Constraints on Late-Time Flaring from Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and the Zwicky Transient Facility

arXiv:2606.17129 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-06-15 · Read on arXiv

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Submitted: 2026-06-15

Updated: 2026-06-15

Terminology

• Aperture — 20× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Zwicky Transient Facility — 7× in this paper
• Core — 4× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient — 4× in this paper
• Large Array Survey Telescope — 3× in this paper
• Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite — 3× in this paper
• Calibration — 1× in this paper · explained in 7 episodes

Sources

• The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys
• AT2018cow Powered by a Shock in Aspherical Circumstellar Media
• The Large Array Survey Telescope-Pipeline. II. Image Subtraction and Transient Detection
• A New Forced Photometry Service for the Zwicky Transient Facility
• The Most Luminous Known Fast Blue Optical Transient AT 2024wpp: Unprecedented Evolution and Properties in the X-rays and Radio
• A search for minute-time-scale flares from the transient AT\,2024wpp
• AT2024wpp: An Extremely Luminous Fast Ultraviolet Transient Powered by Accretion onto a Black Hole
• Multiwavelength Analysis of Six Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients

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