- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+A/344/521
- Title:
- LMC variable X-ray sources
- Short Name:
- J/A+A/344/521
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The ROSAT PSPC (Cat. <IX/11>) performed more than 200 pointed observations of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) between 1990 and 1994. Most of the LMC was covered more than once and a large fraction at least ten times, making the PSPC observations an in valuable archive to study long-term time variability in the LMC. We performed a systematic search for variable X-ray sources in the LMC and found 27 sources which showed flux variations by factors between 3 and more than 1000. A comparison of the temporal and spectral characteristics of 15 X-ray sources which are not yet identified optically with those of the previously known sources in our sample allows to draw first conclusions about their nature. Up to six of the unidentified sources are promising candidates for high mass X-ray binaries in the LMC. Six sources are probably foreground stars, two soft objects might be supersoft sources and one source could be a black hole candidate. Most of the X-ray binary candidates are found in the area of the LMC 4 supergiant shell leading to a significant concentration of such systems in that region, consistent with the idea of being born in the stellar formation event which created the shell.
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- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/139/277
- Title:
- LMC X-ray sources ROSAT PSPC catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/139/277
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We analyzed more than 200 ROSAT PSPC observations in a 10 by 10 degree field centered on the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and performed between 1990 and 1994 to derive a catalogue of X-ray sources. The list contains 758 sources with their X-ray properties. From cross-correlations of the PSPC catalogue with the SIMBAD data base and literature searches we give likely identifications for 144 X-ray sources based on positional coincidence, but taking into account X-ray properties like hardness ratios and source extent. 46 known sources are associated with supernova remnants (SNRs) and candidates in the LMC, most of them already detected by previous X-ray missions.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/147/75
- Title:
- ROSAT HRI catalogue of SMC X-ray sources
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/147/75
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- The ROSAT HRI SMC source catalogue is based on all 71 pointed observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud by the ROSAT HRI between 1990 and 1998. The data was selected in a 5{deg}x5{deg} field covering the SMC. The catalogue which contains 121 X-ray sources, was cross-correlated with data bases and catalogues like SIMBAD, TYCHO, or USNO as well as other publications in order to classify the X-ray sources and find new candidates for various source classes.
- ID:
- ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/A+AS/142/41
- Title:
- SMC X-ray sources ROSAT PSPC catalogue
- Short Name:
- J/A+AS/142/41
- Date:
- 21 Oct 2021
- Publisher:
- CDS
- Description:
- We present a catalogue of 517 discrete X-ray sources in a 6{deg}x6{deg} field covering the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC). The catalogue was derived from the pointed ROSAT PSPC observations performed between October 1991 and May 1994 and is complementary to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) catalogue published by Haberl & Pietsch (1999, Cat. <J/A+AS/139/277>). We followed the same identification scheme and used, among other information, X-ray hardness ratios and spatial extent to classify unknown sources as candidates for active galactic nuclei (AGN), foreground stars, supernova remnants (SNRs), supersoft sources (SSSs) and X-ray binaries. For 158 sources a likely source type is given, from which 46 sources are suggested as background AGN (including candidates resulting from a comparison of X-ray and radio images). Nearly all of the X-ray binaries known in the SMC were detected in ROSAT PSPC observations; most of them with luminosities below 10^36^erg/s suggesting that the fraction of high luminosity X-ray binary systems in the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) is not significantly larger than in our galaxy. Seventeen X-ray sources are associated with SNRs found in earlier work and we suggest here two additional extended sources as SNR candidates. Three very soft sources are newly classified as SSSs from which one is identified with the symbiotic star LIN 358 in the SMC.
