activity
20232026
most citedMinutes-duration Optical Flares with Supernova Luminosities

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

collaborators
Showing astro-ph.HEShow all

6 papers · 1 filter

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.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.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.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…