eRASSU J043115.8-711730 The first pulsating symbiotic super-soft X-ray source in the Magellanic Bridge
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2026
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Abstract The Magellanic Bridge stellar population is a relic of the tidal interaction between the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds. A comprehensive view of the evolution of the Bridge stellar population requires probing the compact remnants of stellar evolution, otherwise hidden at optical wavelengths. The all-sky survey conducted by the eROSITA instrument on-board the Spectrum Roentgen Gamma observatory has discovered a significant population of compact-object-powered systems in the Bridge using X-ray. The candidate super-soft source eRASSU J043115.8-711730 (hereafter J0431–71) was discovered as a part of this campaign, and we present here a deeper study of this source using XMM-Newton and SALT spectroscopy, long-term optical-infrared photometry using OGLE, ATLAS, ASAS-SN, WISE, and GAIA data. J0431–71 is a highly variable super-soft X-ray source, classified as a red giant with the GAIA color-magnitude diagram. The source exhibits: (a) a thermal X-ray spectrum with a temperature of kT~30 eV and a bright state luminosity of 3.2× 1037 erg s−1 in the 0.15-1 keV band, (b) Balmer emission lines, [Fe X] coronal line, HeII emission, and the Bowen fluorescence blend, (c) an optical and infrared periodicity of ~500–560 days in phase with the X-ray–UV emission, (d) a ‘redder-when-brighter’ trend in the stellar emission with a ~520 day period indicating a pulsating donor star. We argue that the observed spectral and temporal properties in J0431–71 are consistent with a high-accretion rate onto a white-dwarf via Roche-lobe overflow, making J0431–71 the first symbiotic source discovered in the Bridge.
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| Authors | T. Saha, Chandreyee Maitra, Philip Charles, F. Haberl, David Kaltenbrunner, Andrej Udalski, David Buckley, I. M. Monageng, L. J. Townsend, M. Sasaki, Sara Saeedi, M. Salvato |
| Journal | monthly notices of the royal astronomical society |
| Year | 2026 |
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10.1093/mnras/stag1474
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