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We present a new edition of the catalogue of the low-mass X-ray binaries in the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds. The catalogue contains source name(s), coordinates, finding chart, X-ray luminosity, system parameters, and stellar parameters…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Q. Z. Liu , J. van Paradijs , E. P. J. van den Heuvel

We present a source catalog from the first deep hard X-ray ($E>10$ keV) survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), the NuSTAR Legacy Survey of the SMC. We observed three fields, for a total exposure time of 1 Ms, along the bar of this…

Today's sensitive, high-resolution X-ray observations allow the study of populations of X-ray sources, in the luminosity range of Galactic X-ray binaries, in galaxies as distant as 20-30 Mpc. The traditional astronomical tools of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Fabbiano

We analyze 18 sources that were found to show interesting properties of periodicity, very soft spectra and/or large long-term variability in X-rays in our project of classification of sources from the 2XMMi-DR3 catalog but were poorly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Dacheng Lin , Natalie A. Webb , Didier Barret

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…

We investigated four luminous supersoft X-ray sources (SSS) in the Magellanic Clouds suspected to have optical counterparts of Be spectral type. If the origin of the X-rays is in a very hot atmosphere heated by hydrogen burning in accreted…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-15 V. Cracco , M. Orio , S. Ciroi , J. S. Gallagher , R. Kotulla , E. Romero-Colmenero

We investigate the serendipitous X-ray source population revealed in XMM-Newton observations targeted in the Galactic Plane within the region 315<l<45 and |b|<2.5 deg. Our study focuses on a sample of 2204 X-ray sources at intermediate to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 R. S. Warwick , D. Perez-Ramirez , K. Byckling

The XMM-Newton Survey Science Center is constructing a large (~1000 sources) and complete sample of bright serendipitous XMM-Newton sources at high galactic latitude, so as to allow both the discovery of sources of high individual interest…

Many of the high mass X-ray binaries (HMXRBs) discovered in recent years in our Galaxy are characterized by a high absorption, most likely intrinsic to the system, which hampers their detection at the softest X-ray energies. We have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 G. Novara , N. La Palombara , S. Mereghetti , F. Haberl , M. Coe , M. Filipovic , A. Udalski , A. Paizis , W. Pietsch , R. Sturm , M. Gilfanov , A. Tiengo , J. Payne , D. Smits , A. De Horta

X-ray imaging and spectroscopy can be used to probe the binary content of globular clusters. Binaries are thought to play a key role in the dynamical evolution of the clusters by serving as an internal source of energy which counters the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Natalie A. Webb , Didier Barret

The X-ray populations of Local group galaxies have been classified in detail by Einstein, ROSAT and ASCA revealing a mix of binaries, supernova remnants and HII regions. However, these observatories were unable to resolve X-ray sources in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 A . H. Prestwich , J. A. Irwin , R. E. Kilgard , M. I. Krauss , A. Zezas , F. Primini , P. Kaaret

We study population of compact X-ray sources in the Small Magellanic Cloud using the archival data of XMM-Newton observatory. The total area of the survey is ~1.5 square degrees with the limiting sensitivity of ~10^{-14} erg/s/cm^2,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 P. Shtykovskiy , M. Gilfanov

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

First results from a deep XMM-Newton observation of a field in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) near the northern rim of the supergiant shell LMC 4 are presented. Spectral and temporal analyses of a sample of selected X-ray sources yielded…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Haberl , K. Dennerl , W. Pietsch

In an XMM-Newton raster observation of the bright local group spiral galaxy M33 we study the population of X-ray sources (X-ray binaries, supernova remnants, super-shells) down to a 0.5-10 keV luminosity of 10^35 erg s^-1 -- more than a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 W. Pietsch , M. Ehle , F. Haberl , Z. Misanovic , G. Trinchieri

Low-mass X-ray binaries, recycled pulsars, cataclysmic variables and magnetically active binaries are observed as X-ray sources in globular clusters. We discuss the classification of these systems, and find that some presumed active…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Frank Verbunt , Dave Pooley , Cees Bassa

We carry out classification of 4330 X-ray sources in the 2XMMi-DR3 catalog. They are selected under the requirement of being a point source with multiple XMM-Newton observations and at least one detection with the signal-to-noise ratio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Dacheng Lin , Natalie A. Webb , Didier Barret

Population studies of the extragalactic objects are a major part of the universe large-scale structure study. Apart from radio, infrared, and visible wavelength bands, observations and further identification of extragalactic objects such as…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 A. Tugay , S. Shevchenko

We present a compilative catalogue of Be/X-ray binaries and candidates in the Galaxy and in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. This catalogue contains 130 sources and provides information on names and spectral types of optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 N. V. Raguzova , S. B. Popov

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