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Holoien, TW-S, Prieto, JL, Bersier, D, Kochanek, CS, Stanek, KZ, Shappee, BJ, Grupe, D, Basu, U, Beacom, JF, Brimacombe, J, Brown, JS, Davis, AB, Jencson, J, Pojmanski, G and Szczygiel, DM (2014) ASASSN-14ae: a tidal disruption event at 200 Mpc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 445 (3). pp. 3263-3277. ISSN 0035-8711
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Abstract
ASASSN-14ae is a candidate tidal disruption event (TDE) found at the centre of SDSS J110840.11+340552.2 (d ≃ 200 Mpc) by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN). We present ground-based and Swift follow-up photometric and spectroscopic observations of the source, finding that the transient had a peak luminosity of L ≃ 8 × 1043 erg s−1 and a total integrated energy of E ≃ 1.7 × 1050 erg radiated over the ∼5 months of observations presented. The blackbody temperature of the transient remains roughly constant at T ∼ 20 000 K while the luminosity declines by nearly 1.5 orders of magnitude during this time, a drop that is most consistent with an exponential, L ∝ e-t/t 0 with t0 ≃ 39 d. The source has broad Balmer lines in emission at all epochs as well as a broad He ii feature emerging in later epochs. We compare the colour and spectral evolution to both supernovae and normal AGN to show that ASASSN-14ae does not resemble either type of object and conclude that a TDE is the most likely explanation for our observations. At z = 0.0436, ASASSN-14ae is the lowest-redshift TDE candidate discovered at optical/UV wavelengths to date, and we estimate that ASAS-SN may discover 0.1–3 of these events every year in the future.
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| Additional Information: | This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ©: 2014 The Authors Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the Royal Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | 0201 Astronomical And Space Sciences |
| Subjects: | Q Science > QB Astronomy Q Science > QC Physics |
| Divisions: | Astrophysics Research Institute |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
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| Date Deposited: | 28 Nov 2016 11:31 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Sep 2021 12:13 |
| DOI or ID number: | 10.1093/mnras/stu1922 |
| URI: | https://researchonline.ljmu.ac.uk/id/eprint/4879 |
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