The giant, ultra-soft, and luminous X-ray outburst from the optically inactive galaxy pair RX J1242.6-1119: Flare of a tidally disrupted star?

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Jun 2000

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COSMIC EXPLOSIONS: Tenth Astrophysics Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 522, pp. 325-328 (2000).

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Interacting Galaxies, Galaxy Pairs, And Triples, X-Ray Sources, X-Ray Bursts, Astronomical Observations

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We discuss our detection of a giant X-ray flare (Lx>~1044 erg/s) from the direction of the previously unknown, optically inactive galaxy pair RX J1242.6-1119 and investigate outburst scenarios. The huge peak luminosity makes RX J1242.6-1119 an excellent candidate for a tidal disruption event that occurred at the center of one of the two galaxies. .

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