Publications (71)
The nuclear transient AT 2017gge: a tidal disruption event in a dusty and gas-rich environment and the awakening of a dormant SMBH
F. Onori, G. Cannizzaro, P. G. Jonker +28
We present the results from a dense multi-wavelength (optical/UV, near-infrared (IR), and X-ray) follow-up campaign of the nuclear transient AT2017gge, covering a total of 1698 day…
Candidate Hα emission and absorption line sources in the Galactic Bulge Survey
T. Wevers, P. G. Jonker, G. Nelemans +7
We present a catalogue of candidate Hα emission and absorption line sources and blue objects in the Galactic Bulge Survey (GBS) region. We use a point source catalogue of the GBS…
The Tidal Disruption Event AT 2018hyz I: Double-peaked emission lines and a flat Balmer decrement
P. Short, M. Nicholl, A. Lawrence +28
We present results from spectroscopic observations of AT 2018hyz, a transient discovered by the ASAS-SN survey at an absolute magnitude of mag, in the nucleus of a…
Gaia Data Release 3: Reflectance spectra of Solar System small bodies
Gaia Collaboration, L. Galluccio, M. Delbo +444
The Gaia mission of the European Space Agency (ESA) has been routinely observing Solar System objects (SSOs) since the beginning of its operations in August 2014. The Gaia data rel…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: Acceleration of the solar system from Gaia astrometry
Gaia Collaboration, S. A. Klioner, F. Mignard +414
Context. Gaia Early Data Release 3 (Gaia EDR3) provides accurate astrometry for about 1.6 million compact (QSO-like) extragalactic sources, 1.2 million of which have the best-quali…
The Role of Stellar Spin in Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Events
Ananya Bandopadhyay, Benjamin Amend, Eric R. Coughlin +3
The repeated tidal stripping of a star by a supermassive black hole, known as a repeating partial tidal disruption event (rpTDE), can give rise to a transient that rebrightens mont…
A millisecond pulsar in an extremely wide binary system
C. G. Bassa, G. H. Janssen, B. W. Stappers +30
We report on 22 yrs of radio timing observations of the millisecond pulsar J10240719 by the telescopes participating in the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA). These observatio…
Performance characterization and near-realtime monitoring of MUSE adaptive optics modes at Paranal
T. Wevers, F. J. Selman, A. Reyes +13
The Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) is an integral field spectrograph on the Very Large Telescope Unit Telescope 4, capable of laser guide star assisted and tomographic ad…
Compact Accretion Disks in the Aftermath of Tidal Disruption Events: Parameter Inference from Joint X-ray Spectra and UV/Optical Photometry Fitting
M. Guolo, A. Mummery, S. van Velzen +8
We present a multi-wavelength analysis of 14 tidal disruption events (TDEs)-including an off-nuclear event associated with an ultra-compact dwarf galaxy-selected for having availab…
The case of AT2022wtn: a Tidal Disruption Event in an interacting galaxy
F. Onori, M. Nicholl, P. Ramsden +35
We present the results from our multi-wavelength monitoring campaign of the transient AT2022wtn, discovered by the Zwicky Transient Facility in the nucleus of SDSSJ232323.79+104107…
The properties of GSN 069 accretion disk from a joint X-ray and UV spectral analysis: stress-testing quasi-periodic eruption models
M. Guolo, A. Mummery, T. Wevers +4
We present an analysis of Hubble Space Telescope (HST) and XMM-Newton data of the tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate and quasi-periodic eruption (QPE) source GSN 069. Using ult…
Total eclipse of the heart: The AM CVn Gaia14aae / ASSASN-14cn
H. C. Campbell, T. R. Marsh, M. Fraser +82
We report the discovery and characterisation of a deeply eclipsing AM CVn-system, Gaia14aae (= ASSASN-14cn). Gaia14aae was identified independently by the All-Sky Automated Survey…
Gaia data release 1, the photometric data
F. van Leeuwen, D. W. Evans, F. De Angeli +91
Context. This paper presents an overview of the photometric data that are part of the first Gaia data release. Aims. The principles of the processing and the main characteristics o…
Gemini Spectroscopy of Galactic Bulge Sources: A Population of Hidden Accreting Binaries Revealed?
Jianfeng Wu, P. G. Jonker, M. A. P. Torres +8
We present Gemini spectroscopy for 21 candidate optical counterparts to X-ray sources discovered in the Galactic Bulge Survey (GBS). For the majority of the 21 sources, the optical…
An outflow powers the optical rise of the nearby, fast-evolving tidal disruption event AT2019qiz
M. Nicholl, T. Wevers, S. R. Oates +42
At 66 Mpc, AT2019qiz is the closest optical tidal disruption event (TDE) to date, with a luminosity intermediate between the bulk of the population and iPTF16fnl. Its proximity all…
The Evolution of Luminous Red Nova AT 2017jfs in NGC 4470
A. Pastorello, T. -W. Chen, Y. -Z. Cai +43
We present the results of our photometric and spectroscopic follow-up of the intermediate-luminosity optical transient AT 2017jfs. At peak, the object reaches an absolute magnitude…
The rise and fall of the iron-strong nuclear transient PS16dtm
T. Petrushevska, G. Leloudas, D. Ilic +30
Thanks to the advent of large-scale optical surveys, a diverse set of flares from the nuclear regions of galaxies has recently been discovered. These include the disruption of star…
Gaia Data Release 3: Pulsations in main sequence OBAF-type stars
Gaia Collaboration, J. De Ridder, V. Ripepi +445
The third Gaia data release provides photometric time series covering 34 months for about 10 million stars. For many of those stars, a characterisation in Fourier space and their v…
Delayed X-ray brightening accompanied by variable ionized absorption following a tidal disruption event
T. Wevers, M. Guolo, D. R. Pasham +4
Supermassive black holes can experience super-Eddington peak mass fallback rates following the tidal disruption of a star. The theoretical expectation is that part of the infalling…
The OmegaWhite Survey for Short-Period Variable Stars VII: High amplitude, short period blue variables
G. Ramsay, P. A. Woudt, T. Kupfer +11
Blue Large Amplitude Pulsators (BLAPs) are a relatively new class of blue variable stars showing periodic variations in their light curves with periods shorter than a few tens of m…
The fast transient AT 2023clx in the nearby LINER galaxy NGC 3799 as a tidal disruption of a very low-mass star
P. Charalampopoulos, R. Kotak, T. Wevers +30
We present an extensive analysis of the optical and UV properties of AT2023clx, the closest TDE to date, that occurred in the nucleus of the interacting LINER galaxy, NGC3799 (z=0.…
Multiwavelength observations of the extraordinary accretion event AT2021lwx
P. Wiseman, Y. Wang, S. Hönig +43
We present observations from X-ray to mid-infrared wavelengths of the most energetic non-quasar transient ever observed, AT2021lwx. Our data show a single optical brightening by a…
Extreme variability in an active galactic nucleus: Gaia16aax
G. Cannizzaro, M. Fraser, P. G. Jonker +12
We present the results of a multi-wavelength follow up campaign for the luminous nuclear transient Gaia16aax, which was first identified in January 2016. The transient is spatially…
Rapid onset of a Comptonisation zone in the repeating tidal disruption event XMMSL2 J140446.9-251135
R. D. Saxton, T. Wevers, S. van Velzen +11
We report here on observations of a tidal disruption event, XMMSL2 J1404-2511, discovered in an XMM-Newton slew, in a quiescent galaxy at z=0.043. X-ray monitoring covered the epoc…
An elliptical accretion disk following the tidal disruption event AT 2020zso
T. Wevers, M. Nicholl, M. Guolo +25
[Abridged] We classify AT 2020zso as a TDE based on the blackbody evolution inferred from UV/optical photometric observations, and spectral line content and evolution. We identify…
Single-lens mass measurement in the high-magnification microlensing event Gaia19bld located in the Galactic disc
K. A. Rybicki, Å. Wyrzykowski, E. Bachelet +66
We present the photometric analysis of Gaia19bld, a high-magnification () microlensing event located in the southern Galactic plane, which exhibited finite source and m…
Accretion disc cooling and narrow absorption lines in the tidal disruption event AT 2019dsg
G. Cannizzaro, T. Wevers, P. G. Jonker +23
We present the results of a large multi-wavelength follow-up campaign of the Tidal Disruption Event (TDE) \dsg, focusing on low to high resolution optical spectroscopy, X-ray, and…
Discovery of a Relativistic Stripped Envelope Type Ic-BL Supernova at z = 2.83 with JWST
M. R. Siebert, C. Decoursey, D. A. Coulter +26
We present JWST NIRCam and NIRSpec observations of a Type Ic supernova (SN Ic) and its host galaxy (JADES-GS+53.13533-27.81457) at . This SN (named SN 2023adta) was ident…
Gaia Data Release 1. Testing the parallaxes with local Cepheids and RR Lyrae stars
Gaia Collaboration, G. Clementini, L. Eyer +588
Parallaxes for 331 classical Cepheids, 31 Type II Cepheids and 364 RR Lyrae stars in common between Gaia and the Hipparcos and Tycho-2 catalogues are published in Gaia Data Release…
Constraining the nature of the accreting binary in CXOGBS J174623.5-310550
M. A. P. Torres, S. Repetto, T. Wevers +12
We report optical and infrared observations of the X-ray source CXOGBS J174623.5-310550. This Galactic object was identified as a potential quiescent low-mass X-ray binary accretin…
Gaia Data Release 2: Observational Hertzsprung-Russell diagrams
Gaia Collaboration, C. Babusiaux, F. van Leeuwen +450
We highlight the power of the Gaia DR2 in studying many fine structures of the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram (HRD). Gaia allows us to present many different HRDs, depending in partic…
Optical follow-up of the tidal disruption event iPTF16fnl: new insights from X-shooter observations
F. Onori, G. Cannizzaro, P. G. Jonker +11
We present the results from Nordic Optical Telescope and X-shooter follow-up campaigns of the tidal disruption event (TDE) iPTF16fnl, covering the first 100 days after the tr…
Gaia Data Release 2. Short-timescale variability processing and analysis
M. Roelens, L. Eyer, N. Mowlavi +13
The Gaia DR2 sample of short-timescale variable candidates results from the investigation of the first 22 months of Gaia photometry for a subsample of sources at the Gaia faint end…
Electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational wave events from Gaia
Z. Kostrzewa-Rutkowska, P. G. Jonker, S. T. Hodgkin +15
The recent discoveries of gravitational wave events and in one case also its electromagnetic (EM) counterpart allow us to study the Universe in a novel way. The increased sensitivi…
Gaia Photometric Science Alerts
S. T. Hodgkin, D. L. Harrison, E. Breedt +108
Since July 2014, the Gaia mission has been engaged in a high-spatial-resolution, time-resolved, precise, accurate astrometric, and photometric survey of the entire sky. Aims: We pr…
Discovery of a likely Type II SN at =3.6 with JWST
D. A. Coulter, J. D. R. Pierel, C. DeCoursey +30
Transient astronomy in the early, high-redshift (z > 3) Universe is an unexplored regime that offers the possibility of probing the first stars and the Epoch of Reionization. Durin…
A luminous stellar outburst during a long-lasting eruptive phase first, and then SN IIn 2018cnf
A. Pastorello, A. Reguitti, A. Morales-Garoffolo +45
We present the results of the monitoring campaign of the Type IIn supernova (SN) 2018cnf (aka ASASSN-18mr). It was discovered about 10 days before the maximum light (on MJD = 58293…
The Lazuli Space Observatory: Opportunities for time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy
T. Wevers, T. J. Maccarone, A. Palmese +14
Advancing time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy requires a multi-wavelength network of observatories capable of rapidly discovering, classifying, and characterizing transient p…
Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions and tidal disruption events prefer similar host galaxies
T. Wevers, K. D. French, A. I. Zabludoff +10
In the past five years, six quasi-periodic X-ray eruption (QPE) sources have been discovered in the nuclei of nearby galaxies. Their origin remains an open question. We present MUS…
Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions years after a nearby tidal disruption event
M. Nicholl, D. R. Pasham, A. Mummery +61
Quasi-periodic Eruptions (QPEs) are luminous bursts of soft X-rays from the nuclei of galaxies, repeating on timescales of hours to weeks. The mechanism behind these rare systems i…
A Tale of Two Stars: Interferometric Studies of Post-AGB Binaries
M. Hillen, J. Menu, B. de Vries +7
Binaries with circumbinary disks are commonly found among optically bright post-AGB stars. Although clearly linked to binary interaction processes, the formation, evolution and fat…
AT2018fyk: Candidate Tidal Disruption Event by a (Super)massive Black Hole Binary
S. Wen, P. G. Jonker, A. J. Levan +8
The tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2018fyk has unusual X-ray, UV, and optical light curves that decay over the first 600d, rebrighten, and decay again around 1200d. We explai…
The Chandra Galactic Bulge Survey: optical catalogue and point-source counterparts to X-ray sources
T. Wevers, S. T. Hodgkin, P. G. Jonker +12
As part of the Chandra Galactic Bulge Survey (GBS), we present a catalogue of optical sources in the GBS footprint. This consists of two regions centered at Galactic latitude b = 1…
Gaia Data Release 3: Chemical cartography of the Milky Way
Gaia Collaboration, A. Recio-Blanco, G. Kordopatis +447
Gaia DR3 opens a new era of all-sky spectral analysis of stellar populations thanks to the nearly 5.6 million stars observed by the RVS and parametrised by the GSP-spec module. The…
CXOGBS J174954.5-294335: A New Deeply-Eclipsing Intermediate Polar
Christopher B. Johnson, M. A. P. Torres, R. I. Hynes +7
We present the results of a photometric and spectroscopic analysis of the Galactic Bulge Survey X-ray source CXOGBS J174954.5-294335 (hereafter, referred to as CX19). CX19 is a lon…
Spectroscopic classification of X-ray sources in the Galactic Bulge Survey
T. Wevers, M. A. P. Torres, P. G. Jonker +14
We present the classification of 26 optical counterparts to X-ray sources discovered in the Galactic Bulge Survey. We use (time-resolved) photometric and spectroscopic observations…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Galactic anticentre
Gaia Collaboration, T. Antoja, P. McMillan +417
We aim to demonstrate the scientific potential of the Gaia Early Data Release 3 (EDR3) for the study of the Milky Way structure and evolution. We used astrometric positions, proper…
Gaia Data Release 3: A Golden Sample of Astrophysical Parameters
Gaia Collaboration, O. L. Creevey, L. M. Sarro +445
Gaia Data Release 3 (DR3) provides a wealth of new data products for the astronomical community to exploit, including astrophysical parameters for a half billion stars. In this wor…
Lensed Type Ia Supernova "Encore" at z=2: The First Instance of Two Multiply-Imaged Supernovae in the Same Host Galaxy
J. D. R. Pierel, A. B. Newman, S. Dhawan +60
A bright (=24 mag), supernova (SN) candidate was discovered in JWST/NIRCam imaging acquired on 2023 November 17. The SN is quintuply-imaged as a result o…
Spatially resolved optical and mid-infrared spectroscopy of SDSS1335+0728: implications for the origin of the Ansky event
P. Sánchez-Sáez, M. Masterson, L. Hernández-GarcÃa +25
The galaxy SDSS1335+0728 brightened abruptly in December 2019 (the Ansky event) and has since been confirmed as the host of extreme X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) of debated…
Host galaxy properties of quasi-periodically erupting X-ray sources
T. Wevers, D. R. Pasham, P. Jalan +2
Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions (QPEs) are a recently discovered phenomenon, the nature of which remains unclear. Based on their discovery in active galactic nuclei (AGN), explanati…
Gaia Data Release 3: The extragalactic content
Gaia Collaboration, C. A. L. Bailer-Jones, D. Teyssier +444
The Gaia Galactic survey mission is designed and optimized to obtain astrometry, photometry, and spectroscopy of nearly two billion stars in our Galaxy. Yet as an all-sky multi-epo…
Evidence for rapid disk formation and reprocessing in the X-ray bright tidal disruption event AT 2018fyk
T. Wevers, D. R. Pasham, S. van Velzen +15
We present optical spectroscopic and Swift UVOT/XRT observations of the X-ray and UV/optical bright tidal disruption event (TDE) AT 2018fyk/ASASSN-18ul discovered by ASAS-SN. The S…
The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): Probing the physics of the X-ray corona in active galactic nuclei
E. Kammoun, A. M. Lohfink, M. Masterson +28
The hard X-ray emission in active galactic nuclei (AGN) and black hole X-ray binaries is thought to be produced by a hot cloud of electrons referred to as the corona. This emission…
AT 2017gbl: a dust obscured TDE candidate in a luminous infrared galaxy
E. C. Kool, T. M. Reynolds, S. Mattila +26
We present the discovery with Keck of the extremely infrared (IR) luminous transient AT 2017gbl, coincident with the Northern nucleus of the luminous infrared galaxy (LIRG) IRAS 23…
Gaia Data Release 3: Summary of the content and survey properties
Gaia Collaboration, A. Vallenari, A. G. A. Brown +453
We present the third data release of the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, GDR3. The GDR3 catalogue is the outcome of the processing of raw data collected with the Gaia instrum…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The celestial reference frame (Gaia-CRF3)
Gaia Collaboration, S. A. Klioner, L. Lindegren +448
Gaia-CRF3 is the celestial reference frame for positions and proper motions in the third release of data from the Gaia mission, Gaia DR3 (and for the early third release, Gaia EDR3…
An interferometric study of the post-AGB binary 89 Herculis. II Radiative transfer models of the circumbinary disk
M. Hillen, J. Menu, H. Van Winckel +6
The presence of disks and outflows is widespread among post-AGB binaries. In the first paper of this series, a surprisingly large fraction of optical light was found to be resolved…
Delayed Appearance and Evolution of Coronal Lines in the TDE AT2019qiz
P. Short, A. Lawrence, M. Nicholl +17
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star gets torn apart by a supermassive black hole as it crosses its tidal radius. We present late-time optical and X-ray observations of…
Gaia Data Release 3: Mapping the asymmetric disc of the Milky Way
Gaia Collaboration, R. Drimmel, M. Romero-Gomez +453
With the most recent Gaia data release the number of sources with complete 6D phase space information (position and velocity) has increased to well over 33 million stars, while ste…
Discovery of An Apparent Red, High-Velocity Type Ia Supernova at z = 2.9 with JWST
J. D. R. Pierel, M. Engesser, D. A. Coulter +27
We present the JWST discovery of SN 2023adsy, a transient object located in a host galaxy JADES-GS with a host spectroscopic redshift of . Th…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: The Gaia Catalogue of Nearby Stars
Gaia Collaboration, R. L. Smart, L. M. Sarro +420
We produce a clean and well-characterised catalogue of objects within 100\,pc of the Sun from the \G\ Early Data Release 3. We characterise the catalogue through comparisons to the…
Discovery of a high state AM CVn binary in the Galactic Bulge Survey
T. Wevers, M. A. P. Torres, P. G. Jonker +14
We report on the discovery of a hydrogen-deficient compact binary (CXOGBS J175107.6-294037) belonging to the AM CVn class in the Galactic Bulge Survey. Deep archival X-ray observat…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: Structure and properties of the Magellanic Clouds
Gaia Collaboration, X. Luri, L. Chemin +417
We compare the Gaia DR2 and Gaia EDR3 performances in the study of the Magellanic Clouds and show the clear improvements in precision and accuracy in the new release. We also show…
Probing for the host galaxies of the fast X-ray transients XRT 000519 and XRT 110103
D. Eappachen, P. G. Jonker, M. Fraser +13
Over the past few years, 30 extragalactic fast X-ray transients (FXRTs) have been discovered, mainly in Chandra and XMM-Newton data. Their nature remains unclear, with propos…
Gaia Data Release 3: Stellar multiplicity, a teaser for the hidden treasure
Gaia Collaboration, F. Arenou, C. Babusiaux +447
The Gaia DR3 Catalogue contains for the first time about eight hundred thousand solutions with either orbital elements or trend parameters for astrometric, spectroscopic and eclips…
A detailed spectroscopic study of Tidal Disruption Events
P. Charalampopoulos, G. Leloudas, D. B. Malesani +19
Spectroscopically, TDEs are characterized by broad ( 10 km/s) emission lines and show large diversity as well as different line profiles. After carefully and consistently per…
Gaia Early Data Release 3: Summary of the contents and survey properties
Gaia Collaboration, A. G. A Brown, A. Vallenari +423
We present the early installment of the third Gaia data release, Gaia EDR3, consisting of astrometry and photometry for 1.8 billion sources brighter than magnitude 21, complemented…
Live to die another day: the rebrightening of AT2018fyk as a repeating partial tidal disruption event
T. Wevers, E. R. Coughlin, D. R. Pasham +13
Stars that interact with supermassive black holes (SMBHs) can either be completely or partially destroyed by tides. In a partial tidal disruption event (TDE) the high-density core…
How low can you go? SN 2018zd as a low-mass Fe core-collapse supernova
E. Callis, M. Fraser, A. Pastorello +38
We present spectroscopy and photometry of SN 2018zd, a Type IIP core-collapse supernova with signatures of interaction with circumstantial material in its earliest spectra. High io…
Gaia Data Release 1. Open cluster astrometry: performance, limitations, and future prospects
Gaia Collaboration, F. van Leeuwen, A. Vallenari +589
Context. The first Gaia Data Release contains the Tycho-Gaia Astrometric Solution (TGAS). This is a subset of about 2 million stars for which, besides the position and photometry,…