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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

During an X-ray survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud, carried out with the XMM-Newton satellite, we detected significant soft X-ray emission from the central star of the high-excitation planetary nebula SMP SMC 22. Its very soft spectrum is…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Mereghetti , N. Krachmalnicoff , N. La Palombara , A. Tiengo , T. Rauch , F. Haberl , M. D. Filipovic , R. Sturm

We report the discovery of a highly circularly polarized, variable, steep-spectrum pulsar in the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) survey. The pulsar is located about $1^\circ$ from…

Optical and X-ray observations are presented here of a newly reported X-ray transient system in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The data reveal many previously unknown X-ray detections of this system and clear evidence for a 49.995d binary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. J. Coe , M. Schurch , R. H. D. Corbet , J. Galache , V. A. McBride , L. J. Townsend , A. Udalski , )

The high stellar density in the central parsecs around the Galactic Centre makes it a seemingly favourable environment for finding relativistic binary pulsars. These include pulsars orbiting other neutron stars, stellar-mass black holes or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-25 R. P. Eatough , P. Torne , G. Desvignes , M. Kramer , R. Karuppusamy , B. Klein , L. G. Spitler , K. J. Lee , D. J. Champion , K. Liu , R. S. Wharton , L. Rezzolla , H. Falcke

During a systematic search for new X-ray pulsators in the XMM-Newton archive, we discovered a high amplitude ($PF\simeq86\%$) periodic ($P\simeq7.25\,\mathrm{s}$) modulation in the X-ray flux of 4XMM J045626.3-694723 (J0456 hereafter), a…

The X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission XMM-Newton is ESA's largest observatory so far; it is dedicated to explore the Universe in the 0.2 - 15 keV X-ray band of the electromagnetic spectrum. Because of its large collecting area very faint sources…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 W. Becker , B. Aschenbach

To date, over 4000 pulsars have been detected. In this study, we identify 231 X-ray counterparts of Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF) pulsars by performing a spatial cross match across the Chandra, XMM-Newton observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-01 Yu-Jing Xu , Han-Long Peng , Shan-Shan Weng , Xiao Zhang , Ming-Yu Ge

We report on the discovery and analysis of an X-ray pulsar, AX J0058-7203, in the Small Magellanic Cloud. This pulsar exhibits coherent pulsations at P= 280.3 s with a double-peak structure. The X-ray spectrum is well fitted with a simple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Masahiro Tsujimoto , Kensuke Imanishi , Jun Yokogawa , Katsuji Koyama

On MJD 56590-1 (2013 Oct 25-26) observations of the Magellanic Clouds by the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) observatory discovered a previously-unreported bright, flaring X-ray source. This source was initially…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 M. J. Coe , E. S. Bartlett , A. J. Bird , F. Haberl , J. A. Kennea , V. A. McBride , L. J. Townsend , A. Udalski

During a systematic search for periodic signals in a sample of ROSAT PSPC light curves, we discovered ~ 8.9s X-ray pulsations in 2E0050.1-7247, a variable X-ray source in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The source was detected several times…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. L. Israel , L. Stella , L. Angelini , N. E. White , P. Giommi , S. Covino

We report on a peculiar X-ray binary pulsar IKT1 = RXJ0047.3-7312 observed with XMM-Newton in Oct. 2000. The X-ray spectrum is described by a two-component spectrum. The hard component has a broken power-law with respective photon indices…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Masaru Ueno , Hiroya Yamaguchi , Shin-ichiro Takagi , Jun Yokogawa , Katsuji Koyama

We report on the latest results of a Parkes multibeam survey for pulsars and dispersed radio bursts in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We conducted both periodicity and single-pulse searches at a much larger range of trial dispersion…

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 recent discovery by Bachetti et al. (2014) of a pulsar in M82 that can reach luminosities of up to 10^40 ergs s^-1, a factor of ~100 the Eddington luminosity for a 1.4 Msol compact object, poses a challenge for accretion physics. In…

(shortened) As part of the guaranteed time, guest observer and calibration programs, XMM-Newton extensively observed a group of six thermally emitting, isolated neutron stars which are neither connected with a supernova remnant nor show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Haberl

We observed RX J0520.5-6932 in the X-rays and studied the optical light curve of its counterpart to verify it as a Be/X-ray binary. We performed an XMM-Newton anticipated target of opportunity observation in January 2013 during an X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-05 Georgios Vasilopoulos , Frank Haberl , Richard Sturm , Pierre Maggi , Andrzej Udalski

Using the Mikhail Pavlinsky ART-XC onboard the SRG observatory we have detected, for the first time, X-ray pulsations with a period of ~106 s from the poorly-studied high-mass X-ray binary RX J0535.0-6700 located in the Large Magellanic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-09 I. A. Mereminskiy , A. S. Gorban , Yu. S. Klein , E. A. Ushakova , A. N. Semena , A. A. Lutovinov , A. Yu. Tkachenko , S. V. Molkov

(shortened) Fifteen Be/X-ray binaries and candidates in the SMC were observed serendipitously with the EPIC instruments of XMM-Newton during two observations of SNR 0047-73.5 and SNR 0103-72.6 in October 2000. A total of twelve of those…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Haberl , W. Pietsch

We explore the possibility to explain the properties of the Be/X-ray pulsars observed in the Small Magellanic Cloud within the magnetic levitation accretion scenario. This implies that their X-ray emission is powered by a wind-fed accretion…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 N. R. Ikhsanov , S. Mereghetti