The SMC X-ray binary SXP4.78 : a new Type II outburst and the identification and study of the optical counterpart

Itumeleng Monageng, Malcolm Coe, Lee Townsend +6

SXP4.78 was originally discovered in 2000 as a pulsar in the Small Magellanic Cloud (SMC) by the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) but it was not spatially located at that time. A…