SDSS J124602.54 + 011318.8: A highly luminous optical transient at z = 0.385

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 576, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 673-678

  Vanden Berk, Daniel E ^a   Lee, Brian C ^a   Wilhite, Brian C ^a,b   Beacom, John F ^a   Lamb, Donald Q ^b   James, Annis ^a   Abazajian, Kevork ^a   McKay, Timothy A ^c   Kron, Richard G ^a,b   Kent, Stephen ^a,b   Hurley, Kevin ^d   Kehoe, Robert ^c,e   Wren, Jim ^f   Eenden, Arne A ^g,h   York, Donald G ^b,i   Schneider, Donald P ^j   Adelman, Jennifer ^a   Brinkmann, Jon ^k   Brunner, Robert J ^l   Csabai, Istvan ^m,n   Harvanek, Michael ^k   Hennessy, Greg S ^h   Ivezíc, Željko ^o   Kleinman, Atsuko N ^k   Kleinman, Scot J ^k   Krzesinski, Jurek ^k,p   Long, Daniel C ^k   Neilsen, Eric H ^m   Newman, Peter R ^k   Snedden, Stephanie A ^k   Stoughton, Chris ^a   Tucker, Douglas L ^a   Yanny, Brian ^a   more..

^a FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^h US NAVAL OBSERVATORY   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^j PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k APACHE POINT OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^l CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^m JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

^o PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^p PEDAGOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

more..

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Gamma rays: bursts; Stars: variables: other

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042471508     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/341887     Document Type: Article

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