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Investigating the nature of the ultraluminous X-ray sources in the galaxy NGC 925

Investigating the nature of the ultraluminous X-ray sources in the galaxy NGC 925

Variability is a powerful tool to investigate properties of X-ray binaries (XRB), in particular for Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) that are mainly detected in the X-ray band. For most ULXs the nature of the accretor is unknown, although a few ULXs have been confirmed to be accreting at super-Eddington rates …