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most citedA 78 Day X-ray Period Detected from NGC 5907 ULX1 by Swift

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astro-ph.IM2023★ 2 cited

First on-sky results of ERIS at VLT

Kateryna Kravchenko, Yigit Dallilar, Olivier Absil +46

ERIS (Enhanced Resolution Imager and Spectrograph) is a new adaptive optics instrument installed at the Cassegrain focus of the VLT-UT4 telescope at the Paranal Observatory in Chil…

astro-ph.SR2022★ 4 cited

Detecting Stripped Stars While Searching for Quiescent Black Holes

J. Bodensteiner, M. Heida, M. Abdul-Masih +13

While the number of stellar-mass black holes detected in X-rays or as gravitational wave sources is steadily increasing, the known population remains orders of magnitude smaller th…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 4 cited

Constraining the nature of the accreting binary in CXOGBS J174623.5-310550

M. A. P. Torres, S. Repetto, T. Wevers +12

We report optical and infrared observations of the X-ray source CXOGBS J174623.5-310550. This Galactic object was identified as a potential quiescent low-mass X-ray binary accretin…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 75 cited

A 78 Day X-ray Period Detected from NGC 5907 ULX1 by Swift

D. J. Walton, F. Fuerst, M. Bachetti +12

We report the detection of a day period in the X-ray lightcurve of the extreme ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 5907 ULX1 ( erg s$^{-1…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 51 cited

Near-infrared counterparts of ultraluminous X-ray sources

M. Heida, P. G. Jonker, M. A. P. Torres +7

In this paper we present the results of the first systematic search for counterparts to nearby ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) in the near-infrared (NIR). We observed 62 ULXs in…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 2 cited

Accurate positions for the ULXs NGC 7319-X4 and NGC 5474-X1 and limiting magnitudes for their optical counterparts

M. Heida, P. G. Jonker, M. A. P. Torres +1

In this paper we report accurate Chandra positions for two ultraluminous X-ray sources: NGC 7319-X4 at Right Ascension (RA) = 339.02917(2) deg, Declination (Dec) = 33.97476(2) deg…