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SMC X-1

(high-mass X-ray binary with X-ray pulsar)

SMC X-1 is an X-ray pulsar that is part of an eclipsing HMXB (high-mass X-ray binary), found in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) in 1971 in Uhuru data. It is of interest for being very luminous, and for its changes over time, which include disappearances/appearances of pulses, of X-ray bursts, and of changes in its orbital period and rotation period. It is presumed to be undergoing substantial accretion.


(pulsar,X-ray,SMC)
Further reading:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_X-ray_pulsars
http://simbad.u-strasbg.fr/simbad/sim-basic?Ident=SMC+X-1
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1997A%26A...321L..25L/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1971ApJ...170L..67L/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1972ApJ...178L..71S/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1976ApJ...210L..71P/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1993ApJ...410..328L/abstract
https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007A%26A...473..523V/abstract
RedshiftParsecs
/Distance
Lightyears
/Lookback Years
  
~060kpc200klySMC X-1
Coordinates:SMC X-1
J011705.1457288392-732636.014808156

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