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Luminous Red Novae as shock-powered transients I: Electron-scattering wings and deviations from Case B
Albert Sneppen, Kenta Hotokezaka, Christopher M. Irwin
Luminous red novae (LRNe) are a class of optical transients resulting from the mergers of binary stars or common envelope events. The population displays heterogeneous light curves…
EP260321a/SN 2026gzf: The Faintest Shock Breakout Associated with a Broad-Lined Supernova
Brendan O'Connor, Xander J. Hall, Malte Busmann +33
The explosion of a star is first marked by the shock wave breaking out of the stellar surface, producing a burst of ultraviolet and X-ray radiation. These events are observationall…
AT2018cow Powered by a Shock in Aspherical Circumstellar Media
Taya Govreen-Segal, Ehud Nakar, Kenta Hotokezaka +2
We present a quantitative model for the luminous fast blue optical transient AT2018cow in which a shock propagating through an aspherical circumstellar medium (CSM) produces the X-…