Soft-excess in ULX spectra: the chilled-disk scenario

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2006-11-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0611153v1

AIPConf.Proc.924:919-922,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

To appear in the proceedings of "The Multicoloured Landscape of Compact Objects and their Explosive Progenitors: Theory vs Obs

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2774966

Soft X-ray spectra of ULXs show small deviations from a power-law model, that can be attributed to reprocessing in a fast, ionized outflow, or to thermal emission from a cool disk. If it is thermal emission, the cool peak temperature can be explained by an inner disk that radiates only a small fraction of the gravitational power, transferring the rest to an upscattering medium which is then responsible for the dominant power-law component. This scenario does not require intermediate-mass black holes: we use a phenomenological model to show that the observed X-ray luminosities and spectra of ULXs are consistent with typical masses ~ 50-100 Msun.

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