• DOI:10.1088/0004-637X/697/2/L129
Corpus ID: 14807033

SCP 06F6: A CARBON-RICH EXTRAGALACTIC TRANSIENT AT REDSHIFT z ≃ 0.14?

@article{Gaensicke2008SCP0A,
  title={SCP 06F6: A CARBON-RICH EXTRAGALACTIC TRANSIENT AT REDSHIFT z ≃ 0.14?},
  author={B. Gaensicke and A. Levan and T. Marsh and P. Wheatley},
  journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
  year={2008},
  volume={697}
}

• B. Gaensicke, A. Levan, +1 author P. Wheatley
• Published 2008
• Physics
• The Astrophysical Journal

We show that the spectrum of the unusual transient SCP?06F6 is consistent with emission from a cool, optically thick and carbon-rich atmosphere if the transient is located at a redshift of z 0.14. The implied extragalactic nature of the transient rules out novae, shell flashes, and V838?Mon-like events as causes of the observed brightening. The distance to SCP?06F6 implies a peak magnitude of MI ?18, in the regime of supernovae (SNe). While the morphology of the light curve of SCP?06F6 around… Expand

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