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Table 7.

Number of contaminants estimated using different published log N − log S relations, in the ULX and HLX samples.

Survey Moretti+03 Georgakakis+08 Kim+07 Identified
2SXPS ULXs 171
2SXPS HLXs 25
4XMM ULXs 541
4XMM HLXs 121
CSC2 ULXs 482
CSC2 HLXs 64

Notes. Positive and negative errors correspond to the estimates at 10% and 90% of the exclusion radius (3(POSERR + 0.5)) distribution. The last column gives the number of candidates filtered out by our pipeline as background contaminants, or identified as HLX weak candidates.

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