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20182026
most citedThe optical afterglow of GW170817 at one year post-merger

158 citations · 794 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

Continuous mass ablation of planets engulfed in stellar envelopes

Mike Y. M. Lau, Robert Andrassy, Giovanni Leidi +4

Most stars host short-period planets that are expected to be engulfed during post-main-sequence expansion. The dissolution of engulfed planets has been proposed as a possible mecha…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Converged simulations of the nozzle shock in tidal disruption events

Fangyi Fitz Hu, Ilya Mandel, Rebecca Nealon +1

When debris from a star that experienced a tidal disruption events (TDE) after passing too close to a massive black hole returns to pericenter on the second passage, it is compress…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 11 cited

Radio emission from tidal disruption events produced by the collision between super-Eddington outflows and the circumnuclear medium

Fangyi, Hu, Adelle Goodwin +4

In this Letter, we simulate the collision between outflows from the tidal disruption of a 1M main sequence star around a M black hole and an initially spheric…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

EP 250108a/SN 2025kg: Observations of the most nearby Broad-Line Type Ic Supernova following an Einstein Probe Fast X-ray Transient

J. C. Rastinejad, A. J. Levan, P. G. Jonker +66

With a small sample of fast X-ray transients (FXTs) with multi-wavelength counterparts discovered to date, the progenitors of FXTs and their connections to gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

The kangaroo's first hop: the early fast cooling phase of EP250108a/SN 2025kg

Rob A. J. Eyles-Ferris, Peter G. Jonker, Andrew J. Levan +52

Fast X-ray transients (FXTs) are a rare and poorly understood population of events. Previously difficult to detect in real time, the launch of the Einstein Probe with its wide fiel…

astro-ph.HE2025

Prompt Periodicity in the GRB 211211A Precursor: Black-hole or magnetar engine?

Gavin P. Lamb, Thomas Baxter, Conor M. B. Omand +18

The merger origin long GRB 211211A was a class (re-)defining event. A precursor was identified with a s separation from the main burst, as well as a claimed candidate quas…

astro-ph.HE2024

How to Escape from a Trap: Outcomes of Repeated Black Hole Mergers in AGN

Shmuel Gilbaum, Evgeni Grishin, Nicholas C. Stone +1

Stellar-mass black holes (BHs) embedded in active galactic nuclei (AGN) may be major sources of astrophysical gravitational waves (GWs), contributing both to the observed LIGO-Virg…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 124 cited

An outflow powers the optical rise of the nearby, fast-evolving tidal disruption event AT2019qiz

M. Nicholl, T. Wevers, S. R. Oates +42

At 66 Mpc, AT2019qiz is the closest optical tidal disruption event (TDE) to date, with a luminosity intermediate between the bulk of the population and iPTF16fnl. Its proximity all…

astro-ph.SR2020★ 88 cited

Observational constraints on the optical and near-infrared emission from the neutron star-black hole binary merger S190814bv

K. Ackley, L. Amati, C. Barbieri +151

On 2019 August 14, the LIGO and Virgo interferometers detected a high-significance event labelled S190814bv. Preliminary analysis of the GW data suggests that the event was likely…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 158 cited

The optical afterglow of GW170817 at one year post-merger

G. P. Lamb, J. D. Lyman, A. J. Levan +9

We present observations of the optical afterglow of GRB\,170817A, made by the {\it Hubble Space Telescope}, between February and August 2018, up to one year after the neutron star…