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The Discovery of an Outburst and Pulsed X-ray Flux from SMC X-2 from RXTE Observations

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R.H.D. Corbet, F.E. Marshall, M.J. Coe, S. Laycock, & G. Handler

Astrophysics · Submitted 22 Nov 2000

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The authors' main claim Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer All Sky Monitor observations of SMC X-2 show that the source experienced an outburst in January to April 2000 reaching a peak luminosity of greater than ~10^38 ergs s^-1.

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CitationF.E. Marshall, & G. Handler, M.J. Coe, R.H.D. Corbet, S. Laycock. "The Discovery of an Outburst and Pulsed X-ray Flux from SMC X-2 from RXTE Observations." arXiv:astro-ph/0011418 (2000). https://pith.science/paper/HCV6VKEK
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Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer All Sky Monitor observations of SMC X-2 show that the source experienced an outburst in January to April 2000 reaching a peak luminosity of greater than ~10^38 ergs s^-1. RXTE Proportional Counter Array observations during this outburst reveal the presence of pulsations with a 2.37s period. However, optical photometry of the optical counterpart showed the source to be still significantly fainter than it was more than half a year after the outburst in the 1970s when SMC X-2 was discovered.

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s0 Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer All Sky Monitor observations of SMC X-2 show that the source experienced an outburst in January to April 2000 reaching a peak luminosity of greater than ~10^38 ergs s^-1. result 0.99 0.81 0.28 asserted 1.00
s1 RXTE Proportional Counter Array observations during this outburst reveal the presence of pulsations with a 2.37s period. result 1.00 0.84 0.28 asserted 1.00
s2 However, optical photometry of the optical counterpart showed the source to be still significantly fainter than it was more than half a year after the outburst in the 1970s when SMC X-2 was discovered. result 0.93 0.44 0.13 asserted 1.00

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Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer All Sky Monitor observations of SMC X-2 show that the source experienced an outburst in January to April 2000 reaching a peak luminosity of greater than ~10^38 ergs s^-1. RXTE Proportional Counter Array observations during this outburst reveal the presence of pulsations with a 2.37s period. However, optical photometry of the optical counterpart showed the source to be still significantly fainter than it was more than half a year after the outburst in the 1970s when SMC X-2 was discovered.

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