OGLE16aaa UVOT light curves Virtual Observatory Resource

Authors
  1. Wyrzykowski L.
  2. Zielinski M.
  3. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska Z.
  4. Hamanowicz A.,Jonker P.G.
  5. Arcavi I.
  6. Guillochon J.
  7. Brown P.J.
  8. Kozlowski S.,Udalski A.
  9. Szymanski M.K.
  10. Soszynski I.
  11. Poleski R.
  12. Pietrukowicz P.,Skowron J.
  13. Mroz P.
  14. Ulaczyk K.
  15. Pawlak M.
  16. Rybicki K.A.
  17. Greiner J.,Kruhler T.
  18. Bolmer J.
  19. Smartt S.J.
  20. Maguire K.
  21. Smith K.
  22. Published by
    CDS
Abstract

We present the discovery and first three months of follow-up observations of a currently on-going unusual transient detected by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-IV) survey, located in the centre of a galaxy at redshift z=0.1655. The long rise to absolute magnitude of -20.5mag, slow decline, very broad He and H spectral features make OGLE16aaa similar to other optical/UV tidal disruption events (TDEs). Weak narrow emission lines in the spectrum and archival photometric observations suggest the host galaxy is a weak-line active galactic nucleus, which has been accreting at higher rate in the past. OGLE16aaa, along with SDSS J0748, seems to form a sub-class of TDEs by weakly or recently active supermassive black holes (SMBHs). This class might bridge the TDEs by quiescent SMBHs and flares observed as "changing-look quasars", if we interpret the latter as TDEs. If this picture is true, the previously applied requirement for identifying a flare as a TDE that it had to come from an inactive nucleus, could be leading to observational bias in TDE selection, thus affecting TDE-rate estimations.

Keywords
  1. active-galactic-nuclei
  2. ultraviolet-photometry
  3. infrared-photometry
  4. visible-astronomy
  5. photometry
Bibliographic source Bibcode
2017MNRAS.465L.114W
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https://cdsarc.cds.unistra.fr/viz-bin/cat/J/MNRAS/465/L114
IVOA Identifier IVOID
ivo://CDS.VizieR/J/MNRAS/465/L114
Document Object Identifer DOI
doi:10.26093/cds/vizier.74659114

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History

2018-08-02T08:47:55Z
Resource record created
2018-08-02T08:47:55Z
Created
2024-08-17T20:17:30Z
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