Oct. 1st found NGC 6440 X-2 back in outburst. The countrate was high enough to produce pileup (in photon counting mode); we fit the radial profile with a King model and identified a 6” core, so we extracted a spectrum from an annulus from 6” to 45” (20 pixels). On Oct. 2nd,  identified a declining flux from NGC 6440 X-2, returning to quiescence by Oct. 4th (Figs. \[fig:Swift6\], \[fig:inset\]).

A  observation on Oct. 29 confirmed that NGC 6440 X-2 was back in outburst, and relatively bright; we dealt with pileup as described above. Observations on Oct. 30 and 31st observed X-2’s decay, which by Nov. 1 was below /XRT’s detection limit (Figs. \[fig:Swift6\], \[fig:inset\]).

![ \[fig:Swift6\] X-ray images (0.7-7 keV) of NGC 6440 during and after the five observed outbursts from the  XRT, each 2.5’ by 2.5’. The position of NGC 6440 X-2 is indicated (small red circle), as are the core and half-mass radii of NGC 6440 (blue circles), as in Fig. \[fig:image\]. Exposure times vary (see Table 1). Detections of NGC 6440 X-2 are seen on June 4, July 31, Sept. 1, Oct. 1, 2, 29, 30, and 31; the remaining emission is attributable to the other cluster 