The luminous red nova AT 2018bwo in NGC 45 and its binary yellow supergiant progenitor

Nadejda Blagorodnova, Jakub Klencki, Ondrej Pejcha +12

Luminous Red Novae (LRNe) are astrophysical transients associated with the partial ejection of a binary system's common envelope (CE) shortly before its merger. Here we present the…