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Rapid dimming followed by a state transition: a study of the highly variable nuclear transient AT 2019avd over 1000+ days
Yanan Wang, Dheeraj R. Pasham, Diego Altamirano +16
The tidal disruption of a star around a supermassive black hole (SMBH) offers a unique opportunity to study accretion onto a SMBH on a human-timescale. We present results from our…
Delayed X-ray brightening accompanied by variable ionized absorption following a tidal disruption event
T. Wevers, M. Guolo, D. R. Pasham +4
Supermassive black holes can experience super-Eddington peak mass fallback rates following the tidal disruption of a star. The theoretical expectation is that part of the infalling…
The first systematically identified repeating partial tidal disruption event
Jean J. Somalwar, Vikram Ravi, Yuhan Yao +13
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star enters the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole (SMBH). If the star only grazes the tidal radius, a fraction of the stellar ma…
X-ray eruptions every 22 days from the nucleus of a nearby galaxy
Muryel Guolo, Dheeraj R. Pasham, Michal Zajaček +15
Galactic nuclei showing recurrent phases of activity and quiescence have recently been discovered, with recurrence times as short as a few hours to a day -- known as quasi-periodic…
A Luminous Red Supergiant and Dusty Long-period Variable Progenitor for SN 2023ixf
Jacob E. Jencson, Jeniveve Pearson, Emma R. Beasor +23
We analyze pre-explosion near- and mid-infrared (IR) imaging of the site of SN 2023ixf in the nearby spiral galaxy M101 and characterize the candidate progenitor star. The star dis…
A systematic analysis of the X-ray emission in optically selected tidal disruption events: observational evidence for the unification of the optically and X-ray selected populations
Muryel Guolo, Suvi Gezari, Yuhan Yao +4
We present a systematic analysis of the X-ray emission of a sample of 17 optically selected, X-ray-detected tidal disruption events (TDEs) discovered between 2014 and 2021. The X-r…
The On-axis Jetted Tidal Disruption Event AT2022cmc: X-ray Observations and Broadband Spectral Modeling
Yuhan Yao, Wenbin Lu, Fiona Harrison +5
AT2022cmc was recently reported as the first on-axis jetted tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered in the last decade, and the fourth on-axis jetted TDE candidate known so far. In…
A Comprehensive Investigation of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows Detected by TESS
Hugh Roxburgh, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Zachary G. Lane +9
Gamma-ray bursts produce afterglows that can be observed across the electromagnetic spectrum and can provide insight into the nature of their progenitors. While most telescopes tha…
SN 2023ixf in Messier 101: Photo-ionization of Dense, Close-in Circumstellar Material in a Nearby Type II Supernova
W. V. Jacobson-Galan, L. Dessart, R. Margutti +65
We present UV/optical observations and models of supernova (SN) 2023ixf, a type II SN located in Messier 101 at 6.9 Mpc. Early-time ("flash") spectroscopy of SN 2023ixf, obtained p…
Unusual Hard X-ray Flares Caught in NICER Monitoring of the Binary Supermassive Black Hole Candidate AT2019cuk/Tick Tock/SDSS J1430+2303
Megan Masterson, Erin Kara, Dheeraj R. Pasham +17
The nuclear transient AT2019cuk/Tick Tock/SDSS J1430+2303 has been suggested to harbor a supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary near coalescence. We report results from high-cadence…
The radio detection and accretion properties of the peculiar nuclear transient AT 2019avd
Yanan Wang, Ranieri D. Baldi, Santiago del Palacio +19
AT 2019avd is a nuclear transient detected from infrared to soft X-rays, though its nature is yet unclear. The source has shown two consecutive flaring episodes in the optical and…