Swift J011511.0-725611: discovery of a rare Be star/white dwarf binary system in the SMC
Swift J011511.0-725611: discovery of a rare Be star/white dwarf binary system in the SMC
We report on the discovery of Swift J011511.0-725611, a rare Be X-ray binary system (BeXRB) with a White Dwarf (WD) compact object, in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) by S-CUBED, a weekly X-ray/UV survey of the SMC by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. Observations show an approximately 3 month outburst …