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Discovery of a Red Supergiant Donor Star in SN2010da/NGC 300 ULX-1

  • Authors: M. Heida, R. M. Lau, B. Davies, M. Brightman, F. Fürst, B. W. Grefenstette, J. A. Kennea, F. Tramper, D. J. Walton, and F. A. Harrison

2019 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 883 L34.

  • Provider: AAS Journals

Caption: Figure 1.

Full X-shooter spectrum (black, with errorbars) with areas heavily affected by telluric emission lines shown in gray. Overplotted are the best-matching MARCS model atmosphere (solid red line), a 1100 K blackbody to account for excess red emission (red dotted line) and a power law with α ≈ 4 to account for excess blue emission (red dashed line, although the shape of this component is not well constrained and can also be fit with a blackbody with T ≳ 20,000), as well as the sum of those three models (blue line). The large majority of positive outliers shown in black are emission lines, not noise.

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