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2024MNRAS.528.6176R - Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc., 528, 6176-6192 (2024/March-2)

AT2020ohl: its nature and probable implications.

ROY R., MANDAL S., SAHU D.K., ANUPAMA G.C., NANDI S. and KUMAR B.

Abstract (from CDS):

ASASSN-20hx, a.k.a AT2020ohl, is an ambiguous nuclear transient, which was discovered in the nearby galaxy NGC6297 by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae. We have investigated the evolution of AT2020ohl using a multiwavelength data set to explain the geometry of the system and the energy radiated by it between X-ray and radio wavelengths. Our X-ray, UV/optical, and radio observations of the object jointly clarify the association of AT2020ohl with the nuclear activity of NGC6297. We detected radio counterpart of AT2020ohl 111 and 313 d after the discovery in Jansky Very Large Array X-band with flux densities 47 ± 14 and 34 ± 3 $\mu$Jy, respectively. Using multiwavelength data analysis, we nullify the possibility of associating any stellar disruption process with this event. We found some evidence showing that the host galaxy is a merger remnant, so the possibility of a binary supermassive black hole (SMBH) system cannot be ruled out. The central SMBH has a mass of ∼1.2 × 107 M⊙. We propose the accretion disc activity as the origin of AT2020ohl - it is either due to disc accretion event on to the central SMBH or due to the sudden accretion activity in a pre-existing accretion disc of the system during the interaction of two SMBHs which became gravitationally bound during a merger process. However, we also admit that with the existing data set, it is impossible to say definitively, among these two probabilities, which one is the origin of this nuclear transient.

Abstract Copyright: © 2024 The Author(s). Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Galaxy: disc - Galaxy: general - Galaxy: nucleus - galaxies: active - galaxies: jets - transients: tidal disruption events

Simbad objects: 15

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