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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 601, 期 1, 页码 L67-L70出版社
UNIV CHICAGO PRESS
DOI: 10.1086/380107
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galaxies : individual (IC 10); stars : Wolf-Rayet; X-rays : binaries; X-rays : ISM
We present a Chandra and Hubble Space Telescope study of IC 10 X-1, the most luminous X-ray binary in the starburst galaxy closest to the Milky Way. Our new hard X-ray observation of X-1 confirms that it has an average 0.5-10 keV luminosity of 1.5 x 10(38) ergs s(-1), is strongly variable (a factor of approximate to2 in less than or similar to3 ks), and is spatially coincident (within 0.23 +/- 0.30) with the Wolf-Rayet (W-R) star [MAC92] 17A in IC 10. The spectrum of X-1 is best fitted by a power law with Gamma approximate to 1.8 and a thermal plasma with keV, although systematic residuals hint at further complexity. Taken together, these facts suggest that X- 1 may be a black hole belonging to the rare class of W-R binaries; it is comparable in many ways to Cyg X-3. The Chandra observation also finds evidence for extended X-ray emission cospatial with the large nonthermal radio superbubble surrounding X-1.
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