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Three new X-ray pulsars detected in the Small Magellanic Cloud and the positions of two other known pulsars determined

W. R. T. Edge, M. J. Coe, J. L. Galache, V. A. McBride, R. H. D. Corbet, C. B. Markwardt, S. Laycock

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/0406580

Abstract

Three new X-ray pulsars have been detected in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) and the positions of two others have been determined, with archive Chandra data. A series of five observations of the SMC took place between May and October 2002. Analysis of these data has revealed three previously unknown X-ray pulsars at pulse periods of 34, 503 and 138 seconds. The position of pulsar XTE J0052-725, which was originally detected by RXTE on June 19 2002, was also accurately determined and a previously detected 7.78s RXTE pulsar was identified as the source SMC X-3.

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