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most citedThe BlackGEM telescope array I: Overview

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astro-ph.SR2026

Archival transients detected with the MeerLICHT telescope I: Supernovae

O. Mogawana, P. J. Groot, N. Blagorodnova +9

Wide-field optical transient surveys collectively discover 50 new transients per night, making rapid, multi-filter and/or spectroscopic follow-up of all but the most exceptio…

astro-ph.HE2026

Las Cumbres Observatory Gravitational-Wave Follow-up in the Third and Fourth Observing Runs: Strengths and Weaknesses of a Rapid Response Galaxy Targeted Strategy

Ido Keinan, Iair Arcavi, D. Andrew Howell +34

We present a summary of gravitational-wave (GW) follow-up using the Las Cumbres Observatory global network of telescopes during the third (O3) and fourth (O4) observing runs of the…

astro-ph.HE2025

The most distant optically polarised GRB afterglow: GRB 240419A at z = 5.178

R. Brivio, S. Covino, M. Ferro +31

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are extremely bright phenomena powered by relativistic jets arising from explosive events at cosmological distances. The nature of the jet and the configura…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

A low mass, binary-stripped envelope for the Type IIb SN 2024abfo

S. de Wet, G. Leloudas, D. Buckley +3

Type IIb supernovae (SNe) are a transitional subclass of stripped-envelope SNe showing hydrogen lines in their spectra that gradually weaken and give way to helium lines reminiscen…

astro-ph.HE2025

MeerKAT discovery of a hyperactive repeating fast radio burst source

J. Tian, I. Pastor-Marazuela, K. M. Rajwade +17

We present the discovery and localisation of a repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source from the MeerTRAP project, a commensal fast radio transient search programme using the MeerKA…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 8 cited

Contemporaneous optical-radio observations of a fast radio burst in a close galaxy pair

K. Y. Hanmer, I. Pastor-Marazuela, J. Brink +20

We present the MeerKAT discovery and MeerLICHT contemporaneous optical observations of the Fast Radio Burst (FRB) 20230808F, which was found to have a dispersion measure of $\mathr…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 14 cited

Automated Detection of Satellite Trails in Ground-Based Observations Using U-Net and Hough Transform

F. Stoppa, P. J. Groot, R. Stuik +4

The expansion of satellite constellations poses a significant challenge to optical ground-based astronomical observations, as satellite trails degrade observational data and compro…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 33 cited

The BlackGEM telescope array I: Overview

Paul J. Groot, S. Bloemen, P. Vreeswijk +75

The main science aim of the BlackGEM array is to detect optical counterparts to gravitational wave mergers. Additionally, the array will perform a set of synoptic surveys to detect…