We analyzed the complete ROSAT PSPC pointed data covering the MCs to obtain a comprehensive overview of the X-ray source content of these nearby galaxies. The source catalogue of the LMC was published by Haberl & Pietsch (1999) and in the current work a complementary catalogue of 517 discrete sources in the SMC is presented. About 30% of the PSPC sources are identified with known sources or at least classified as candidates for AGN, foreground stars, SSSs or SNRs. A high fraction of AGN and AGN candidates was found mainly from comparison with available radio data. These samples of different source classes allow to investigate their properties on a large statistical basis in a galaxy as a whole, but further identification work is required to confirm the classification and further enlarge the samples.
Acknowledgements
The ROSAT project is supported by the German Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF/DLR) and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft. This research has made extensive use of the SIMBAD data base operated at CDS, Strasbourg, France. For the presentation of Fig. 1 we used the Karma software package developed at ATNF.
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