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astro-ph.HE2026

The Distinctive Evolution and Spectral Energy Distribution of Binary Massive Black Hole Accretion

Yue Xu, Fu-Guo Xie, Ya-Ping Li +2

Binary (super-)massive black holes (BHs) are expected to reside in the center of some galaxies. In this work, we re-visit accretion onto binary massive BHs, incorporating recent ad…

astro-ph.HE2026

Detection of persistent helium absorption in the 91bg-like type Ia Supernova 2022an

Ping Chen, Avishay Gal-Yam, Subo Dong +14

We present optical and near-infrared observations of the fast-declining Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) 2022an. The photometric and spectroscopic properties identify it as a standard 91b…

astro-ph.HE2026

Detection of a parsec-scale, compact, and fading ejecta from an accreting massive black hole

Chao Li, Ning Chang, Jun Yang +2

Dwarf galaxies, characterized by their low luminosities and masses, are excellent candidates for searches for intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), particularly when they show str…

astro-ph.HE2026

Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals in Light of Quasi-periodic Eruptions: Milli-Hertz Gravitational Wave Background

Brennen Black, Xian Chen, Zhen Pan

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are repeated X-ray bursts originating in galactic nuclei. Of the many proposed models, the favored model is the disk-collision model in which a stel…

astro-ph.HE2026

The MeerKAT Thousand-Pulsar Polarisation Array II: Searches for Ultralight Axion-Like Dark Matter

Zi-Yan Yuwen, Michael Sarkis, Yin-Zhe Ma +4

We construct Pulsar Polarisation Arrays (PPA), using regular pulsars monitored in MeerKAT's Thousand Pulsar Array (TPA) Programme, to search for Axion-like Dark Matter (ALDM) withi…

astro-ph.HE2026

The MeerKAT Thousand-Pulsar Polarization Array I: Properties of the Polarization and Rotation Measure Time Series Data

Michael Sarkis, Zi-Yan Yuwen, Yin-Zhe Ma +4

The polarimetry of recent pulsar observations has provided a wealth of observational data with which to test physical theories of emission mechanisms, radiative transfer and even t…

astro-ph.HE2026

Correlation between Ultrahigh-Energy Neutrino KM3-230213A and Gamma-Ray Bursts

Ruiqi Wang, Bo-Qiang Ma

The KM3NeT Collaboration reported the detection of a neutrino, designated as KM3-230213A, with a reconstructed energy peaking at 220 PeV and equatorial coordinates (J2000) of RA=$9…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Strong X-ray Variability of I Zwicky 1: Obscuration from Clumpy Accretion-Disk Winds

Jian Huang, Bin Luo, W. N. Brandt +2

Obscuration from clumpy accretion-disk winds has been invoked to explain the extreme X-ray weakness and X-ray variability observed in a substantial fraction of super-Eddington accr…

astro-ph.HE2026

Spectral Dataset of Stripped-Envelope Supernovae from the Tsinghua Supernova Group

Danfeng Xiang, Xiaofeng Wang, Jujia Zhang +40

The extent of envelope stripping in the progenitor stars is directly reflected in the diversity of spectral features observed in stripped-envelope supernovae (SESNe). Through exten…

astro-ph.HE2026

Novae breves from magnetar giant flares: Potential probes of neutron star crusts

Jiahang Zhong, Qiu-Hong Chen, Yacheng Kang +4

Matter ejected from the magnetar crust during giant flares (GFs) may undergo -process nucleosynthesis, producing short-lived optical transients termed "novae breves". Although i…

astro-ph.HE2026

HAWC J0630+186 Could Not Be Powered by PSR J0630+19

Bojun Wang, Xiaohong Cui, Jiguang Lu +2

3HWC J0630+186 is one of the very-high-energy gamma-ray sources in the third High-Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) catalog, its origin and source are, however, not clearly identifie…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 4 cited

Constraining the Fraction of LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA Binary Black Hole Merger Events Associated with Active Galactic Nucleus Flares

Liang-Gui Zhu, Lei He, Xian Chen +1

The formation channels of binary black hole (BBH) mergers detected by the LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA (LVK) network remain uncertain. While BBH mergers occurring inside active galactic nucleu…

astro-ph.HE2026

Relativistic Tidal Dissipation and the Gravitational-wave Signal of a White Dwarf Orbiting an Intermediate-Mass Black Hole

Yang Yang, Leif Lui, Alejandro Torres-Orjuela +1

Finding intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) and measuring their masses and spins are key to understanding massive black hole formation. White dwarf (WD)-IMBH binaries provide a u…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Realistic Pulsar -- Supermassive Black Hole Timing Model

Zexin Hu, Ziming Wang, Lijing Shao

Timing observation of pulsars orbiting around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) can measure the spacetime around the SMBH to a high precision and thus be a novel probe of the gravit…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Locating the missing large-scale emission in the jet of M87* with short EHT baselines

Boris Georgiev, Paul Tiede, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg +280

In Very-Long Baseline Interferometric arrays, nearly co-located stations probe the largest scales and typically cannot resolve the observed source. In the absence of large-scale st…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

X-ray and radio observations of the AMXP MAXI J1957+032 covering the 2022-2025 outbursts

Zhaosheng Li, Lucien Kuiper, Yuanyue Pan +12

We presented a comprehensive multi-epoch timing and multiwavelength analysis of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar MAXI J1957+032, covering two major outbursts in 2022 and 2025…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Transient Large-Scale Anisotropy in TeV Cosmic Rays due to an Interplanetary Coronal Mass Ejection

Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian, Y. X. Bai +309

Large- or medium-scale cosmic ray anisotropy at TeV energies has not previously been confirmed to vary with time. Transient anisotropy changes have been observed below 150 GeV, esp…

astro-ph.HE2026

Constructing a gravitational wave analysis pipeline for extremely large mass ratio inspirals

Tian-Xiao Wang, Yan Wang, Alejandro Torres-Orjuela +4

Extremely large mass-ratio inspirals (XMRIs), consisting of a brown dwarf orbiting a supermassive black hole, emit long-lived and nearly monochromatic gravitational waves in the mi…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Little Red Dots as Hidden Neutrino Sources

Riku Kuze, Kunihito Ioka, Kohta Murase +2

Little Red Dots (LRDs) are enigmatic, compact, red galaxies at high redshift, -, discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope. Broad emission lines in the absence of X-…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Galactic Centre Pulsars with the SKAO

F. Abbate, A. Carleo, S. Chatterjee +19

The detection of a pulsar closely orbiting our Galaxy's supermassive black hole - Sagittarius A* - is one of the ultimate prizes in pulsar astrophysics. The relativistic effects ex…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Mini-supernovae from white dwarf-neutron star mergers: Viewing-angle-dependent spectra and lightcurves

Yacheng Kang, Jin-Ping Zhu, Lijing Shao +3

Unstable mass transfer may occur during white dwarf-neutron star (WD-NS) mergers, in which the WD can be tidally disrupted and form an accretion disk around the NS. Such an accreti…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Probing jet base emission of M87* with the 2021 Event Horizon Telescope observations

Saurabh, Hendrik Müller, Sebastiano D. von Fellenberg +282

We investigate the presence and spatial characteristics of the jet base emission in M87* at 230 GHz, enabled by the enhanced uv coverage in the 2021 Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) o…

astro-ph.HE2025

Pulsar electrodynamics inferred from frequency-dependent circular polarization diversity

Shunshun Cao, Yanjun Guo, Jinchen Jiang +3

The nature of coherent radio emission is still challenging even after more than half a century of pulsar discovery, but it is generally a consensus that single-pulse observations a…

astro-ph.HE2025

Energy-Dependent Shifts of Medium-Scale Anisotropies in Very-High-Energy Cosmic Rays Observed by LHAASO-KM2A

The LHAASO collabration, Zhen Cao, F. Aharonian +310

Small deviations from isotropy in the arrival directions of Galactic cosmic rays serve as a unique probe of the local magnetic environment. In this Letter, we report observations o…