Three New Long Period X-ray Pulsars Discovered in the Small Magellanic Cloud
Astrophysics
2010-05-12 v1
Abstract
The Small Magellanic Cloud is increasingly an invaluable laboratory for studying accreting and isolated X-ray pulsars. We add to the class of compact SMC objects by reporting the discovery of three new long period X-ray pulsars detected with the {\it Chandra X-ray Observatory}. The pulsars, with periods of 152, 304 and 565 seconds, all show hard X-ray spectra over the range from 0.6 - 7.5 keV. The source positions of the three pulsars are consistent with known H-alpha emission sources, indicating they are likely to be Be type X-ray binary star systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0301055,
title = {Three New Long Period X-ray Pulsars Discovered in the Small Magellanic Cloud},
author = {D. J. Macomb and D. W. Fox and R. C. Lamb and T. A. Prince},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0301055},
year = {2010}
}
Comments
Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal