The 2022 super-Eddington outburst of the source SMC X-2
The 2022 super-Eddington outburst of the source SMC X-2
SMC X-2 exhibits X-ray outburst behaviour that makes it one of the most luminous X-ray sources in the Small Magellanic Cloud. In the last decade it has undergone two such massive outbursts - in 2015 and 2022. The first outburst is well reported in the literature, but the 2022 event …