2025ApJ...993L...6N


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2025ApJ...993L...6N - Astrophys. J., 993, L6 (2025/November-1)

The Most Luminous Known Fast Blue Optical Transient AT 2024wpp: Unprecedented Evolution and Properties in the X-Rays and Radio.

NAYANA A.J., MARGUTTI R., WISTON E., LASKAR T., MIGLIORI G., CHORNOCK R., GALVIN T.J., LEBARON N., HAJELA A., CHRISTY C.T., SFARADI I., TSUNA D., ASPEGREN O., DE COLLE F., METZGER B.D., LU W., BENIAMINI P., KASEN D., BERGER E., GREFENSTETTE B.W., ALEXANDER K.D., ANUPAMA G.C., COPPEJANS D.L., CRUZ L.F., DEBOER D.R., DROUT M.R., FARAH W., HUANG X., JACOBSON-GALAN W.V., MILISAVLJEVIC D., POLLAK A.W., ROTH N.J., SEARS H., SIEMION A., SHEIKH S.Z., STEINER J.F. and VURM I.

Abstract (from CDS):

We present X-ray (0.3-79 keV) and radio (0.25-203 GHz) observations of the most luminous fast blue optical transient (LFBOT) AT 2024wpp at z = 0.0868, spanning 2-280 days after first light. AT 2024wpp shows luminous (LX ≈ 1.5 × 1043 erg s–1), variable X-ray emission with a Compton hump peaking at δt ≈ 50 days. The X-ray spectrum evolves from a soft (Fν ∝ ν–0.6) to an extremely hard state (Fν ∝ ν1.26) accompanied by a rebrightening at δt ≈ 50 days. The X-ray emission properties favor an embedded high-energy source shining through asymmetric expanding ejecta. We detect radio emission peaking at L_9 GHz_ ≈ 1.7 × 1029 erg s–1 Hz–1 at δt ≈ 73 days. The spectral evolution is unprecedented: the early millimeter fluxes rise nearly an order of magnitude during δt ≈ 17-32 days, followed by a decline in spectral peak fluxes. We model the radio emission as synchrotron radiation from an expanding blast wave interacting with a dense environment ($\dot{M}\sim 1{0}^{-3}\,{M}_{\odot }\,{\mathrm{yr}}^{-1}$ for vw = 1000 km s–1). The inferred outflow velocities increase from Γβc ≈ 0.07c to 0.42c during δt ≈ 32-73 days, indicating an accelerating blast wave. We interpret these observations as a shock propagating through a dense shell of radius ≈1016 cm and then accelerating into a steep density profile ρCSM(r) ∝ r–3.1. All radio-bright LFBOTs exhibit similar circumstellar medium (CSM) density profiles (ρCSM ∝ r–3), suggesting similar progenitor processes. The X-ray and radio properties favor a progenitor involving super-Eddington accretion onto a compact object launching mildly relativistic disk wind outflows.

Abstract Copyright: © 2025. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.

Journal keyword(s): Transient sources - Time domain astronomy - High energy astrophysics

Simbad objects: 13

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Number of rows : 13
N Identifier Otype ICRS (J2000)
RA
ICRS (J2000)
DEC
Mag U Mag B Mag V Mag R Mag I Sp type #ref
1850 - 2026
#notes
1 AT 2018lug ev 02 00 15.19 +16 47 57.3           ~ 54 0
2 QSO B0237-2322 QSO 02 40 08.1743783856 -23 09 15.729012036   16.78 16.63     ~ 516 1
3 SN 2024wpp SN* 02 42 05.4989272 -16 57 22.896653           ~ 6 0
4 AT 2022tsd ev 03 20 10.863 +08 44 55.63           ~ 18 0
5 CRTS CSS161010 J045834-081803 ev 04 58 34.0 -08 18 03           ~ 35 0
6 AT 2023fhn ev 10 08 03.815 +21 04 26.95           ~ 15 0
7 NAME Dougie V* 12 08 47.9 +43 01 21           ~ 25 0
8 SN 2020mrf SN* 15 47 54.163 +44 39 07.41           SNII 37 0
9 SN 2018cow SN* 16 16 00.254 +22 16 05.10           SNIb 305 0
10 GRB 221009A gB 19 13 03.85 +19 46 22.7           ~ 433 0
11 QSO B1921-293 BLL 19 24 51.05595254 -29 14 30.1210248   18.71 18.21 15.07   ~ 918 1
12 ICRF J193925.0-634245 Sy2 19 39 25.0245304992 -63 42 45.640373400   18.87 18.37 17.64   ~ 1332 2
13 AT 2020xnd ev 22 20 02.030 -02 50 25.30           ~ 66 0

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