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The Neutron Star Low-Mass X-ray Binary Swift J1749.4-2807 is the only known eclipsing Accreting Millisecond X-ray Pulsar. On March 2021, the source underwent a short (11-days) and relatively faint outburst, reaching a X-ray luminosity at the peak of only 2Ć1036 erg sā1. We present the first ever broadband spectral characterization of the system throughout the whole outburst, analyzing 11 NICER observations and XMM-Newton and NuSTAR single observations. This is also one of the very few times that, thanks to NICER, we had the opportunity to follow an X-ray binary outburst in its entirety in the soft X-ray band. According to our analysis, no direct emission from the disc was found (perhaps due to it being too cool), and the the broadband spectrum is well-modelled with a black body component, most likely emitted by a hot spot on the Neutron Star surface, and a Comptonization spectrum arising from a hot electron corona. A moderate truncation radius for the disc, i.e. at ā¼20-30 Ršŗ, was obtained from the analysis of the smeared profile of the Fe line in the reflection component. The significant detection of a blue-shifted Fe XXVI absorption line at ā¼7 keV indicates weakly relativistic disk winds. The discovery of such outflows, typically observed in the soft state of X-ray binaries, is unexpected as the spectral properties of the systems are consistent with a hard-intermediate state. This finding could in principle suggest magnetic propeller-driven winds. In the last few years, a pattern of winds in AMXPs out of the canonical soft states seems to have emerged. However, such detections are typically unconstrained and/or weakly significant, as AMXPs display generally faint outbursts when compared to the other X-ray binaries, due to the state-of-the-art technology. With Athena we will be not only to confirm the existence of such outflows, but to investigate their origin.
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