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astro-ph.HE2026

Relative frequencies of core-collapse supernovae as a function of metallicity: observations vs theoretical predictions

Claudia P. Gutiérrez, Lluís Galbany, Joseph P. Anderson +4

Understanding supernova (SN) progenitors remains a major challenge in astrophysics, as it involves untangling the complex interplay between stellar physics (e.g., evolution, binari…

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

AGN in Gaia Alerts: from flares to Changing Look Quasars

M. Dennefeld, T. Pursimo, C. Carvalho +11

The Gaia Alerts system is providing alerts on a variety of objects displaying a significant photometric change detected by the Gaia satellite from one passage to the next one over…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Asymmetrical thermonuclear supernovae triggered by the tidal disruption of white dwarfs

Pavan Vynatheya, Luc Dessart, Taeho Ryu +1

In a dense star cluster core, a tidal disruption event (TDE) of a white dwarf (WD) can occur if the WD passes within the tidal radius of an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH). Ver…

astro-ph.HE2026

Minutes-long soft X-ray prompt emission from a compact object merger

An Li, Chen-Wei Wang, Niccolò Passaleva +75

Compact object mergers are multi-messenger sources and known progenitors of some gamma-ray bursts, bright flashes of high-energy radiation powered by a central engine, either an ac…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Probing millisecond magnetar formation in binary neutron star mergers through X-ray follow-up of gravitational wave alerts

Clara Plasse, Alexis Reboul-Salze, Jérome Guilet +5

The nature of the remnant of a binary neutron star (BNS) merger is uncertain. Though certainly a black hole (BH) in the cases of the most massive BNSs, X-ray lightcurves from gamma…

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

Probing the redshift evolution and sub-populations of binary neutron stars with the Einstein Telescope

Alexandre Toubiana, Irina Dvorkin

The formation channels of binary neutron stars (BNSs) currently remain uncertain, but important information can be gathered by observing their mergers with gravitational-wave detec…

astro-ph.HE2025

Radiation-mediated shocks in gamma-ray bursts: spectral evolution

Filip Alamaa, Frédéric Daigne

Radiation-mediated shocks (RMSs) occurring below the photosphere in a gamma-ray burst (GRB) jet could play a crucial role in shaping the prompt emission. In this paper, we study th…

astro-ph.HE2025

A Simulation Study on the Cosmic Ray Energy Spectra of Elemental Mass Groups using the Tibet Air Shower and Muon Detector Arrays through the Bayesian Unfolding Method

G. Imaizumi, M. Anzorena, K. Fujita +11

We study the analysis method to determine the cosmic-ray energy spectra of different mass groups assuming the use of the Tibet AS experiment, which consists of the high-density…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

JWST reveals a supernova following a gamma-ray burst at z 7.3

A. J. Levan, B. Schneider, E. Le Floc'h +50

The majority of energetic long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are thought to arise from the collapse of massive stars, making them powerful tracers of star formation across cosmi…

astro-ph.HE2025

SVOM GRB 250314A at z 7.3: an exploding star in the era of reionization

B. Cordier, J. Y. Wei, N. R. Tanvir +103

Most long Gamma-ray bursts originate from a rare type of massive stellar explosion. Their afterglows, while rapidly fading, can be initially extremely luminous at optical/near-infr…

astro-ph.HE2025

Diffuse gamma-ray and neutrino emission from the Milky Way and the local knee in the cosmic ray spectrum

C. Prevotat, Zh. Zhu, S. Koldobskiy +3

The LHAASO observatory has recently measured details of the cosmic-ray (CR) spectrum in the knee region (1 -- 10 PeV) with unprecedented precision, including its average CR mass co…

astro-ph.HE2025

Gamma rays as leptonic portals to energetic neutrinos: a new Monte Carlo approach

Gaetano Di Marco, Rafael Alves Batista, Miguel A. Sánchez-Conde

High center-of-mass electromagnetic~(EM) interactions could produce decaying heavy leptons and hadrons, leading to neutrino generation. These processes might occur in the most extr…

astro-ph.HE2025

CRPropa 3.3: Toward a Unified Multi-Messenger Framework from GeV to ZeV Energies

Sophie Aerdker, Rafael Alves Batista, Julia Becker Tjus +11

We present CRPropa 3.3, the latest release of the publicly available Monte Carlo framework for simulating the propagation of high-energy particles in astrophysical environments. Th…

astro-ph.HE2025

Spectra for the Vacuum Cherenkov Effect in Astrophysical Electromagnetic Cascades with Lorentz Invariance Violation

Andrey Saveliev, Rafael Alves Batista, Feodor Mishin

Lorentz invariance violation is a feature of several quantum gravity models in which Lorentz symmetry is broken at high energies, possibly leading to changes in particle behavior a…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Effects of extragalactic magnetic field on the spectra of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays from jetted sources

Sarah Soares Sippert, Carlos Magno R. da Costa, Rogerio M. de Almeida +2

The origins and acceleration mechanisms of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are unknown. Many models attribute their extreme energies to powerful astrophysical jets. Understa…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Photospheric emission from GRB 211211A altered by a strong radiation-mediated shock

Oscar Wistemar, Filip Alamaa, Felix Ryde

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) spectra are typically non-thermal, with many including two spectral breaks suggestive of optically-thin emission. However, the emitted spectrum from a GRB pho…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

A discussion on the origin of the sub-PeV Galactic gamma-ray emission

S. Kato, R. Alves Batista, M. Anzorena +16

Galactic diffuse gamma-ray flux measured by the Tibet AS experiment and the total Galactic gamma-ray flux measured by Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) are fou…

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…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Non-Stationary Discs and Instabilities

Omer Blaes, Yan-Fei Jiang, Jean-Pierre Lasota +1

We review our current knowledge of thermal and viscous instabilities in accretion discs around compact objects. We begin with classical disc models based on analytic viscosity pres…

astro-ph.HE2025

Are Kronberger 80 and/or Kronberger 82 regions PeVatron candidates for LHAASO J2108+5157?

Akash Gupta, Eduardo De La Fuente, Ram K. Yadav +13

High-energy gamma rays have been detected in the region of LHAASO~J2108+5157 by the Fermi--LAT, HAWC and LHAASO-KM2A observatories. Cygnus~OB2 in Cygnus--X has been confirmed as th…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 10 cited

Large Cold Dust Reservoir Revealed in Transitional SN Ib 2014C by James Webb Space Telescope Mid-Infrared Spectroscopy

Samaporn Tinyanont, Ori D. Fox, Melissa Shahbandeh +32

Supernova (SN) 2014C is a rare transitional event that exploded as a hydrogen-poor, helium-rich Type Ib SN and subsequently interacted with a hydrogen-rich circumstellar medium (CS…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

JWST Discovery of a High-Redshift Tidal Disruption Event Candidate in COSMOS-Web

Mitchell Karmen, Suvi Gezari, Erini Lambrides +26

The rates and properties of tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide valuable insights into their host galaxy central stellar densities and the demographics of their central supermas…