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Minutes-duration optical flares with supernova luminosities

Minutes-duration optical flares with supernova luminosities

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Minutes-duration optical flares with supernova luminosities

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Minutes-duration optical flares with supernova luminosities

Publisher

London: Nature Publishing Group UK

Journal title

Nature (London), 2023-11, Vol.623 (7989), p.927-931

Language

English

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London: Nature Publishing Group UK

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Contents

In recent years, certain luminous extragalactic optical transients have been observed to last only a few days
1
. Their short observed duration implies a different powering mechanism from the most common luminous extragalactic transients (supernovae), whose timescale is weeks
2
. Some short-duration transients, most notably AT2018cow (r...

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Minutes-duration optical flares with supernova luminosities

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Record Identifier

TN_cdi_swepub_primary_oai_DiVA_org_su_225387

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_swepub_primary_oai_DiVA_org_su_225387

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ISSN

0028-0836,1476-4687

E-ISSN

1476-4687

DOI

10.1038/s41586-023-06673-6

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