Candidates for low-luminosity supersoft sources in the Magellanic Clouds

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Oct 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005xmm..prop...78h&link_type=abstract

XMM-Newton Proposal ID #04020007

Physics

White Dwarf Binaries, Neutron Star Binaries, Cataclysmic Variables, Ulxs, Black Holes, Rxj0103.8-7254, Rxj0549.7-6959, Rxj0059.6-7138, Rxj0454.0-6900, Rxj0507.1-6743, Rxj0529.4-6713, Rxj0531.9-7038, Xmm-Newton Proposal 04020007

Scientific paper

We propose XMM-Newton observations of new candidate supersoft X-ray sources, SSSs, in the Magellanic Clouds, MCs, in order to confirm and study their nature. The 20 ks exposures will allow to determine a precise position, spectral and temporal investigations. Finding new SSS in the MCs is crucial for X-ray source population studies and will provide new information on the physics of individual objects and on the class of SSSs as such. In particular we will address the question if persistent low-luminosity SSSs exist, which is not easily to understand in the framework of stable burning at high accretion rates, or if they are highly variable.

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