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A Rapidly Declining Transient Discovered with the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam

A Rapidly Declining Transient Discovered with the Subaru/Hyper Suprime-Cam

We perform a high-cadence transient survey with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), which we call the Subaru HSC survey Optimized for Optical Transients (SHOOT). We conduct HSC imaging observations with time intervals of about one hour on two successive nights, and spectroscopic and photometric follow-up observations. A rapidly declining blue transient …