Optical counterpart of HLX-1 during the 2010 outburst
We studied the optical counterpart of the intermediate-mass black hole candidate HLX-1 in ESO 243-49. We used a set of Very Large Telescope imaging observations from 2010 November, integrated by Swift X-ray data from the same epoch. We measured standard Vega brightnesses U= 23.89 ± 0.18 mag, B= 25.1...
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| Format: | Journal Article |
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Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
2012
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/3803 |