Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-02-26
Astrophys.J. 608 (2004) 208-219
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
19 pages, 5 figures (in gif), accepted by ApJ, also available from http://vela.astro.ulg.ac.be/Preprints/P89/index.html
Scientific paper
10.1086/386323
We present new XMM-Newton results on the field around the NGC346 star cluster in the SMC. This continues and extends previously published work on Chandra observations of the same field. The two XMM-Newton observations were obtained, respectively, six months before and six months after the previously published Chandra data. Of the 51 X-ray sources detected with XMM-Newton, 29 were already detected with Chandra. Comparing the properties of these X-ray sources in each of our three datasets has enabled us to investigate their variability on times scales of a year. Changes in the flux levels and/or spectral properties were observed for 21 of these sources. In addition, we discovered long-term variations in the X-ray properties of the peculiar system HD5980, a luminous blue variable star, that is likely to be a colliding wind binary system, which displayed the largest luminosity during the first XMM-Newton observation.
Corcoran Michael F.
Flores Aaron
Manfroid Jean
Naze Yael
Stevens Ian R.
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