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A mass of less than 15 solar masses for the black hole in an ultraluminous X-ray source

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  • C. Motch

    (Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, UMR 7550, 11 rue de l’Université, F-67000 Strasbourg, France)

  • M. W. Pakull

    (Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, UMR 7550, 11 rue de l’Université, F-67000 Strasbourg, France)

  • R. Soria

    (International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research, Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Western Australia 6845, Australia)

  • F. Grisé

    (Observatoire astronomique de Strasbourg, Université de Strasbourg, CNRS, UMR 7550, 11 rue de l’Université, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
    Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias, Calle Vía Láctea, s/n, E-38205 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
    Universidad de La Laguna, E-38206 La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain
    University of Iowa, Van Allen Hall, Iowa City, Iowa 52242, USA)

  • G. Pietrzyński

    (Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Octava Region, Chile
    Warsaw University Observatory, Aleje Ujazdowskie 4, 00-478 Warszawa, Poland)

Abstract

Ground-based and satellite observations show that the black hole in the ultraluminous X-ray source P13 has a mass of less than 15 times that of the Sun and displays the properties that typically distinguish ultraluminous X-ray sources from other stellar-mass black holes.

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  • C. Motch & M. W. Pakull & R. Soria & F. Grisé & G. Pietrzyński, 2014. "A mass of less than 15 solar masses for the black hole in an ultraluminous X-ray source," Nature, Nature, vol. 514(7521), pages 198-201, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:514:y:2014:i:7521:d:10.1038_nature13730
    DOI: 10.1038/nature13730
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