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Swift Observations of SMC X-3 during Its 2016–2017 Super-Eddington Outburst
2017
Astrophysical Journal
The Be X-ray pulsar, SMC X-3 underwent a giant outburst from 2016 August to 2017 March, which was monitored with the Swift satellite. During the outburst, its broadband flux increased dramatically, and the unabsorbed X-ray luminosity reached an extreme value of ∼ 10^39 erg/s around August 24. Using the Swift/XRT data, we measure the observed pulse frequency of the neutron star to compute the orbital parameters of the binary system. After applying the orbital corrections to Swift observations,
doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa76ec
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