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A broadband look at the old and new ULXs of NGC 6946

A broadband look at the old and new ULXs of NGC 6946

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A broadband look at the old and new ULXs of NGC 6946

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A broadband look at the old and new ULXs of NGC 6946

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Ithaca: Cornell University Library, arXiv.org

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arXiv.org, 2019-05

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English

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Ithaca: Cornell University Library, arXiv.org

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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 accreting sources from a broadband perspective. We study the three known ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) in the galaxy, and find that ULX-1 and ULX-2 have very steep power-...

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A broadband look at the old and new ULXs of NGC 6946

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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2222821105

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2222821105

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2331-8422

DOI

10.48550/arxiv.1905.03383

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