Discovery of the Optical and Radio Counterpart to the Fast X-Ray Transient EP 240315a

Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) are extragalactic bursts of soft X-rays first identified ≳10 yr ago. Since then, nearly 40 events have been discovered, although almost all of these have been recovered from archival Chandra and XMM-Newton data. To date, optical sky surveys and follow-up searches have no...

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Main Authors: Gillanders, JH, Rhodes, L, Srivastav, S, Carotenuto, F, Bright, J, Huber, ME, Stevance, HF, Smartt, SJ, Chambers, KC, Chen, T, Fender, R, Andersson, A, Cooper, AJ, Jonker, PG, Cowie, FJ, de Boer, T, Erasmus, N, Fulton, MD, Gao, H, Herman, J, Lin, C, Lowe, T, Magnier, EA, Miao, H
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: American Astronomical Society 2024