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most citedCandidate Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Binary Black Hole Merger Gravitational Wave Event S190521g

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astro-ph.HE2026

Extreme AGN Variability in WISE: Powerful Flares and Candidate Tidal Disruption Events in AGN

Satya Teja Anuraag Upadhyayula, Daniel Stern, Kishalay De +7

We present first results from a systematic study of extreme mid-infrared variability of active galaxies across the -year baseline of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (W…

astro-ph.HE2026

Signatures of Compact Object Mergers Inside Stars in AGN Disks

Matteo Cantiello, Alexander J. Dittmann, Saavik Ford +4

Disks of gas accreting onto supermassive black holes, powering active galactic nuclei (AGN), can capture stars from nuclear star clusters or form stars in situ via gravitational in…

astro-ph.GA2026

Orbital Migration of Interacting Stellar Mass Black Holes in Disks around Supermassive Black Holes. III. Mass Distribution of Hierarchical Mergers

Katherine L. Gonglewski, Amy Secunda, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low +3

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) disks are a promising location for the formation of binary black holes (BBHs) that will merge on relatively short timescales and be detected by LIGO-V…

astro-ph.EP2026

Active Galactic Nucleus Tori: Potential Birthplace to Millions of Planets

Bhupendra Mishra, Wladimir Lyra, Barry McKernan +3

The outer regions of AGN disks have temperatures similar to those of circumstellar disks, permitting dust condensation. Therefore, planet formation and growth could be active in th…

astro-ph.HE2026

AGN Disks as Supernova Mufflers I: 3D Local Hydrodynamic Models

Harrison E. Cook, Wladimir Lyra, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low +2

Supernova (SN) shocks that originate from stars on orbits embedded in dense active galactic nuclei (AGN) accretion disks evolve differently from those that occur in the interstella…

astro-ph.HE2026

McFACTS. IV. Electromagnetic Counterparts to AGN-disk-embedded Binary Black Hole Mergers

Emily McPike, Rosalba Perna, K. E. Saavik Ford +10

The accretion disks of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are promising environments for producing binary black hole (BBH) mergers, which have been detected via gravitational waves (GWs…