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AT2025ulz and S250818k: Leveraging DESI Spectroscopy in the Hunt for a Kilonova Associated with a Subsolar-mass Gravitational-wave Candidate

  • Authors: Xander J. Hall, Antonella Palmese, Brendan O'Connor, Daniel Gruen, Malte Busmann, Julius Gassert, Lei Hu, Ignacio Magaña Hernandez, Jessica Nicole Aguilar, Ariel Amsellem, Steven Ahlen, John Banovetz, Segev BenZvi, Davide Bianchi, David Brooks, Francisco Javier Castander, Todd Claybaugh, Andrei Cuceu, Arjun Dey, Peter Doel, Jennifer Fabà-Moreno, Simone Ferraro, Andreu Font-Ribera, Jaime E. Forero-Romero, Gaston Gutierrez, Laurent Le Guillou, Dick Joyce, Theodore Kisner, Anthony Kremin, Ofer Lahav, Claire Lamman, Martin Landriau, Michael Levi, Axel de la Macorra, Marc Manera, Aaron Meisner, Ramon Miquel, John Moustakas, Seshadri Nadathur, Francisco Prada, Ignasi Pérez-Ràfols, Graziano Rossi, Eusebio Sanchez, David Schlegel, Michael Schubnell, David Sprayberry, Gregory Tarlé, Benjamin Alan Weaver, Rongpu Zhou, Hu Zou

Xander J. Hall et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1001 .

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Caption: Figure 2.

A BPT (J. A. Baldwin et al. 1981) analysis of the host of AT2025ulz (violet) based on its DESI spectrum and including for comparison the host galaxies of known gamma-ray bursts with an associated candidate KN (GRB160821B and GRB211211A) observed by DESI. The galaxy is a standard star-forming galaxy, similar to the hosts of known GRB-KN. Notably, the host of AT2017gfo (associated with GW170817) has weak AGN lines that are not present in any of the other galaxies (A. Palmese et al. 2017). The background contours are made from the FastSpecFit value-added catalog for DESI DR2 data (FastSpecFit version 3.2.0; J. Moustakas et al. 2023; DESI Collaboration et al. 2025b; J. Moustakas et al. 2026, in preparation). Separation lines are drawn from L. J. Kewley et al. (2001), G. Kauffmann et al. (2003), and L. J. Kewley et al. (2006).

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