Accretion Rates and Beaming in Ultraluminous X-ray Sources

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2008-01-14

arxiv.org/abs/0801.2025v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

MNRAS Letters, in press

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10.1111/j.1745-3933.2008.00444.x

I show that extreme beaming factors $b$ are not needed to explain ULXs as stellar--mass binaries. For neutron star accretors one typically requires $b \sim 0.13$, and for black holes almost no beaming ($b \sim 0.8$). The main reason for the high apparent luminosity is the logarithmic increase in the limiting luminosity for super--Eddington accretion. The required accretion rates are explicable in terms of thermal--timescale mass transfer from donor stars of mass $6 - 10\msun$, or possibly transient outbursts. Beaming factors $\la 0.1$ would be needed to explain luminosities significantly above $10^{40}L_{40}$ erg s$^{-1}$, but these requirements are relaxed somewhat if the accreting matter has low hydrogen content.

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