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The discovery and nature of the optical transient CSS100217:102913+404220

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Drake, A J
Djorgovski, S G
Mahabal, A
Anderson, J
Roy, Rupak
Mohan, V
Ravindranath, S
Frail, Dale A
Thorstensen, John R
Kewley, Lisa

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We report on the discovery and observations of the extremely luminous optical transient CSS100217:102913+404220 (CSS100217 hereafter). Spectroscopic observations showed that this transient was coincident with a galaxy at redshift z = 0.147 and reached an

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Astrophysical Journal, The

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