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Swift J0513.4โˆ’6547 = LXP 27.2: a new Be/X-ray binary system in the Large Magellanic Cloud

Swift J0513.4โˆ’6547 = LXP 27.2: a new Be/X-ray binary system in the Large Magellanic Cloud

An exceptionally bright new X-ray source in the Large Magellanic Cloud was discovered by the Swift/BAT telescope on MJD 54923 (2009 April 2), and shown to have a pulse period of 27 s using follow-up observations by RXTE/PCA (Krimm et al. 2009). We report here on detailed timing observations taken โ€ฆ