A ULX in NGC 4559: a "mini-cartwheel" scenario?
| dc.creator | Soria, Roberto | |
| dc.creator | Cropper, Mark | |
| dc.creator | Pakull, Manfred | |
| dc.date | 2003-12-19 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:11:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:11:40Z | |
| dc.description | We have studied an ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) in NGC 4559 with XMM-Newton, and its peculiar star-forming environment with HST/WFPC2. The X-ray source is one of the brightest in its class (L_x ~ 2 x 10^{40} erg/s). Luminosity and timing arguments suggest a mass >~ 50 M_sun for the accreting black hole. The ULX is located near the rim of a young (age < 30 Myr), large (diameter ~ 700 pc) ring-like star forming complex possibly triggered by the impact of a dwarf satellite galaxy through the gas-rich outer disk of NGC 4559. We speculate that galaxy interactions (including the infall of high-velocity clouds and satellites on a galactic disk) and low-metallicity environments offer favourable conditions for the formation of compact remnants more massive than "standard" X-ray binaries, and accreting from a massive Roche-lobe filling companion. | |
| dc.description | Work presented at the IAU Colloquium 194: Compact Binaries in the Galaxy and Beyond (La Paz, Mexico, Nov 2003). An abridged version will appear in the proceedings (RevMexAA) | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312539 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0312539 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/7179 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | A ULX in NGC 4559: a "mini-cartwheel" scenario? | |
| dc.type | text |