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astro-ph.HE2021★ 13 cited

Follow-up Observations of the Prolonged, super-Eddington, Tidal Disruption Event Candidate 3XMM~J150052.0+015452: the Slow Decline Continues

Dacheng Lin, Olivier Godet, Natalie A. Webb +7

The X-ray source 3XMM~J150052.0+015452 was discovered as a spectacular tidal disruption event candidate during a prolonged ( yrs) outburst (Lin et al. 2017). It exhibited uniq…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 31 cited

A Carbon/Oxygen-dominated Atmosphere Days After Explosion for the "Super-Chandrasekhar" Type Ia SN 2020esm

Georgios Dimitriadis, Ryan J. Foley, Nikki Arendse +18

Seeing pristine material from the donor star in a Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) explosion can reveal the nature of the binary system. In this paper, we present photometric and spectros…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 22 cited

Updated Photometry of the Yellow Supergiant Progenitor and Late-time Observations of the Type IIb Supernova 2016gkg

Charles D. Kilpatrick, David A. Coulter, Ryan J. Foley +4

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of the type IIb supernova (SN) 2016gkg at 652, 1698, and 1795 days with the Advanced Camera for Surveys (ACS) and Wide Field Ca…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 11 cited

Handing off the outcome of binary neutron star mergers for accurate and long-term post-merger simulations

Federico G. Lopez Armengol, Zachariah B. Etienne, Scott C. Noble +20

We perform binary neutron star (BNS) merger simulations in full dynamical general relativity with IllinoisGRMHD, on a Cartesian grid with adaptive-mesh refinement. After the remnan…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 55 cited

Pulsational pair-instability supernovae: gravitational collapse, black-hole formation, and beyond

Ninoy Rahman, Hans-Thomas Janka, Georg Stockinger +1

We investigate the final collapse of rotating and non-rotating pulsational pair-instability supernova progenitors with zero-age-main-sequence masses of 60, 80, and 115$\mathrm{M}_\…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 3 cited

Exploring the MeV Sky with a Combined Coded Mask and Compton Telescope: The Galactic Explorer with a Coded Aperture Mask Compton Telescope (GECCO)

Elena Orlando, Eugenio Bottacini, Alexander Moiseev +33

The sky at MeV energies is currently poorly explored. Here we present an innovative mission concept that builds on and improves past and currently proposed missions at such energie…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 10 cited

GRB 191016A: The onset of the forward shock and evidence of late energy injection

M. Pereyra, N. Fraija, A. M. Watson +13

We present optical and near-infrared photometric observations of GRB 191016 with the COATLI, DDOTI and RATIR ground-based telescopes over the first three nights. We present the tem…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 197 cited

A fast radio burst source at a complex magnetised site in a barred galaxy

H. Xu, J. R. Niu, P. Chen +71

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are highly dispersed millisecond-duration radio bursts. Recent observations of a Galactic FRB suggest that at least some FRBs originate from magnetars, but…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 28 cited

SN 2020kyg and the rates of faint Iax Supernovae from ATLAS

Shubham Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, M. E. Huber +17

We present multi-wavelength follow-up observations of the ATLAS discovered faint Iax supernova SN 2020kyg that peaked at an absolute magnitude of , makin…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 52 cited

Target of Opportunity Observations of Gravitational Wave Events with Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Igor Andreoni, Raffaella Margutti, Om Sharan Salafia +52

The discovery of the electromagnetic counterpart to the binary neutron star merger GW170817 has opened the era of gravitational-wave multi-messenger astronomy. Rapid identification…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 1 cited

Spectropolarimetry of the Type Ia SN 2019ein rules out significant global asphericity of the ejecta

Kishore C. Patra, Yi Yang, Thomas G. Brink +12

Detailed spectropolarimetric studies may hold the key to probing the explosion mechanisms and the progenitor scenarios of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia). We present multi-epoch spectr…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 25 cited

Variability and Spectral Characteristics of Three Flaring Gamma-ray Quasars Observed by VERITAS and Fermi-LAT

C. B. Adams, J. Batshoun, W. Benbow +63

Flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) are the most luminous blazars at GeV energies, but only rarely emit detectable fluxes of TeV gamma rays, typically during bright GeV flares. We…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 66 cited

Radio and X-ray observations of the luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient AT2020xnd

Joe S. Bright, Raffaella Margutti, David Matthews +25

We present deep X-ray and radio observations of the Fast Blue Optical Transient (FBOT) AT2020xnd/ZTF20acigmel at from d to d after explosion. AT2020xnd belongs…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 28 cited

Less than 1% of Core-Collapse Supernovae in the local universe occur in elliptical galaxies

I. Irani, S. J. Prentice, S. Schulze +39

We present observations of three Core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) in elliptical hosts, detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility Bright Transient Survey (BTS). SN 2019ape is a SN I…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 7 cited

Multi-Wavelength Observation Campaign of the TeV Gamma-Ray Binary HESS J0632+057 with NuSTAR, VERITAS, MDM, and Swift

Y. M. Tokayer, H. An, J. P. Halpern +53

HESS J0632+057 belongs to a rare subclass of binary systems which emits gamma-rays above 100 GeV. It stands out for its distinctive high-energy light curve, which features a sharp…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 27 cited

Is the high-energy neutrino event IceCube-200530A associated with a hydrogen-rich superluminous supernova?

Tetyana Pitik, Irene Tamborra, Charlotte R. Angus +1

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) follow-up campaign of alerts released by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has led to the likely identification of the transient AT2019fdr as the…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 33 cited

Evidence for the preferential disruption of moderately massive stars by supermassive black holes

Brenna Mockler, Angela A. Twum, Katie Auchettl +4

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide a unique opportunity to probe the stellar populations around supermassive black holes (SMBHs). By combining light curve modeling with spectra…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 24 cited

Observation of the gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057 with the H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS telescopes

C. B. Adams, W. Benbow, A. Brill +409

The results of gamma-ray observations of the binary system HESS J0632+057 collected during 450 hours over 15 years, between 2004 and 2019, are presented. Data taken with the atmosp…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 41 cited

FAST discovery of an extremely radio-faint millisecond pulsar from the Fermi-LAT unassociated source 3FGL J0318.1+0252

Pei Wang, Di Li, Colin J. Clark +23

High sensitivity radio searches of unassociated -ray sources have proven to be an effective way of finding new pulsars. Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Tel…

astro-ph.HE2021

SOAR/Goodman Spectroscopic Assessment of Candidate Counterparts of the LIGO-Virgo Event GW190814

Douglas Tucker, Matthew Wiesner, Sahar Allam +140

On 2019 August 14 at 21:10:39 UTC, the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration (LVC) detected a possible neutron star-black hole merger (NSBH), the first ever identified. An extensive search for…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 141 cited

Final Moments I: Precursor Emission, Envelope Inflation, and Enhanced Mass loss Preceding the Luminous Type II Supernova 2020tlf

Wynn Jacobson-Galán, Luc Dessart, David Jones +33

We present panchromatic observations and modeling of supernova (SN) 2020tlf, the first normal type II-P/L SN with confirmed precursor emission, as detected by the Young Supernova E…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 28 cited

Investigating the Nature of the Luminous Ambiguous Nuclear Transient ASASSN-17jz

Thomas W. -S. Holoien, Jack M. M. Neustadt, Patrick J. Vallely +31

We present observations of the extremely luminous but ambiguous nuclear transient (ANT) ASASSN-17jz, spanning roughly 1200 days of the object's evolution. ASASSN-17jz was discovere…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 1 cited

PGIR 20eid (SN2020qmp): A Type IIP Supernova at 15.6 Mpc discovered by the Palomar Gattini-IR survey

G. P. Srinivasaragavan, I. Sfaradi, J. Jencson +19

We present a detailed analysis of SN 2020qmp, a nearby type IIP core-collapse supernova (CCSN), discovered by the Palomar Gattini-IR (PGIR) survey in the galaxy UGC07125. We illust…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 5 cited

Search for Very High-Energy Emission from the millisecond pulsar PSR J0218+4232

V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +198

PSR J0218+4232 is one of the most energetic millisecond pulsars known and has long been considered as one of the best candidates for very high-energy (VHE; >100 GeV) gamma-ray emis…