DISCOVERY OF A COSMOLOGICAL, RELATIVISTIC OUTBURST VIA ITS RAPIDLY FADING OPTICAL EMISSION

DISCOVERY OF A COSMOLOGICAL, RELATIVISTIC OUTBURST VIA ITS RAPIDLY FADING OPTICAL EMISSION

We report the discovery by the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) of the transient source PTF11agg, which is distinguished by three primary characteristics: (1) bright (R[subscript peak] = 18.3 mag), rapidly fading (ΔR = 4 mag in Δt = 2 days) optical transient emission; (2) a faint (R = 26.2 ± 0.2 mag)...

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Main Authors: Cenko, S. Bradley, Kulkarni, S. R., Horesh, Assaf, Corsi, A., Fox, Derek B., Carpenter, John, Frail, Dale A., Nugent, Peter E., Perley, Daniel A., Gruber, D., Gal-Yam, Avishay, Groot, P., Hallinan, G., Ofek, Eran O., Rau, Arne, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Miller, Adam A., Bloom, Joshua S., Filippenko, Alexei V., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Law, Nicholas M., Morgan, Adam N., Polishook, David, Poznanski, Dovi, Quimby, Robert M., Sesar, Branimir, Shen, Ken J., Silverman, Jeffrey M., Sternberg, Assaf
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society 2015
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/93758

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