A deep survey for symbiotic stars in the Magellanic Clouds - 1. Methodology and first discoveries in the SMC

Krystian Ilkiewicz, Joanna Mikolajewska, Michael M. Shara +3

We have initiated a survey aimed at locating a nearly complete sample of classical symbiotic stars (SySt) in the Magellanic Clouds. Such a sample is nearly impossible to obtain in…