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EP241021a as an Off-nuclear Month-duration Transient in a Dwarf Starburst Galaxy

  • Authors: Luming Sun, Xinwen Shu, Jiazheng Zhu, Ning Jiang, Bing Zhang, Jin-Hong Chen, Lixin Dai, Hucheng Ding, Chichuan Jin, Wenbin Lu, Rong-Feng Shen, Fan Xu, Lei Yang, Yunwei Yu, Weimin Yuan, Dongyue Li, Dong Xu, Tinggui Wang, Haonan Yang, Wenda Zhang

Luming Sun et al 2026 The Astrophysical Journal Letters 1011 .

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(a) The host-subtracted optical light curves of the transient EP241021a in the r and z bands, along with the X-ray light curves during and after the plateau phase. The data were taken from X. Shu et al. (2025) and M. Busmann et al. (2025). The rebrightening, the subsequent power-law decay, and the final sharp decline are labeled in both bands. (b) The broken power-law models that fit the r-band data after a phase of 7.5 days. We present 200 randomly selected MCMC realizations for clarity. (c) The posterior distributions for each model parameter.

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