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Discovery of a recurrent spectral evolutionary cycle in the ultra-luminous X-ray sources Holmberg II X–1 and NGC 5204 X–1

Discovery of a recurrent spectral evolutionary cycle in the ultra-luminous X-ray sources Holmberg II X–1 and NGC 5204 X–1

Most ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are now thought to be powered by stellar-mass compact objects accreting at super-Eddington rates. While the discovery of evolutionary cycles have marked a breakthrough in our understanding of the accretion flow changes in the sub-Eddington regime in Galactic Black Hole Binaries, their evidence in the …