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

C. Motch (), M. W. Pakull, R. Soria, F. Grisé and G. Pietrzyński
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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
G. Pietrzyński: Universidad de Concepción, Casilla 160-C, Concepción, Octava Region, Chile

Nature, 2014, vol. 514, issue 7521, 198-201

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.

Date: 2014
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