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most citedA very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole

131 citations · 226 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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6 papers

astro-ph.HE2024

Searching for gravitational wave optical counterparts with the Zwicky Transient Facility: summary of O4a

Tomás Ahumada, Shreya Anand, Michael W. Coughlin +49

During the first half of the fourth observing run (O4a) of the International Gravitational Wave Network (IGWN), the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) conducted a systematic search fo…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 131 cited

A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole

Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Daniel A. Perley +78

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are bursts of electromagnetic energy released when supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies violently disrupt a star that passes t…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 10 cited

In search of short gamma-ray burst optical counterpart with the Zwicky Transient Facility

Tomás Ahumada, Shreya Anand, Michael W. Coughlin +46

The Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) triggers on-board in response to 40 short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) per year; however, their large localization regions have made the…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 52 cited

Target of Opportunity Observations of Gravitational Wave Events with Vera C. Rubin Observatory

Igor Andreoni, Raffaella Margutti, Om Sharan Salafia +52

The discovery of the electromagnetic counterpart to the binary neutron star merger GW170817 has opened the era of gravitational-wave multi-messenger astronomy. Rapid identification…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 8 cited

Inferring kilonova population properties with a hierarchical Bayesian framework I : Non-detection methodology and single-event analyses

Siddharth R. Mohite, Priyadarshini Rajkumar, Shreya Anand +17

We present : a hierarchical Bayesian framework to infer the intrinsic luminosity parameters of kilonovae (KNe) associated with gravitational-wave (GW) events, based…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 25 cited

Optimizing Cadences with Realistic Light Curve Filtering for Serendipitous Kilonova Discovery with Vera Rubin Observatory

Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Mouza Almualla +11

Current and future optical and near-infrared wide-field surveys have the potential of finding kilonovae, the optical and infrared counterparts to neutron star mergers, independentl…