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astro-ph.HE2026

Nearby Supernova Science in the Era of High Cadence, Deep Time Domain Surveys

David J. Sand, Bhagya Subrayan, Conor L. Ransome +41

We discuss science opportunities for nearby supernovae (SNe) in the era of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), emphasizing the youngest phases o…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 8 cited

Localisation and host galaxy identification of new Fast Radio Bursts with MeerKAT

Inés Pastor-Marazuela, Alexa C. Gordon, Ben Stappers +18

Accurately localising fast radio bursts (FRBs) is essential for understanding their birth environments and for their use as cosmological probes. Recent advances in radio interferom…

astro-ph.HE2025

James Webb Space Telescope Observations of the Nearby and Precisely-Localized FRB 20250316A: A Potential Near-IR Counterpart and Implications for the Progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts

Peter K. Blanchard, Edo Berger, Shion E. Andrew +23

We present deep James Webb Space Telescope near-infrared imaging to search for a quiescent or transient counterpart to FRB 20250316A, which was precisely localized with the CHIME/F…

astro-ph.HE2025

FRB 20250316A: A Brilliant and Nearby One-Off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 parsec Precision

FRB Collaboration, Thomas C. Abbott, Daniel Amouyal +83

Precise localizations of a small number of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) have enabled multiwavelength follow-up observations rev…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Mapping the Spatial Distribution of Fast Radio Bursts within their Host Galaxies

Alexa C. Gordon, Wen-fai Fong, Adam T. Deller +23

We present deep optical and near-infrared observations of the host galaxies of 34 fast radio bursts (FRBs) detected by the Commensal Real-time ASKAP Fast Transient (CRAFT) survey o…

astro-ph.HE2025

Searching for Historical Extragalactic Optical Transients Associated with Fast Radio Bursts

Y. Dong, C. D. Kilpatrick, W. Fong +24

We present a systematic search for past supernovae (SNe) and other historical optical transients at the positions of fast radio burst (FRB) sources to test FRB progenitor systems.…

astro-ph.HE2025

A Catalog of Local Universe Fast Radio Bursts from CHIME/FRB and the KKO Outrigger

FRB Collaboration, Mandana Amiri, Daniel Amouyal +62

We present the first catalog of fast radio burst (FRB) host galaxies from CHIME/FRB Outriggers, selected uniformly in the radio and the optical by localizing 81 new bursts to 2'' x…

astro-ph.HE2024

GRB220831A: a hostless, intermediate Gamma-ray burst with an unusual optical afterglow

James Freeburn, Brendan O'Connor, Jeff Cooke +20

GRB220831A is a gamma-ray burst (GRB) with a duration and spectral peak energy that places it at the interface between the distribution of long-soft and short-hard GRBs. In thi…

astro-ph.HE2024

The Massive and Quiescent Elliptical Host Galaxy of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB20240209A

T. Eftekhari, Y. Dong, W. Fong +39

The discovery and localization of FRB20240209A by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Fast Radio Burst (CHIME/FRB) experiment marks the first repeating FRB localized with the C…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 36 cited

Sporadic radio pulses from a white dwarf binary at the orbital period

I. de Ruiter, K. M. Rajwade, C. G. Bassa +14

Recent observations have revealed rare, previously unknown flashes of cosmic radio waves lasting from milliseconds to minutes, and with periodicity of minutes to an hour. These tra…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 11 cited

A Radio Study of Persistent Radio Sources in Nearby Dwarf Galaxies: Implications for Fast Radio Bursts

Y. Dong, T. Eftekhari, W. Fong +17

We present 1 - 12 GHz Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array observations of 9 off-nuclear persistent radio sources (PRSs) in nearby (z < 0.055) dwarf galaxies, along with high-resolution…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 3 cited

A pulsar-like swing in the polarisation position angle of a nearby fast radio burst

Ryan Mckinven, Mohit Bhardwaj, Tarraneh Eftekhari +41

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) last for milliseconds and arrive at Earth from cosmological distances. While their origin(s) and emission mechanism(s) are presently unknown, their signals…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

The Environments of Fast Radio Bursts Viewed Using Adaptive Optics

Michele N. Woodland, Alexandra G. Mannings, J. Xavier Prochaska +10

We present GeMS/GSAOI observations of five fast radio burst (FRB) host galaxies with sub-arcsecond localizations. We examine and quantify their spatial distributions and locations…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 2 cited

A Fast Radio Burst in a Compact Galaxy Group at ~1

Alexa C. Gordon, Wen-fai Fong, Sunil Simha +14

FRB 20220610A is a high-redshift Fast Radio Burst (FRB) that has not been observed to repeat. Here, we present rest-frame UV and optical observati…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Limits on Optical Counterparts to the Repeating FRB 20180916B from High-speed Imaging with Gemini-N/'Alopeke

Charles D. Kilpatrick, Nicolas Tejos, J. Xavier Prochaska +6

We report on contemporaneous optical observations at ~10 ms timescales from the fast radio burst (FRB) 20180916B of two repeat bursts (FRB 20201023, FRB 20220908) taken with the 'A…

astro-ph.HE2021

SOAR/Goodman Spectroscopic Assessment of Candidate Counterparts of the LIGO-Virgo Event GW190814

Douglas Tucker, Matthew Wiesner, Sahar Allam +140

On 2019 August 14 at 21:10:39 UTC, the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration (LVC) detected a possible neutron star-black hole merger (NSBH), the first ever identified. An extensive search for…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 16 cited

Constraining bright optical counterparts of Fast Radio Bursts

C. Nuñez, N. Tejos, G. Pignata +14

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are extremely energetic pulses of millisecond duration and unknown origin. In order to understand the phenomenon that emits these pulses, targeted and unta…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 239 cited

Host Galaxy Properties and Offset Distributions of Fast Radio Bursts: Implications for their Progenitors

Kasper E. Heintz, J. Xavier Prochaska, Sunil Simha +15

We present observations and detailed characterizations of five new host galaxies of fast radio bursts (FRBs) discovered with the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP…