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

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astro-ph.HE2026

A Significant Dust Reservoir Uncovered with JWST in the Type Ic SN 1983V More Than 40 Years Post-Explosion

Sophia S. Kressy, Thomas Moore, Ori D. Fox +26

Searching for late-time emission from supernovae (SNe) is an active field. Infrared (IR) wavelengths are sensitive to thermal emission from dust, which can be used to probe SN cont…

astro-ph.HE2026

Long-duration GW Searches for Sub-solar NSs and Superkilonovae using CoCoA

Abby Tejera, Divyajyoti, Alessandra Corsi +3

On 2025 August 18, the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration reported a sub-threshold gravitational-wave (GW) candidate, S250818k, consistent with a binary neutron star (NS) merger potent…

astro-ph.HE2026

Ultraviolet to Infrared Spectroscopy of the Type Ibn SN 2023tsz Suggests a Lower-mass Progenitor

Sergiy S. Vasylyev, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Luc Dessart +42

Type Ibn supernovae are stripped-envelope explosions whose spectra indicate interaction with dense, helium-rich and hydrogen-poor circumstellar material (CSM), making them importan…

astro-ph.GA2026

The JADES Transient Survey II: Volumetric Supernova Rates out to z~5

Christa DeCoursey, Christian Vassallo, Louis-Gregory Strolger +27

The JADES Transient Survey (JTS) identified 83 supernova (SN) candidates in the JADES Deep Field, a 25 arcmin region with deep (30 mag) multi-band, multi-epoch JWST…

astro-ph.HE2026

SN 2024iss: A Multi-Wavelength Exposé of a Type IIb Supernova with an Early-Time Ultraviolet Spectrum and Shock Breakout Constraints

Rujula Yete, Wynn Jacobson-Galan, Ferdinand Ferdinand +49

We present multi-wavelength observations and a comprehensive analysis of the nearby (D14 Mpc) Type IIb supernova (SN IIb) 2024iss. Observations of SN2024iss include an early…

astro-ph.SR2026

Thermal Evolution of the Central Star in Pa 30

Anthony L. Piro, Yossef Zenati, Tin Long Sunny Wong

Pa 30 has been identified as the nebular remnant of the historical SN 1181. It is host to a hot () central star (WD J005311) with a fast wind ($\approx16,0…

astro-ph.SR2026

Presaging Doppler beaming discoveries of double white dwarfs during the Rubin LSST era

Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Yossef Zenati, Nadia L. Zakamska +2

Double white dwarfs (DWDs) are by far the most common compact binaries in the Milky Way, are important low-frequency gravitational-wave sources, and in some cases merge to become T…

astro-ph.HE2026

A spectroscopically confirmed, strongly lensed, metal-poor Type II supernova at z = 5.13

David A. Coulter, Conor Larison, Justin D. R. Pierel +88

Observing supernovae (SNe) in the early Universe (z > 3) provides a window into how both galaxies and individual stars have evolved over cosmic time, yet a detailed study of high-r…

astro-ph.HE2026

The Structure of Poloidal Fields Embedded in Thin Disks

Yossef Zenati, Ethan T. Vishniac, Amir Jafari

Many accreting systems are modeled as geometrically thin disks. Simulations of accretion disks cannot be extended to this regime, although local models can address the behavior of…

astro-ph.HE2026

Expanding the High-z Supernova Frontier: "Wide-Area" JWST Discoveries from the First Two Years of COSMOS-Web

Ori D. Fox, Armin Rest, Justin D. R. Pierel +48

Transient astronomy in the early Universe (z > 2) remains largely unexplored, lying beyond the rest-frame optical spectroscopic reach of most current observatories. Yet this regime…

astro-ph.CO2025★ 1 cited

SN 2025ogs: A Spectroscopically-Normal Type Ia Supernova at z = 2 as a Benchmark for Redshift Evolution

M. R. Siebert, J. D. R. Pierel, M. Engesser +20

The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will provide a revolutionary measurement of the Universe's expansion kinematics, driven by dark matter and dark energy, out to .…

astro-ph.HE2025

SN 2019vxm: A Shocking Coincidence between Fermi and TESS

Zachary G. Lane, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Sofia Rest +37

Shock breakout and, in some cases, jet-driven high-energy emission are increasingly recognized as key signatures of the earliest phases of core-collapse supernovae, especially in T…

astro-ph.HE2025

Neutrino diagnostics of hadron-quark phase transition in Neutron Stars

Yossef Zenati, Conrado Albertus Torres, Joseph Silk +1

We investigate neutrino signatures of a hadron-quark phase transition (HQPT) in neutron stars (NS) leading to quark star (QS) formation. We use representative hadronic and quark eq…

astro-ph.SR2025

Double White Dwarf Binaries in SDSS-V DR19 : A catalog of DA white dwarf binaries and constraints on the binary population

Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Vedant Chandra, Nadia L. Zakamska +17

The fifth-generation Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS-V) includes the first large-scale spectroscopic survey of white dwarfs (WDs) in the era of Gaia parallaxes. SDSS-V collects mult…

astro-ph.SR2025

Double White Dwarf Binaries in SDSS-V DR19 : The discovery of a rare DA+DQ white dwarf binary with 31 hour orbital period

Gautham Adamane Pallathadka, Vedant Chandra, Boris T. Gansicke +13

Binaries of two white dwarfs (WDs) are an important class of astrophysical objects that are theorized to lead to Type Ia supernovae and are also used to gain insight into complex p…

astro-ph.HE2025

The First Photometric Evidence of a Transient/Variable Source at z>5 with JWST

Christa DeCoursey, Eiichi Egami, Fengwu Sun +27

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) discovered 79 transients out to 4.8 through the JADES Transient Survey (JTS), but the JTS did not find any 5 transients. Here,…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

JWST Discovery of a High-Redshift Tidal Disruption Event Candidate in COSMOS-Web

Mitchell Karmen, Suvi Gezari, Erini Lambrides +26

The rates and properties of tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide valuable insights into their host galaxy central stellar densities and the demographics of their central supermas…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

The Ultraviolet Spectra of 2003fg-like Type Ia Supernovae

Snehasish Bhattacharjee, Yen-Chen Pan, Hao-Yu Miao +5

2003fg-like Type Ia supernovae (03fg-like SNe Ia) are rare subtype of SNe Ia, photometrically characterized by broader optical light curves and bluer ultraviolet (UV) colors compar…

astro-ph.HE2025

An Updated Detection Pipeline for Precursor Emission in Type II Supernova 2020tlf

Wynn Jacobson-Galán, Sebastian Gonzalez, Shreyas Patel +34

We present a new photometric pipeline for the detection of pre-supernova (pre-SN) emission in the Young Supernova Experiment (YSE) sky survey. The method described is applied to SN…

astro-ph.HE2025

Properties of high-redshift Type II supernovae discovered by the JADES transient survey

Takashi J. Moriya, David A. Coulter, Christa DeCoursey +23

In this work we estimate the explosion and progenitor properties of six Type II supernovae (SNe) at 0.675 <= z <= 3.61 discovered by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Advanced…

astro-ph.HE2024

Mass transfer in eccentric black hole - neutron star mergers

Yossef Zenati, Mor Rozner, Julian H Krolik +1

Black hole - neutron star binaries are of interest in many ways: they are intrinsically multi-messenger systems, highly transient, radiate gravitational waves detectable…

astro-ph.GA2024

Discovery of An Apparent Red, High-Velocity Type Ia Supernova at z = 2.9 with JWST

J. D. R. Pierel, M. Engesser, D. A. Coulter +27

We present the JWST discovery of SN 2023adsy, a transient object located in a host galaxy JADES-GS with a host spectroscopic redshift of . Th…

astro-ph.HE2024

Discovery of a Relativistic Stripped Envelope Type Ic-BL Supernova at z = 2.83 with JWST

M. R. Siebert, C. Decoursey, D. A. Coulter +26

We present JWST NIRCam and NIRSpec observations of a Type Ic supernova (SN Ic) and its host galaxy (JADES-GS+53.13533-27.81457) at . This SN (named SN 2023adta) was ident…

astro-ph.HE2024

The JADES Transient Survey: Discovery and Classification of Supernovae in the JADES Deep Field

Christa DeCoursey, Eiichi Egami, Justin D. R. Pierel +35

The JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) is a multi-cycle JWST program that has taken among the deepest near-/mid-infrared images to date (down to 30 ABmag) over $…