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

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 w...

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Autores principales: Corbet, R H D, Marshall, F E, Coe, M J, Laycock, S, Handler, G
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2001
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1086/318929
http://cds.cern.ch/record/478119