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VLT Observations of the Ultraluminous X-ray Source NGC 1313 X-2 | | P. Mucciarelli
; L. Zampieri
; R. Falomo
; R. Turolla
; A. Treves
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4 Oct 2005 | | Abstract: | We present archive ESO VLT photometric and spectroscopic data of the Ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 1313 X-2. The superb quality of the VLT images reveals that two distinct objects, with R magnitudes 23.7 and 23.6, are visible inside the Chandra error box. The two objects, separated by 0.75 arcsec, were unresolved in our previous ESO 3.6 m+EFOSC image. We show that both are stars in NGC 1313, the first a B0-O9 main sequence star of ~20 Msun, while the second a G supergiant of ~10 Msun. Irrespectively of which of the two objects the actual counterpart is, this implies that NGC 1313 X-2 is a high mass X-ray binary with a very massive donor. | | Source: | arXiv, astro-ph/0510085 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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