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  • Minutes-duration Optical Flares with Supernova Luminosities
    Ho, Anna Y Q; Perley, Daniel A; Chen, Ping; Schulze, Steve; Dhillon, Vik; Kumar, Harsh; Suresh, Aswin; Swain, Vishwajeet; Bremer, Michael; Smartt, Stephen J; Anderson, Joseph P; Anupama, G C; Awiphan, Supachai; Barway, Sudhanshu; Bellm, Eric C; Ben-Ami, Sagi; Bhalerao, Varun; de Boer, Thomas; Brink, Thomas G; Burruss, Rick; Chandra, Poonam; Ting-Wan, Chen; Wen-Ping, Chen; Cooke, Jeff; Coughlin, Michael W; Das, Kaustav K; Drake, Andrew J; Filippenko, Alexei V; Freeburn, James; Fremling, Christoffer; Fulton, Michael D; Gal-Yam, Avishay; Galbany, Lluís; Gao, Hua; Graham, Matthew J; Gromadzki, Mariusz; Gutiérrez, Claudia P; K-Ryan Hinds; Inserra, Cosimo; Nayana, A J; Karambelkar, Viraj; Kasliwal, Mansi M; Kulkarni, Shri; Müller-Bravo, Tomás E; Magnier, Eugene A; Mahabal, Ashish A; Moore, Thomas; Chow-Choong Ngeow; Nicholl, Matt; Ofek, Eran O; Omand, Conor M B; Onori, Francesca; Yen-Chen, Pan; Pessi, Priscila J; Petitpas, Glen; Polishook, David; Saran Poshyachinda; Pursiainen, Miika; Riddle, Reed; Rodriguez, Antonio C; Rusholme, Ben; Segre, Enrico; Sharma, Yashvi; Smith, Ken W; Sollerman, Jesper; Srivastav, Shubham; Nora Linn Strotjohann; Suhr, Mark; Svinkin, Dmitry; Wang, Yanan; Wiseman, Philip; Wold, Avery; Yang, Sheng; Yang, Yi; Yao, Yuhan; Young, David R; Zheng, WeiKang

    arXiv.org, 11/2023
    Paper, Journal Article

    In recent years, certain luminous extragalactic optical transients have been observed to last only a few days. Their short observed duration implies a different powering mechanism from the most common luminous extragalactic transients (supernovae) whose timescale is weeks. Some short-duration transients, most notably AT2018cow, display blue optical colours and bright radio and X-ray emission. Several AT2018cow-like transients have shown hints of a long-lived embedded energy source, such as X-ray variability, prolonged ultraviolet emission, a tentative X-ray quasiperiodic oscillation, and large energies coupled to fast (but subrelativistic) radio-emitting ejecta. Here we report observations of minutes-duration optical flares in the aftermath of an AT2018cow-like transient, AT2022tsd (the "Tasmanian Devil"). The flares occur over a period of months, are highly energetic, and are likely nonthermal, implying that they arise from a near-relativistic outflow or jet. Our observations confirm that in some AT2018cow-like transients the embedded energy source is a compact object, either a magnetar or an accreting black hole.

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