Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Mar 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993a%26a...270l...9s&link_type=abstract
Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 270, no. 1-2, p. L9-L12.
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
71
Magellanic Clouds, Neutron Stars, Rosat Mission, Sky Surveys (Astronomy), X Ray Sources, Accretion Disks, White Dwarf Stars
Scientific paper
We report the discovery of a supersoft X-ray source, RX J0513.9-6951, in the LMC. The object was found by a search for time variability in the ecliptic pole regions using the ROSAT All Sky Survey data. The new source brightened by a factor of about 20 during a 10 day period and shows an X-ray spectrum very similar to the supersoft LMC sources CAL 83 and RX J0527.8-6954. The spectrum can be very well described by black-body radiation with a temperature of 20 - 50eV absorbed through the interstellar medium with a column density of (0.5 - 1.5) x 10 exp 21/sq cm. The column density indicates LMC membership.
Hasinger Guenter
Schaeidt Stefan
Truemper Joachim
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