An X-ray image of the large magellanic cloud

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Dec 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994apj...436l.123s&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Journal, Part 2 - Letters (ISSN 0004-637X), vol. 436, no. 2, p. L123-L126

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

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Interstellar Gas, Magellanic Clouds, Sky Surveys (Astronomy), X Ray Binaries, Light Curve, Metallicity, Rosat Mission, Sky Brightness, Spatial Distribution

Scientific paper

We have used archival ROSAT Position Sensitive Proportional Counter (PSPC) pointed observations to construct maps of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) in four energy bands between 0.5 and 2.0 keV. These represent the most complete, deepest, and most detailed X-ray images of the LMC to date. While confirming the general morphology of the diffuse LMC emission observed by Wang et al. with Einstein IPC data, these images reveal a wealth of detailed structure of high statistical significance on angular scales from a few arcminutes to a few degrees. In addition, at least twice as many discrete sources are detected as were found using the IPC.

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