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astro-ph.HE2022★ 15 cited

Using Pulsar Parameter Drifts to Detect Sub-Nanohertz Gravitational Waves

William DeRocco, Jeff A. Dror

Gravitational waves with frequencies below 1~nHz are notoriously difficult to detect. With periods exceeding current experimental lifetimes, they induce slow drifts in observables…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 14 cited

Supernova 2020wnt: An Atypical Superluminous Supernova with a Hidden Central Engine

Samaporn Tinyanont, Stan E. Woosley, Kirsty Taggart +34

We present observations of a peculiar hydrogen- and helium-poor stripped-envelope (SE) supernova (SN) 2020wnt, primarily in the optical and near-infrared (near-IR). Its peak absolu…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 131 cited

A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole

Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Daniel A. Perley +78

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are bursts of electromagnetic energy released when supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies violently disrupt a star that passes t…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 34 cited

The rise and fall of the iron-strong nuclear transient PS16dtm

T. Petrushevska, G. Leloudas, D. Ilic +30

Thanks to the advent of large-scale optical surveys, a diverse set of flares from the nuclear regions of galaxies has recently been discovered. These include the disruption of star…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 44 cited

X-ray Polarization Observations of BL Lacertae

Riccardo Middei, Ioannis Liodakis, Matteo Perri +143

Blazars are a class of jet-dominated active galactic nuclei with a typical double-humped spectral energy distribution. It is of common consensus the Synchrotron emission to be resp…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 20 cited

A short gamma-ray burst from a proto-magnetar remnant

N. Jordana-Mitjans, C. G. Mundell, C. Guidorzi +10

The contemporaneous detection of gravitational waves and gamma rays from the GW170817/GRB 170817A, followed by kilonova emission a day after, confirmed compact binary neutron-star…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 26 cited

SN 2022ann: A type Icn supernova from a dwarf galaxy that reveals helium in its circumstellar environment

K. W. Davis, K. Taggart, S. Tinyanont +64

We present optical and near-infrared (NIR) observations of the Type Icn supernova (SN Icn) 2022ann, the fifth member of its newly identified class of SNe. Its early optical spectra…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 13 cited

Optical Spectroscopy of Blazars for the Cherenkov Telescope Array -- II

E. Kasai, P. Goldoni, S. Pita +11

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) make up about 35 per cent of the more than 250 sources detected in very-high-energy (VHE) gamma rays to date with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telesc…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 6 cited

Revealing the progenitor of SN 2021zby through analysis of the shock-cooling light curve

Qinan Wang, Patrick Armstrong, Yossef Zenati +34

We present early observations and analysis of the double-peaked Type IIb supernova (SN IIb) 2021zby. captured the prominent early shock cooling peak of SN 2021zby within the…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 69 cited

A non-repeating fast radio burst in a dwarf host galaxy

Shivani Bhandari, Alexa C. Gordon, Danica R. Scott +14

We present the discovery of as-of-yet non-repeating Fast Radio Burst (FRB), FRB 20210117A, with the Australian Square Kilometer Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) as a part of the Commensal…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 49 cited

The Young Supernova Experiment Data Release 1 (YSE DR1): Light Curves and Photometric Classification of 1975 Supernovae

P. D. Aleo, K. Malanchev, S. Sharief +80

We present the Young Supernova Experiment Data Release 1 (YSE DR1), comprised of processed multi-color Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) griz and Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) gr photometry of 1…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 14 cited

Multiple Flares in the Changing-Look AGN NGC 5273

J. M. M. Neustadt, J. T. Hinkle, C. S. Kochanek +15

NGC 5273 is a known optical and X-ray variable AGN. We analyze new and archival IR, optical, UV, and X-ray data in order to characterize its long-term variability from 2000 to 2022…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 9 cited

The Luminosity Phase Space of Galactic and Extragalactic X-ray Transients Out to Intermediate Redshifts

Ava Polzin, Raffaella Margutti, Deanne Coppejans +8

We present a detailed compilation and analysis of the X-ray phase space of low- to intermediate-redshift () transients that consolidates observed light curves (and t…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 8 cited

Near-Infrared and Optical Observations of Type Ic SN 2021krf: Luminous Late-time Emission and Dust Formation

Aravind P. Ravi, Jeonghee Rho, Sangwook Park +29

We present near-infrared (NIR) and optical observations of the Type Ic supernova (SN Ic) SN 2021krf obtained between days 13 and 259 at several ground-based telescopes. The NIR spe…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 36 cited

A JWST Near- and Mid-Infrared Nebular Spectrum of the Type Ia Supernova 2021aefx

Lindsey A. Kwok, Saurabh W. Jha, Tea Temim +55

We present JWST near- and mid-infrared spectroscopic observations of the nearby normal Type Ia supernova SN 2021aefx in the nebular phase at days past maximum light. Our Nea…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 6 cited

Treasure Maps for Detections of Extreme Energy Cosmic Rays

Noemie Globus, Anatoli Fedynitch, Roger D. Blandford

The origin of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays is a 60-year old mystery. We show that with more events at the highest energies (above 150~EeV) it may be possible to limit the characte…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 12 cited

Gamma-ray observations of MAXI J1820+070 during the 2018 outburst

H. Abe, S. Abe, V. A. Acciari +439

MAXI J1820+070 is a low-mass X-ray binary with a black hole as a compact object. This binary underwent an exceptionally bright X-ray outburst from March to October 2018, showing ev…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 18 cited

The ASAS-SN Bright Supernova Catalog -- V. 2018-2020

K. D. Neumann, T. W. -S. Holoien, C. S. Kochanek +55

We catalog the 443 bright supernovae discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) in along with the 519 supernovae recovered by ASAS-SN and 516 a…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 70 cited

A luminous fast radio burst that probes the Universe at redshift 1

Stuart D. Ryder, Keith W. Bannister, S. Bhandari +18

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration pulses of radio emission originating from extragalactic distances. Radio dispersion on each burst is imparted by intervening plasm…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 14 cited

Jetted and Turbulent Stellar Deaths: New LVK-Detectable Gravitational Wave Sources

Ore Gottlieb, Hiroki Nagakura, Alexander Tchekhovskoy +6

Upcoming LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) observing runs are expected to detect a variety of inspiralling gravitational-wave (GW) events, that come from black-hole and neutron-star binary me…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 140 cited

Polarized Blazar X-rays imply particle acceleration in shocks

Ioannis Liodakis, Alan P. Marscher, Iván Agudo +125

Most of the light from blazars, active galactic nuclei with jets of magnetized plasma that point nearly along the line of sight, is produced by high-energy particles, up to $\sim 1…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 31 cited

Chandra, HST/STIS, NICER, Swift, and TESS Detail the Flare Evolution of the Repeating Nuclear Transient ASASSN-14ko

Anna V. Payne, Katie Auchettl, Benjamin J. Shappee +9

ASASSN-14ko is a nuclear transient at the center of the AGN ESO 253-G003 that undergoes periodic flares. Optical flares were first observed in 2014 by the All-Sky Automated Survey…

astro-ph.HE2022

Dynamical Unification of Tidal Disruption Events

Lars Lund Thomsen, Tom Kwan, Lixin Dai +2

About a hundred tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been observed and they exhibit a wide range of emission properties both at peak and over their lifetimes. Some TDEs peak predomi…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 28 cited

Tidal disruption events from eccentric orbits and lessons learned from the noteworthy ASASSN-14ko

Chang Liu, Brenna Mockler, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz +5

Stars grazing supermassive black holes (SMBHs) on bound orbits may survive tidal disruption, causing periodic flares. Inspired by the recent discovery of the periodic nuclear trans…