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Super-soft X-ray sources were established as a heterogeneous class of objects from observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). We have searched for new sources of this class in the X-ray images obtained from the XMM-Newton survey of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-29 Chandreyee Maitra , Frank Haberl

We present a Chandra X-ray Observatory investigation of the millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in the globular cluster M28 (NGC 6626). In what is one of the deepest X-ray observations of a globular cluster, we firmly detect seven and possibly…

The first X-ray survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) was performed with the Einstein satellite, revealing diffuse X-ray emission from hot gas and discrete X-ray sources. The ROSAT observations between 1990 and 1998 supplied the most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Haberl

We present an analysis of 7 clusters observed by XMM as part of our survey of 17 most X-ray luminous clusters of galaxies at z=0.2 selected for a comprehensive and unbiased study of the mass distribution in massive clusters. Using public…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. B. Marty , J. -P. Kneib , R. Sadat , S. Bardeau , O. Czoske , H. Ebeling , I. Smail

We report the ASCA discovery of a new X-ray pulsar, AX J0049-732, in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The pulse shape is sinusoidal with a barycentric period of 9.1320 +/- 0.0004 s. The X-ray spectrum was fitted by an absorbed power-law…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Masaru Ueno , Jun Yokogawa , Kensuke Imanishi , Katsuji Koyama

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

The "VISTA near-infrared YJKs survey of the Magellanic System" (VMC) is collecting deep Ks-band time-series photometry of pulsating stars hosted by the two Magellanic Clouds and their connecting Bridge. Here we present YJKs light curves for…

A probable binary period has been detected in the optical counterpart to the X-ray source CXOU J005455.6-724510 = RX J0054.9-7245 = AXJ0054.8-7244 = SXP504 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. This source was detected by Chandra on 04 Jul 2002…

Using archival X-ray data from the second XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue, we present comparative analysis of the overall population of X-ray sources in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. We see a difference between the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-09-16 Andrew J. Gosling , Sean A. Farrell , Natalie A. Webb , Jari J. E. Kajava

We report on the long-term average spin period, rate of change of spin period and X-ray luminosity during outbursts for 42 Be X-ray binary systems in the Small Magellanic Cloud. We also collect and calculate parameters of each system and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 H. Klus , W. C. G. Ho , M. J. Coe , R. H. D. Corbet , L. J. Townsend

A survey of extended objects in the Large Magellanic Cloud was carried out on the ESO/SERC R and J Sky Survey Atlases, checking entries in previous catalogs and searching for new objects. The census provided 6659 objects including star…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Eduardo L. D. Bica , Henrique R. Schmitt , Carlos , M. Dutra , Humberto L. Oliveira

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 have conducted a systematic survey for the X-ray properties of millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Currently, there are 47 MSPs with confirmed X-ray detections. We have also placed the upper limits for the X-ray emission from the other 36 MSPs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 Jongsu Lee , C. Y. Hui , J. Takata , A. K. H. Kong , P. H. T. Tam , K. S. Cheng

PSR B0540-69 is a young pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud that has similar properties with respect to the Crab Pulsar, and is embedded in a Pulsar Wind Nebula. We have analyzed the complete archival RXTE dataset of observations of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-01-17 R. Campana , T. Mineo , A. De Rosa , E. Massaro , A. J. Dean , L. Bassani

We present initial results from the low-latitude Galactic plane region of the High Time Resolution Universe pulsar survey conducted at the Parkes 64-m radio telescope. We discuss the computational challenges arising from the processing of…

A search for $\gamma$-ray emission from SNRs in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) based on the detection of concentrations in the arrival direction Fermi-LAT images of photons at energies higher than 10 GeV found significant evidence for 9…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-21 Andrea Tramacere , Riccardo Campana , Enrico Massaro , Fabrizio Bocchino , Marco Miceli , Salvatore Orlando

We present an optical and X-ray study of four Be/X-ray binaries located in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). OGLE I-band data of up to 11 years of semi-continuous monitoring has been analysed for SMC X-2, SXP172 and SXP202B, providing both…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 M. P. E. Schurch , M. J. Coe , V. A. McBride , L. J. Townsend , A. Udalski , F. Haberl , R. H. D. Corbet

Coherent 65 mHz pulsations in the X-ray flux of the Small Magellantic Cloud (SMC) transient source RX J0052.1-7319 have been detected by us in an analysis of ROSAT data. We report on the pulsations we detected in ROSAT HRI data and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 M. H. Finger , D. J. Macomb , R. C. Lamb , T. A. Prince , M. J. Coe , N. J. Haigh

Globular clusters host a variety of lower-luminosity ($L_X<10^{35}$ erg s$^{-1}$) X-ray sources, including accreting neutron stars and black holes, millisecond pulsars, cataclysmic variables, and chromospherically active binaries. In this…

The orbital motion of a neutron star about its optical companion presents a window through which to study the orbital parameters of that binary system. This has been used extensively in the Milky Way to calculate these parameters for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 L. J. Townsend , M. J. Coe , R. H. D. Corbet , A. B. Hill
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