An Extremely Luminous Panchromatic Outburst from the Nucleus of a Distant Galaxy

J. Levan, A.; R. Tanvir, N.; B. Cenko, S.; A. Perley, D.; Wiersema, K.; S. Bloom, J.; S. Fruchter, A.; de Ugarte Postigo, A.; T. O’Brien, P.; Butler, N.; J. van der Horst, A.; Leloudas, G.; N. Morgan, A.; Misra, Kuntal; C. Bower, Geoffrey; Farihi, Jay; Tunnicliffe, Rachel; Modjaz, M.; M. Silverman, J.; Hjorth, J.; C. Thöne, C.; Cucchiara, A.; M. Castro Cerón, J.; J. Castro‐Tirado, A.; A. Arnold, Jacob; Bremer, M.; P. Brodie, Jean; J. Carroll, Timothy; C. Cooper, Michael; A. Curran, P.; M. Cutri, R.; Ehle, J.; A. Forbes, Duncan; P. U. Fynbo, J.; Gorosabel, J.; F. Graham, J.; I. Hoffman, D.; Guziy, S.; Jakobsson, P.; Kamble, A.; Kerr, Tom; M. Kasliwal, M.; Kouveliotou, C.; D. Kocevski, Dale; M. Law, Nicholas; Nugent, P.; O. Ofek, E.; Poznanski, D.; Quimby, R.; Rol, E.; J. Romanowsky, Aaron; Sánchez-Ramírez, R.; Schulze, S.; Singh, N.; van Spaandonk, L.; L. C. Starling, R.; G. Strom, R.; C. Tello, J.; Văduvescu, O.; J. Wheatley, P.; A. M. J. Wijers, R.; M. Winters, J.; Xu, D.

doi:10.1126/science.1207143

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An Extremely Luminous Panchromatic Outburst from the Nucleus of a Distant Galaxy

Published in Science • Jun 17, 2011

Authors:

A. J. Levan

N. R. Tanvir

S. B. Cenko

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 prop...

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Physics

Astrophysics

Galaxy

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