Sifting for Sapphires: Systematic Selection of Tidal Disruption Events in iPTF
Sifting for Sapphires: Systematic Selection of Tidal Disruption Events in iPTF
We present results from a systematic selection of tidal disruption events (TDEs) in a wide-area (4800 deg2), g + R band, Intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) experiment. Our selection targets typical optically-selected TDEs: bright (>60% flux increase) and blue transients residing in the center of red galaxies. Using photometric selection …