Composite of the XMM-Newton three-color mosaic and H I contours. The X-ray colors correspond to 0.4–0.7 keV (red), 0.7–1.0 keV (green) and 1.0–1.25 keV (blue). The L-component contours are shown in (a) in cyan, the I-component (b) in green and the D-component in red (c). The contours were generated from the 80 − 99 percentile range of the corresponding emission strength with linear scaling (L-component: 293–1441 K km s⁻¹; I-component: 458–1406 K km s⁻¹; D-component: 669–1359 K km s⁻¹). The lowest level is indicated with thick lines. The LMC-SGS 2 and X-ray dark region are marked with dashed regions. Intensity profiles are shown in (d) which were integrated in Right ascension from RA = 5^h49^m to 5^h 40^m. Left panel: H I component intensities and right panel: X-ray intensity in the 0.4–1.25 keV range. A detailed description how the brightness profiles were derived is given in Sect. 4.1.1.