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most citedExperimental and Theoretical Challenges in the Search for the Quark Gluon Plasma: The STAR Collaboration's Critical Assessment of the Evidence from RHIC Collisions

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astro-ph.HE2026

AT2019ijn: a fast-rising, slow-decaying blue optical transient with exceptionally bright radio emission

Hucheng Ding, Xinwen Shu, Luming Sun +9

We report the discovery of a peculiar optical transient, AT2019ijn, occurred in the nuclear region of a dwarf galaxy at z=0.273. It rises rapidly to peak at a luminosity of Mg=-21.…

astro-ph.HE2026

Fast radio bursts, magnetars and earthquakes: their "family feud"?

Si-Lu Xu, Yong-Kun Zhang, Pei Wang +24

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration cosmic transients whose origin remains elusive. Competing models invoke either earthquake-like processes or flare-like mechanisms.…

astro-ph.HE2026

Spectral Evidence of Heavy Nuclei from the Neutron Star Crust in Magnetar Bursts

Sheng-Lun Xie, Yun-Wei Yu, Shao-Lin Xiong +1

The crust of a neutron star (NS) provides a unique laboratory for studying matter under extreme density and magnetic field conditions that cannot be realized in terrestrial experim…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Transverse Oscillations and Wave Propagation in the Magnetically Dominated M87 Jet

Hyunwook Ro, Motoki Kino, Kazuhiro Hada +6

We present an in-depth analysis of transverse oscillations in the M87 jet, as identified in our previous study (Ro et al. 2023a), which reported oscillatory patterns with a charact…

astro-ph.HE2026

Flux Variations of Fast Radio Bursts and Their Persistent Radio Sources: Evidence for a Shared Progenitor

Xinming Li, Chenhui Niu, Jiaheng Zhang +24

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration extragalactic radio transients, some of which are associated with compact persistent radio sources (PRSs), hinting at a physical c…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

An Archival Optical Counterpart Search for Extragalactic Fast X-Ray Transients Discovered by Einstein Probe

Run-Duo Liang, Wen-Xiong Li, Liang-Duan Liu +50

Extragalactic fast X-ray transients (eFXTs) represent a rapidly growing class of high-energy phenomena, whose physical origins remain poorly understood. With its wide-field, sensit…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Locating the missing large-scale emission in the jet of M87* with short EHT baselines

Boris Georgiev, Paul Tiede, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg +280

In Very-Long Baseline Interferometric arrays, nearly co-located stations probe the largest scales and typically cannot resolve the observed source. In the absence of large-scale st…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Probing jet base emission of M87* with the 2021 Event Horizon Telescope observations

Saurabh, Hendrik Müller, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg +282

We investigate the presence and spatial characteristics of the jet base emission in M87* at 230 GHz, enabled by the enhanced uv coverage in the 2021 Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) o…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 10 cited

A Persistently Active Fast Radio Burst source Embedded in an Expanding Supernova Remnant

Chen-Hui Niu, Di Li, Yuan-Pei Yang +21

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) remain one of the most puzzling astrophysical phenomena. While most FRBs are detected only once or sporadically, we present the identification of FRB 20190…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Could the stochastic gravitational wave background from newborn magnetars be detected by the advanced LIGO and Einstein Telescope?

Yu-Long Yan, Quan Cheng, Xiao-Ping Zheng +1

Newborn magnetars are important gravitational wave sources due to their ultra-strong magnetic fields and fast spins, and the entire population in the Universe may significantly con…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Eclipsed X-ray Bursts from Magnetar SGR J1935+2154 and the Fireball Measurements

Sheng-Lun Xie, Aming Chen, Yun-Wei Yu +17

In theory, burst activity of the magnetar can lead to the formation of fireballs trapped by the magnetic field and corotating with the star. However, the smoking-gun observational…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 20 cited

Horizon-scale variability of M87* from 2017--2021 EHT observations

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We report three epochs of polarized images of M87* at 230\,GHz using data from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) taken in 2017, 2018, and 2021. The baseline coverage of the 2021 ob…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Extending the short gamma-ray burst population from sub-threshold triggers in Fermi/GBM and GECAM data and its implications

Ce Cai, Shao-Lin Xiong, Yan-Qiu Zhang +21

Detection of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) is critically important for the research of compact object mergers and multi-messenger astrophysics, but a significant part of SGRBs fal…

astro-ph.HE2025

The magnetar model's energy crisis for a prolific repeating fast radio burst source

Jun-Shuo Zhang, Tian-Cong Wang, Pei Wang +61

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are widely considered to originate from magnetars that power the explosion through releasing magnetic energy. Active repeating FRBs have been seen to produ…

astro-ph.HE2025

Lightcurve Features of Magnetar-Powered Superluminous Supernovae with Gravitational-Wave Emission and High-Energy Leakage

Jinghao Zhang, Yacheng Kang, Jiahang Zhong +4

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are a distinct class of stellar explosions, exhibiting peak luminosities 10-100 times brighter than those of normal SNe. Their extreme luminosities…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Do Multi-Structural One-Off FRBs Trace Similar Cosmology History with Repeaters?

Yu-Hao Zhu, Chen-Hui Niu, Xiang-Han Cui +7

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration transient events that are typically observed at radio wavelengths and cosmological distances but their origin remains unclear. Fur…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 6 cited

A narrowband burst from FRB 20190520B simultaneously observed by FAST and Parkes

Yuhao Zhu, Chenhui Niu, Shi Dai +8

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are short-duration radio transients with mysterious origins. Since its uncertainty, there are very few FRBs that are observed by different instruments, sim…

astro-ph.HE2025

Decadal evolution of a repeating fast radio burst source

P. Wang, J. S. Zhang, Y. P. Yang +48

The origin of fast radio bursts (FRBs), the brightest cosmic radio explosions, is still unknown. Bearing critical clues to FRBs' origin, the long-term evolution of FRBs has yet to…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 10 cited

Multi-year Polarimetric Monitoring of Four CHIME-Discovered Repeating Fast Radio Bursts with FAST

Yi Feng, Yong-Kun Zhang, Jintao Xie +50

In this study, we report multi-year polarization measurements of four repeating FRBs initially discovered by CHIME: FRBs~20190117A, 20190208A, 20190303A, and 20190417A. We observed…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

A comprehensive search for Long and Short Periodic Features from an Extremely Active Cycle of FRB 20240114A

Dengke Zhou, Pei Wang, Jianhua Fang +56

Possible periodic features in fast radio bursts (FRBs) may provide insights into their astrophysical origins. Using extensive observations from the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Sphe…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 7 cited

Revealing Dark Matter's Role in Neutron Stars Anisotropy: A Bayesian Approach Using Multi-messenger Observations

Xue-Zhi Liu, Premachand Mahapatra, Chun Huang +3

Dark matter (DM) continues to evade direct detection, but neutron stars (NSs) serve as natural laboratories where even a modest DM component can alter their structure. While many s…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 6 cited

Prospects for Time-Domain and Multi-Messenger Science with eXTP

Shu-Xu Yi, Wen Zhao, Ren-Xin Xu +75

In this new era of time-domain and multi-messenger astronomy, various new transients and new phenomena are constantly being discovered thanks to the rapid advances in observations,…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 26 cited

Dense Matter in Neutron Stars with eXTP

Ang Li, Anna L. Watts, Guobao Zhang +82

In this White Paper, we present the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission to constrain the equation of state of dense matter in neutron stars, explo…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 15 cited

EP241021a: a months-duration X-ray transient with luminous optical and radio emission

Shu Xinwen, Yang Lei, Yang Haonan +82

We present the discovery of a peculiar X-ray transient, EP241021a, by the Einstein Probe (EP) mission, and the results from multiwavelength follow-up observations. The transient wa…