Thai national telescope studies of ultraluminous X-ray sources

• Main Authors: K. Thongpoyai, W. Luangtip, U. Sawangwit, T. P. Roberts, S. Komonjinda, V. S. Dhillon, T. R. Marsh
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Published: 2020
• Subjects: Physics and Astronomy
• Online Access: https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?partnerID=HzOxMe3b&scp=85077821709&origin=inward; http://cmuir.cmu.ac.th/jspui/handle/6653943832/68079
• Institution: Chiang Mai University

© Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd. Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are extra-galactic, non-nuclear sources with X-ray luminosity in excess of 1039 erg s-1. It has been thought that the majority of ULX populations are stellar-mass objects accreting matter at a super-Eddington rate. A...