2016
DOI: 10.1038/s41550-016-0034
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Correction: Corrigendum: The superluminous transient ASASSN-15lh as a tidal disruption event from a Kerr black hole

Abstract: When a star passes within the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole, it will be torn apart 1 . For a star with the mass of the Sun (M ⊙ ) and a non-spinning black hole with a mass <10 . Our long-term spectroscopic follow-up reveals that ASASSN-15lh went through three different spectroscopic phases (Fig. 1). During the first phase 7 , the spectra were dominated by two broad absorption features. While these features appear similar to those observed in superluminous supernovae (SLSNe; Supplementary Fig. 1), t… Show more

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“…Important reasons for this are the bright limit of ASAS-SN (m < 17 mag) and the manageable detection rate, allowing for near spectroscopic completeness (Brown et al 2019) and, thus, no selection bias in spectroscopically following-up and classifying transients. In the first two years of the ASAS-SN survey, they discovered four TDEs: ASASSN-14ae (Holoien et al 2014), ASASSN-14li (Holoien et al 2016b), ASASSN-15lh (Dong et al 2016, Leloudas et al 2016, and ASASSN-15oi (Holoien et al 2016a). The bright, nearby TDEs discovered by ASAS-SN allow for high signal-to-noise multiwavelength follow-up and spectroscopic monitoring.…”
Section: Optical Candidatesmentioning
confidence: 99%
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“…Important reasons for this are the bright limit of ASAS-SN (m < 17 mag) and the manageable detection rate, allowing for near spectroscopic completeness (Brown et al 2019) and, thus, no selection bias in spectroscopically following-up and classifying transients. In the first two years of the ASAS-SN survey, they discovered four TDEs: ASASSN-14ae (Holoien et al 2014), ASASSN-14li (Holoien et al 2016b), ASASSN-15lh (Dong et al 2016, Leloudas et al 2016, and ASASSN-15oi (Holoien et al 2016a). The bright, nearby TDEs discovered by ASAS-SN allow for high signal-to-noise multiwavelength follow-up and spectroscopic monitoring.…”
Section: Optical Candidatesmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…However, a star could be disrupted outside the event horizon for this black hole mass if it was either a maximally spinning (Kerr) black hole or the star was massive (M > M ࣻ ). However, given the old stellar population of the host galaxy measured from stellar population synthesis fits to its SED, a spinning black hole was favored (Leloudas et al 2016). Furthermore, given that the tidal disruption radius, fallback timescale, and peak mass accretion rate have dependencies on black hole mass, one would expect the properties of the TDE flares to correlate with M BH .…”
Section: Correlations (Or Lack Thereof ) With Central Black Hole Massmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…We compile all spectroscopically confirmed CCSN discovered by ASAS-SN (2013Holoien et al 2017aHoloien et al ,b,c, 2019, adopting any SN classifications and redshift estimates which were updated since the initial classification was made. There are two exceptions, both of which were claimed to be SLSN: ASAS-SN 15lh was classified as a SLSN-I (Dong et al 2016), but was omitted from the CCSN sample since it is not well understood whether this event is a SLSN or a tidal disruption event (Leloudas et al 2016;Margutti et al 2017) and ASAS-SN 17jz was re-classified as a SLSN-II, but its classification is ambiguous; it could be a very luminous SN-II (Xhakaj et al 2017) or alternatively it could be an AGN (Arcavi et al 2017). In any case, these events are not 'typical' CCSNe and we exclude them from the CCSN sample.…”
Section: Core Collapse Supernovaementioning
confidence: 99%
“…Given the peculiar nature of ASASSN-15lh (Dai et al 2015;Metzger et al 2015;Bersten et al 2016;Chatzopoulos et al 2016;Dong et al 2016;Godoy-Rivera et al 2017;Kozyreva et al 2016;Leloudas et al 2016;Sukhbold & Woosley 2016;van Putten & Della Valle 2017;Margutti et al 2017a), this transient is not part of the sample of bona fide SLSNe-I analyzed here. However, we discuss and compare the X-ray properties of ASASSN-15lh in the context of SLSNe-I in Section 4, 5.1 and 5.2.…”
Section: X-ray Observations and Analysismentioning
confidence: 99%