Accurate positions for the ultraluminous X-ray sources NGC 7319-X4 and NGC 5474-X1 and limiting magnitudes for their optical counterparts

作者：Heida M^*; Jonker P G; Torres M A P; Mineo S

来源：Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2012, 424(2): 1563-1569.

DOI：10.1111/j.1365-2966.2012.21370.x

• galaxies: individual: NGC 5474
• galaxies: individual: NGC 7319
• X-rays: binaries
• X-rays: individual: NGC 5474-X1
• X-rays: individual: NGC 7319-X4

In this paper, we report accurate Chandra positions for two ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs): NGC 7319-X4 at Right Ascension (RA) = 339029 17(2), Declination (Dec.) = 33974 76(2) and NGC 5474-X1 at RA = 211248 59(3), Dec. = 53635 84(3). We perform bore-sight corrections on the Chandra X-ray satellite observations of these sources to get these accurate positions of the X-ray sources and match these positions with archival optical data from the Wide Field Planetary Camera 2 (WFPC2) onboard the Hubble Space Telescope. We do not find the optical counterparts; the limiting absolute magnitudes of the observations in the WFPC2 standard magnitude system are B=-7.9, V=-8.7 and I=-9.3 for NGC 7319-X4 and U=-6.4 for NGC 5474-X1. We report on the X-ray spectral properties and find evidence for X-ray variability in NGC 5474-X1. Finally, we briefly discuss several options for the nature of these ULXs.

• 出版日期2012-8