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We present a radio survey of X-ray sources in the Large and Small Magellanic clouds with the Australia Telescope Compact Array at 6.3 and 3.5 cm. Specifically, we have observed the fields of five LMC and two SMC supersoft X-ray sources, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 R. P. Fender , K. Southwell , A. K. Tzioumis

Observational programmes currently underway with both Chandra and XMM-Newton are set to revolutionize our view of our own Galaxy. This is fortunate since the X-ray band can provide crucial diagnostics in the quest to understand the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. S. Warwick

We present a comprehensive X-ray study of the population of supernova remnants (SNRs) in the LMC. Using primarily XMM-Newton, we conduct a systematic spectral analysis of LMC SNRs to gain new insights on their evolution and the interplay…

Using hundreds of XMM-Newton and Chandra archival observations and nearly a thousand RXTE observations, we have generated a comprehensive library of the known pulsars in the Small and Large Magellanic Clouds (SMC, LMC). The pulsars are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-16 J. Yang , S. G. T. Laycock , J. J. Drake , M. J. Coe , S. Fingerman , J. Hong , V. Antoniou , A. Zezas

We have used archival ROSAT data to present X-ray images of thirty-one supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We have classified these remnants according to their X-ray morphologies, into the categories of…

The XMM-Newton Survey Science Center is currently conducting an optical identification programme of serendipitous EPIC sources at low galactic latitudes. The aim of this study is to quantify the various populations contributing to the…

The study of the entire population of SNRs in a galaxy helps us to understand the underlying stellar populations, the environments, in which the SNRs are evolving, and the stellar feedback on the ISM. The all-sky survey carried out by the…

We have observed two low concentration Galactic globular clusters with the X-ray observatory XMM-Newton. We detect 47 faint X-ray sources in the direction of M 55 and 62 in the field of view of NGC 3201. Using the statistical Log N-Log S…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 N. A. Webb , P. J. Wheatley , D. Barret

The XMM-Newton survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) was performed to study the population of X-ray sources in this neighbouring galaxy. During one of the observations, the symbiotic binary SMC3 was found at its highest X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 R. Sturm , F. Haberl , J. Greiner , W. Pietsch , N. La Palombara , M. Ehle , M. Gilfanov , A. Udalski , S. Mereghetti , M. Filipović

We present the results of a systematic search for point-like and moderately extended soft (0.1-2.4 keV) X-ray sources in a raster of nine pointings covering a field of 8.95 deg^2 and performed with the ROSAT PSPC between October 1991 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Kahabka , W. Pietsch , M. D. Filipovic , F. Haberl

The Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) hosts a rich population of supernova remnants (SNRs), our knowledge of which is the most complete of any galaxy. However, there remain many candidate SNRs, identified through optical and radio observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-30 P. J. Kavanagh , M. Sasaki , M. D. Filipovic , S. D. Points , L. M. Bozzetto , F. Haberl , P. Maggi , C. Maitra

We have investigated three SNRs in the LMC using multi-wavelength data. These SNRs are generally fainter than the known sample and may represent a previously missed population. One of our SNRs is the second LMC remnant analyzed which is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-01 Matthew D. Klimek , S. D. Points , R. C. Smith , R. L. Shelton , R. Williams

We present the first study of the X-ray population of the intermediate-age rich open cluster NGC 6819 using the XMM-Newton Observatory. In the past decade, Chandra X-ray observations have shown a relationship between the X-ray population of…

We present the first results from a Chandra survey of the central region of the Small Magellanic Cloud. We detect a total of 122 sources down to a limiting luminosity of ~4.3x10^{33} erg\s (corrected for Galactic N_{H}), which is ~10 times…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Zezas , J. C. McDowell , D. Hadzidimitriou , V. Kalogera , G. Fabbiano , P. Taylor

ROSAT observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) have revealed a large diffuse X-ray arc around the point source RX J053335-6854.9. The relative locations of the diffuse and point sources suggest that they might originate from a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. D. Lowry , Y. -H. Chu , M. A. Guerrero , R. A. Gruendl , S. L. Snowden , R. C. Smith

We present the result of a systematic search for spectrally hard and soft X-ray binary systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). This search has been applied to ROSAT PSPC data (0.1-2.4 keV) collected during 9 pointed observations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Kahabka , W. Pietsch

Aims: We present a detailed multi-wavelength study of four new supernova remnants (SNRs) in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The objects were identified as SNR candidates in X-ray observations performed during the survey of the LMC with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-14 P. Maggi , F. Haberl , P. J. Kavanagh , S. D. Points , J. Dickel , L. M. Bozzetto , M. Sasaki , Y. -H. Chu , R. A. Gruendl , M. D. Filipovic , W. Pietsch

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…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 V. A. McBride , A. J. Bird , M. J. Coe , L. J. Townsend , R. H. D. Corbet , F. Haberl

We present an analysis of the X-ray properties of the Magellanic-type galaxy NGC 55 based on two contiguous XMM-Newton observations. We detect a total of 137 X-ray sources in the field of view, 42 of which are located within the optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A-M. Stobbart , T. P. Roberts , R. S. Warwick

The X-ray binary population of the SMC is very different from that of the Milky Way consisting, with one exception, entirely of transient pulsating Be/neutron star binaries. We have now been monitoring these SMC X-ray pulsars for over 10…