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AT 2016blu: Accretion-powered Outbursts in a Luminous Blue Variable and Compact Object Binary

  • Authors: Mojgan Aghakhanloo, Núria Torres-Albà, Nathan Smith, Raphael Baer-Way, Shazrene Mohamed, Alexei V. Filippenko, WeiKang Zheng, Thomas G. Brink, D. Andrew Howell, Brian Hsu, Moira Andrews, Joseph R. Farah, Curtis McCully, Kathryn Wynn, Réka Könyves-Tóth, Conor L. Ransome, Enrique Rathmann, Tamás Tordai, Sjoerd Dufoer, Charles Cynamon, Franz-Josef Hambsch, Thomas Rutherford, Simone Leonini, Franky Dubois, Ivo Peretto, Donald F. Collins, Lorenzo Betti, Lara Fossi, Irene Parenti, Vincenzo Pettina, Giulio Giordano Chiti, Maria Hofheinz, André Steenkamp, Sauro Gaudenzi, Nikola Antonov, Giuseppe Pappa

Mojgan Aghakhanloo et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal 1011 .

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Caption: Figure 11.

AT 2016blu’s X-ray luminosity is shown in comparison with examples of other LBVs, SN impostors, and the SN explosion of SN 2009ip. AT 2016blu exhibits X-ray luminosities significantly higher than those of LBVs with colliding winds, and it is the first LBV showing X-ray luminosity consistent with accretion onto a compact object.

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