FIRST J153350.8+272729: the radio afterglow of a decades-old tidal disruption event

Vikram Ravi, Hannah Dykaar, Jackson Codd +6

We present the discovery of the fading radio transient FIRST J153350.8+272729. The source had a maximum observed 5-GHz radio luminosity of $8\times 10^{39}$ erg s${}^{-1}$ in 1986, bu…