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The central region of the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) contains a variety of astrophysical objects including supernova remnants, X-ray binary systems, the 30 Doradus complex of hot stars, as well as supernova 1987A. A survey in X-rays of this region, taken as the 'first light' observations with the Röntgen Observatory Satellite (ROSAT), reveals 45 individual sources. Fifteen of these are new; the brightest is probably a new and strongly variable low-mass X-ray binary.
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Trümper, J., Hasinger, G., Aschenbach, B. et al. X-ray survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud by ROSAT. Nature 349, 579–583 (1991). https://doi.org/10.1038/349579a0
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