Swift phot. recomputed for 38 transients Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Hinkle J.T.
  2. Holoien T.W.-S.
  3. Shappee B.J.
  4. Auchettl K.
  5. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

In November 2020, the Swift team announced an update to the UltraViolet and Optical Telescope calibration to correct for the loss of sensitivity over time. This correction affects observations in the three near-ultraviolet (UV) filters, by up to 0.3mag in some cases. As UV photometry is critical to characterizing tidal disruption events (TDEs) and other peculiar nuclear outbursts, we recomputed published Swift data for TDEs and other singular nuclear outbursts with Swift photometry in 2015 or later as a service to the community. Using archival UV, optical, and infrared photometry, we ran host SED fits for each host galaxy. From these, we computed synthetic host magnitudes and host-galaxy properties. We calculated host-subtracted magnitudes for each transient and computed blackbody fits. In addition to the nuclear outbursts, we include the ambiguous transient ATLAS18qqn (AT2018cow), which has been classified as a potential TDE on an intermediate-mass black hole. Finally, with updated bolometric light curves, we recover the relationship of Hinkle+ (2020ApJ...894L..10H), where more-luminous TDEs decay more slowly than less-luminous TDEs, with decreased scatter compared to the original relationship.

Keywords
  1. ultraviolet-photometry
  2. active-galactic-nuclei
  3. visible-astronomy
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2021ApJ...910...83H
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doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.19100083

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History

2022-09-19T13:23:55Z
Resource record created
2022-09-19T13:23:55Z
Created
2022-11-25T13:32:32Z
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