Luminous Supersoft X-ray Sources
Luminous super soft X-ray sources have a characteristic blackbody temperature of a few tens of eV (~20-100 eV) and a bolometric luminosity of ~1038 erg/s (below ~ 3 x 1038 erg/s).
Apparently, luminous SSSs can have equivalent blackbody temperatures as low as ~15 eV and luminosities ranging from 1036 to 1038 erg/s. The numbers of luminous SSSs in the disks of ordinary spiral galaxies such as the MW and M31 are estimated to be on the order of 103.
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