H.alpha. imaging for BeXRBs in the Small Magellanic Cloud

0485587 - ASÚ 2018 RIV GB eng C - Conference Paper (international conference)
Maravelias, Grigorios - Zezas, A. - Antoniou, V. - Hatzidimitriou, D. - Haberl, F.
H.alpha. imaging for BeXRBs in the Small Magellanic Cloud.
The Lives and Death-Throes of Massive Star. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017, s. 373-375. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union, IAU S329. ISBN 9781107170063. ISSN 1743-9213.
[Symposium of the International Astronomical Union /329./. Auckland (NZ), 28.11.2016-02.12.2016]
R&D Projects: GA ČR(CZ) GA14-21373S
Institutional support: RVO:67985815
Keywords : Magellanic clouds * early-type stars * emission-line
OECD category: Astronomy (including astrophysics,space science)

The Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) hosts a large number of high-mass X-ray binaries, and in particular of Be/X-ray Binaries (BeXRBs, neutron stars orbiting OBe-type stars), offering a unique laboratory to address the effect of metalicity. One key property of their optical companion is H.alpha. in emission, which makes them bright sources when observed through a narrow-band H.alpha. filter. We performed a survey of the SMC Bar and Wing regions using wide-field cameras (WFI@MPG/ESO and MOSAIC@CTIO/Blanco) in order to identify the counterparts of the sources detected in our XMM-Newton survey of the same area.
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