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most citedMinutes-duration Optical Flares with Supernova Luminosities

26 citations · 27 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.SR2026

Extragalactic Multi-Band Exploration of Red Supergiants (EMBERS): Pipeline, Source Classification, and Bolometric Properties of 101,219 Red Supergiants from James Webb Space Telescope Imaging

Aswin Suresh, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Wen-fai Fong +6

The evolution of red supergiants (RSGs), especially in their final stages before exploding as hydrogen-rich Type II supernovae (SNe), remains poorly understood, owing to small samp…

astro-ph.IM2026

A data processing pipeline for the WINTER near-infrared surveyor using the framework

Viraj Karambelkar, Robert Stein, Danielle Frostig +18

We present the data reduction and transient detection pipeline for the Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) surveyor and report its on-sky performance. The WINTER camera…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

GRB 230204B: GIT Discovery of a Fast Fading Afterglow Associated with an Energetic GRB from a Massive-Star Progenitor

Vishwajeet Swain, Varun Bhalerao, Harsh Kumar +19

We present a comprehensive multi-wavelength study of a bright gamma-ray burst GRB 230204B, analyzing both prompt and afterglow emissions. This GRB is highly energetic, with an isot…

astro-ph.SR2025

A spectral library and census of near-infrared stellar large-amplitude variables from Palomar Gattini-IR

Nicholas Earley, Viraj Karambelkar, Mansi Kasliwal +9

We present a near-infrared census of stellar large-amplitude variables (LAVs) observed by the Palomar Gattini-IR (PGIR) surveyor from 2019-2021. Over the three-year time period, PG…

astro-ph.HE2025

The Type II SN 2025pht in NGC 1637: A Red Supergiant with Carbon-rich Circumstellar Dust as the First JWST Detection of a Supernova Progenitor Star

Charles D. Kilpatrick, Aswin Suresh, Kyle W. Davis +7

We present follow-up imaging and spectroscopy and pre-explosion imaging of supernova (SN) 2025pht located in NGC 1637 at 12 Mpc. Our spectroscopy shows that SN 2025pht is a Type II…

astro-ph.HE2025

James Webb Space Telescope Observations of the Nearby and Precisely-Localized FRB 20250316A: A Potential Near-IR Counterpart and Implications for the Progenitors of Fast Radio Bursts

Peter K. Blanchard, Edo Berger, Shion E. Andrew +23

We present deep James Webb Space Telescope near-infrared imaging to search for a quiescent or transient counterpart to FRB 20250316A, which was precisely localized with the CHIME/F…

astro-ph.HE2025

FRB 20250316A: A Brilliant and Nearby One-Off Fast Radio Burst Localized to 13 parsec Precision

FRB Collaboration, Thomas C. Abbott, Daniel Amouyal +83

Precise localizations of a small number of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs) using very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) have enabled multiwavelength follow-up observations rev…

astro-ph.IM2025

The La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey

Adam A. Miller, Natasha S. Abrams, Greg Aldering +75

We present the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), a new wide-field, time-domain survey to be conducted with the 1 m ESO Schmidt telescope. The 268 megapixel LS4 camera mosaics…

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.SR2024

An Automated Catalog of Long Period Variables using Infrared Lightcurves from Palomar Gattini-IR

Aswin Suresh, Viraj Karambelkar, Mansi M. Kasliwal +8

Stars in the Asymptotic Giant Branch (AGB) phase, dominated by low to intermediate-mass stars in the late stage of evolution, undergo periodic pulsations, with periods of several h…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 26 cited

Minutes-duration Optical Flares with Supernova Luminosities

Anna Y. Q. Ho, Daniel A. Perley, Ping Chen +74

In recent years, certain luminous extragalactic optical transients have been observed to last only a few days. Their short observed duration implies a different powering mechanism…