6 papers
A comprehensive catalogue of high-mass X-ray binaries in the Large Magellanic Cloud detected during the first eROSITA all-sky survey
D. Kaltenbrunner, C. Maitra, F. Haberl +9
The Magellanic Clouds, the closest star-forming galaxies to the Milky Way, offer an excellent environment to study high-mass X-ray binaries. While the Small Magellanic Cloud has be…
SXP 31.0 -- the 2025 near-Eddington double X-ray outburst after 26 years of quiescence
Malcolm J. Coe, Thomas M. Gaudin, Itumeleng M. Monageng +5
SXP 31.0 is an X-ray source in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) that was first identified as a Be X-ray Binary (BeXRB) system when it went into X-ray outbusrst in 1998. It is now k…
[HP99] 159 -- Properties of the first Supersoft X-ray Source with a Helium star donor
Hélène Szegedi, Philip A. Charles, David A. H. Buckley +3
[HP99] 159 is remarkable as the first supersoft X-ray source (SSS) identified with an evolved helium star donor. With a likely orbital period of 1.164 d or 2.327 d, the origin of t…
Broadband study of the Be/X-ray binary pulsar eRASSU J012422.9-724248 in the Magellanic Bridge, near the Eastern Wing of the Small Magellanic Cloud
Haonan Yang, Chandreyee Maitra, Frank Haberl +4
The first four all-sky surveys with eROSITA the soft X-ray instrument on board the Spektrum-Roentgen-Gamma (SRG) satellite revealed a new X-ray source, eRASSU J012422.9-724248, in…
Two decades of optical variability of Small Magellanic Cloud high-mass X-ray binaries
Helena Treiber, Georgios Vasilopoulos, Charles Bailyn +2
We present an analysis of the long-term optical/IR behavior of 111 high-mass X-ray binaries (HMXBs) in the Small Magellanic Cloud based on data from the OGLE collaboration. Most sy…
Millinovae: A New Class of Transient Supersoft X-ray Sources without a Classical Nova Eruption
Przemek Mróz, Krzysztof Król, Hélène Szegedi +18
Some accreting binary systems containing a white dwarf (such as classical novae or persistent supersoft sources) are seen to emit low-energy X-rays with temperatures of ~10^6 K and…