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A Study of Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources from the Chandra Archive of Galaxies

Douglas A. Swartz, Kajal K. Ghosh, Allyn F. Tennant

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0302203

Abstract

The more than 80 nearby galaxies imaged with the Chandra Advanced CCD Imaging Spectrometer have been analyzed in a search for Ultra-Luminous X-ray (ULX) sources. The sample of galaxies span the range of Hubble morphological types and include galaxies of various mass, gas content, and dynamical state. X-ray characteristics of the resulting ensemble of ULX candidates are reported and correlations with properties of the host galaxies are presented.

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