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Discovery of the optical and radio counterpart to the fast X-ray transient EP240315a

Discovery of the optical and radio counterpart to the fast X-ray transient EP240315a

Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) are extragalactic bursts of soft X-rays first identified >10 years ago. Since then, nearly 40 events have been discovered, although almost all of these have been recovered from archival Chandra and XMM-Newton data. To date, optical sky surveys and follow-up searches have not revealed any multi-wavelength …