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Optical identification of supersoft X-ray sources in M31

2001/02/26 by Marina orio, Roberto Casalegno, orio, Marina +9
Physics and Astronomy · #Astrophysics (astro-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #astro-ph

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0102441

1 .tex file, 1.sty file, 1 .ps file (figure)

arxiv created 2001/02/26 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01

Abstract

We report on initial progress in a program of optical identification of supersoft X-ray sources in M31, pursued mainly with the WIYN telescope. We propose the identification of one supersoft X-ray source with a variable star, which we believe to have been a classical or recurrent nova in outburst in September 1990. The nova remnant must have been still a supersoft X-ray sources 5 years after this observation, when it was observed with ROSAT.

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