iPTF16fnl: A Faint and Fast Tidal Disruption Event in an E+A Galaxy
Abstract
The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We present ground-based and Swift observations of iPTF16fnl, a likely tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) survey at 66.6 Mpc. The light curve of the object peaked at an absolute mag M g = -17.2. The maximum bolometric luminosity (from optical and UV) was L p ≃ (1.0 ± 0.15) × 10 43 erg s -1 , an order of magnitude fainter than any other optical TDE discovered so far. The luminosity in the first 60 days is consistent with an exponential decay, with L ∝ e -(t-t0)/τ , where t 0 = 57631.0 (MJD) and τ ≃ 15 days. The X-ray shows a marginal detection at L X = 2.4 1.9 -1.1 × 10 39 erg s -1 (Swift X-ray Telescope). No radio counterpart was detected down to 3σ, providing upper limits for monochromatic radio luminosities of ν L ν < 1.7 × 10 36 erg s -1 and ν L ν < 2.3 × 10 37 erg s -1 (Very Large Array, 6.1 and 22 GHz). The blackbody temperature, obtained from combined Swift UV and optical photometry, shows a constant value of 19,000 K. Themore »
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- California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Cahill Center for Astrophysics
- Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Dept. of Astronomy; Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Joint Space-Science Inst.
- Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Dept. of Astronomy
- Univ. of Maryland, College Park, MD (United States). Joint Space-Science Inst.; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC), Greenbelt, MD (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States). Center for Space Research
- California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Cahill Center for Astrophysics; California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
- Univ. of California, Santa Barbara, CA (United States). Dept. of Physics; Las Cumbres Observatory, Goleta, CA (United States)
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA (United States). Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory; Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel). Dept. of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
- California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Jet Propulsion Lab.
- Jodrell Bank Centre for Astrophysics, Manchester (United Kingdom)
- Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States). Dept. of Astronomy
- Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia (IAA-CSIC), Granada (Spain); Univ. de Malaga (Spain). Unidad Asociada Departamento de Ingeniera de Sistemas y Automtica
- Univ. of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics, Astrophysics
- Stockholm Univ. (Sweden). Oskar Klein Center, Dept. of Astronomy
- Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel). Dept. of Particle Physics and Astrophysics
- Hebrew Univ. of Jerusalem (Israel). Racah Inst. of Physics
- Univ. of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics, Astrophysics; National Tsing Hua Univ., Hsinchu (Taiwan). Inst. of Astronomy and Dept. of Physics
- California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
- Weizmann Inst. of Science, Rehovot (Israel). Dept. of Particle Physics and Astrophysics; Univ. of Copenhagen (Denmark). The Niels Bohr Inst., Dark Cosmology Centre
- California Inst. of Technology (CalTech), Pasadena, CA (United States). Cahill Center for Astrophysics; Stockholm Univ. (Sweden). Oskar Klein Center, Dept. of Astronomy
- Univ. of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom). Dept. of Physics, Astrophysics
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Astronomy
- Yale Univ., New Haven, CT (United States). Dept. of Physics and Yale Center for Astronomy & Astrophysics
- Special Astrophysical Observatory, Nizhnij Arkhyz, Karachai-Cherkessian Republic (Russia)
- Los Alamos National Lab. (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) Program; USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1412867
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1418302
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-17-27712
Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357; TRN: US1800382
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC52-06NA25396; AC02-05CH11231
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- The Astrophysical Journal (Online)
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Name: The Astrophysical Journal (Online); Journal Volume: 844; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1538-4357
- Publisher:
- Institute of Physics (IOP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 79 ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS; Astronomy and Astrophysics; accretion, accretion disks; black hole physics; galaxies nuclei; stars individual (iPTF16fnl)
Citation Formats
Blagorodnova, N., Gezari, S., Hung, T., Kulkarni, S. R., Cenko, S. B., Pasham, D. R., Yan, L., Arcavi, I., Ben-Ami, S., Bue, B. D., Cantwell, T., Cao, Y., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Fender, R., Fremling, C., Gal-Yam, A., Ho, A. Y. Q., Horesh, A., Hosseinzadeh, G., Kasliwal, M. M., Kong, A. K. H., Laher, R. R., Leloudas, G., Lunnan, R., Masci, F. J., Mooley, K., Neill, J. D., Nugent, P., Powell, M., Valeev, A. F., Vreeswijk, P. M., Walters, R., and Wozniak, P. iPTF16fnl: A Faint and Fast Tidal Disruption Event in an E+A Galaxy. United States: N. p., 2017.
Web. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/aa7579.
Blagorodnova, N., Gezari, S., Hung, T., Kulkarni, S. R., Cenko, S. B., Pasham, D. R., Yan, L., Arcavi, I., Ben-Ami, S., Bue, B. D., Cantwell, T., Cao, Y., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Fender, R., Fremling, C., Gal-Yam, A., Ho, A. Y. Q., Horesh, A., Hosseinzadeh, G., Kasliwal, M. M., Kong, A. K. H., Laher, R. R., Leloudas, G., Lunnan, R., Masci, F. J., Mooley, K., Neill, J. D., Nugent, P., Powell, M., Valeev, A. F., Vreeswijk, P. M., Walters, R., & Wozniak, P. iPTF16fnl: A Faint and Fast Tidal Disruption Event in an E+A Galaxy. United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa7579
Blagorodnova, N., Gezari, S., Hung, T., Kulkarni, S. R., Cenko, S. B., Pasham, D. R., Yan, L., Arcavi, I., Ben-Ami, S., Bue, B. D., Cantwell, T., Cao, Y., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Fender, R., Fremling, C., Gal-Yam, A., Ho, A. Y. Q., Horesh, A., Hosseinzadeh, G., Kasliwal, M. M., Kong, A. K. H., Laher, R. R., Leloudas, G., Lunnan, R., Masci, F. J., Mooley, K., Neill, J. D., Nugent, P., Powell, M., Valeev, A. F., Vreeswijk, P. M., Walters, R., and Wozniak, P. Thu .
"iPTF16fnl: A Faint and Fast Tidal Disruption Event in an E+A Galaxy". United States. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa7579. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1412867.
@article{osti_1412867,
title = {iPTF16fnl: A Faint and Fast Tidal Disruption Event in an E+A Galaxy},
author = {Blagorodnova, N. and Gezari, S. and Hung, T. and Kulkarni, S. R. and Cenko, S. B. and Pasham, D. R. and Yan, L. and Arcavi, I. and Ben-Ami, S. and Bue, B. D. and Cantwell, T. and Cao, Y. and Castro-Tirado, A. J. and Fender, R. and Fremling, C. and Gal-Yam, A. and Ho, A. Y. Q. and Horesh, A. and Hosseinzadeh, G. and Kasliwal, M. M. and Kong, A. K. H. and Laher, R. R. and Leloudas, G. and Lunnan, R. and Masci, F. J. and Mooley, K. and Neill, J. D. and Nugent, P. and Powell, M. and Valeev, A. F. and Vreeswijk, P. M. and Walters, R. and Wozniak, P.},
abstractNote = {The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved. We present ground-based and Swift observations of iPTF16fnl, a likely tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) survey at 66.6 Mpc. The light curve of the object peaked at an absolute mag M g = -17.2. The maximum bolometric luminosity (from optical and UV) was L p ≃ (1.0 ± 0.15) × 10 43 erg s -1 , an order of magnitude fainter than any other optical TDE discovered so far. The luminosity in the first 60 days is consistent with an exponential decay, with L ∝ e -(t-t0)/τ , where t 0 = 57631.0 (MJD) and τ ≃ 15 days. The X-ray shows a marginal detection at L X = 2.4 1.9 -1.1 × 10 39 erg s -1 (Swift X-ray Telescope). No radio counterpart was detected down to 3σ, providing upper limits for monochromatic radio luminosities of ν L ν < 1.7 × 10 36 erg s -1 and ν L ν < 2.3 × 10 37 erg s -1 (Very Large Array, 6.1 and 22 GHz). The blackbody temperature, obtained from combined Swift UV and optical photometry, shows a constant value of 19,000 K. The transient spectrum at peak is characterized by broad He ii and Hα emission lines, with FWHMs of about 14,000 km s -1 and 10,000 km s -1 , respectively. He i lines are also detected at λλ 5875 and 6678. The spectrum of the host is dominated by strong Balmer absorption lines, which are consistent with a post-starburst (E+A) galaxy with an age of ~650 Myr and solar metallicity. The characteristics of iPTF16fnl make it an outlier on both luminosity and decay timescales, as compared to other optically selected TDEs. The discovery of such a faint optical event suggests a higher rate of tidal disruptions, as low-luminosity events may have gone unnoticed in previous searches.},
doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/aa7579},
journal = {The Astrophysical Journal (Online)},
number = 1,
volume = 844,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jul 20 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Thu Jul 20 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}
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