Exploring the Small Magellanic Cloud to the Faintest X-ray Fluxes

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Feb 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010head...11.4310l&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #43.10; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.733

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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We have observed the Small Magellanic Cloud with Chandra to capture the populations of high mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs), stars and LMXBs/CVs down to Lx = 10^32 erg/s. The two SMC Deep Fields are located in the most active star forming region of the bar, positioned at the most pulsar-rich location. Bright optical counterparts exist for 40 of the 394 X-ray point sources, of which 34 are consistent with early-type stars. A detailed timing and spectral analysis, and comparison with XMM and ROSAT, were conducted to identify the sources. Implications for the underlying quiescent HMXB population, and the pulse-period distribution will be discussed.

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