First results from a Chandra survey of the 'Bar' region of the SMC
| dc.creator | Zezas, A. | |
| dc.creator | McDowell, J. C. | |
| dc.creator | Hadzidimitriou, D. | |
| dc.creator | Kalogera, V. | |
| dc.creator | Fabbiano, G. | |
| dc.creator | Taylor, P. | |
| dc.date | 2003-10-20 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2026-07-07T02:10:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2026-07-07T02:10:40Z | |
| dc.description | We present the first results from a Chandra survey of the central region of the Small Magellanic Cloud. We detect a total of 122 sources down to a limiting luminosity of ~4.3x10^{33} erg\s (corrected for Galactic N_{H}), which is ~10 times lower than in any previous survey of the SMC. We identify 20 candidate transient sources: eighteen previously known sources in this area which are not detected in our observations, and two new bright sources. The spectral parameters of the brightest sources indicate that they are X-ray binary pulsars. The high spatial resolution of Chandra allows us to initially identify optical counterparts for 35 sources, 13 of which are new identifications. | |
| dc.description | Poster presented at the 2003 STScI Spring Symposium "The Local Group as an Astrophysical Laboratory" | |
| dc.identifier | https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310562 | |
| dc.identifier | http://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0310562 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/6811 | |
| dc.subject | Astrophysics | |
| dc.title | First results from a Chandra survey of the 'Bar' region of the SMC | |
| dc.type | text |