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Las Cumbres Observatory Gravitational-Wave Follow-up in the Third and Fourth Observing Runs: Strengths and Weaknesses of a Rapid Response Galaxy Targeted Strategy

Ido Keinan, Iair Arcavi, D. Andrew Howell +34

We present a summary of gravitational-wave (GW) follow-up using the Las Cumbres Observatory global network of telescopes during the third (O3) and fourth (O4) observing runs of the…

astro-ph.HE2026

Repeating Nuclear Transients from Repeating Partial Tidal Disruption Events

Ananya Bandopadhyay, Eric R. Coughlin, Julia Fancher +2

Extragalactic nuclear transients that exhibit repeating outbursts can be modeled as the repeated dynamical interaction between bound stars and supermassive black holes (SMBHs). A s…

astro-ph.HE2026

AT2024lhc and AT2024kmq in the landscape of featureless tidal disruption events

Yuhan Yao, Ryan Chornock, Andrew Mummery +39

We study AT2024kmq and AT2024lhc, two tidal disruption events (TDEs) with blue featureless spectra associated with high-mass black holes (). Both even…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 4 cited

AT2024wpp: An Extremely Luminous Fast Ultraviolet Transient Powered by Accretion onto a Black Hole

Daniel A. Perley, Anna Y. Q. Ho, Zoë McGrath +69

We present the discovery of AT 2024wpp ("Whippet"), a fast and luminous 18cow-like transient. At a redshift of z=0.0868, revealed by Keck Cosmic Web Imager spectroscopy of its fain…

astro-ph.HE2025

Resolving the (Debate About) Nozzle Shocks in Tidal Disruption Events

Zachary L. Andalman, Eliot Quataert, Eric R. Coughlin +1

When a star passes within the Roche limit of a supermassive black hole (SMBH), it is pulled apart by the BH's tidal field in a tidal disruption event (TDE). The resulting flare is…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Tidal disruption events with SPH-EXA: resolving the return of the stream

Noah Kubli, Alessia Franchini, Eric R. Coughlin +4

In a tidal disruption event (TDE), a star is disrupted by the tidal field of a massive black hole, creating a debris stream that returns to the black hole, forms an accretion flow,…