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Outflow–Cloud Interaction as the Possible Origin of the Peculiar Radio Emission in the Tidal Disruption Event AT2018cqh

  • Authors: Lei Yang, Xinwen Shu, Guobin Mou, Yongquan Xue, Luming Sun, Fabao Zhang, Zhumao Zhang, Yibo Wang, Tao Wu, Ning Jiang, Hucheng Ding, Tinggui Wang

Lei Yang et al 2025 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 993 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

The radio light curves of AT2018cqh, including the data from the ASKAP observations at 0.89 GHz, 1.36 GHz, and 1.66 GHz, the e-MERLIN observations at 1.51 GHz, the VLASS observations at 3 GHz, the VLBA observations at 1.56 GHz, and the VLA observations at 3.0 GHz (Section 3.2). The radio emission appears later relative to the time of optical discovery (MJD = 58285) and shows a continuous rising in flux that can vary on timescales down to ∼2 months. For the nondetections, the corresponding 3σ upper limits on flux density are shown. The vertical dashed lines represent the three epochs for which the radio SED can be constrained (Figure 3), corresponding to 1246, 1730, and 2243 days after the optical discovery, respectively.

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