A new X-ray pulsar has been detected in the SMC using archive Chandra data (CXOU J005323.8-722715).

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X-Ray, Binaries, Pulsars, Transients

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A new X-ray pulsar has been detected in the SMC using archive Chandra data. An examination of Chandra Observation ID 2947, which took place between 2002-07-20 23:03:50 and 2002-07-21 01:46:41 (Zezas et al. astro-ph/0310562, 2003), shows an X-ray source at R.A. = 00h53m23.8s Decl. = -72d27m15s (equinox 2000) with a 90% confidence radial uncertainty of 0.6 arcsec. Timing analysis on this object revealed a period of 138.04 seconds +/- 0.61 seconds with a confidence of 98%.

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