The Magellanic Bridge: evidence for a population of X-ray binaries
Abstract
INTEGRAL observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud region have resulted in the serendipitous detection of two transient hard X-ray sources in the Magellanic Bridge. In this paper we present the timing and spectral characteristics of these sources across the 2-100 keV energy range, which, in conjunction with their optical counterparts, demonstrate that they are high mass X-ray binaries in the Magellanic Bridge. Together with one previously known high mass X-ray binary system, and three candidates, these sources represent an emerging population of X-ray binaries in the Bridge, probably initiated by tidally induced star formation as a result of the gravitational interaction between the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.
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@article{arxiv.0912.2951,
title = {The Magellanic Bridge: evidence for a population of X-ray binaries},
author = {V. A. McBride and A. J. Bird and M. J. Coe and L. J. Townsend and R. H. D. Corbet and F. Haberl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0912.2951},
year = {2015}
}
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6 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS