Disentangling the neighbouring pulsars SXP 15.3 and SXP 305
Disentangling the neighbouring pulsars SXP 15.3 and SXP 305
SXP 15.3 and SXP 305 are two Be X-ray binaries in the Small Magellanic Cloud that are spatially separated by ~7 arcsec. The small separation between these sources has, in the past, resulted in confusion about the origin of the emission from the combined region. We present long-term optical and …