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Optical Studies of the Ultraluminous X‐Ray Source NGC 1313 X‐2

  • Authors: Ji-Feng Liu, Joel Bregman, Jon Miller, and Philip Kaaret

Liu et al. 2007 The Astrophysical Journal 661 165.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

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Identification of the ULX and X4 on the WFC F555W image. (a) X4 was identified with the nucleus of a background galaxy as enclosed by a 0.5﹩\arcsec﹩ circle. The smaller 0.17﹩\arcsec﹩ circle denotes the Chandra position of X4. The line segment indicates the relative offset of 2.3﹩\arcsec﹩ between Chandra and HST positions. (b) The ULX was identified with a unique object labeled as "C1" through the identification of X4. Around "C1," the small error circle had a radius of 0.2﹩\arcsec﹩, and the large error circle 0.5﹩\arcsec﹩. The line segment indicating the offset between Chandra and HST positions was based on the identification of X4. The cross on the inner edge of the 0.5﹩\arcsec﹩ circle indicates the ULX position obtained through the identification of X3 as a saturated foreground star. The object to its north was a cosmic ray that only appeared in the 2003 F555W observation. Both panels show ﹩7^{\prime \prime }\times 7^{\prime \prime }﹩ regions.

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