{"paper":{"title":"The Broad Absorption Line Tidal Disruption Event iPTF15af: Optical and Ultraviolet Evolution","license":"http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/","headline":"","cross_cats":[],"primary_cat":"astro-ph.HE","authors_text":"A. Horesh, A. Levan, A. V. Filippenko, C. Fremling, D. R. Pasham, E. Karamehmetoglu, F. J. Masci, G. Duggan, G. Hosseinzadeh, I. Arcavi, J. S. Bloom, L. Yan, N. Blagorodnova, P. E. Nugent, R. Walters, S. B. Cenko, S. R. Kulkarni, S. Veilleux, W. Zheng","submitted_at":"2018-09-20T01:54:40Z","abstract_excerpt":"We present multi-wavelength observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) iPTF15af, discovered by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) survey at redshift $z=0.07897$. The optical and ultraviolet (UV) light curves of the transient show a slow decay over five months, in agreement with previous optically discovered TDEs. It also has a comparable black-body peak luminosity of $L_{\\rm{peak}} \\approx 1.5 \\times 10^{44}$ erg/s. The inferred temperature from the optical and UV data shows a value of (3$-$5) $\\times 10^4$ K. The transient is not detected in X-rays up to $L_X < 3 \\times 1"},"claims":{"count":0,"items":[],"snapshot_sha256":"258153158e38e3291e3d48162225fcdb2d5a3ed65a07baac614ab91432fd4f57"},"source":{"id":"1809.07446","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":""},"integrity":{"clean":true,"summary":{"advisory":0,"critical":0,"by_detector":{},"informational":0},"endpoint":"/pith/1809.07446/integrity.json","findings":[],"available":true,"detectors_run":[],"snapshot_sha256":"c28c3603d3b5d939e8dc4c7e95fa8dfce3d595e45f758748cecf8e644a296938"},"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"}