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most citedThe NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-Wave Background

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astro-ph.HE2026

Radio and Gamma-Ray Timing of a Newly Discovered Millisecond Pulsar

L. Vleeschower, R. Sengar, L. Nieder +17

We report the discovery and timing of PSR J2147-3604, a fully recycled millisecond pulsar with a spin period of 3.2 ms, discovered in a reprocessing of the 350-MHz Green Bank North…

astro-ph.HE2026

The NANOGrav 15 yr Dataset: Modified Functional Forms for Profile-Evolution Time Delays in Pulsar Timing Models

Sofia V. Sosa Fiscella, Michael T. Lam, Olivia West +49

Radio pulsars exhibit frequency-dependent variations in the shape of their pulse profiles that introduce systematic delays in the observed pulse times of arrival (TOA) across an ob…

astro-ph.HE2026

Optimal Pulsar Timing Array Strategies with the Deep Synoptic Array

Tyler Cohen, Paul B. Demorest, Jeremy G. Baier +50

Pulsar timing array (PTA) experiments have seen evidence for a nanohertz-frequency gravitational wave background (GWB) through coordinated radio timing observations of millisecond…

astro-ph.SR2026

The long period radio transient ASKAP J1448-68 is a cataclysmic variable

Geoffrey Mo, Akash Anumarlapudi, Iris de Ruiter +8

Wide-field time-domain radio surveys have recently unveiled a new class of Galactic radio emitter: long period radio transients (LPTs). Despite the rapid pace of discovery, their o…

astro-ph.HE2026

Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Lack of Resolvable Sources in the NANOGrav 15-yr Dataset

Emiko C. Gardiner, Kayhan Gültekin, Philippe Turgeon +116

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) have found evidence of a gravitational wave background (GWB) consistent with a population of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs), but have not yet…

astro-ph.HE2026

Year-timescale changes in AGN radio luminosity as seen by the ASKAP Variables and Slow Transients Survey

Chloe Klare, Charlotte Ward, Dougal Dobie +6

A few dozen previously radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been observed to transition to radio-loud at 1-3 GHz frequencies over timescales of more than a decade, and thi…

astro-ph.IM2026

Pulsar Timing Array Sensitivity to Anisotropy: Empirical Sensitivity Curves, Scaling Relations, and the Multi-Resolution Pixel Basis

Taha T. Moursy, Nihan S. Pol, Gabriella Agazie +115

We quantify pulsar timing array (PTA) sensitivity to anisotropy in the gravitational wave background using the cross-correlation based Fisher information matrix in the pixel and sp…

gr-qc2026

Evaluating the Fourier Approximation in Pulsar Timing Array Analysis

Yongqi Zhang, Hayden Scholz, Ken D. Olum +53

Pulsar timing arrays search for stochastic processes such as gravitational waves by comparing pulse time of arrival data for millisecond pulsars to expectations from a background w…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Customized Chromatic Noise Models

Bjorn Larsen, Jeremy G. Baier, Daniel J. Oliver +53

Pulsar timing arrays conduct low-frequency gravitational wave searches, which require comprehensive accounting of various noise sources to achieve robust results. Interstellar prop…

astro-ph.CO2026

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Impacts of Customized Chromatic Noise Models on Gravitational Wave Analyses

Nikita Agarwal, Gabriella Agazie, Alessandra Amosso +120

We report updated nHz gravitational wave (GW) significance, characterization, and interpretations using the customized chromatic-noise models (CNMs) developed in Larsen, Baier et a…

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

A sample of short-lived Galactic radio transients from ASKAP VAST

Akash Anumarlapudi, David L. Kaplan, Natasha Hurley Walker +6

Galactic radio transients (GRTs) are mysterious short-lived (~days to months) radio transients that are quiet at all other wavelengths. Until now, roughly half a dozen such sources…

astro-ph.HE2026

The NANOGrav 15 yr and 20 yr Datasets: Timing Events and Pulse Shape Changes

Ben Jacobson-Bell, James M. Cordes, Shami Chatterjee +61

The average pulse shape of a pulsar is typically stable over decadal timescales, enabling estimation of pulse times of arrival to better than a small fraction of the pulse width us…

astro-ph.HE2026

Prospects for GRB Afterglow Discovery with the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System

James Freeburn, Dougal Dobie, Akash Anumarlapudi +9

Two time domain surveys, recently funded as part of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Observatory System; the Argus Array, in the optical, and the Deep Synoptic Array (DSA), in the radio,…

astro-ph.HE2026

Discovery of a 36-minute long-period transient ASKAP J142431.2-612611

Joshua Pritchard, Tara Murphy, Dougal Dobie +13

We report the discovery of a new long-period radio transient, ASKAP J142431.2-612611, with a 36 minute period, identified in the Australian SKA Pathfinder Evolutionary Map of the U…

astro-ph.GA2026

SN 2025adpq: A Type Ia supernova in a collisional ring formed during a major galaxy merger

Brendan O'Connor, Xander J. Hall, Tomas Cabrera +16

Galaxy mergers can both trigger star formation and rearrange where stars live, producing long-lived tidal structures and collisionally driven density waves (known as collisional ri…

astro-ph.HE2026

Gravitational Wave Measurement of the - Intrinsic Scatter at High Redshift

Cayenne Matt, Kayhan Gültekin, Gabriella Agazie +109

The observed GWB spectrum is higher in amplitude than model predictions by a factor of 2-3. Using a semi-analytic model, we evaluate the effect of a high-scatter supermassive black…

astro-ph.CO2026

The ASKAP Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) Extragalactic Survey - Data Release 1

Iris de Ruiter, Dougal Dobie, Tara Murphy +13

The Variables and Slow Transients (VAST) Survey on the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) is designed to systematically explore the dynamic radio sky, detecting sources that vary on…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

TDE 2025abcr: A Tidal Disruption Event in the Outskirts of a Massive Galaxy

Robert Stein, Jonathan Carney, Charlotte Ward +27

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) have traditionally been discovered in optical sky surveys through targeted searches of nuclear transients. However, it is expected that some TDEs wil…

astro-ph.HE2026

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Piecewise Power-Law Reconstruction of the Gravitational-Wave Background

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +108

The NANOGrav 15-year (NG15) data set provides evidence for a gravitational-wave background (GWB) signal at nanohertz frequencies, which is expected to originate either from a cosmi…

astro-ph.HE2025

Comprehensive X-ray Observations of the Exceptional Ultra-long X-ray and Gamma-ray Transient GRB 250702B with Swift, NuSTAR, and Chandra: Insights from the X-ray Afterglow Properties

Brendan O'Connor, Ramandeep Gill, James DeLaunay +22

GRB 250702B is an exceptional transient that produced multiple episodes of luminous gamma-ray radiation lasting for ks, placing it among the class of ultra-long gamma-ray bur…

astro-ph.HE2025

The NANOGrav 15-Year Data Set: Improved Timing Precision With VLBI Astrometric Priors

Sofia V. Sosa Fiscella, Michael T. Lam, Gabriella Agazie +47

Accurate pulsar astrometric estimates play an essential role in almost all high-precision pulsar timing experiments. Traditional pulsar timing techniques refine these estimates by…

astro-ph.HE2025

CHIME-o-Grav: Wideband Timing of Four Millisecond Pulsars from the NANOGrav 15-yr dataset

Gabriella Agazie, David L. Kaplan, Abhimanyu Susobhanan +50

Wideband timing of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) datasets, where a single time-of-arrival (TOA) and a single dispersion measure (DM) a…

astro-ph.HE2025

Searching for Exotrojans in Pulsar Systems

Jackson D. Taylor, Emmanuel Fonseca, Lankeswar Dey +50

Trojan asteroids are found in the equilateral triangle Lagrange points of the Sun-Jupiter system in great number, though they also exist less prolifically in other parts of the Sol…