ASASSN-24fw: An 8-month long, 4.1 mag, optically achromatic and polarized dimming event

R. Forés-Toribio, B. JoHantgen, C. S. Kochanek +20

We discuss ASASSN-24fw, a 13th-magnitude star that optically faded by $\hat{I}”g=4.12\pm 0.02$ mag starting in September 2024 after over a decade of quiescence in ASAS-SN. The dimmimg…