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 (Author), Kulkarni, S. R. (Author), Horesh, Assaf (Author), Corsi, A. (Author), Fox, Derek B. (Author), Carpenter, John (Author), Frail, Dale A. (Author), Nugent, Peter E. (Author), Perley, Daniel A. (Author), Gruber, D. (Author), Gal-Yam, Avishay (Author), Groot, P. (Author), Hallinan, G. (Author), Ofek, Eran O. (Author), Rau, Arne (Author), MacLeod, Chelsea L. (Author), Miller, Adam A. (Author), Bloom, Joshua S. (Author), Filippenko, Alexei V. (Author), Kasliwal, Mansi M. (Author), Law, Nicholas M. (Author), Morgan, Adam N. (Author), Polishook, David (Contributor), Poznanski, Dovi (Author), Quimby, Robert M. (Author), Sesar, Branimir (Author), Shen, Ken J. (Author), Silverman, Jeffrey M. (Author), Sternberg, Assaf (Author)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor)
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Language:English
Published: Institute of Physics/American Astronomical Society, 2015-02-04T20:11:50Z.
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