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We analyze the X-ray, optical, and mid-infrared data of a "changing-look"Seyfert galaxy \sdssj15 at $z\simeq0.086$. Over a period of one decade (2009 -2018), its broad H$\alpha$ line intensity increased by a factor of $\sim$4.Meanwhile, the X-ray emission in 2014 as observed by \chandra\ was about fivetimes brighter than that in 2010 by {\it Suzaku}, and the correspondingemissions in V-band, mid-infrared W1 band brighten by $\sim$ 0.18, 0.32 mag,respectively. Moreover, the absorption in X-rays is moderate and stable, i.e.${\rm N_{H}}\sim 10^{21} {\rm cm^{-2}}$, but the X-ray spectrum becomes harderin the 2014 \chandra\ bright state (i.e. photon index $\Gamma =1.52^{+0.06}_{-0.06}$) than that of the 2010 \suzaku\ low state($\Gamma=2.03^{+0.22}_{-0.21}$). With an Eddington ratio being lower than a fewpercent, the inner region of the accretion disk in \sdssj15\ is likely a hotaccretion flow. We then compile from literature the X-ray data of"changing-look" AGNs, and find that they generally follow the well-established"V"-shaped correlation in AGNs, that is, above a critical turn-over luminositythe X-ray spectra soften with the increasing luminosity, and below thatluminosity the trend is reversed in a way of "harder when brighter". Thispresents a direct evidence that CL-AGNs have distinctive changes in not onlythe optical spectral type, but also the X-ray spectral shape. The similarity inthe X-ray spectral evolution between CL-AGNs and black hole X-ray binariesindicates that the observed CL-AGNs phenomena may relate to the statetransition in accretion physics.

X-ray spectral shape variations in changing-look Seyfert galaxy SDSSJ155258+273728