• DOI:10.1051/0004-6361:20047110
Corpus ID: 14777150

A thorough study of the intriguing X-ray emission from the Cartwheel ring

@article{Wolter2004ATS,
  title={A thorough study of the intriguing X-ray emission from the Cartwheel ring},
  author={A. Wolter and G. Trinchieri},
  journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics},
  year={2004},
  volume={426},
  pages={787-796}
}

A. Wolter, G. Trinchieri

Published 2004

Physics

Astronomy and Astrophysics

We present the results from the high resolution Chandra observation of the Cartwheel galaxy. Many individual sources are resolved in the image, mostly associated with the outer ring. All detected sources have a very high X-ray luminosity (${\geq} 10^{39}$ erg s -1 ) that classifies them as Ultra Luminous X-ray sources (ULX). The brightest of them is possibly the most luminous individual non-nuclear source observed so far, with $L_{\rm X} \sim 10^{41}$ erg s -1 (at $D=122$ Mpc). The spatial… CONTINUE READING

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