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The X-ray stellar population of the LMC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2008

Yaël Nazé
Yaël Nazé*
Affiliation:
Institut d'Astrophysique et de Géophysique, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 Août 17, Bat B5C, B4000-Liège, Belgium email: naze@astro.ulg.ac.be
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Abstract

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In the study of stars, the high energy domain occupies a place of choice, since it is the only one able to directly probe the most violent phenomena: indeed, young pre-main sequence objects, hot massive stars, or X-ray binaries are best revealed in X-rays. However, previously available X-ray observatories often provided only crude information on individual objects in the Magellanic Clouds. The advent of the highly efficient X-ray facilities XMM-Newton and Chandra has now dramatically increased the sensitivity and the spatial resolution available to X-ray astronomers, thus enabling a fairly easy determination of the properties of individual sources in the LMC.

Keywords

stars: early-typegalaxies: individual (LMC)X-rays: starsX-rays: binaries
Type
Contributed Papers
Information
Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union , Volume 4 , Symposium S256: The Magellanic System: Stars, Gas, and Galaxies , July 2008 , pp. 20 - 29
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Copyright © International Astronomical Union 2009

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