A Luminous Recurrent Supersoft X-ray Source in NGC 300

Details A Luminous Recurrent Supersoft X-ray Source in NGC 300 A Luminous Recurrent Supersoft X-ray Source in NGC 300

2003-04-28

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0304510v1

Astrophys.J. 590 (2003) L13-L16

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

5 pages, 3 figures, ApJL accepted

Scientific paper

10.1086/376552

We report the results of XMM-Newton observations for an especially luminous supersoft X-ray source (SSS) with bolometric luminosity of 10^39 erg/s in the spiral galaxy NGC 300. The source was detected as a SSS in 1992 and disappeared in subsequent X-ray observations. The source was active again during recent XMM-Newton observations. It appeared to be very soft (kT~60 eV) and very luminous (~10^38 - 10^39 erg/s). The two XMM-Newton observations also reveal that the source went from a ``high'' state to a ``low'' state in 6 days. We also found a 5.4-hr periodicity during the ``low'' state. We consider white dwarf, black hole, and neutron star models to explain the nature of the source.

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