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most citedIntroducing the Illustris Project: Simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe

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astro-ph.HE2026

The mass of the neutron star in 4U 1820-30 revisited

Marcio G B de Avellar, Jorge E Horvath, Nathalia D Pires +7

We revisit the mass of the neutron star in the ultracompact binary 4U 1820--30 in light of a recently reported transient absorption feature at about 3.8 keV, interpreted as a gravi…

astro-ph.HE2026

Self-Consistent Modelling of Neutrino Production in Turbulent Black Hole Coronae

Sébastien Le Bihan, Martin Lemoine, Frank Rieger

Stochastic particle acceleration in magnetized turbulent plasmas has emerged as a key mechanism to explain multi-messenger signals from compact astrophysical environments. Self-con…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Probing the Diversity of Type Ia Supernova Remnants in 3-D Hydrodynamic Simulations with X-ray Spectral Synthesis

Yusei Fujimaru, Shiu-Hang Lee, Gilles Ferrand +7

Type Ia supernovae (SNe), thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs in binary systems, are widely used as standard candles owing to the empirical width-luminosity relation of their…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Exploring the origins of high-velocity features in SNe Ia with the spectral synthesis code TARDIS

Luke Harvey, Kate Maguire, Alexander Holas +8

Appearing as secondary higher-velocity absorption components, high-velocity features (HVFs) have been observed in several absorption lines in many Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). The…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 12 cited

Gravitational-wave Observations Suggest Most Black Hole Mergers Form in Triples

Jakob Stegmann, Fabio Antonini, Aleksandra Olejak +4

The spin-orbit tilt angles of merging stellar-mass black holes provide key insights into their astrophysical origin. Non-parametric population modelling of The LIGO, Vir…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Violent mergers revisited: The origin of the fastest stars in the Galaxy

Rüdiger Pakmor, Ken J. Shen, Aakash Bhat +12

Binary systems of two carbon-oxygen white dwarfs are one of the most promising candidates for the progenitor systems of Type Ia supernovae. Violent mergers, where the primary white…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Hillas meets Eddington: The case for blazars as ultra-high-energy neutrino sources

Xavier Rodrigues, Frank Rieger, Artem Bohdan +1

Blazars are promising high-energy neutrino source candidates. However, leptohadronic models face challenges in describing neutrino emission within a viable energy budget, and their…

astro-ph.HE2025

SEDONA-GesaRaT: an AI-Accelerated Radiative Transfer Program for 3-D Supernova Simulations

Xingzhuo Chen, Ulisses Braga-Neto, Lifan Wang +5

We present SEDONA-GesaRaT, a rapid code for supernova radiative transfer simulation developed based on the Monte-Carlo radiative transfer code SEDONA. We use a set of atomic physic…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Stellar properties indicating the presence of hyperons in neutron stars

Andreas Bauswein, Aristeidis Nikolaidis, Georgios Lioutas +7

We describe distinctive stellar features indicating the presence of hyperons in neutron stars as compared to purely nucleonic systems. A strongly negative curvature of the mass-rad…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Multidimensional Nebular-Phase Calculations of Dynamically-Driven Double-Degenerate Double-Detonation Models for Type Ia Supernovae

J. M. Pollin, S. A. Sim, L. J. Shingles +7

The dynamically-driven double-degenerate double-detonation model has emerged as a promising progenitor candidate for Type Ia supernovae. In this scenario, the primary white dwarf i…

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★ 7 cited

The impact of hyperons on neutron star mergers: gravitational waves, mass ejection and black hole formation

Hristijan Kochankovski, Georgios Lioutas, Sebastian Blacker +3

We study the influence of hyperons in binary neutron star (NS) mergers considering a total of 14 temperature dependent equations of state (EoSs) models which include hyperonic degr…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 15 cited

SN 2023ixf -- an average-energy explosion with circumstellar medium and a precursor

Alexandra Kozyreva, Andrea Caputo, Petr Baklanov +2

Abridged: The fortunate proximity of the SN2023ixf allowed astronomers to follow its evolution from almost the moment of the collapse of the progenitor's core. SN2023ixf can be exp…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 6 cited

Exploring the range of impacts of helium in the spectra of double detonation models for Type Ia supernovae

F. P. Callan, C. E. Collins, S. A. Sim +7

Models of sub-Chandrasekhar mass double detonations for Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) suggest a distinguishing property of this scenario is unburnt helium in the outer ejecta. Howeve…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 11 cited

Expected insights on type Ia supernovae from LISA's gravitational wave observations

Valeriya Korol, Riccardo Buscicchio, Ruediger Pakmor +3

The nature of progenitors of Type Ia supernovae has long been debated, primarily due to the elusiveness of the progenitor systems to traditional electromagnetic observation methods…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Primary and secondary source of energy in the superluminous supernova 2018ibb

Alexandra Kozyreva, Luke Shingles, Petr Baklanov +2

We examine the pair-instability origin of superluminous supernova 2018ibb. As the base model, we use a non-rotating stellar model with an initial mass of 250 Msun at about 1/15 sol…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 3 cited

Gravitational-wave model for neutron star merger remnants with supervised learning

Theodoros Soultanis, Kiril Maltsev, Andreas Bauswein +3

We present a time-domain model for the gravitational waves emitted by equal-mass binary neutron star merger remnants for a fixed equation of state. We construct a large set of nume…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 4 cited

Including a Luminous Central Remnant in Radiative Transfer Simulations for Type Iax Supernovae

F. P. Callan, S. A. Sim, C. E. Collins +6

Type Iax supernovae (SNe Iax) are proposed to arise from deflagrations of Chandrasekhar mass white dwarfs (WDs). Previous deflagration simulations have achieved good agreement with…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 17 cited

Type Ia supernova explosion models are inherently multidimensional

R. Pakmor, I. R. Seitenzahl, A. J. Ruiter +5

Theoretical and observational approaches to settling the important questions surrounding the progenitor systems and the explosion mechanism of normal Type Ia supernovae have thus f…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 34 cited

Hierarchical binary black hole mergers in globular clusters: mass function and evolution with redshift

Stefano Torniamenti, Michela Mapelli, Carole Périgois +4

Hierarchical black hole (BH) mergers are one of the most straightforward mechanisms to produce BHs inside and above the pair-instability mass gap. Here, we investigate the impact o…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 26 cited

Nonlinear aspects of stochastic particle acceleration

M. Lemoine, K. Murase, F. Rieger

In turbulent magnetized plasmas, charged particles can be accelerated to high energies through their interactions with the turbulent motions. As they do so, they draw energy from t…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 48 cited

Impact of gas hardening on the population properties of hierarchical black hole mergers in AGN disks

M. Paola Vaccaro, Michela Mapelli, Carole Périgois +5

Hierarchical black hole (BH) mergers in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are unique among formation channels of binary black holes (BBHs) because they are likely associated with elect…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 26 cited

Evolution and final fate of massive post-common-envelope binaries

Dandan Wei, Fabian R. N. Schneider, Philipp Podsiadlowski +3

Mergers of neutron stars (NSs) and black holes (BHs) are nowadays observed routinely thanks to gravitational-wave (GW) astronomy. In the isolated binary-evolution channel, a common…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 17 cited

Self-consistent MHD simulation of jet launching in a neutron star - white dwarf merger

J. Moran-Fraile, F. K. Roepke, R. Pakmor +4

The merger of a white dwarf (WD) and a neutron star (NS) is a relatively common event that will produce an observable electromagnetic signal. Furthermore, the compactness of these…