Possible optical counterparts of ULXs in NGC 1672
arXiv:2211.01460 · doi:10.1002/asna.20230027
Abstract
In this study, we use archival data from HST, Chandra, XMM-Newton, and Swift-XRT, to probe the nature of 9 (X1-X9) candidate ULXs in NGC 1672. Our study focuses on using the precise source positions obtained via improved astrometry based on {\it Chandra} and HST observations to search for and identify optical counterparts for these ULXs.Unique optical counterparts are identified for X2 an{d X6; two potential counterparts were determined for X1, X5 and X7 within the respective error radii while no optical counterparts were found for the remaining four sources. Based on spectral energy distributions (SEDs), X-ray and optical temporal analyses, some evidences about the nature of X1 and X2 were obtained.
To appear in Astronomische Nachrichten / Astronomical Notes (AN). arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2207.06303
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