TY  - JOUR
A1  - Gvaramadze, V. V.
A1  - Kniazev, Alexei Y.
A1  - Oskinova, Lida
T1  - Discovery of a putative supernova remnant around the long-period X-ray pulsar SXP 1323 in the Small Magellanic Cloud
T2  - Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
N2  - We report the discovery of a circular shell centred on the Be X-ray binary (BeXB) SXP 1323 in the Small Magellanic Cloud. The shell was detected in an H α image obtained with the Very Large Telescope. Follow-up spectroscopy with the Southern African Large Telescope showed that the shell expands with a velocity of ≈100kms−1 and that its emission is due to shock excitation. We suggest that this shell is a remnant of the supernova explosion that led to the formation of SXP 1323’s neutron star ≈40000 yr ago. SXP 1323 represents the second known case of a BeXB associated with a supernova remnant (the first one is SXP 1062). Interestingly, both of these BeXBs harbour long-period pulsars and are located in a low-metallicity galaxy.
KW  - stars: emission-line, Be
KW  - stars: individual: [MA93] 1393
KW  - stars: massive
KW  - ISM: supernova remnants
KW  - X-rays: binaries
KW  - X-rays: individual: SXP 1323
Y1  - 2019
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/49474
SN  - 0035-8711
SN  - 1365-2966
VL  - 485
IS  - 1
SP  - L6
EP  - L10
PB  - Oxford Univ. Press
CY  - Oxford
ER  -