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20172025
most citedA statistical study of super-luminous supernovae in the magnetar engine model and implications for their connection with gamma-ray bursts and hypernovae

77 citations · 661 across the 31 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

astro-ph.HE2025

EP241021a: A catastrophic collapse/merger of compact star binary leading to the formation of a remnant millisecond magnetar?

Guang-Lei Wu, Yun-Wei Yu, Liang-Duan Liu +7

Observations of fast X-ray transients (FXRTs) with the Einstein Probe have successfully led to the discovery of some unusual extragalactic optical transients. EP241021a is a newly…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 12 cited

Propagation of GRB Relativistic Jets in AGN Disks and Its Implication for GRB Detection

Hao-Hui Zhang, Jin-Ping Zhu, Yun-Wei Yu

The accretion disks of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) harboring in active galactic nuclei (AGN) are considered to be an ideal site for producing different types of gamma-ray burs…

astro-ph.HE2024

Bumpy Superluminous Supernovae Powered by a Magnetar-star Binary Engine

Jin-Ping Zhu, Liang-Duan Liu, Yun-Wei Yu +4

Wolf-Rayet stars in close binary systems can be tidally spun up by their companions, potentially leaving behind fast-spinning highly-magnetized neutron stars, known as ``magnetars"…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 18 cited

What Powered the Kilonova-Like Emission After GRB 230307A in the Framework of a Neutron Star-White Dwarf Merger?

Xiangyu Ivy Wang, Yun-Wei Yu, Jia Ren +3

The second brightest gamma-ray burst, GRB 230307A (with a duration ~ 40 s), exhibited characteristics indicative of a magnetar engine during the prompt emission phase. Not…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

A Channel to Form Fast-spinning Black Hole-Neutron Star Binary Mergers as Multimessenger Sources. II. Accretion-induced Spin-up

Zhen-Han-Tao Wang, Rui-Chong Hu, Ying Qin +7

In this work, we investigate an alternative channel for the formation of fast-spinning black hole-neutron star (BHNS) binaries, in which super-Eddington accretion is expected to oc…

astro-ph.HE2023

High-energy Neutrinos from Merging Stellar-mass Black Holes in Active Galactic Nuclei Accretion Disk

Jin-Ping Zhu

A population of binary stellar-mass black hole (BBH) mergers are believed to occur embedded in the accretion disk of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). In this {\em Letter}, we demonst…

astro-ph.HE2023

Formation of Lower Mass-gap Black Hole--Neutron Star Binary Mergers through Super-Eddington Stable Mass Transfer

Jin-Ping Zhu, Ying Qin, Zhen-Han-Tao Wang +3

Super-Eddington accretion of neutron stars (NSs) has been suggested both observationally and theoretically. In this paper, we propose that NSs in close-orbit binary systems with co…

astro-ph.HE2023

Polarization Signature of Companion-Fed Supernovae Arising from BH-NS/BH Progenitor Systems

Xudong Wen, He Gao, Shunke Ai +3

The formation of black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) or BH-BH systems may be accompanied with special supernova (SN) signals, due to the accretion feedback from the companion BH. The a…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

A Population Study on the Radio Emission of Fast Blue Optical Transients

Jian-Feng Liu, Liang-Duan Liu, Yun-Wei Yu +1

Despite the fact that the progenitor of fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) is still up for debate, FBOTs are sometimes suggested to originate from the core-collapse of ultra-stri…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

Formation of Fast-spinning Neutron Stars in Close Binaries and Magnetar-driven Stripped-envelope Supernovae

Rui-Chong Hu, Jin-Ping Zhu, Ying Qin +8

Extreme stripped-envelope supernovae (SESNe), including Type Ic superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I), broad-line Type Ic SNe (SNe Ic-BL), and fast blue optical transients (FBOTs), ar…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 11 cited

Searching for candidates of coalescing binary black holes formed through chemically homogeneous evolution in GWTC-3

Ying Qin, Yuan-Zhu Wang, Simone S. Bavera +10

The LIGO, Virgo, and KAGRA (LVK) collaboration has announced 90 coalescing binary black holes (BBHs) with to date, however, the origin of their formation cha…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 9 cited

High-energy Neutrino Productions from AGN Disk Transients Impacted by Circum-disk Medium

Zi-Hang Zhou, Jin-Ping Zhu, Kai Wang

Various supernovae (SN), compact object coalescences, and tidal disruption events are widely believed to occur embedded in active galactic nuclei (AGN) accretion disks and generate…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 48 cited

Long-duration Gamma-ray Burst and Associated Kilonova Emission from Fast-spinning Black Hole--Neutron Star Mergers

Jin-Ping Zhu, Xiangyu Ivy Wang, Hui Sun +5

Here we collect three unique bursts, GRBs\,060614, 211211A and 211227A, all characterized by a long-duration main emission (ME) phase and a rebrightening extended emission (EE) pha…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 36 cited

Magnetar Engines in Fast Blue Optical Transients and Their Connections with SLSNe, SNe Ic-BL, and lGRBs

Jian-Feng Liu, Jin-Ping Zhu, Liang-Duan Liu +2

We fit the multi-band lightcurves of 40 fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) with the magnetar engine model. The mass of the FBOT ejecta, the initial spin period and polar magnetic…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 30 cited

A Channel to Form Fast-spinning Black Hole--Neutron Star Binary Mergers as Multi-messenger Sources

Rui-Chong Hu, Jin-Ping Zhu, Ying Qin +3

After the successful detection of a gravitational-wave (GW) signal and its associated electromagnetic (EM) counterparts from GW170817, neutron star--black hole (NSBH) mergers have…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 31 cited

Population Properties of Gravitational-Wave Neutron Star--Black Hole Mergers

Jin-Ping Zhu, Shichao Wu, Ying Qin +3

Over the course of the third observing run of LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA Collaboration, several gravitational-wave (GW) neutron star--black hole (NSBH) candidates have been announced. By ass…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 17 cited

Kilonova and Optical Afterglow from Binary Neutron Star Mergers. II. Optimal Search Strategy for Serendipitous Observations and Target-of-opportunity Observations of Gravitational-wave Triggers

Jin-Ping Zhu, Shichao Wu, Yuan-Pei Yang +8

In the second work of this series, we explore the optimal search strategy for serendipitous and gravitational-wave-triggered target-of-opportunity (ToO) observations of kilonovae a…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 2 cited

Kilonova and Optical Afterglow from Binary Neutron Star Mergers. I. Luminosity Function and Color Evolution

Jin-Ping Zhu, Yuan-Pei Yang, Bing Zhang +2

In the first work of this series, we adopt a GW170817-like, viewing-angle-dependent kilonova model and the standard afterglow model with the lightcurve distribution based on the pr…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 1 cited

Does a long-lived remnant neutron star exist after short gamma-ray burst GRB 160821B?

Guang-Lei Wu, Yun-Wei Yu, Jin-Ping Zhu

Mergers of double neutron stars (DNSs) could lead to the formation of a long-lived massive remnant NS, which has been previously suggested to explain the AT 2017gfo kilonova emissi…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 1 cited

High-energy Neutrinos from Stellar Explosions in Active Galactic Nuclei Accretion Disks

Jin-Ping Zhu, Kai Wang, Bing Zhang

Some catastrophic stellar explosions, such as supernovae (SNe), compact binary coalescences, and micro-tidal disruption events, are believed to be embedded in the accretion disks o…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 49 cited

No Detectable Kilonova Counterpart is Expected for O3 Neutron Star-Black Hole Candidates

Jin-Ping Zhu, Shichao Wu, Yuan-Pei Yang +5

We analyse the tidal disruption probability of potential neutron star--black hole (NSBH) merger gravitational wave (GW) events, including GW190426_152155, GW190814, GW200105_162426…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 37 cited

Thermonuclear Explosions and Accretion-induced Collapses of White Dwarfs in Active Galactic Nucleus Accretion Disks

Jin-Ping Zhu, Yuan-Pei Yang, Bing Zhang +3

White dwarfs (WDs) embedded in gaseous disks of active galactic nucleus (AGNs) can rapidly accrete materials from the disks and grow in mass to reach or even exceed the Chandrasekh…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 27 cited

High Energy Neutrinos from Choked Gamma-Ray Bursts in AGN Accretion Disks

Jin-Ping Zhu, Kai Wang, Bing Zhang +3

Both long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) from core collapse of massive stars and short-duration GRBs (SGRBs) from mergers of binary neutron star (BNS) or neutron star--black hol…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 64 cited

Neutron Star Mergers in AGN Accretion Disks: Cocoon and Ejecta Shock Breakouts

Jin-Ping Zhu, Bing Zhang, Yun-Wei Yu +1

Neutron star mergers are believed to occur in accretion disks around supermassive black holes. Here we show that a putative jet launched from the merger of a binary neutron star (B…