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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29951
Title: The Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources Population of the Galaxy NGC 7456
Authors: Pintore, Fabio 
MARELLI, MARTINO 
SALVATERRA, Ruben 
ISRAEL, Gian Luca 
Castillo, G. A. Rodríguez
Esposito, P.
Belfiore, A.
Luca, A. De
WOLTER, Anna Luisa Maria 
MEREGHETTI, Sandro 
STELLA, Luigi 
Rigoselli, M.
Earnshaw, H. P.
Pinto, C.
Roberts, T. P.
Walton, D. J.
BERNARDINI, Federico 
Haberl, F.
Salvaggio, C.
Tiengo, A.
ZAMPIERI, Luca 
BACHETTI, Matteo 
Brightman, M.
CASELLA, Piergiorgio 
D’Agostino, D.
Dall’Osso, S.
Fürst, F.
Harrison, F. A.
Mapelli, M.
PAPITTO, ALESSANDRO 
Middleton, M.
Issue Date: 2020
Journal: THE ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL 
Number: 890
Issue: 2
First Page: 166
Abstract: Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are a class of accreting compact objects with X-ray luminosities above 1039 erg s-1. The ULX population counts several hundred objects but only a fraction are well studied. Here we present a detailed analysis of all ULXs hosted in the galaxy NGC 7456. It was observed in X-rays only once in the past (in 2005) by XMM-Newton. but the observation was short and strongly affected by high background. In 2018, we obtained a new, deeper (∼90 ks) XMM-Newton observation that allowed us to perform a detailed characterization of the ULXs hosted in the galaxy. ULX-1 and ULX-2, the two brightest objects (LX ∼ 6-10 × 1039 erg s-1), have spectra that can be described by a model with two thermal components, as often found in ULXs. ULX-1 also shows one order of magnitude in flux variability on short-term timescales (hundreds to thousands of kiloseconds). The other sources (ULX-3 and ULX-4) show flux changes of at least an order of magnitude, and these objects may be candidate transient ULXs, although longer X-ray monitoring or further studies are required to ascribe them to the ULX population. In addition, we found a previously undetected source that might be a new candidate ULX (labeled as ULX-5), with a luminosity of ∼1039 erg s-1 and hard power-law spectral shape, whose nature is still unclear and for which a background active galactic nucleus cannot be excluded. We discuss the properties of all the ULXs in NGC 7456 within the framework of super-Eddington accretion onto stellar-mass compact objects. Although no pulsations were detected, we cannot exclude that the sources host neutron stars.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/29951
URL: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ab6ffd
ISSN: 0004-637X
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab6ffd
Bibcode ADS: 2020ApJ...890..166P
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