Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
May 2004
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2004aas...204.4910m&link_type=abstract
American Astronomical Society Meeting 204, #49.10; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 36, p.750
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
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Scientific paper
Since the first clear indication obtained with ASCA (Makishima et al. 2000), increasing pieces of evidence suggest that ULXs are accreting black holes (BHs) with relatively large masses. By combining ASCA, XMM-Newton and Chandra data, we attempt to interpret their spectral properties and spectral transitions in close comparison with those of Galactic BH binaries. The scenario allows us to constract a unified picture of mass-accreting BHs invoking four spectral regimes; low/hard state, soft/standard state, Compton-disk state, and slim-disk state, in the order of increasing mass accretion rate. We specifically suggest that ULXs with power-law type spectra are in the Compton-disk state, whereas those with multi-color-disk type spectra are in the slim disk state. The suggested intermediate-mass BH in ULXS may be produceed throgh runaway mergers of massive stars (Ebisuzaki et al. 2001). We also report on our optical search, using Subaru, for the counterpart to M81 X-6.
Ebisuzaki S.
Kubota Aya
Makishima Kazuo.
Miyawaki Ryouhei
Mizuno Tadahiko
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