AT 2018cow VLBI: No Long-Lived Relativistic Outflow
AT 2018cow VLBI: No Long-Lived Relativistic Outflow
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Ithaca: Cornell University Library, arXiv.org
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We report on VLBI observations of the fast and blue optical transient (FBOT), AT 2018cow. At ~62 Mpc, AT 2018cow is the first relatively nearby FBOT. The nature of AT 2018cow is not clear, although various hypotheses from a tidal disruption event to different kinds of supernovae have been suggested. It had a very fast rise time (3.5 d) and an almos...
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AT 2018cow VLBI: No Long-Lived Relativistic Outflow
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2316662035
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_2316662035
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2331-8422
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10.48550/arxiv.1911.08778
