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PS15cey and PS17cke: prospective candidates from the Pan-STARRS Search for kilonovae
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Number of Authors: 252021 (English)In: Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, ISSN 0035-8711, E-ISSN 1365-2966, Vol. 500, no 3, p. 4213-4228Article in journal (Refereed) Published
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Time domain astronomy was revolutionized with the discovery of the first kilonova, AT2017gfo, in August 2017, which was associated with the gravitational wave signal GW170817. Since this event, numerous wide-field surveys have been optimizing search strategies to maximize their efficiency of detecting these fast and faint transients. With the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid Response System (Pan-STARRS), we have been conducting a volume-limited survey for intrinsically faint and fast-fading events to a distance of D similar or equal to 200 Mpc. Two promising candidates have been identified from this archival search, with sparse data - PS15cey and PS17cke. Here, we present more detailed analysis and discussion of their nature. We observe that PS15cey was a luminous, fast-declining transient at 320 Mpc. Models of BH-NS mergers with a very stiff equation of state could possibly reproduce the luminosity and decline but the physical parameters are extreme. A more likely scenario is that this was an AT2018kzr-like merger event. PS17cke was a faint and fast-declining event at 15 Mpc. We explore several explosion scenarios of this transient including models of it as a NS-NS and BH-NS merger, the outburst of a massive luminous star, and compare it against other known fast-fading transients. Although there is uncertainty in the explosion scenario due to difficulty in measuring the explosion epoch, we find PS17cke to be a plausible kilonova candidate from the model comparisons.

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2021. Vol. 500, no 3, p. 4213-4228
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surveys, supernovae: general, black hole, neutron star mergers
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URN: urn:nbn:se:su:diva-191013DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa3361ISI: 000605983200101OAI: oai:DiVA.org:su-191013DiVA, id: diva2:1534973
Available from: 2021-03-06 Created: 2021-03-06 Last updated: 2022-02-25Bibliographically approved

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