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Artist’s concept of one of brightest explosions ever seen in space: a Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient . Credit: NASA
The Gemini South telescope in Chile obtained spectroscopic measurements, which revealed that The Finch has a temperature of about 19,980 °C . It also helped determine its distance from Earth, allowing astronomers to calculate its luminosity. Combined with Chandra’s X-ray data and radio data from the VLA telescopes, their findings confirmed that the explosion had all the characteristics of an LFBOT.
“The Hubble observations were really the crucial thing. They made us realize that this was unusual compared to the other ones like that, because without the Hubble data we would not have known. The more we learn about LFBOTs, the more they surprise us. We’ve now shown that LFBOTs can occur a long way from the center of the nearest galaxy, and the location of the Finch is not what we expect for any kind of supernova.
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