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Extreme AGN Variability in WISE: Powerful Flares and Candidate Tidal Disruption Events in AGN
Satya Teja Anuraag Upadhyayula, Daniel Stern, Kishalay De +7
We present first results from a systematic study of extreme mid-infrared variability of active galaxies across the -year baseline of the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (W…
A Suppressed Volumetric Rate of High-Luminosity Mid-Infrared Selected Tidal Disruption Events
Prajna Nair, Christos Panagiotou, Megan Masterson +4
Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) serve as direct probes of the population of supermassive black holes in the center of galaxies and are nowadays regularly detected in optical wide-fi…
Ghosts of eruptions past: Searching for historical Galactic supernovae using variable thermal dust echoes and machine learning
Justin Vega, Kishalay De, Ashish Mahabal +4
The Galactic core-collapse supernova (SN) rate is estimated at per century; however, no optically visible SN has been discovered in the past 400 years. Although recor…
Testing the Association of Supermassive Black Hole Infrared Flares and High-energy Neutrinos
Megan Wang, Christos Panagiotou, Kishalay De +3
The physical origin of the observed cosmic neutrinos remains an open question and the subject of active research. While matter accretion onto supermassive black holes is long thoug…
Radio Emission from the Infrared Tidal Disruption Event WTP14adeqka: The First Directly Resolved Delayed Outflow from a TDE
Walter W. Golay, Edo Berger, Yvette Cendes +10
We present detailed radio observations of the mid-infrared (MIR) tidal disruption event (TDE) WTP14adeqka. We detect rising radio emission starting years after the disc…
AT2019cmw: A highly luminous, cooling featureless TDE candidate from the disruption of a high mass star in an early-type galaxy
Jacob L. Wise, Daniel A. Perley, Nikhil Sarin +23
We present optical/UV photometric and spectroscopic observations, as well as X-ray and radio follow-up, of the extraordinary event AT2019cmw. With a peak bolometric luminosity of ~…
JWST's First View of Tidal Disruption Events: Compact, Accretion-Driven Emission Lines & Strong Silicate Emission in an Infrared-selected Sample
Megan Masterson, Kishalay De, Christos Panagiotou +7
Mid-infrared (MIR) emission from tidal disruption events (TDEs) is a powerful probe of the circumnuclear environment around dormant supermassive black holes. This emission arises f…
A diverse, overlooked population of Type Ia supernovae exhibiting mid-infrared signatures of delayed circumstellar interaction
Geoffrey Mo, Kishalay De, Eli Wiston +10
Type Ia supernovae arise from the thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs in multiple star systems. A rare sub-class of SNe Ia exhibit signatures of interaction with circumstellar…
Correlated mid-infrared and X-ray outbursts in black hole X-ray binaries: A new route to discovery in infrared surveys
Chris John, Kishalay De, Matteo Lucchini +5
The mid-infrared (MIR; m) bands offer a unique window into understanding accretion and its interplay with jet formation in Galactic black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRB…
WTP19aalnxx: Discovery of a bright mid-infrared transient in the emerging class of low luminosity supernovae revealed by delayed circumstellar interaction
Charlotte Myers, Kishalay De, Lin Yan +11
While core-collapse supernovae (SNe) often show early and consistent signs of circumstellar (CSM) interaction, some exhibit delayed signatures due to interaction with distant mater…
A New Population of Mid-Infrared-Selected Tidal Disruption Events: Implications for Tidal Disruption Event Rates and Host Galaxy Properties
Megan Masterson, Kishalay De, Christos Panagiotou +14
Most tidal disruption events (TDEs) are currently found in time-domain optical and soft X-ray surveys, both of which are prone to significant obscuration. The infrared (IR), howeve…
Single pulse polarization study of pulsars B0950+08 and B1642-03: micropulse properties and mixing of orthogonal modes
Shubham Singh, Yashwant Gupta, Kishalay De
We present the results of a high-time resolution polarization study of single pulses from pulsars B0950+08 and B1642-03. Single pulses from pulsar B0950+08 sometimes show isolated…
Serendipitous detection of the dusty Type IIL SN 1980K with JWST/MIRI
Szanna Zsíros, Tamás Szalai, Ilse De Looze +39
We present mid-infrared (mid-IR) imaging of the Type IIL supernova (SN) 1980K with the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) more than 40 yr post-explosion. SN 1980K, located in the ne…
Probing the Sub-Parsec Dust of a Supermassive Black Hole with the Tidal Disruption Event AT 2020mot
Megan Newsome, Iair Arcavi, D. A. Howell +9
AT 2020mot is a typical UV/optical tidal disruption event (TDE) with no radio or X-ray signatures in a quiescent host. We find an i-band excess and re-brightening along the decline…