Low metallicity and ultra-luminous X-ray sources in the Cartwheel galaxy

Abstract

Low-metallicity (Z <~ 0.05 Zsun) massive (>~40 Msun) stars might end their life by directly collapsing into massive black holes (BHs, 30 <~ m_BH/Msun <~ 80). More than ~10^5 massive BHs might have been generated via this mechanism in the metal-poor ring galaxy Cartwheel, during the last ~10^7 yr. We show that such BHs might power most of the ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) observed in the Cartwheel. We also consider a sample of ULX-rich galaxies and we find a possible anti-correlation between the number of ULXs per galaxy and the metallicity in these galaxies. However, the data are not sufficient to draw any robust conclusions about this anti-correlation, and further studies are required.

6 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters

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