The Nature of Ultra Luminous X-ray Sources

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2005-02-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0502290v1

Astrophys.J. 622 (2005) L89-L92

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters

Scientific paper

10.1086/429616

We present spectroscopic observations of six optical counterparts of intermediate luminosity X-ray sources (ULXs) around nearby galaxies. The spectra of the six objects show the presence of broad emission features. The identification of these allow us to classify all of the objects as quasars at higher redshift than their assigned parent galaxy. This is one of the first and largest identifications of such objects using unambigous optical spectral features. These results, in conjuction with previous similar identifications of other sources, indicate that high redshift quasars represent an important fraction of catalogued ULX sources. We estimate the density of such sources and compare this with expectations for a population of randomly distributed background quasars.

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