MAXI GSC X-ray LCs of the ULX Swift J0243.6+6124

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This paper reports on the X-ray emission evolution of the ultraluminous Galactic X-ray pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 during the giant outburst from 2017 October to 2018 January as observed by the MAXI GSC all-sky survey. The 2-30keV light curve and the energy spectra confirm the source luminosity LX assuming an isotropic emission reached 2.5x10^39^erg/s, 10 times higher than the Eddington limit for a 1.4M_{sun} neutron star. When the source was luminous with L_X>~0.9x10^38^erg/s, it generally exhibited a negative correlation on a hardness-intensity diagram. However, two hardness ratios, a soft color (=4-10keV/2-4keV) and a hard color (=10-20keV/4-10keV), showed somewhat different behavior across a characteristic luminosity of L_c_~5x10^38^erg/s. The soft color changed more than the hard color when L_X_

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.18960124
Source https://dc.g-vo.org/rr/q/lp/custom/CDS.VizieR/J/ApJ/896/124
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Related Identifier https://vizier.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/VizieR-2?-source=J/ApJ/896/124
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Provenance
Creator Sugizaki M.; Oeda M.; Kawai N.; Mihara T.; Makishima K.; Nakajima M.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2021
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysical Processes; Astrophysics and Astronomy; Cosmology; Natural Sciences; Physics; Stellar Astronomy