifeng
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