The survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud with XMM-Newton – ESA's X-ray observatory – reveals high-mass X-ray binaries, supernova remnants and the hot phase of the diffuse emission in this nearby galaxy. The creation of a point-source catalogue and the classification of the X-ray sources allows a statistical investigation of the individual source classes. Individual X-ray sources were investigated as well as the morphological and spectral properties of the diffuse X-ray emission. Here, for example, we found a correlation with star formation 40 million years ago. The thesis improves the understanding of the X-ray emission of the Small Magellanic Cloud and therefore also for more distant galaxies, where individual X-ray sources cannot be separated.
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The survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud with XMM-Newton – ESA's X-ray observatory – reveals high-mass X-ray binaries, supernova remnants and the hot phase of the diffuse emission in this nearby galaxy. The creation of a point-source catalogue and the classification of the X-ray sources allows a statistical investigation of the individual source classes. Individual X-ray sources were investigated as well as the morphological and spectral properties of the diffuse X-ray emission. Here, for exampl...
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