Tracing the optical imprints of an intermediate-mass black hole candidate in an interacting galaxy pair

I. Fuentes-Carrera, M. Rosado, H. Flores, J. Borissova

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Abstract

We present observations of the extended optical counterpart of the bright, elongated ULX in the interacting galaxy pair NGC 5953/54 using the FLAMES-ARGUS integral field spectrograph on the VLT. We describe spectroscopic and spatial information of the ionized surroundings of this ULX in order to distinguish between two possible scenarios: A stellar-mass black hole binary or an intermediate-mass (50 solar masses) black hole.

Translated title of the contributionRastreo de las huellas ópticas de un candidato a agujero negro de masa intermedia en un par de galaxias en interacción
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev. in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG 2009 Meeting on General Relativity
PublisherWorld Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd
Pages925-927
Number of pages3
ISBN (Print)9814374512, 9789814374514
DOIs
StatePublished - 2012
Event12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, MG 2009 - Paris, France
Duration: 12 Jul 200918 Jul 2009

Publication series

Name12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev. in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG 2009 Meeting on General Relativity

Conference

Conference12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Developments in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories, MG 2009
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityParis
Period12/07/0918/07/09

Keywords

  • Black holes
  • Insterstellar medium
  • Interacting galaxies
  • X-ray sources

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