A Search for Extragalactic Fast Blue Optical Transients in ZTF and the Rate of AT2018cow-like Transients

Year-Month2023-06
JournalThe Astrophysical Journal
AuthorHo, Anna Y. Q. ; Perley, Daniel A. ; Gal-Yam, Avishay ; Lunnan, Ragnhild ; Sollerman, Jesper ; Schulze, Steve ; Das, Kaustav K. ; Dobie, Dougal ; Yao, Yuhan ; Fremling, Christoffer ; Adams, Scott ; Anand, Shreya ; Andreoni, Igor ; Bellm, Eric C. ; Bruch, Rachel J. ; Burdge, Kevin B. ; Castro-Tirado, Alberto J. ; Dahiwale, Aishwarya ; De, Kishalay ; Dekany, Richard ; Drake, Andrew J. ; Duev, Dmitry A. ; Graham, Matthew J. ; Helou, George ; Kaplan, David L. ; Karambelkar, Viraj ; Kasliwal, Mansi M. ; Kool, Erik C. ; Kulkarni, S. R. ; Mahabal, Ashish A. ; Medford, Michael S. ; Miller, A. A. ; Nordin, Jakob ; Ofek, Eran ; Petitpas, Glen ; Riddle, Reed ; Sharma, Yashvi ; Smith, Roger ; Stewart, Adam J. ; Taggart, Kirsty ; Tartaglia, Leonardo ; Tzanidakis, Anastasios ; Winters, Jan Martin
Bibcode2023ApJ...949..120H
TelescopeGN
InstrumentGMOS-N
ParticipantUS/LTP
First author participant affiliationUSA
Any author participant affiliationsUSA/UK/Australia
Program IDGN-2019B-Q-130, GN-2020A-Q-901, GN-2020B-Q-125

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