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The ultraluminous state
(Abridged) We revisit the question of the nature of ULXs through a detailed investigation of their spectral shape, using the highest quality X-ray data available in the XMM-Newton public archives. We confirm that simple spectral models commonly used for the analysis and interpretation of ULXs (power-law continuum and multi-colour disc …