Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2005-10-27
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, 9 figures, accepted for publication in A&A main journal
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20053744
Two observation campaigns performed in 2003 and 2004 with the INTEGRAL satellite have provided the first sensitive survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud with an imaging instrument in the hard X-ray range (15 keV - 10 MeV). The high energy flux and long term variability of the black hole candidate LMC X-1 was measured for the first time without the contamination of the nearby (~25') young pulsar PSR B0540-69. We studied the accreting pulsar LMC X-4, constraining the size of the hard X-ray emitting region (<~3E10 cm) from the analysis of its eclipses, and measuring its spin period (13.497+/-0.005 s) in the 20-40 keV band. LMC X-3 was not detected, being in a soft state during the first observation and possibly in an extremely low state in the second one. Thanks to the large field of view of the IBIS instrument, we could study also other sources falling serendipitously in the observed sky region around the LMC: the Galactic low mass X-ray binary EXO 0748-676, the accreting pulsar SMC X-1 in the Small Magellanic Cloud, and the Active Galactic Nucleus IRAS 04575--7537. In addition we discovered five new hard X-ray sources, two of which most likely belong to the LMC.
Belloni Tomaso
Gotz Diego
Mereghetti Sandro
Merlini Danilo
Sidoli Lara
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