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The Environments of Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients: Evidence for a Compact Object and Wolf–Rayet Star Merger Origin

  • Authors: Anya E. Nugent, V. Ashley Villar, Brian D. Metzger, Christopher L. Fryer, Eric Burns, Alexa C. Gordon, Danielle Frostig, Yuxin Dong

Anya E. Nugent et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1006 .

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Caption: Figure 4.

CDFs of the gas-phase oxygen abundances (12+﹩\mathrm{log}({\rm{O}}/{\rm{H}})﹩) for LFBOT hosts (blue), LGRBs (yellow), SNe II (purple dashed line), SNe Ibc (orange dotted line), SNe Ibn (green), SLSNe-I (pink), and a field galaxy population from SDSS (black). LFBOT hosts are clearly more metal-rich than SLSNe-I and LGRB hosts and more metal-poor than SNe Ibc and II hosts. In addition, LFBOTs trace lower metallicities than the field galaxy population.

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