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The Peculiar X-Ray Transient Swift J0840.7−3516: An Unusual Low-mass X-Ray Binary or a Tidal Disruption Event?

The Peculiar X-Ray Transient Swift J0840.7−3516: An Unusual Low-mass X-Ray Binary or a Tidal Disruption Event?

Abstract We report on the X-ray properties of the new transient Swift J0840.7−3516, discovered with Swift/BAT in 2020 February, using extensive data from Swift, MAXI, NICER, and NuSTAR. The source flux increased for ∼10 3 s after the discovery, decayed rapidly over ∼5 orders of magnitude in five days, and …