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The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of Millimeter-wave Transient Sources

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope: Detection of Millimeter-wave Transient Sources

We report on the serendipitous discovery of three transient mm-wave sources using data from the Atacama Cosmology Telescope. The first, detected at RA = 273.8138, dec = -49.4628 at ${\sim}50\sigma$ total, brightened from less than 5 mJy to at least 1100 mJy at 150 GHz with an unknown rise time …