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most citedA Physics-Informed Variational Autoencoder for Rapid Galaxy Inference and Anomaly Detection

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astro-ph.HE2026

Semi-analytical Light Curve Model for Transients Preceding Binary Mergers. I: Supernova Precursor Emission from Compact Object Companions

Daichi Tsuna, Morgan Macleod, V. Ashley Villar

A binary undergoing dynamically unstable mass transfer could rapidly shrink its orbit and lead to a merger, with the whole process often observable in human timescales. We construc…

astro-ph.HE2026

UV and Optical Signatures of Late-time Disk Instabilities in Tidal Disruption Events

Daichi Tsuna, V. Ashley Villar, Anthony L. Piro +1

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are unique probes of evolving accretion in supermassive black holes. Recent models of TDE disks show that they undergo brief thermal instabilities wi…

astro-ph.HE2025

Characterizing Supernova Host Galaxies with FrankenBlast: A Scalable Tool for Transient Host Galaxy Association, Photometry, and Stellar Population Modeling

Anya E. Nugent, V. Ashley Villar, Alex Gagliano +5

We present FrankenBlast, a customized and improved version of the Blast web application. FrankenBlast associates transients to their host galaxies, performs host photometry, and ru…

astro-ph.HE2025

Enabling Early Transient Discovery in LSST via Difference Imaging with DECam

Yize Dong, Kaylee de Soto, V. Ashley Villar +58

We present SLIDE, a pipeline that enables transient discovery in data from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST), using archival images from the Da…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

SPLASH: A Rapid Host-Based Supernova Classifier for Wide-Field Time-Domain Surveys

Adam Boesky, V. Ashley Villar, Alexander Gagliano +1

The upcoming Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) conducted by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory will detect millions of supernovae (SNe) and generate millions of nightly alerts, far…