Astronomers discover an unusual nuclear transient
Wednesday, January 23, 2019 - 09:30
in Astronomy & Space
An international group of astronomers has detected an unusual nuclear transient in the nucleus of a weakly active galaxy. The new transient was identified by the OGLE-IV Transient Detection System and received designation OGLE17aaj. The finding is reported in a paper published January 11 on the arXiv pre-print repository.