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| author | Omand, Conor M. B. Sarin, Nikhil Lamb, Gavin P. Perley, Daniel A. Mummery, Andrew Hamidani, Hamid Schulze, Steve Beasor, Emma R. Bochenek, Aleksandra Grabham, Helena-Margaret S. Kennelly, Sorcha R. Khang, Nguyen M. Kobayashi, Shiho Schroeder, Genevieve Stone, William N. Turnbull, Cairns Wise, Jacob |
| author_facet | Omand, Conor M. B. Sarin, Nikhil Lamb, Gavin P. Perley, Daniel A. Mummery, Andrew Hamidani, Hamid Schulze, Steve Beasor, Emma R. Bochenek, Aleksandra Grabham, Helena-Margaret S. Kennelly, Sorcha R. Khang, Nguyen M. Kobayashi, Shiho Schroeder, Genevieve Stone, William N. Turnbull, Cairns Wise, Jacob |
| contents | Luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) are a growing class of enigmatic energetic transients. They show fast rises and declines, high temperatures throughout their evolution, and non-thermal emission in radio and X-rays. Their power source is currently unknown, but proposed models include engine-driven supernovae, interaction-powered supernovae, shock cooling emission, intermediate mass black hole tidal disruption events (IMBH TDEs), and Wolf-Rayet/black hole mergers, among others. AT2024wpp is the most optically luminous LFBOT to date and has been observed extensively at multiple wavelengths, including radio, optical, UV, and X-rays. We take models from multiple scenarios and fit them to the AT2024wpp optical, radio, and X-ray light curves to determine if which of these scenarios can best describe all aspects of the data. We show that none of the multiwavelength light curve models can reasonably explain the data, although other physical arguments favour a stellar mass/IMBH TDE of a low mass star and a synchrotron blast wave. We discuss how this scenario can be tested with late-time observations, and what other scenarios could possibly explain the broadband data. |
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| spellingShingle | Multiwavelength Modeling of the Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient AT2024wpp Omand, Conor M. B. Sarin, Nikhil Lamb, Gavin P. Perley, Daniel A. Mummery, Andrew Hamidani, Hamid Schulze, Steve Beasor, Emma R. Bochenek, Aleksandra Grabham, Helena-Margaret S. Kennelly, Sorcha R. Khang, Nguyen M. Kobayashi, Shiho Schroeder, Genevieve Stone, William N. Turnbull, Cairns Wise, Jacob High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) are a growing class of enigmatic energetic transients. They show fast rises and declines, high temperatures throughout their evolution, and non-thermal emission in radio and X-rays. Their power source is currently unknown, but proposed models include engine-driven supernovae, interaction-powered supernovae, shock cooling emission, intermediate mass black hole tidal disruption events (IMBH TDEs), and Wolf-Rayet/black hole mergers, among others. AT2024wpp is the most optically luminous LFBOT to date and has been observed extensively at multiple wavelengths, including radio, optical, UV, and X-rays. We take models from multiple scenarios and fit them to the AT2024wpp optical, radio, and X-ray light curves to determine if which of these scenarios can best describe all aspects of the data. We show that none of the multiwavelength light curve models can reasonably explain the data, although other physical arguments favour a stellar mass/IMBH TDE of a low mass star and a synchrotron blast wave. We discuss how this scenario can be tested with late-time observations, and what other scenarios could possibly explain the broadband data. |
| title | Multiwavelength Modeling of the Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient AT2024wpp |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.03372 |