Discovery of two eclipsing X-ray binaries in M51

We discovered eclipses and dips in two luminous (and highly variable) X-ray sources in M 51. One (CXOM51 J132943.3+471135) is an ultraluminous supersoft source, with a thermal spectrum at a temperature of about 0.1 keV and characteristic blackbody radius of about 104 km. The other (CXOM51 J132946.1+...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Wang, S., Soria, Roberto, Urquhart, Ryan, Liu, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Oxford University Press 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/69233