Studies of Be X-ray binaries in the Magellanic Clouds
Studies of Be X-ray binaries in the Magellanic Clouds
The programme of research has taken forward the work of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) X-ray monitoring campaign, using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and the Chandra satellite to discover, locate and analyse previously undetected X-ray binary pulsar systems in the SMC. A total of eight new pulsars were discovered, three with Chandra and five with RXTE, and the previously unknown positions of two others, including SMC-X3, were precisely determined from Chandra data.
The photometric and spectral data and long term optical behaviour of twenty eight mass-donor companion stars to the X-ray binaries in the SMC have been investigated as part of a major study into the optical and IR characteristics of these stars; using data from Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), the Massive Compact Halo Objects project (MACHO) and The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE). The orbital periods of sixteen of these systems have been either discovered or independently verified.
University of Southampton
Edge, William Raymond Tarratt
2005
Edge, William Raymond Tarratt
Edge, William Raymond Tarratt
(2005)
Studies of Be X-ray binaries in the Magellanic Clouds.
University of Southampton, Doctoral Thesis.
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The programme of research has taken forward the work of the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) X-ray monitoring campaign, using the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) and the Chandra satellite to discover, locate and analyse previously undetected X-ray binary pulsar systems in the SMC. A total of eight new pulsars were discovered, three with Chandra and five with RXTE, and the previously unknown positions of two others, including SMC-X3, were precisely determined from Chandra data.
The photometric and spectral data and long term optical behaviour of twenty eight mass-donor companion stars to the X-ray binaries in the SMC have been investigated as part of a major study into the optical and IR characteristics of these stars; using data from Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS), the Massive Compact Halo Objects project (MACHO) and The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE). The orbital periods of sixteen of these systems have been either discovered or independently verified.
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