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Results of a 4 year monitoring campaign of the SMC using the Rossi X-ray timing Explorer (RXTE) are presented. This large dataset makes possible detailed investigation of a significant sample of SMC X-ray binaries. 8 new X-ray pulsars were…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Laycock , R. H. D. Corbet , M. J. Coe , F. E. Marshall , C. Markwardt , J. Lochner

Three new X-ray pulsars have been detected in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and the positions of two others have been determined, with archive Chandra data. A series of five observations of the SMC took place between May and October…

Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud have revealed a previously unknown transient X-ray pulsar with a pulse period of 95s. Provisionally designated XTE SMC95, the pulsar was detected in three Proportional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 S. Laycock , R. H. D. Corbet , D. Perrodin , M. J. Coe , F. E. Marshall , C. Markwardt

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…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-05-12 D. J. Macomb , D. W. Fox , R. C. Lamb , T. A. Prince

We have collected and analyzed the complete archive of {\itshape XMM-Newton\} (116), {\itshape Chandra\} (151), and {\itshape RXTE\} (952) observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), spanning 1997-2014. The resulting observational…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-03 J. Yang , S. G. T. Laycock , D. M. Christodoulou , S. Fingerman , M. J. Coe , J. J. Drake

We report the serendipitous detection of two previously unreported pulsars from the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud, with periods of 16.6 and 25.5 seconds. The detections are based on archival PCA data from the Rossi X-ray Timing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. C. Lamb , D. J. Macomb , T. A. Prince , W. A. Majid

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

XMM-Newton archival data for the Small Magellanic Cloud have been examined for the presence of previously undetected X-ray pulsars. One such pulsar, with a period of 202 s, is detected. Its position is consistent with an early B star in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. A. Majid , R. C. Lamb , D. J. Macomb

We report the timing analysis results of X-ray pulsars from a recent deep Chandra survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). We have analyzed a total exposure of 1.4 Ms from 31 observations over a 1.2 deg$^2$ region in the SMC under a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-04 JaeSub Hong , Vallia Antoniou , Andreas Zezas , Frank Haberl , Manami Sasaki , Jeremy Drake , Paul Plucinsky , Silas Laycock

In this paper we present the identification of two periodic X-ray signals coming from the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). On detection with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), the 175.4s and 85.4s pulsations were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 L. J. Townsend , S. P. Drave , A. B. Hill , M. J. Coe , R. H. D. Corbet , A. J. Bird

An XMM-Newton target of opportunity observation of the field around the transient 18.37 s pulsar XTE J0055-727 in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) revealed two bright, long-period X-ray pulsars in the EPIC data. A new pulsar, XMMU…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 F. Haberl , W. Pietsch , N. Schartel , P. Rodriguez , R. H. D. Corbet

We report the results of a survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) for radio pulsars conducted with the 20-cm multibeam receiver of the Parkes 64-meter telescope. This survey targeted a more complete region of the SMC than a previous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 F. Crawford , V. M. Kaspi , R. N. Manchester , A. G. Lyne , F. Camilo , N. D'Amico

We present the results of a pair of 100 ksec Chandra observations in the Small Magellanic Cloud to survey high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), stars and LMXBs/CVs down to Lx = 4.3 x 10^32 erg/s The two SMC Deep Fields are located in the most…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-08-05 Silas Laycock , Andreas Zezas , Jaesub Hong , Jeremy Drake , Valsamo Antoniou

(abridged) We analysed eight XMM-Newton observations toward the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC), performed between October 2006 and June 2007, to investigate high mass X-ray binary systems. We found new X-ray binary pulsars with periods of 202…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Haberl , P. Eger , W. Pietsch

The Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA) has made multiple observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). X-ray mosaic images in the soft (0.7--2.0 keV) and hard (2.0--7.0 keV) bands are separately constructed, and…

We investigate the X-ray and optical properties of a sample of X-ray bright sources from the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) Wing Survey. We have detected two new pulsars with pulse periods of 65.8 s (CXOU J010712.6-723533) and 700 s (CXOU…

We report the first rotation powered pulsars discovered in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) in more than a decade. PSR J0043-73 and PSR J0052-72 were discovered during a Parkes Multi-Beam (PMB) survey of MCSNR J0127-7332, and five new,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 N. Titus , B. W. Stappers , V. Morello , M. Caleb , M. D. Filipovic , V. A. McBride , W. C. G. Ho , D. A. H. Buckley

We report on the discovery of a transient X-ray pulsars, located in the Small Magellanic Cloud, with a pulse period of 292 s. A series of Chandra pointings fortuitously recorded in 2010 April-May the occurrence of a two-weeks-long outburst,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-06 P. Esposito , G. L. Israel , L. Sidoli , G. A. Rodríguez Castillo , N. Masetti , P. D'Avanzo , S. Campana

I present an observational review of the five accretion-driven millisecond X-ray pulsars currently known, focusing on the results obtained with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite. A prominent place in this review is given to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Rudy Wijnands

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
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