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astro-ph.HE2026

Ultraluminous X-ray sources in the first eROSITA survey I. Candidate catalogs

P. Weber, T. P. Roberts, S. Hämmerich +28

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are luminous non-nuclear X-ray point sources embedded in galaxies. Their luminosities exceeding 10^39 erg/s potentially require sub-Eddington acc…

astro-ph.HE2026

Radio Follow Up of a Sub-threshold GRB in the Sky Localization Area of GW241125

Natalie Gottschlich, Alessandra Corsi, S. Bradley Cenko +5

Since the Fermi satellite's identification of a candidate -ray burst (GRB) temporally coincident with GW150914, several tentative, and often debated, associations between electr…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Accurate Determination of Chemical Abundances near a Supermassive Black Hole

The XRISM collaboration

The metal abundances in galactic nuclei carry key information on the history of star formation and mass transfer in central regions of galaxies. X-ray fluorescence analysis is a un…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 2 cited

Toward Black Hole Stars: supermassive black hole growth in nuclear clusters via stellar-object and gas accretion

Konstantinos Kritos, Joseph Silk

Supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth plausibly occurs via runaway astrophysical black hole mergers in nuclear star clusters that form intermediate mass black hole seeds at high re…

astro-ph.HE2026

ATLAS100 -- I. A volume-limited sample of supernovae and related transients within 100 Mpc

Shubham Srivastav, Stephen J. Smartt, Thomas Moore +29

We present ATLAS100 -- a sample of 1729 supernovae and other explosive optical transients within Mpc observed by the ATLAS survey over a span of 5.75 years from 2017 Sep…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 2 cited

High Spectral Resolution X-ray Observations of the Evolved Supermassive Stellar Binary System Carinae - Iron K Band Profile Revealed with XRISM

XRISM Collaboration, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki +138

The supermassive binary system, Carinae, is experiencing enormous wind-driven mass loss at a rate unparalleled in the rest of the Galaxy. Their wind-wind collision (WWC) contin…

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

The nearby He-rich superluminous supernova SN 2021bnw during photospheric phases

A. Fiore, A. Kozyreva, L. Yan +40

Aim. We present and interpret the data of the nearby hydrogen-deficient but helium-rich superluminous supernova SN 2021bnw which reached a magnitude of -20.7 at maximum luminosity…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Tidal disruption event rates across cosmic time: forecasts for LSST, Roman, and JWST and their constraints on the supermassive black hole mass function

Mitchell Karmen, Suvi Gezari, Colin Norman +1

Measuring the mass distribution of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) over cosmic time remains particularly challenging for the low mass (M_BH<10^8 M_sun) population at z>1. This pop…

astro-ph.HE2026

An infrared echo from a circumstellar disk in the hydrogen- and helium-poor SN 2024aecx

Samaporn Tinyanont, Kittipong Wangnok, Jennifer E. Andrews +34

We present near-infrared (NIR) spectroscopy of the hydrogen- and helium-poor (Type Ic) supernova (SN) 2024aecx, which displays a strong NIR excess emerging 32 days post peak. SN 20…

astro-ph.HE2026

Progenitor of the recoiling super-massive black hole RBH-1 identified using HST/JWST imaging

Tousif Islam, Tejaswi Venumadhav, Digvijay Wadekar

Using a combination of \textit{Hubble Space Telescope} and \textit{James Webb Space Telescope} imaging, a runaway supermassive black hole (RBH-1) was recently identified with an in…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Chlorine and Potassium Enrichment in the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant

XRISM collaboration

The elements in the universe are synthesized primarily in stars and supernovae, where nuclear fusion favors the production of even-Z elements. In contrast, odd-Z elements are less…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Normal or transitional? The evolution and properties of two type Ia supernovae in the Virgo cluster

L. Izzo, C. Gall, N. Khetan +47

Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are among the most precise cosmological distance indicators used to study the expansion history of the Universe. The vast increase of SN Ia data due to…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Characterization of type Ibn SNe

D. Farias, C. Gall, V. A. Villar +29

Type Ibn supernovae (SNe) are characterized by narrow helium (He I) lines from photons produced by the unshocked circumstellar material (CSM). About 80 SNe Ibn have been discovered…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

SN 2024iss: A Double-peaked Type IIb Supernova with Evidence of Circumstellar Interaction

Liyang Chen, Xiaofeng Wang, Qinyu Wu +54

We present optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray observations of supernova (SN) 2024iss, a Type IIb SN that shows a prominent double-peaked light curve. We modeled the first peak with a…

astro-ph.HE2025

SN 2021tsz: A luminous, short photospheric phase Type II supernova in a low-metallicity host

R. Dastidar, G. Pignata, N. Dukiya +14

We present the analysis of the luminous Type II Supernova (SN) 2021tsz, which exploded in a low-luminosity galaxy. It reached a peak magnitude of -18.88 0.13 mag in the b…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 10 cited

Stratified wind from a super-Eddington X-ray binary is slower than expected

XRISM collaboration, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki +132

Accretion discs in strong gravity ubiquitously produce winds, seen as blueshifted absorption lines in the X-ray band of both stellar mass X-ray binaries (black holes and neutron st…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 12 cited

Delving into the depths of NGC 3783 with XRISM II. Cross-calibration of X-ray instruments used in the large, multi-mission observational campaign

XRISM collaboration

Accurate X-ray spectroscopic measurements are fundamental for deriving basic physical parameters of the most abundant baryon components in the Universe. The plethora of X-ray obser…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Probing Picohertz Gravitational Waves with Pulsars

Qinyuan Zheng, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, William DeRocco +3

With periods much longer than the duration of current pulsar timing surveys, gravitational waves in the picohertz (pHz) regime are not detectable in the typical analysis framework…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

AT2019cmw: A highly luminous, cooling featureless TDE candidate from the disruption of a high mass star in an early-type galaxy

Jacob L. Wise, Daniel A. Perley, Nikhil Sarin +23

We present optical/UV photometric and spectroscopic observations, as well as X-ray and radio follow-up, of the extraordinary event AT2019cmw. With a peak bolometric luminosity of ~…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

A Radio-quiet AGN as a candidate counterpart to neutrino event IceCube-200615A

F. McBride, N. Schettino, J. D. O'Brien +13

Follow-up observations of neutrino events have been a promising method for identifying sources of very-high-energy cosmic rays. Neutrinos are unambiguous tracers of hadronic intera…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 49 cited

Structured ionized winds shooting out from a quasar at relativistic speeds

XRISM collaboration

Evidence indicates that supermassive black holes exist at the centers of most galaxies. Their mass correlates with the galactic bulge mass, suggesting a co-evolution with their hos…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

The Host Galaxies of PTA Sources: Converting Supermassive BH Binary Parameters into EM Observables

Niccolo Veronesi, Maria Charisi, Stephen R Taylor +2

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are approaching the sensitivity required to resolve gravitational waves (GWs) from individual supermassive black hole (SMBH) binaries. However, the larg…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Fast and accurate parameter estimation of high-redshift sources with the Einstein Telescope

Filippo Santoliquido, Jacopo Tissino, Ulyana Dupletsa +9

The Einstein Telescope (ET), along with other third-generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors, will be a key instrument for detecting GWs in the coming decades. However, analyzi…