Volumetric Rates of Luminous Red Novae and Intermediate-luminosity Red Transients with the Zwicky Transient Facility

Luminous red novae (LRNe) are transients characterized by low luminosities and expansion velocities, and they are associated with mergers or common-envelope ejections in stellar binaries. Intermediate-luminosity red transients (ILRTs) are an observationally similar class with unknown origins, but th...

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Main Authors: Viraj R. Karambelkar, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Nadejda Blagorodnova, Jesper Sollerman, Robert Aloisi, Shreya G. Anand, Igor Andreoni, Thomas G. Brink, Rachel Bruch, David Cook, Kaustav Kashyap Das, Kishalay De, Andrew Drake, Alexei V. Filippenko, Christoffer Fremling, George Helou, Anna Ho, Jacob Jencson, David Jones, Russ R. Laher, Frank J. Masci, Kishore C. Patra, Josiah Purdum, Alexander Reedy, Tawny Sit, Yashvi Sharma, Anastasios Tzanidakis, Stéfan J. van der Walt, Yuhan Yao, Chaoran Zhang
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2023-01-01
Series:The Astrophysical Journal
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acc2b9