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Broad absorption features in wind-dominated ultraluminous X-ray sources?

Broad absorption features in wind-dominated ultraluminous X-ray sources?

The luminosities of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) require an exotic solution with either super-critical accretion modes onto stellar mass black holes or sub-critical accretion onto intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) being invoked. Discriminating between the two is non-trivial due to the present lack of a direct mass measurement. A key …