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  • An Intermediate Luminosity Optical Transient (ILOT) is an astronomical object which undergoes an optically detectable explosive event with an absolute...
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    Jesper; Miller, Adam A. (26 July 2019). "Discovery of an Intermediate-luminosity Red Transient in M51 and Its Likely Dust-obscured, Infrared-variable Progenitor"...
    235 KB (10,236 words) - 10:01, 15 September 2024
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    Cepheid Distance Moduli and Tip of the Red Giant Branch, Globular Cluster Luminosity Function, Planetary Nebula Luminosity Function, and Surface Brightness...
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    but later analysis categorized it as an intermediate-luminosity red transient (ILRT), also known as a luminous red nova. Archival Hubble and Spitzer images...
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    M31-RV (category Luminous red novae)
    in 2002. Such objects have been called luminous red novae or intermediate-luminosity red transients. During the outburst, both V838 Mon and M31-RV reached...
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    are called luminous red novae (LRNe). They are subset of a broader class of events called intermediate-luminosity red transients (ILRTs). They have relatively...
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    a characteristic light curve—the graph of luminosity as a function of time—after the event. This luminosity is generated by the radioactive decay of nickel-56...
    201 KB (21,932 words) - 18:45, 9 September 2024
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    DO Draconis/YY Draconis (category Intermediate polars)
    binary star system is classified as a U Geminorum variable that ranges in luminosity from an apparent visual magnitude of 10.0 down to 15.1. It is located...
    20 KB (1,771 words) - 16:21, 26 April 2024
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    this source at VizieR. Cai, Y.-Z; et al. (October 2021). "Intermediate-luminosity red transients: Spectrophotometric properties and connection to electron-capture...
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    to the increased luminosity, which will eventually reach more than 1,000 times its present luminosity. When the Sun enters its red-giant branch (RGB)...
    170 KB (19,293 words) - 20:03, 7 September 2024
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    and proposes that CK Vulpeculae is an intermediate luminosity optical transient, i.e. an object in the luminosity gap between supernovae and novae. CK...
    14 KB (1,417 words) - 15:56, 17 July 2024
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    S2CID 18759600. Malkov, O. Yu. (December 2007). "Mass-luminosity relation of intermediate-mass stars". Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society...
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  • graph of luminosity as a function of time after the explosion. Near the time of maximal luminosity, the spectrum contains lines of intermediate-mass elements...
    48 KB (5,057 words) - 04:49, 19 July 2024
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    NGC 5806 (category Intermediate spiral galaxies)
    been detected and is expected to have been a relatively low mass, low luminosity, red supergiant. The other supernovae are SN 2012P (type IIb, mag. 15) and...
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    spin-down luminosity is comparable to the actual luminosity, the neutron stars are said to be "rotation powered". The observed luminosity of the Crab...
    114 KB (13,793 words) - 21:55, 30 August 2024
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    Messier 106 (category Intermediate spiral galaxies)
    Messier 106 (also known as NGC 4258) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. It was discovered by Pierre Méchain in 1781...
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    Sculptor Galaxy (category Intermediate spiral galaxies)
    Silver Coin Galaxy, Silver Dollar Galaxy, NGC 253, or Caldwell 65) is an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation Sculptor. The Sculptor Galaxy is a...
    18 KB (1,886 words) - 15:35, 13 September 2024
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    star sensor. The X-ray luminosity of Lx = 1031 erg·s−1 (1024 W) is four orders of magnitude above the Sun's X-ray luminosity. Coronal stars, or stars...
    65 KB (8,115 words) - 13:32, 13 April 2024
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    2009, and 2012, respectively). The main source of information about the luminosity fluctuations of Tabby's Star is the Kepler space telescope. During its...
    106 KB (9,031 words) - 00:59, 13 September 2024
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    emission from black holes is variable, varying in luminosity in very short timescales. The variation in luminosity can provide information about the size of the...
    77 KB (8,344 words) - 19:33, 15 June 2024
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