| Issue |
A&A
Volume 400, Number 2, March III 2003
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|---|---|---|
| Page(s) | L17 - L19 | |
| Section | Letters | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361:20030134 | |
| Published online | 03 March 2003 | |
Letter to the Editor
The nature of the ultraluminous X-ray sources inside galaxies and their relation to local QSOs
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
Corresponding author: G. Burbidge, gburbidge@ucsd.edu
Received:
18
October
2002
Accepted:
28
January
2003
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
© ESO, 2003
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