Table 8.
Number of ULX candidates and some members of the contaminant population across host galaxy morphological types.
| Sample | ULX candidates of quality |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sub-sample | All | El. | Le. | ESp. | LSp. | Ir. |
| Candidates | 779 | 141 | 129 | 261 | 195 | 28 |
| Background | 74 | 15 | 13 | 25 | 12 | 3 |
| Foreground | 27 | 6 | 3 | 13 | 1 | 1 |
| Total (%) | 11.5 | 13.0 | 11.0 | 22.8 | 6.25 | 12.5 |
| Sample | Bright ULX candidates of quality |
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| Sub-sample | All | El. | Le. | ESp. | LSp. | Ir. |
| Candidates | 94 | 15 | 20 | 33 | 14 | 2 |
| Background | 29 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 3 | 1 |
| Foreground | 5 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| Total (%) | 26.6 | 37.8 | 26.9 | 25.0 | 17.6 | 33.3 |
Notes. Here are shown the number of background objects (AGNs, QSOs, and background galaxies) and foreground objects (stellar objects) that would otherwise qualify as ULX candidates if unflagged, and the total percentage that they would constitute if added to the total.
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