OGLE16aaa UVOT light curves

DOI

We present the discovery and first three months of follow-up observations of a currently on-going unusual transient detected by the Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment (OGLE-IV) survey, located in the centre of a galaxy at redshift z=0.1655. The long rise to absolute magnitude of -20.5mag, slow decline, very broad He and H spectral features make OGLE16aaa similar to other optical/UV tidal disruption events (TDEs). Weak narrow emission lines in the spectrum and archival photometric observations suggest the host galaxy is a weak-line active galactic nucleus, which has been accreting at higher rate in the past. OGLE16aaa, along with SDSS J0748, seems to form a sub-class of TDEs by weakly or recently active supermassive black holes (SMBHs). This class might bridge the TDEs by quiescent SMBHs and flares observed as "changing-look quasars", if we interpret the latter as TDEs. If this picture is true, the previously applied requirement for identifying a flare as a TDE that it had to come from an inactive nucleus, could be leading to observational bias in TDE selection, thus affecting TDE-rate estimations.

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DOI http://doi.org/10.26093/cds/vizier.74659114
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Provenance
Creator Wyrzykowski L.; Zielinski M.; Kostrzewa-Rutkowska Z.; Hamanowicz A.,Jonker P.G.; Arcavi I.; Guillochon J.; Brown P.J.; Kozlowski S.,Udalski A.; Szymanski M.K.; Soszynski I.; Poleski R.; Pietrukowicz P.,Skowron J.; Mroz P.; Ulaczyk K.; Pawlak M.; Rybicki K.A.; Greiner J.,Kruhler T.; Bolmer J.; Smartt S.J.; Maguire K.; Smith K.
Publisher CDS
Publication Year 2018
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Resource Type Dataset; AstroObjects
Discipline Astrophysics and Astronomy; Galactic and extragalactic Astronomy; High Energy Astrophysics; Natural Sciences; Observational Astronomy; Physics