{"paper":{"title":"iPTF16fnl: a faint and fast tidal disruption event in an E+A galaxy","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"A. F. Valeev, A. Gal-Yam, A. Horesh, A. J. Castro-Tirado, A. K. H. Kong, A. Y. Q. Ho, B. D. Bue, C. Fremling, D. R. Pasham, F. J. Masci, G. Hosseinzadeh, G. Leloudas, I. Arcavi, J. D. Neill, K. Mooley, L. Yan, M. M. Kasliwal, M. Powell, N. Blagorodnova, P. M. Vreeswijk, P. Nugent, P. Wozniak, R. Fender, R. Lunnan, R. R. Laher, R. Walters, S. B. Cenko, S. Ben-Ami, S. Gezari, S. R. Kulkarni, T. Cantwell, T. Hung, Y. Cao","submitted_at":"2017-03-02T22:09:38Z","abstract_excerpt":"We present ground-based and \\textit{Swift} observations of iPTF16fnl, a likely tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) survey at 66.6 Mpc. The lightcurve of the object peaked at absolute $M_g=-17.2$ mag. The maximum bolometric luminosity (from optical and UV) was $L_p~\\simeq~(1.0\\,\\pm\\,0.15) \\times 10^{43}$ erg/s, an order of magnitude fainter than any other optical TDE discovered so far. The luminosity in the first 60 days is consistent with an exponential decay, with $L \\propto e^{-(t-t_0)/\\tau}$, where $t_0$=~57631.0 (MJD) and $\\tau\\simeq"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1703.00965","kind":"arxiv","version":2},"verdict":{"id":null,"model_set":{},"created_at":null,"strongest_claim":"","one_line_summary":"","pipeline_version":null,"weakest_assumption":"","pith_extraction_headline":""},"references":{"count":0,"sample":[],"resolved_work":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57","internal_anchors":0},"formal_canon":{"evidence_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"author_claims":{"count":0,"strong_count":0,"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"builder_version":"pith-number-builder-2026-05-17-v1"}