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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 891, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ab77b8
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- NASA [NNG08FD60C]
- STFC in the form of Ernest Rutherford Fellowships
- STFC [ST/N50404X/1, ST/K000861/1]
- ESA Member States
- NASA
- STFC [ST/M005283/2, ST/N004027/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We report the discovery of a third ULX in NGC 925 (ULX-3), detected in 2017 November by Chandra at a luminosity of L-X = (7.8 +/- 0.8) x 10(39) erg s(-1). Examination of archival data for NGC 925 reveals that ULX-3 was detected by Swift at a similarly high luminosity in 2011, as well as by XMM-Newton in 2017 January at a much lower luminosity of L-X = (3.8 +/- 0.5) x 10(38) erg s(-1). With an additional Chandra nondetection in 2005, this object demonstrates a high dynamic range of flux of factor greater than or similar to 26. In its high-luminosity detections, ULX-3 exhibits a hard power-law spectrum with G = 1.6 +/- 0.1, whereas the XMM-Newton detection is slightly softer, with Gamma = 1.8(-0.1)(+0.2), and is also well-fitted with a broadened disk model. The long-term light curve is sparsely covered and could be consistent either with the propeller effect or with a large-amplitude superorbital period, both of which are seen in ULXs, in particular those with neutron star accretors. Further systematic monitoring of ULX-3 will allow us to determine the mechanism by which ULX-3 undergoes its extreme variability and to better understand the accretion processes of ULXs.
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