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Issue A&A
Volume 400, Number 2, March III 2003
Page(s) L17 - L19
Section Letters
DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20030134



A&A 400, L17-L19 (2003)
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20030134

Letter

The nature of the ultraluminous X-ray sources inside galaxies and their relation to local QSOs

G. Burbidge1, E. M. Burbidge1 and H. Arp2

1  Center for Astrophysics and Space Sciences 0424, University of California, San Diego, CA 92093-0424, USA
2  Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl Schwarzschild-Str.1, Postfach 1317, 85741 Garching, Germany
    e-mail: arp@mpa-garching.mpg.de

(Received 18 October 2002 / Accepted 28 January 2003 )

Abstract
It is suggested that many of the ultraluminous compact X-ray sources now being found in the main bodies of galaxies, particularly those that are active, like M 82, NGC 3628 and others, are "local" QSOs, or BL Lac objects, with high intrinsic redshifts in the process of being ejected from those galaxies. Evidence bearing on this hypothesis is summarized.


Key words: galaxies: active -- quasars: general -- X-rays: galaxies -- X-rays: stars

Offprint request: G. Burbidge, gburbidge@ucsd.edu

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