RXTE Observations of SMC X-ray Pulsars

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Oct 2000

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2000head....5.2203c&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, HEAD Meeting #5, #22.03; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.1213

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Within the last few years the SMC has been found to contain a very large population of pulsing X-ray sources. Almost all of these sources are transient and a number have been identified with Be star optical counterparts. We are undertaking a long term program using the RXTE PCA detector to monitor and discover X-ray pulsars in the SMC with an emphasis on the sources in the vicinity of SMC X-3. Through this monitoring we expect to be able to determine the orbital periods of a number of the systems. We present here a status report on our program including (i) the discovery of an outburst from SMC X-2 and the detection of 2.37 s pulses; and (ii) evidence for the presence of two new SMC pulsars with periods of 82.4 and 95.2 s.

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