Magellanic Cloud X-ray Sources: III. Completion of a ROSAT Survey
Abstract
This paper concludes a series of three papers presenting ROSAT High-Resolution Imager (HRI) observations of unidentified Einstein and serendipitous ROSAT X-ray sources in the direction of the Magellanic Clouds. Accurate positions and fluxes have been measured for these sources. Optical photometry and spectroscopy were obtained to search for identifications in order to determine the physical nature of these sources. The present paper includes new data for 24 objects; identifications are given or confirmed for 30 sources. For six sources optical finding charts showing the X-ray positions are provided. The results from this program are summarized, showing the populations of luminous X-ray sources in the Magellanic Clouds are quite different from those in the Galaxy.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9812217,
title = {Magellanic Cloud X-ray Sources: III. Completion of a ROSAT Survey},
author = {P. C. Schmidtke and A. P. Cowley and J. D. Crane and V. A. Taylor and T. K. McGrath and J. B. Hutchings and David Crampton},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9812217},
year = {2009}
}
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28 pages, 2 figures; to appear in Astronomical Journal