4 papers
Herschel views on ultra-luminous X-ray sources
Mathieu Servillat, Alexis Coleiro, Sylvain Chaty
The nature of ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs), which are off-nuclear extragalactic X-ray sources that exceed the Eddington luminosity for a stellar-mass black hole, is still la…
Study of the distribution of High Mass X-ray Binaries in the Galaxy
A. Coleiro, S. Chaty
Observations of the high energy sky, mainly with the INTEGRAL satellite, have raised new questions about the formation and evolution of High Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs). The number…
Identification of 12 High Mass X-Ray Binaries detected by INTEGRAL through NIR photometry and spectroscopy
A. Coleiro, S. Chaty, J. A. Zurita Heras +2
Since it started observing the sky, the INTEGRAL satellite has revealed new categories of High Mass X-ray binaries in our Galaxy. These observations raise important questions on th…
First results of X-shooter observations of IGR sources
P. Goldoni, S. Chaty, A. Goldwurm +1
X-shooter is a second generation ESO-VLT instrument that had its first light in October 2009. It is a single object medium-resolution spectrograph whose main feature is the capabil…