Ten Facts of Life for Distant Supersoft Sources
Astrophysics
2007-05-23 v1
Abstract
First discovered in the Magellanic Clouds and in the Milky Way, the largest pools of luminous supersoft X-ray sources (SSSs) now known lie in M31 and in more distant galaxies. Hundreds of newly-discovered SSSs are helping us to test models for Type Ia supernovae and to identify SSSs that may represent a wider range of physical systems, including accreting intermediate-mass black holes. In this short report we list ten intriguing facts about distant SSSs.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0606364,
title = {Ten Facts of Life for Distant Supersoft Sources},
author = {Rosanne Di Stefano and Albert Kong and Francis A. Primini},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0606364},
year = {2007}
}
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6 pages