AT2025ulz and S250818k: zooming in with the Hubble Space Telescope
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| author | Yang, Yu-Han Troja, Eleonora Ristić, Marko Yadav, Muskan Kabir, Massine El Sánchez-Ramírez, Rubén Becerra, Rosa L. Fryer, Chris L. O'Connor, Brendan Dichiara, Simone Castro-Tirado, Alberto J. Angulo-Valdez, Camila González, Josefa Becerra Font, José A. Fox, Ori Hu, Lei Hu, Youdong Lee, William H. Pereyra, Margarita Sintes, Alicia M. Watson, Alan M. Mendoza, K. Océlotl C. López |
| author_facet | Yang, Yu-Han Troja, Eleonora Ristić, Marko Yadav, Muskan Kabir, Massine El Sánchez-Ramírez, Rubén Becerra, Rosa L. Fryer, Chris L. O'Connor, Brendan Dichiara, Simone Castro-Tirado, Alberto J. Angulo-Valdez, Camila González, Josefa Becerra Font, José A. Fox, Ori Hu, Lei Hu, Youdong Lee, William H. Pereyra, Margarita Sintes, Alicia M. Watson, Alan M. Mendoza, K. Océlotl C. López |
| contents | AT2025ulz is an optical/near-infrared transient discovered during follow-up of the candidate gravitational wave (GW) event S250818k. Its young age ($\lesssim$1 d), rapid decline and strong color evolution over the first 48 hr classify it as a potential kilonova candidate. In this work, we present the results of our observing campaign, carried out with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Although the early time evolution of AT2025ulz resembles some aspects of a kilonova, its rapid onset ($\sim$3 hr after the GW trigger) and luminosity (a factor of $\sim5$ brighter than AT2017gfo in $g$-band) are difficult to reproduce. Only a small subset of our kilonova models matches its multi-color light curve, and the inferred ejecta mass is uncomfortably large given the low chirp mass ($\lesssim\!0.87\!$ M$_{\odot}$) of the GW candidate. HST observations place the transient within a nearby ($z=0.08489$) spiral galaxy with on-going star-formation and measure a color ($F336W-F160W\!\approx\!1.4$ mag) that is too blue to match with a kilonova. Our data support the classification of AT2025ulz as a supernova, initially undergoing a shock-cooling phase and later entering its photospheric phase, and spectroscopically identified via its broad absorption features. |
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| spellingShingle | AT2025ulz and S250818k: zooming in with the Hubble Space Telescope Yang, Yu-Han Troja, Eleonora Ristić, Marko Yadav, Muskan Kabir, Massine El Sánchez-Ramírez, Rubén Becerra, Rosa L. Fryer, Chris L. O'Connor, Brendan Dichiara, Simone Castro-Tirado, Alberto J. Angulo-Valdez, Camila González, Josefa Becerra Font, José A. Fox, Ori Hu, Lei Hu, Youdong Lee, William H. Pereyra, Margarita Sintes, Alicia M. Watson, Alan M. Mendoza, K. Océlotl C. López High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology AT2025ulz is an optical/near-infrared transient discovered during follow-up of the candidate gravitational wave (GW) event S250818k. Its young age ($\lesssim$1 d), rapid decline and strong color evolution over the first 48 hr classify it as a potential kilonova candidate. In this work, we present the results of our observing campaign, carried out with the Gran Telescopio Canarias (GTC) and the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Although the early time evolution of AT2025ulz resembles some aspects of a kilonova, its rapid onset ($\sim$3 hr after the GW trigger) and luminosity (a factor of $\sim5$ brighter than AT2017gfo in $g$-band) are difficult to reproduce. Only a small subset of our kilonova models matches its multi-color light curve, and the inferred ejecta mass is uncomfortably large given the low chirp mass ($\lesssim\!0.87\!$ M$_{\odot}$) of the GW candidate. HST observations place the transient within a nearby ($z=0.08489$) spiral galaxy with on-going star-formation and measure a color ($F336W-F160W\!\approx\!1.4$ mag) that is too blue to match with a kilonova. Our data support the classification of AT2025ulz as a supernova, initially undergoing a shock-cooling phase and later entering its photospheric phase, and spectroscopically identified via its broad absorption features. |
| title | AT2025ulz and S250818k: zooming in with the Hubble Space Telescope |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena High Energy Physics - Phenomenology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.18854 |