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Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/28957
Title: The evolution of luminous red nova AT 2017jfs in NGC 4470
Authors: PASTORELLO, Andrea 
Chen, T. -W.
Cai, Y. -Z.
Morales-Garoffolo, A.
Cano, Z.
MASON, Elena 
Barsukova, E. A.
BENETTI, Stefano 
Berton, M.
Bose, S.
BUFANO, FILOMENA 
Callis, E.
Cannizzaro, G.
Cartier, R.
Chen, Ping
Dong, Subo
Dyrbye, S.
ELIAS DE LA ROSA, NANCY DEL CARMEN 
Flörs, A.
Fraser, M.
Geier, S.
Goranskij, V. P.
Kann, D. A.
Kuncarayakti, H.
ONORI, FRANCESCA 
Reguitti, A.
Reynolds, T.
Losada, I. R.
Sagués Carracedo, A.
Schweyer, T.
Smartt, S. J.
Tatarnikov, A. M.
Valeev, A. F.
Vogl, C.
Wevers, T.
de Ugarte Postigo, A.
Izzo, L.
Inserra, C.
Kankare, E.
Maguire, K.
Smith, K. W.
Stalder, B.
Tartaglia, L.
Thöne, C. C.
Valerin, G.
Young, D. R.
Issue Date: 2019
Journal: ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS 
Number: 625
First Page: L8
Abstract: We present the results of our photometric and spectroscopic follow-up of the intermediate-luminosity optical transient <ASTROBJ>AT 2017jfs</ASTROBJ>. At peak, the object reaches an absolute magnitude of M<SUB>g</SUB> = -15.46 ± 0.15 mag and a bolometric luminosity of 5.5 × 10<SUP>41</SUP> erg s<SUP>-1</SUP>. Its light curve has the double-peak shape typical of luminous red novae (LRNe), with a narrow first peak bright in the blue bands, while the second peak is longer-lasting and more luminous in the red and near-infrared (NIR) bands. During the first peak, the spectrum shows a blue continuum with narrow emission lines of H and Fe II. During the second peak, the spectrum becomes cooler, resembling that of a K-type star, and the emission lines are replaced by a forest of narrow lines in absorption. About 5 months later, while the optical light curves are characterized by a fast linear decline, the NIR ones show a moderate rebrightening, observed until the transient disappears in solar conjunction. At these late epochs, the spectrum becomes reminiscent of that of M-type stars, with prominent molecular absorption bands. The late-time properties suggest the formation of some dust in the expanding common envelope or an IR echo from foreground pre-existing dust. We propose that the object is a common-envelope transient, possibly the outcome of a merging event in a massive binary, similar to <ASTROBJ>NGC 4490-2011OT1</ASTROBJ>. <P />Table A.1 is only available at the CDS via anonymous ftp to <A href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr</A> (ftp://130.79.128.5) or via <A href="http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/625/L8">http://cdsarc.u-strasbg.fr/viz-bin/qcat?J/A+A/625/L8</A>
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12386/28957
URL: https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/abs/2019/05/aa35511-19/aa35511-19.html
ISSN: 0004-6361
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201935511
Bibcode ADS: 2019A&A...625L...8P
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