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most citedSeventeen Tidal Disruption Events from the First Half of ZTF Survey Observations: Entering a New Era of Population Studies

375 citations · 1.7k across the 47 of their papers we have counts for

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52 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Seeing Double: The Theory Defying Twin Flares of TDE 2022dbl

Xinze Guo, Ryan Chornock, Raffaella Margutti +13

Partial tidal disruption events, in which a star survives a close passage by a supermassive black hole and may be disrupted again on a subsequent encounter, provide a unique probe…

astro-ph.HE2026

X-ray Through Radio Observations and Modeling of the Soft X-ray Flash GRB 250419A

Genevieve Schroeder, Anna Y. Q. Ho, Gavin P. Lamb +24

Soft X-ray flashes (XRFs) are predicted from a variety of hypothesized phenomena, including "dirty fireballs" (relativistic jets with significant baryon loading), and gamma-ray bur…

astro-ph.GA2026

An Off-Nuclear Tidal Disruption Event Discovered At Late Times: The Case Of TDE 2023mfm

Itai Sfaradi, Ryan Chornock, Yuhan Yao +24

We present the discovery and analysis of the optically selected tidal disruption event (TDE) 2023mfm, which originates from a wandering massive black hole (MBH) in a massive ($\sim…

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First Pre-peak Ultraviolet Spectrum of a Tidal Disruption Event: A Fast Outflow Revealed Prior to Maximum Light in TDE2025aarm

Erica Hammerstein, Ryan Chornock, Jean Somalwar +32

The tidal disruption and eventual accretion of a star by a massive black hole can lead to the launching of outflows and winds that encode important information about the tidal disr…

astro-ph.HE2026

Late-time JWST/NIRCam Observations of the Extremely Long-duration GRB 250702B/EP 250702a and Its Host Galaxy

Huei Sears, Jean J. Somalwar, Ryan Chornock +22

We present JWST/NIRCam observations of the extremely long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) 250702B taken at ~ 95 days post-GRB (observer frame). The observations of the host galaxy r…

astro-ph.HE2026

Discovery of a Featureless Tidal Disruption Event at z~1 with the Wide Field Survey Telescope

Jiazheng Zhu, Zelin Xu, Ning Jiang +31

We report the discovery of tidal disruption event (TDE) WFST250820mmsw/AT2025wet by the 2.5-meter Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST). It exhibits a blue nuclear flare throughout th…