@conference {23970,
	title = {A Chandra survey of the SMC Bar: First Results},
	volume = {203},
	year = {2003},
	month = {2003/12/1},
	pages = {115.23},
	abstract = {We summarize the early results from a Chandra X-ray Observatory survey of the central region of the Small Magellanic Cloud, dominated by a recent burst of star formation. We detect 122 sources in five ACIS fields, reaching a 0.1-10 keV luminosity (corrected for Milky Way absorption ) of 4.3{\texttimes} 10<SUP>33</SUP> erg/s, an order of magnitude deeper than previous surveys. Our survey includes 20 candidate transient sources and measures extent in 5 supernova remnants. The data indicate fewer very faint sources than would be expected from the background. We compare our results with ROSAT and ASCA observations of the region; many of the ASCA sources are found to suffer from confusion. We are beginning a program of optical identifications for the newly discovered sources. The companion poster by Taylor et al. describes our X-ray spectral and timing analysis on the bright sources. <P />We acknowledge support from the Chandra X-ray Center (NASA contract NAS8-39073).},
	url = {https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003AAS...20311523M},
	author = {McDowell, J. C. and Zezas, A. and Taylor, P. A. and Hatzidimitriou, D. and Kalogera, V. and Fabbiano, G.}
}
