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The Most Luminous Known Fast Blue Optical Transient AT 2024wpp: Unprecedented Evolution and Properties in the Ultraviolet to the Near-infrared

  • Authors: Natalie LeBaron, Raffaella Margutti, Ryan Chornock, Nayana A. J., Olivia Aspegren, Wenbin Lu, Brian D. Metzger, Daniel Kasen, Thomas G. Brink, Sergio Campana, Paolo D'Avanzo, Jakob T. Faber, Matteo Ferro, Alexei V. Filippenko, Ryan J. Foley, Xinze Guo, Erica Hammerstein, Saurabh W. Jha, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Giulia Migliori, Dan Milisavljevic, Kishore C. Patra, Huei Sears, Jonathan J. Swift, Samaporn Tinyanont, Vikram Ravi, Yuhan Yao, Kate D. Alexander, Prasiddha Arunachalam, Edo Berger, Joe S. Bright, Chuck Cynamon, Kyle W. Davis, Braden Garretson, Puragra Guhathakurta, Wynn V. Jacobson-Galán, D. O. Jones, Ravjit Kaur, Stefan Kimura, Tanmoy Laskar, Morgan Nuñez, Michaela Schwab, Monika D. Soraisam, Nao Suzuki, Kirsty Taggart, Eli Wiston, Yi Yang, WeiKang Zheng

Natalie LeBaron et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 997 .

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Caption: Figure 11.

Evolution of the FWHM (top panel), velocity offset (middle panel; i.e., blueshift or redshift of line peak from the rest wavelength), and line EW (bottom panel) for the Hα (pink), He i λ5876 (gold), and He ii λ4686 (green) emission lines and associated blueshifted components of AT 2024wpp (outlined stars). AT 2024wpp exhibits unique spectral feature evolution compared to LFBOTs AT 2018cow (unoutlined stars) and CSS161010 (squares), as well as to TDEs AT 2020wey (upward-pointing triangles denote the spectral feature near the rest wavelength, and hexagons denote blueshifted components attributed to Hα by P. Charalampopoulos et al. 2023), AT 2018hyz (circles; P. Short et al. 2020), and AT 2022dbl (downward-pointing triangles; X. Guo et al. 2025, in preparation). Especially note the slight blueshift in time of the spectral features of AT 2024wpp.

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