Identifying tidal disruption events among radio transient galaxies

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Acknowledgement

The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys (PS1) have been made possible through contributions of the Institute for Astronomy, the University of Hawaii, the Pan-STARRS Project Office, the Max-Planck Society and its participating institutes, the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Heidelberg and the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, The Johns Hopkins University, Durham University, the University of Edinburgh, Queen’s University Belfast, the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network Incorporated, the National Central University of Taiwan, the Space Telescope Science Institute, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNX08AR22G issued through the Planetary Science Division of the NASA Science Mission Directorate, the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1238877, the University of Maryland, and Eotvos Lorand University (ELTE). The CSS survey is funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant No. NNG05GF22G issued through the Science Mission Directorate Near-Earth Objects Observations Program. The CRTS survey is supported by the U.S. National Science Foundation under grants AST-0909182. ZTF is supported by the National Science Foundation under Grant No. AST-1440341 and AST-2034437 and a collaboration including current partners Caltech, IPAC, the Oskar Klein Center at Stockholm University, the University of Maryland, University of California, Berkeley, the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee, University of Warwick, Ruhr University, Cornell University, Northwestern University and Drexel University. Operations are conducted by COO, IPAC, and UW. This publication makes use of data products from the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer, which is a joint project of the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology, and NEOWISE, which is a project of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory/California Institute of Technology. WISE and NEOWISE are funded by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. We acknowledge the ASAS-SN team for providing public access to the Sky Patrol data. ASAS-SN is supported by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation through grant GBMF5490, the NSF grant AST-1515927, the Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics at The Ohio State University, and the Mt. Cuba Astronomical Foundation. ASAS-SN also benefits from the participation of more than 10,000 volunteers via the Citizen ASAS-SN project, which is hosted by the Zooniverse platform. We would like to thank PawełZieliński, Łukasz Wyrzykowski and the BHTOM team for the discussion and help. BHTOM is based on the open-source TOM Toolkit by LCO and has been developed with funding from the OPTICON-RadioNet Pilot (ORP) of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 101004719 (2021-2025). This project has received funding the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation programme ACME under grant agreement No 101131928 (2024-2028). MKB acknowledges support from the ’National Science Centre, Poland’ under grant no. 2017/26/E/ST9/00216. DKW acknowledges support from the ’National Science Centre, Poland’ under grant no. 2021/43/B/ST9/03246.