Discovery of an Intermediate-luminosity Red Transient in M51 and Its Likely Dust-obscured, Infrared-variable Progenitor

Year-Month2019-08
JournalThe Astrophysical Journal Letters
AuthorJencson, Jacob E., Adams, Scott M., Bond, Howard E., van Dyk, Schuyler D., Kasliwal, Mansi M., Bally, John, Blagorodnova, Nadejda, De, Kishalay, Fremling, Christoffer, Yao, Yuhan, Fruchter, Andrew, Rubin, David, Barbarino, Cristina, Sollerman, Jesper, Miller, Adam A., Hicks, Erin K. S., Malkan, Matthew A., Andreoni, Igor, Bellm, Eric C., Buchheim, Robert, Dekany, Richard, Feeney, Michael, Frederick, Sara, Gal-Yam, Avishay, Gehrz, Robert D., Giomi, Matteo, Graham, Matthew J., Green, Wayne, Hale, David, Hankins, Matthew J., Hanson, Mark, Helou, George, Ho, Anna Y. Q., Hung, T., Jurić, Mario, Kendurkar, Malhar R., Kulkarni, S. R., Lau, Ryan M., Masci, Frank J., Neill, James D., Quin, Kevin, Riddle, Reed L., Rusholme, Ben, Sims, Forrest, Smith, Nathan, Smith, Roger M., Soumagnac, Maayane T., Tachibana, Yutaro, Tinyanont, Samaporn, Walters, Richard, Watson, Stanley, Williams, Robert E.
Bibcode2019ApJ...880L..20J
TelescopeGN
InstrumentGMOS-N
ParticipantUS
First author participant affiliationUSA
Any author participant affiliationsUSA/Canada
Program IDGN-2018B-Q-132

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