Discovery of a Possible Anomalous X-ray Pulsar in the Small Magellanic   Cloud
  We report the serendipitous detection of a previously unreported pulsar from the direction of the Small Magellanic Cloud using data from the CHANDRA X-Ray Observatory. Because of the luminosity of about 1.5x10^35 ergs/s, its near lack of variability for more than 20 years, and its soft spectrum we propose that it is an anomalous X-ray pulsar (AXP). Data from the ROSAT PSPC in conjunction with the CHANDRA data give a period, P, of 5.44 s and a spin down time, Pdot/P, of 11 ky. If this is a correct identification it will be the first extragalactic AXP and the fastest yet discovered. 
R. C. Lamb (1), D. W. Fox (1), D. J. Macomb (2), T. A. Prince (1)   ((1)California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, (2...