Optically thick outflows in ultraluminous supersoft sources

Ultraluminous supersoft sources (ULSs) are defined by a thermal spectrum with colour temperatures ~0.1 keV, bolometric luminosities ~ a few 1039 erg s−1, and almost no emission above 1 keV. It has never been clear how they fit into the general scheme of accreting compact objects. To address this pro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Urquhart, Ryan, Soria, Roberto
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/34378