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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

Inferring host environment properties and gravitational-wave decay time from the eccentricity measurement of dynamically captured binaries

A. Vincent Paul, Parthapratim Mahapatra, Marc Favata +1

Dynamical capture in dense stellar environments is a promising channel for producing eccentric compact binary mergers. Although there have been no confident detections of eccentric…

astro-ph.HE2026

The extremely low-luminosity Type Iax SNe 2022ywf and 2023zgx

Barnabás Barna, Dominik Bánhidi, Tamás Szalai +25

We present the optical follow-up of SNe 2022ywf and 2023zgx, two examples from the Iax subclass of thermonuclear supernova (SN) events. With peak absolute magnitudes of $M_\mathrm{…

astro-ph.HE2026

3D insights into SN 1987A: ALMA observations compared to hydrodynamical explosion simulations

R. Wesson, M. Gabler, M. Lyons +9

We obtain three-dimensional distributions of CO and SiO molecules from high spatial resolution (0.03--0.06") ALMA observations of SN 1987A at two different epochs. The evolution be…

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★ 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★ 6 cited

Detection of disk-jet co-precession in a tidal disruption event

Yanan Wang, Zikun Lin, Linhui Wu +46

Theories and simulations predict that intense spacetime curvature near black holes bends the trajectories of light and matter, driving disk and jet precession under relativistic to…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Astrophysical Implications of Eccentricity in Gravitational Waves from Neutron Star-Black Hole Binaries

Isobel Romero-Shaw, Jakob Stegmann, Gonzalo Morras +2

The gravitational-wave signal from the neutron star-black hole (NSBH) merger GW200105 is consistent with this binary having significant orbital eccentricity close to merger. This r…

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★ 2 cited

The Type Ia Supernova 2021hem: A 2003fg-like Event in an Apparently Hostless Environment

Subhash Bose, M. D. Stritzinger, A. Malmgaard +25

We report observations of Type Ia SN 2021hem, located in an apparently hostless environment. With a peak absolute B-band magnitude of -19.96 mag, and a lack of secondary maximum in…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Aql X-1 from dawn 'til dusk: the early rise, fast state transition and decay of its 2024 outburst

A. Marino, F. Coti Zelati, K. Alabarta +36

Transient Low-Mass X-ray Binaries (LMXBs) are usually first detected by all-sky X-ray monitors when they enter new outbursts, typically at X-ray luminosities above 10…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Physical properties of long-rising type II supernovae -- Bayesian analytic modeling and spectrophotometric correlations

S. P. Cosentino, C. Inserra, M. L. Pumo

Supernova (SN) 1987A, with its long-rising (40 days) light curve, defines a rare subclass of type II SNe known as 1987A-like events. Representing only 1-3 percent of all c…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Infrared observations reveal the reprocessing envelope in the tidal disruption event AT 2019azh

Thomas M. Reynolds, Lars Thomsen, Seppo Mattila +14

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are expected to release much of their energy in the far-ultraviolet (UV), which we do not observe directly. However, infrared (IR) observations can o…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

A Multi-wavelength Characterization of the 2023 Outburst of MAXI J1807+132: Manifestations of Disk Instability and Jet Emission

Sandeep K. Rout, M. Cristina Baglio, Andrew Hughes +19

Several phenomenological aspects of low-luminosity neutron star transients, such as atolls, remain poorly understood. One such source, MAXI J1807+132, entered its latest outburst i…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 8 cited

SN 2024bfu, SN 2025qe, and the early light curves of type Iax supernovae

M. R. Magee, T. L. Killestein, M. Pursiainen +39

Type Iax supernovae (SNe Iax) are one of the most common subclasses of thermonuclear supernova and yet their sample size, particularly those observed shortly after explosion, remai…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 11 cited

The Type I Superluminous Supernova Catalogue II: Spectroscopic Evolution in the Photospheric Phase, Velocity Measurements, and Constraints on Diversity

Aysha Aamer, Matt Nicholl, Sebastian Gomez +29

Hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are among the most energetic explosions in the universe, reaching luminosities up to 100 times greater than those of normal supernova…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 14 cited

Possible binary neutron star merger history of the primary of GW230529

Parthapratim Mahapatra, Debatri Chattopadhyay, Anuradha Gupta +4

Black holes (BHs) with masses between , produced by a binary neutron star (BNS) merger, can further pair up with a neutron star or BH and merge again within a Hu…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Identifying intermediate mass binary black hole mergers in AGN disks using LISA

Poulami Dutta Roy, Parthapratim Mahapatra, Anuradha Samajdar +1

We show that Laser Interferometer Space Antenna can uniquely identify the sites of intermediate-mass binary black hole (IMBBH) mergers if they occur in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Gravitational wave inference of star cluster properties from intermediate-mass black hole mergers

Konstantinos Kritos, Luca Reali, Ken K. Y. Ng +2

Next-generation ground-based gravitational wave observatories will observe mergers of intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) out to high redshift. Such IMBHs can form through runawa…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

Eruptive mass loss less than a year before the explosion of superluminous supernovae: I. The cases of SN 2020xga and SN 2022xgc

A. Gkini, C. Fransson, R. Lunnan +47

We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of SN 2020xga and SN 2022xgc, two hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) at and , respectiv…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 6 cited

Massive stars exploding in a He-rich circumstellar medium X. Flash spectral features in the Type Ibn SN 2019cj and observations of SN 2018jmt

Z. -Y. Wang, A. Pastorello, K. Maeda +48

We present optical and near-infrared observations of two Type Ibn supernovae (SNe), SN 2018jmt and SN 2019cj. Their light curves have rise times of about 10 days, reaching an absol…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

The Impact of Astrophysical Priors on Parameter Inference for GW230529

Debatri Chattopadhyay, Sama Al-Shammari, Fabio Antonini +3

We investigate the effects of prior selection on the inferred mass and spin parameters of the neutron star-black hole merger GW230529\_181500. Specifically, we explore models motiv…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

A Star Cluster Population of High Mass Black Hole Mergers in Gravitational Wave Data

Fabio Antonini, Isobel M. Romero-Shaw, Thomas Callister

Stellar evolution theories predict a gap in the black hole birth mass spectrum as the result of pair instability processes in the cores of massive stars.This gap, however, is not s…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Binary population synthesis of the Galactic canonical pulsar population

Yuzhe Song, Simon Stevenson, Debatri Chattopadhyay +2

Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars that emit radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, from radio to gamma-rays. We use the rapid binary population synthesis suite COM…