Discovery of an Intermediate-luminosity Red Transient in M51 and Its Likely Dust-obscured, Infrared-variable Progenitor

Jencson, Jacob E. and Adams, Scott M. and Bond, Howard E. and van Dyk, Schuyler D. and Kasliwal, Mansi M. and Bally, John and Blagorodnova, Nadejda and De, Kishalay and Fremling, Christoffer and Yao, Yuhan and Fruchter, Andrew and Rubin, David and Barbarino, Cristina and Sollerman, Jesper and Miller, Adam A. and Hicks, Erin K. S. and Malkan, Matthew A. and Andreoni, Igor and Bellm, Eric C. and Buchheim, Robert and Dekany, Richard and Feeney, Michael and Frederick, Sara and Gal-Yam, Avishay and Gehrz, Robert D. and Giomi, Matteo and Graham, Matthew J. and Green, Wayne and Hale, David and Hankins, Matthew J. and Hanson, Mark and Helou, George and Ho, Anna Y. Q. and Hung, T. and Jurić, Mario and Kendurkar, Malhar R. and Kulkarni, S. R. and Lau, Ryan M. and Masci, Frank J. and Neill, James D. and Quin, Kevin and Riddle, Reed L. and Rusholme, Ben and Sims, Forrest and Smith, Nathan and Smith, Roger M. and Soumagnac, Maayane T. and Tachibana, Yutaro and Tinyanont, Samaporn and Walters, Richard and Watson, Stanley and Williams, Robert E.

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