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Hypersoft X-ray sources

A proposed class of extragalactic emitters whose X-ray output is concentrated almost entirely in the lowest-energy bands, with little detectable harder emission and inferred strong extreme-ultraviolet radiation.

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Eighty-four hypersoft X-ray sources surfaced in Chandra channels astronomers had skipped

The 84 detections came out of public Chandra data on six galaxies with no new observing time, and the class is defined by a spectral shape that co-author Jimmy Irwin thinks may cover three different kinds of stellar remnant.

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