X-ray stellar population of the LMC

Details X-ray stellar population of the LMC X-ray stellar population of the LMC

2008-08-28

arxiv.org/abs/0808.3924v2

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Invited review at IAUS 256 "The Magellanic system: stars, gas and galaxies" (July 2008, Keele, UK); proceedings edited by J. T

Scientific paper

10.1017/S1743921308028202

In the study of stars, the high energy domain occupies a place of choice, since it is the only one able to directly probe the most violent phenomena: indeed, young pre-main sequence objects, hot massive stars, or X-ray binaries are best revealed in X-rays. However, previously available X-ray observatories often provided only crude information on individual objects in the Magellanic Clouds. The advent of the highly efficient X-ray facilities XMM-Newton and Chandra has now dramatically increased the sensitivity and the spatial resolution available to X-ray astronomers, thus enabling a fairly easy determination of the properties of individual sources in the LMC.

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