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    Deep Hard X-ray Survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud

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    Results of the deep survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), performed with the INTEGRAL observatory, are presented. The long exposure (~7 Ms) allowed us to detect twenty one sources in this sky region: ten belonging to the LMC itself (7 HMXBs, 2 PSRs, 1 LMXB), six of extragalactic origin and three belonging to other galaxies from the Local Group - the Milky Way (2 sources) and Small Magellanic Cloud (1 source). Four new hard X-ray sources of these 21 ones were discovered during the survey in addition to IGR J05414-6858 reported earlier; two of them were identified with extragalactic objects. We report also for the first time the detection of a hard X-ray emission from the Crab-like pulsar PSR J0537-6910 and identification of the hard X-ray source IGR J05305-6559 with the high-mass X-ray binary EXO 053109-6609.Comment: 9 pages, 6 figures, accepted to MNRA

    Search for X-ray bursts in the INTEGRAL/IBIS data of 2003-2005 and discovery of the new X-ray burster IGR J17364-2711/17380-3749

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    All the observations performed with the IBIS telescope aboard the INTEGRAL observatory during the first 2.5 years of its in-orbit operation have been analyzed to find X-ray bursts. There were 1788 statistically confident events with a duration from 5 to 500 s revealed in time records of the 15-25 keV count rate of the IBIS/ISGRI detector, 319 of them were localized and, with one exception, identified with persistent X-ray sources. The known bursters were responsible for 215 of the localized events. One burst was detected from AXJ1754.2-2754, the source previously unknown as a burster, and another burst - from a new source. There was duality in determining its position - its name could be either IGR J17364-2711 or IGR J17380-3749. Curiously enough, the 138 bursts were detected from one X-ray burster - GX 354-0.Comment: 4 pages, Proceedings of the 6th INTEGRAL Workshop "The Obscured Universe" (July 2-8, 2006, Moscow), ESA SP-62

    IGR J17445-2747 - yet another X-ray burster in the Galactic bulge

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    The discovery of a type I X-ray burst from the faint unidentified transient source IGR J17445-2747 in the Galactic bulge by the JEM-X telescope onboard the INTEGRAL observatory is reported. Type I bursts are believed to be associated with thermonuclear explosions of accreted matter on the surface of a neutron star with a weak magnetic field in a low-mass X-ray binary. Thus, this observation allows the nature of this source to be established.Comment: 8 pages, 5 figure
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