Forbidden hugs in pandemic times - II. The luminous red nova variety: AT 2020hat and AT 2020kog
Forbidden hugs in pandemic times - II. The luminous red nova variety: AT 2020hat and AT 2020kog
We present the results of our monitoring campaigns of the luminous red novae (LRNe) AT 2020hat in NGC 5068 and AT 2020kog in NGC 6106. The two objects were imaged (and detected) before their discovery by routine survey operations. They show a general trend of slow luminosity rise, lasting at …