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most citedDiscovery and Follow-up of the Unusual Nuclear Transient OGLE17aaj

35 citations · 71 across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Tracing Active Galactic Nuclei Properties Through a Changing-look Event

Joel Carpenter, Sandra Raimundo, Charlotte Angus +1

Changing-look transitions challenge our understanding of active galactic nuclei (AGN), exhibiting dramatic changes in broad-line emission and continuum flux on timescales of months…

astro-ph.HE2026

The Enigmatic Type Icn Supernova 2024abvb Located ~22 kpc from Its Host Galaxy

J. Shi, K. Auchettl, W. B. Hoogendam +29

We report multiwavelength observations of the highly offset (~22.4 kpc) SN 2024abvb, the sixth Type Icn supernova to date. With a peak magnitude of Mr = -19.55 +/- 0.11 mag, it is…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Characterization of type Ibn SNe

D. Farias, C. Gall, V. A. Villar +29

Type Ibn supernovae (SNe) are characterized by narrow helium (He I) lines from photons produced by the unshocked circumstellar material (CSM). About 80 SNe Ibn have been discovered…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

The New Status Qvo? SN 2021qvo is Another 2003fg-like Type Ia Supernova with a Rising Light-Curve Bump

I. A. Abreu Paniagua, W. B. Hoogendam, D. O. Jones +24

In recent years, multiple Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) have been observed with ''bumps'' in their rising light curves shortly after explosion. Here, we present SN 2021qvo: a SN Ia t…

astro-ph.SR2025

JWST Observations of SN 2023ixf II: The Panchromatic Evolution Between 250 and 720 Days After the Explosion

K. Medler, C. Ashall, P. Hoeflich +60

We present the nebular phase spectroscopic and photometric observations of the nearby hydrogen-rich core-collapse supernova (CC-SN) 2023ixf, obtained through our JWST programs. The…

astro-ph.HE2025

JWST Observations of SN 2023ixf I: Completing the Early Multi-Wavelength Picture with Plateau-phase Spectroscopy

J. M. DerKacy, C. Ashall, E. Baron +46

We present and analyze panchromatic (0.35--14 m) spectroscopy of the Type II supernova 2023ixf, including near- and mid-infrared spectra obtained 33.6 days after explosion durin…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Super-SNID : an expanded set of SNID classes and templates for the new era of wide-field surveys

Dylan Magill, Michael D. Fulton, Matt Nicholl +4

We present an expanded template library for the supernova identification (SNID) software, along with updated source files that make it easy to merge our templates - and other major…

astro-ph.HE2025

Final Moments III: Explosion Properties and Progenitor Constraints of CSM-Interacting Type II Supernovae

W. V. Jacobson-Galán, L. Dessart, K. W. Davis +52

We present analysis of the plateau and late-time phase properties of a sample of 39 Type II supernovae (SNe II) that show narrow, transient, high-ionization emission lines (i.e., "…

astro-ph.IM2025

The La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey

Adam A. Miller, Natasha S. Abrams, Greg Aldering +75

We present the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), a new wide-field, time-domain survey to be conducted with the 1 m ESO Schmidt telescope. The 268 megapixel LS4 camera mosaics…

astro-ph.HE2025

Evidence for an Instability-Induced Binary Merger in the Double-Peaked, Helium-Rich Type IIn Supernova 2023zkd

A. Gagliano, V. A. Villar, T. Matsumoto +42

We present ultraviolet to infrared observations of the extraordinary Type IIn supernova 2023zkd (SN 2023zkd). Photometrically, it exhibits persistent and luminous precursor emissio…

astro-ph.IM2025

AAS2RTO: Automated Alert Streams to Real-Time Observations: Preparing for rapid follow-up of transient objects in the era of LSST

Aidan Sedgewick, Christa Gall, Luca Izzo +4

The upcoming Vera C. Rubin Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) will discover tens of thousands of astrophysical transients per night, far outpacing available spectroscopic follo…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

On the Double: Two Luminous Flares from the Nearby Tidal Disruption Event ASASSN-22ci (AT2022dbl) and Connections to Repeating TDE Candidates

Jason T. Hinkle, Katie Auchettl, Willem B. Hoogendam +16

We present observations of ASASSN-22ci (AT2022dbl), a nearby tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) at a distance of d$_L…

astro-ph.HE2024

SN 2021foa: The "Flip-Flop" Type IIn / Ibn supernova

D. Farias, C. Gall, G. Narayan +29

We present a comprehensive analysis of the photometric and spectroscopic evolution of SN~2021foa, unique among the class of transitional supernovae for repeatedly changing its spec…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions years after a nearby tidal disruption event

M. Nicholl, D. R. Pasham, A. Mummery +61

Quasi-periodic Eruptions (QPEs) are luminous bursts of soft X-rays from the nuclei of galaxies, repeating on timescales of hours to weeks. The mechanism behind these rare systems i…

astro-ph.HE2024

Double "acct": a distinct double-peaked supernova matching pulsational pair-instability models

C. R. Angus, S. E. Woosley, R. J. Foley +35

We present multi-wavelength data of SN2020acct, a double-peaked stripped-envelope supernova (SN) in NGC2981 at ~150 Mpc. The two peaks are temporally distinct, with maxima separate…

astro-ph.HE2024

Identification of the optical counterpart of the fast X-ray transient EP240414a

S. Srivastav, T. -W. Chen, J. H. Gillanders +26

Fast X-ray transients (FXTs) are extragalactic bursts of X-rays first identified in archival X-ray data, and now routinely discovered by the Einstein Probe in real time, which is c…

astro-ph.CO2020★ 26 cited

The first Hubble diagram and cosmological constraints using superluminous supernova

C. Inserra, M. Sullivan, C. R. Angus +88

We present the first Hubble diagram of superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) out to a redshift of two, together with constraints on the matter density, , and the dark energy…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 35 cited

Discovery and Follow-up of the Unusual Nuclear Transient OGLE17aaj

M. Gromadzki, A. Hamanowicz, L. Wyrzykowski +31

We report on the discovery and follow-up of a peculiar transient, OGLE17aaj, which occurred in the nucleus of a weakly active galaxy. We investigate whether it can be interpreted a…