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arxiv: 0710.3381 · v1 · submitted 2007-10-17 · 🌌 astro-ph

An X-ray emitting black hole in a globular cluster

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keywords x-rayblackclusterglobularholeopticalsourcespectrum
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We present optical and X-ray data for the first object showing strong evidence for being a black hole in a globular cluster. We show the initial X-ray light curve and X-ray spectrum which led to the discovery that this is an extremely bright, highly variable source, and thus must be a black hole. We present the optical spectrum which unambiguously identifies the optical counterpart as a globular cluster, and which shows a strong, broad [O III] emission line, most likely coming from an outflow driven by the accreting source.

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