Determining the Nature of an Exceptional Optical Transient

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Jul 2008

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HST Proposal ID #12117. Cycle 17

Physics

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During the course of the Catalina Real-time Transient Survey {CRTS} we have discovered an exceptionally luminous optical transient. The source of this event appears to be either the most luminous supernova ever discovered, or the first clear optical detection of the tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole. In spite of numerous ground and space-based observations the exact nature of the event remains unclear. High spatial resolution observations with HST WFC3 are critical to solving this mystery.;

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