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      Finding periods in the high mass x-ray binary stars of the magellanic clouds

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      Date
      2010-12
      Author
      Briand, Lorin Michel Pierre
      Type
      Thesis
      Degree Level
      Masters
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      Abstract
      High Mass X-Ray Binary Stars (HMXBs) are stars that contain one early-type main sequence or giant star and one of a black hole, neutron star or white dwarf. HMXBs in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) and the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) are instructive to study because both galaxies are metal poor in comparison to the Milky Way and they are fairly transparent to both optical and X-ray radiation. This allows a more complete study of the whole population, without the biasing effects of gas and dust that occur in our own Galaxy. The objective of this study was to find the periods of HMXBs in the LMC and SMC with known optical counterparts in the dataset acquired by the Robotic Optical Transient Search Experiment telescope. Two possible orbital periods were found for the objects XTE J0055-724 and RX J0101.3-7211 of 1724 days and 478 days, respectively. Continued observations are recommended to confirm the two periods.
      Degree
      Master of Science (M.Sc.)
      Department
      Physics and Engineering Physics
      Program
      Physics and Engineering Physics
      Supervisor
      Sarty, Gordon
      Committee
      Ghezelbash, Masoud; Smolyakov, Andrei; Koustov, Sasha
      Copyright Date
      December 2010
      URI
      http://hdl.handle.net/10388/etd-12132010-145006
      Subject
      magellanic clouds
      x-ray
      neutron stars
      black holes
      high mass x-ray binary star
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