The 2016 super-Eddington outburst of SMC X-3: X-ray and optical properties and system parameters
The 2016 super-Eddington outburst of SMC X-3: X-ray and optical properties and system parameters
On 2016 July 30 (MJD 57599), observations of the Small Magellanic Cloud by Swift/XRT found an increase in X-ray counts coming from a position consistent with the Be/X-ray binary pulsar SMC X-3. Follow-up observations on 2016 August 3 (MJD 57603) and 2016 August 10 (MJD 57610) revealed a rapidly increasing …