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astro-ph.HE2026★ 3 cited

Energetic Nonthermal Electrons within the Above-the-looptop Regions in Solar Flares: Acceleration, Feedback, and Quasi-Periodic Pulsations

Jeongbhin Seo, Fan Guo, Xiaocan Li +3

Solar flares are among the most dramatic events in the solar system, releasing substantial magnetic energy and accelerating a large number of electrons to high energies. Notably, i…

astro-ph.HE2026

VERITAS Limits on Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Center Halo

A. Archer, P. Bangale, J. T. Bartkoske +58

Well-motivated models of particle dark matter predict its self-annihilation into Standard Model end states, which may be detected by particle detectors or telescopes. We conduct an…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Self-Sustaining Black Hole Engine Powered by the Tidal Disruptions of Stars

James Guillochon, Avi Loeb

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) strongly prefer host galaxies undergoing, or recovering from, a burst of star formation, implying that a rare minority of galaxy types produces most…

astro-ph.HE2026

Radiative Transfer Modeling of Stripped-envelope Supernovae II: Neural Network Emulation of Light Curves

S. Karthik Yadavalli, V. Ashley Villar, Maria R. Drout +3

We present the first neural-network emulator of stripped-envelope supernova (SESN) lightcurves, trained on a grid of 4499 light curves simulated with the radiative transfer (RT) co…

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Broad-band Spectral Modeling of Large-Scale X-ray Jets in High-Redshift Quasars: An MHD-Informed Approach

Patryk Liniewicz, Łukasz Stawarz, C. C. Cheung +2

We present a systematic spectral analysis of kiloparsec-scale jets in high-redshift quasars, modeling their radio-to-X-ray emission as synchrotron radiation and inverse-comptonizat…

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Radio Observations of the Unusual Tidal Disruption Event AT 2022wtn: a Fast and Highly Energetic Outflow

Gavin Farley, Tanmoy Laskar, Noah Franz +11

We present multi-epoch, multi-frequency radio observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT 2022wtn, obtained with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and Giant Metrewa…

astro-ph.HE2026

Dense, multi-phase accretion disk atmosphere in the low-luminosity state of black hole transientV4641 Sgr

Zuobin Zhang, Rob Fender, James H. Matthews +11

We present soft X-ray spectroscopy of the black-hole X-ray binary V4641~Sgr with the \textit{XMM-Newton} Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS). The RGS spectrum shows narrow emissi…

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Reverberation in the Narrow Fe K Line in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151 with XRISM

Jon M. Miller, Aberahmen Zoghbi, Xin Xiang +11

Emission lines that "echo" variations in the ionizing flux produced close to black holes are powerful probes of the central engine. In the Seyfert-1.5 galaxy NGC 4151, high-resolut…

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VLA Observations Confirm AT 2023mfm as an Off-nuclear Tidal Disruption Event

Wenkai Li, Collin T. Christy, Kate D. Alexander +15

We report new radio observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT 2023mfm, which we identified as a high-confidence candidate in a systematic search for off-nuclear TDEs. Hig…

astro-ph.HE2026

Resolving the temporal evolution of M87 jet with -arcsec Chandra observations

Camille Poitras, Gerrit Schellenberger, Ralph Kraft +3

We present a 13-year Chandra/HRC-I study of the M87 jet, using point-spread-function deconvolution to achieve unprecedented sub-arcsecond X-ray resolution of its kiloparsec-scale s…

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The radio emission from radiative filaments of Cygnus Loop

D. Urošević, M. Andjelić, M. D. Filipović +4

The Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) Cygnus Loop emerges as an ideal laboratory for analyzing the different radiation mechanisms, as well as the particle acceleration mechanisms at…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

IXPE Polarizations of the Lighthouse Pulsar, Trail, and Filament

Jack T. Dinsmore, Roger W. Romani, S. Zhang +9

The Lighthouse pulsar (PSR J11016101) sports a bright X-ray trail and filament. The synchrotron emission from both structures is expected to be polarized, with electric vector p…

astro-ph.HE2026

Fifteen new millisecond pulsars in 47 Tucanae

W. Chen, D. Risbud, P. C. C. Freire +16

47 Tucanae is one of the largest, brightest, and closest globular clusters to Earth. It hosts an exotic stellar population with stellar dynamics that indicate a complex evolution h…

astro-ph.HE2026

Multiwavelength Characterization of a New Magnetic Cataclysmic Variable 2CXO J050740.7-091337

Ilkham Galiullin, Vladislav Dodon, Antonio C. Rodriguez +2

We report the discovery and characterization of a new cataclysmic variable (CV), 2CXO J050740.7-091337 (hereafter 2CXO J0507), identified using the X-ray main sequence through a cr…

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The 0.9 Megasecond XRISM/Resolve Spectrum of the Seyfert-1 AGN NGC 4151

Jon M. Miller, Xin Xiang, Missagh Mehdipour +13

NGC 4151 is the brightest Seyfert-1 active galaxy in the pass band of the Resolve calorimeter spectrometer aboard XRISM. It has been observed on 14 occasions, resulting in a total…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

GRB 210704A: A Luminous Fast Blue Transient in a GRB Afterglow at

Daniëlle L. A. Pieterse, Andrew J. Levan, Maria E. Ravasio +27

We present detailed, multi-wavelength analysis of GRB 210704A: a Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor discovered and Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) detected gamma-ray burst (GRB). The b…

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Chasing Gamma-Ray Signals from Binary Neutron Star Coalescences with the Cherenkov Telescope Array: Prospects and Observing Strategies

S. Abe, J. Abhir, A. Abhishek +457

The detection of gravitational waves (GWs) from a binary neutron star (BNS) merger by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo (GW170817), together with its electromagnetic counterpart, th…

astro-ph.HE2026

A high-resolution study of the double radio relic system in MACS J1752.0+4440

M. Della Chiesa, A. Botteon, A. Bonafede +6

Radio relics are diffuse, extended synchrotron sources located at the outskirts of merging galaxy clusters. Their origin has been linked with shock waves injected into the intraclu…

astro-ph.HE2026

The major cluster merger in Abell 2034 as seen by XRISM: Strong turbulence and spectral anomalies?

Annie Heinrich, Irina Zhuravleva, Eugene Churazov +5

XRISM observations to date have shown that gas kinetic pressures in the intracluster medium (ICM) tend towards the low end of predictions from cosmological simulations. Here, we pr…

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GRRMHD Simulations of State Transitions in Non-Jetted Tidal Disruption Events

Brandon Curd, Safira Heridia, Aviyel Ahiyya +1

Circularization of the stream material into a debris cloud during tidal disruption events (TDEs) was recently demonstrated in one of the most accurate long duration TDE simulations…

astro-ph.HE2026

Las Cumbres Observatory Gravitational-Wave Follow-up in the Third and Fourth Observing Runs: Strengths and Weaknesses of a Rapid Response Galaxy Targeted Strategy

Ido Keinan, Iair Arcavi, D. Andrew Howell +34

We present a summary of gravitational-wave (GW) follow-up using the Las Cumbres Observatory global network of telescopes during the third (O3) and fourth (O4) observing runs of the…

astro-ph.HE2026

Observational distinguishability of the Kerr and Kerr-Hayward metrics to EHT

Nikola Bukowiecka, Angelo Ricarte, Prashant Kocherlakota +1

Astrophysical black holes appear well-represented by the Kerr metric, whose maximal analytic extension contains a ringlike curvature singularity. We study a phenomenological regula…

astro-ph.HE2026

Approximating the Fourier Transform of Ring-Like Images: the Focal Expansion

Filip Niewiński, Michael D. Johnson

We derive and showcase a novel approach to approximating Fourier transforms in higher dimensions, focusing specifically on the case of 2D radially concentrated ('ring-like') functi…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Accurate Determination of Chemical Abundances near a Supermassive Black Hole

The XRISM collaboration

The metal abundances in galactic nuclei carry key information on the history of star formation and mass transfer in central regions of galaxies. X-ray fluorescence analysis is a un…