Observations conducted with NASA’s Swift space telescope have provided more insights about the nature of a compact component of the transient low-mass X-ray binary named MAXI J1957+032. Results of these observations, available in a paper published April 1 on arXiv.org, suggest that the system hosts a neutron star.
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Source: https://phys.org/news/2019-04-maxi-j1957032-neutron-star-swift.html