Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2003-12-08
Astrophys.J. 604 (2004) 653-661
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
22 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/381929
We present the results from a ~53 ksec XMM observation of NGC 2276. This galaxy has an unusual optical morphology with the disk of this spiral appearing to be truncated along the western edge. This XMM observation shows that the X-ray source at the western edge is a bright Intermediate X-ray Object (IXO). Its spectrum is well fit by a multi-color disk blackbody model used to fit optically thick standard accretion disks around black holes. The luminosity derived for this IXO is 1.1x10^41 erg/s in the 0.5 - 10 keV band making it one of the most luminous discovered to date. The large source luminosity implies a large mass black hole if the source is radiating at the Eddington rate. On the other hand, the inner disk temperature determined here is too high for such a massive object given the standard accretion disk model. In addition to the IXO we find that the nuclear source in this galaxy has dimmed by at least a factor of several thousand in the eight years since the ROSAT HRI observations.
Davis David S.
Mushotzky Richard F.
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