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Mid-infrared Outbursts in Nearby Galaxies (MIRONG). I. Sample Selection and Characterization

  • Authors: Ning Jiang, Tinggui Wang, Liming Dou, Xinwen Shu, Xueyang Hu, Hui Liu, Yibo Wang, Lin Yan, Zhenfeng Sheng, Chenwei Yang, Luming Sun, and Hongyan Zhou

2021 The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 252 32.

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Caption: Figure 10.

The W2 peak luminosity function of our MIRONG sample. The data points are plotted with ﹩\mathrm{log}\,{L}_{{\rm{W}}2}﹩ ranging from 40.5 to 44.5 (bin 0.5). The faint end (﹩\mathrm{log}\,{L}_{{\rm{W}}2}﹩ ∈ [40.5, 41]) is totally contributed by extremely low-redshift SNe (red circle). The high end (﹩\mathrm{log}\,{L}_{{\rm{W}}2}﹩ > 42) is fitted by a single Schechter function (gray line). The shifted gray dashed line depicts the luminosity function of the primary emission that causes the MIR outburst assuming a dust covering factor of 0.3. We have also overlaid the observed X-ray (blue squares; data from Figure 6 of Auchettl et al. 2018) and optical (magenta triangles; data from Figure 1 of van Velzen 2018) luminosity functions of TDEs for comparison.

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