The hyperluminous X-ray source candidate in IC 4320: another HLX bites the dust

The known members of the class of hyperluminous X-ray sources (HLXs) are few in number, yet they are of great interest as they are regarded as the likeliest intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) candidates amongst the wider population of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs). Here we report optical photo...

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Veröffentlicht in:arXiv.org 2015-03
Hauptverfasser: Sutton, Andrew D, Roberts, Timothy P, Gladstone, Jeanette C, Walton, Dominic J
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Zusammenfassung:The known members of the class of hyperluminous X-ray sources (HLXs) are few in number, yet they are of great interest as they are regarded as the likeliest intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) candidates amongst the wider population of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs). Here we report optical photometry and spectroscopy of a HLX candidate associated with the galaxy IC 4320, that reveal it is a background AGN. We discuss the implications of the exclusion of this object from the small number of well-studied HLXs, that appears to accentuate the difference in characteristics between the good IMBH candidate ESO 243-49 HLX-1 and the small handful of other HLXs.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1503.01711