Research on ULXs finally published! Universe@Home

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Grzegorz Wiktorowicz Project developer Project scientist Send message Joined: 25 Feb 15 Posts: 50 Credit: 5,684,705 RAC: 0	Message 2381 - Posted: 26 Sep 2017, 22:07:58 UTC For a few month we were analyzing a vast amount of data we acquired thanks to the project and finally we published our results. You can find the article here (https://arxiv.org/abs/1705.06155). Thanks to a large amount of data, we were able to show that ULXs might indeed be a very short phase of extreme accretion in XRBs and not any exotic objects. Our side-result showed that a non-monotonic relation exist between the number of ULXs in a galaxy and the average metallicity (i.e. fraction of heavy ions in stars), which may be useful for obtaining additional information about stellar populations. We plan to make further research in this field! Grzegorz Wiktorowicz National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences ID: 2381 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

Aaron Send message Joined: 16 Apr 17 Posts: 36 Credit: 39,603,949 RAC: 0	Message 2384 - Posted: 28 Sep 2017, 1:09:21 UTC - in response to Message 2381. Awesome! ID: 2384 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote

vlado101 Send message Joined: 29 Apr 15 Posts: 33 Credit: 19,566,183 RAC: 0	Message 2387 - Posted: 28 Sep 2017, 20:12:57 UTC Great news!!! Looking forward to more research papers coming out from this project. My computer and raspberry pis' are ready to crunch. ID: 2387 · Rating: 0 · rate: / Reply Quote