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Swift monitoring of M51: A 38-day super-orbital period for the pulsar ULX7 and a new transient ULX
Murray Brightman, Hannah Earnshaw, Felix Fürst +6
We present the results from a monitoring campaign made with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory of the M51 galaxies, which contain several variable ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs…
Discovery of a soft X-ray lag in the Ultraluminous X-ray Source NGC 1313 X-1
E. Kara, C. Pinto, D. J. Walton +14
Ultraluminous X-ray Sources (ULXs) provide a unique opportunities to probe the geometry and energetics of super-Eddington accretion. The radiative processes involved in super-Eddin…
The Unusual Broadband X-ray Spectral Variability of NGC 1313 X-1 seen with XMMNewton, Chandra and NuSTAR
D. J. Walton, C. Pinto, M. Nowak +19
We present results from the major coordinated X-ray observing program on the ULX NGC 1313 X-1 performed in 2017, combining -, and , focusing on the e…
XMM-Newton Campaign On Ultraluminous X-ray Source NGC 1313 X-1: Wind vs. State Variability
C. Pinto, D. J. Walton, E. Kara +12
Most ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are thought to be powered by neutron stars and black holes accreting beyond the Eddington limit. If the compact object is a black hole or a…
The Hunt for Pulsating Ultraluminous X-ray Sources
X. Song, D. J. Walton, G. B. Lansbury +4
Motivated by the recent discoveries that six Ultraluminous X-ray Sources (ULXs) are powered by highly super-Eddington X-ray pulsars, we searched for additional pulsating ULX (PULX)…
The discovery of weak coherent pulsations in the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 1313 X-2
R. Sathyaprakash, T. P. Roberts, D. J. Walton +8
We report the detection of weak pulsations from the archetypal ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) NGC 1313 X-2. Acceleration searches reveal sinusoidal pulsations in segments of two…
Discovery of a 2.8 s pulsar in a 2 d orbit High-Mass X-ray Binary powering the Ultraluminous X-ray source ULX-7 in M51
G. A. Rodríguez Castillo, G. L. Israel, A. Belfiore +26
We discovered 2.8 s pulsations in the X-ray emission of the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) M51 ULX-7 within the UNSEeN project, which was designed to hunt for new pulsating ULXs…
A broadband look at the old and new ULXs of NGC 6946
Hannah P. Earnshaw, Brian W. Grefenstette, Murray Brightman +8
Two recent observations of the nearby galaxy NGC 6946 with NuSTAR, one simultaneous with an XMM-Newton observation, provide an opportunity to examine its population of bright accre…
Breaking the limit: Super-Eddington accretion onto black holes and neutron stars
M. Brightman, M. Bachetti, H. P. Earnshaw +10
With the recent discoveries of massive and highly luminous quasars at high redshifts (; e.g. Mortlock et al. 2011), the question of how black holes (BHs) grow in the early…