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An extremely luminous panchromatic outburst from the nucleus of a distant galaxy
A. J. Levan
1, *
N. R. Tanvir
2
S. B. Cenko
3
D.A. Perley
3
K. Wiersema
2
J. S. Bloom
3
A. S. Fruchter
4
A. de Ugarte Postigo
5
P. T. O'Brien
2
N. Butler
3
A. J. van der Horst
G. Leloudas
5
A. N. Morgan
3
K. Misra
4
G. C. Bower
3
J. Farihi
2
R. L. Tunnicliffe
1
M. Modjaz
J. M. Silverman
3
J. Hjorth
5
C. Thöne
6
A. Cucchiara
3
J. M. Castro Cerón
A. J. Castro-Tirado
6
J.A. Arnold
7
M. Bremer
J. P. Brodie
7
T. Carroll
M. C. Cooper
P. A. Curran
8
R. M. Cutri
J. Ehle
D. Forbes
J. Fynbo
J. Gorosabel
6
J. Graham
9
D. I. Hoffman
10
S. Guziy
6
P. Jakobsson
11
A. Kamble
12
T. Kerr
13
M. M. Kasliwal
10
C. Kouveliotou
D. Kocesvki
7
N. M. Law
P. E. Nugent
E. O. Ofek
D. Poznanski
R. M. Quimby
10
E. Rol
A. J. Romanowsky
7
R. Sánchez-Ramírez
6
S. Schulze
N. Singh
14
L. van Spaandonk
R. L. C. Starling
2
R. G. Strom
J. C. Tello
O. Vaduvescu
P. J. Wheatley
1
R. A. M. J. Wijers
J.M. Winters
D. Xu
*
Corresponding author
1
Department of Physics [Coventry] (University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill Road, Coventry CV4 7AL - United Kingdom)
- University of Warwick [Coventry] (Coventry CV4 7AL - United Kingdom)
2
Department of Physics and Astronomy [Leicester] (University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH, - United Kingdom)
- University of Leicester (University Rd, Leicester LE1 7RH - United Kingdom)
3
Department of Astronomy [Berkeley] (601 Campbell Hall, Berkeley, CA 94720-3411 - United States)
- University of California [Berkeley] (Berkeley, CA - United States)
- University of California (United States)
4
STSci - Space Telescope Science Institute (3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, MD 21218, USA - United States)
5
DARK - Dark Cosmology Centre (Lyngbyvej 2, 4. sal
2100 Copenhagen Ø. - Denmark)
- NBI - Niels Bohr Institute [Copenhagen] (Blegdamsvej 17, DK-2100 Copenhagen - Denmark)
- Faculty of Science [Copenhagen] (Bülowsvej 17
1870 Frederiksberg C
Copenhagen
- Denmark)
- KU - University of Copenhagen = Københavns Universitet (Nørregade 10, 1165 København, Danemark - Denmark)
- Faculty of Science [Copenhagen] (Bülowsvej 17
1870 Frederiksberg C
Copenhagen
- Denmark)
6
IAA - Instituto de Astrofísica de Andalucía (Granada E-18008 - Spain)
- CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (Serrano 117, 28006 Madrid - Spain)
7
UCO/Lick Observatory (7281 Mt. Hamilton Rd, Mt. Hamilton, CA 95140 - United States)
- UCSC - University of California [Santa Cruz] (1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, Ca 95064 - United States)
- University of California (United States)
8
AIM (UMR_7158 / UMR_E_9005 / UM_112) - Astrophysique Interprétation Modélisation (AIM - UMR 7158 - UMR E 9005,
ex "Astrophysique Interactions Multi-échelles",
Service d'astrophysique,
CEA/Saclay,
Orme des Merisiers
F-91191 GIF SUR YVETTE CEDEX - France)
- CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR_7158 (France)
- INSU - CNRS - Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU-CNRS 3 rue Michel-Ange, 75794 Paris Cedex 16 - France)
- CEA - Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives : UMR_E_9005 (Centre de Saclay Centre de Grenoble Centre de Cadarache etc - France)
- UPD7 - Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 : UMR_7158 (5 rue Thomas-Mann - 75205 Paris cedex 13 - France)
10
Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics (1216 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, États-Unis - United States)
- CALTECH - California Institute of Technology (1200 East California Blvd, Pasadena, California 91125 - United States)
11
University of Iceland [Reykjavik] (Sæmundargata 2, 101 Reykjavík - Iceland)
12
University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee (P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee, WI 53201 - United States)
13
JAC - Joint Astronomy Center (Hilo, 96720 Hawaii, USA - United States)
14
UCO/Lick Observatory (1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA - United States)
- UCSC - University of California [Santa Cruz] (1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, Ca 95064 - United States)
- University of California (United States)
Abstract : Variable x-ray and γ-ray emission is characteristic of the most extreme physical processes in the universe. We present multiwavelength observations of a unique γ-ray-selected transient detected by the Swift satellite, accompanied by bright emission across the electromagnetic spectrum, and whose properties are unlike any previously observed source. We pinpoint the event to the center of a small, star-forming galaxy at redshift z = 0.3534. Its high-energy emission has lasted much longer than any γ-ray burst, whereas its peak luminosity was ∼100 times higher than bright active galactic nuclei. The association of the outburst with the center of its host galaxy suggests that this phenomenon has its origin in a rare mechanism involving the massive black hole in the nucleus of that galaxy
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- HAL Id : cea-00864242, version 1
- DOI : 10.1126/science.1207143
- ARXIV : 1104.3356
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A. J. Levan, N. R. Tanvir, S. B. Cenko, D.A. Perley, K. Wiersema, et al.. An extremely luminous panchromatic outburst from the nucleus of a distant galaxy. Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011, 333 (6039), pp.199-202. ⟨10.1126/science.1207143⟩. ⟨cea-00864242⟩
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