Large decay of X-ray flux in 2XMM J123103.2+110648: evidence for a tidal disruption event
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DOI: 10.1093/mnras/stx489
Abstract: The X-ray source 2XMM J123103.2+110648 was previously found to show pure thermal X-ray spectra and a ~3.8 hr periodicity in three XMM-Newton X-ray observations in 2003-2005, and the optical spectrum of the host galaxy suggested… read more here.
Keywords: tidal disruption; 2xmm j123103; j123103 110648; ray flux ... See more keywords