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most citedThe Extremely Metal-Poor SN 2023ufx: A Local Analog to High-Redshift Type II Supernovae

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astro-ph.HE2026

Early panchromatic spectra reveal helium in the thermonuclear supernova 2024kce

Abigail Polin, Dillon Hasenour, Sahana Kumar +26

Faint Type I supernovae blur the boundaries between spectroscopic classes, obscuring their progenitors and explosion mechanisms. One proposed origin is a double detonation, in whic…

astro-ph.HE2026

ATLAS22kjn (AT 2022fpx): A Coronal Line Emitter with an Early Light Curve Bump and Mid-Infrared Dust Echo

Athena C. Engholm, Jason T. Hinkle, Benjamin J. Shappee +14

We present an analysis of ATLAS22kjn (AT 2022fpx), whose high-ionisation coronal lines (CLs) and pre-peak light curve bump provide distinctive opportunities to investigate the phys…

astro-ph.HE2026

AT2021yky: A Fast-Rising Optical Transient with Evolving Broad Hydrogen Emission Consistent with an Ambiguous Nuclear Transient

Paarmita Pandey, Jason T. Hinkle, Christopher Kochanek +14

Nuclear transients are powerful probes of supermassive black hole properties, offering insight into black hole mass, accretion physics, and the structure of galactic nuclei. Among…

astro-ph.HE2026

SCAT Data Release 1: 1812 optical spectra of 1331 transients

Michael A. Tucker, Mark E. Huber, Benjamin J. Shappee +19

We present the first data release (DR1) of the Spectroscopic Classification of Astronomical Transients (SCAT) survey, covering the first years of observations (March 20…

astro-ph.HE2026

Supernova Rates and Luminosity Functions from ASAS-SN III: Over a Decade of Type Ia SNe and Their Subtypes

Dhvanil D. Desai, Benjamin J. Shappee, Christopher S. Kochanek +11

We present volumetric rates and luminosity functions (LFs) of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) from the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN), covering the 11-year period fr…

astro-ph.HE2025

Unraveling the Nature of the Nuclear Transient AT2020adpi

Paarmita Pandey, Jason Hinkle, Christopher Kochanek +13

Transient events associated with supermassive black holes provide rare opportunities to study accretion and the environments of supermassive black holes. We present a multiwaveleng…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Plasma Instabilities Dominate Radioactive Transients Magnetic Fields: The self-confinement of leptons in Type Ia and Core-Collapse Supernovae, and Kilonovae

Dhvanil D. Desai, Colby C. Haggerty, Benjamin J. Shappee +8

The light curves of radioactive transients, such as supernovae and kilonovae, are powered by the decay of radioisotopes, which release high-energy leptons through and d…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

On the Double: Two Luminous Flares from the Nearby Tidal Disruption Event ASASSN-22ci (AT2022dbl) and Connections to Repeating TDE Candidates

Jason T. Hinkle, Katie Auchettl, Willem B. Hoogendam +16

We present observations of ASASSN-22ci (AT2022dbl), a nearby tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) at a distance of d$_L…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

The Most Energetic Transients: Tidal Disruptions of High-Mass Stars

Jason T. Hinkle, Benjamin J. Shappee, Katie Auchettl +13

We present the class of extreme nuclear transients (ENTs), including the most energetic single transient yet discovered, Gaia18cdj. Each ENT is coincident with its host-galaxy nucl…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 10 cited

SCAT Uncovers ATLAS's First Tidal Disruption Event ATLAS18mlw: A Faint and Fast TDE in a Quiescent Balmer Strong Galaxy

Jason T. Hinkle, Michael A. Tucker, Benjamin. J. Shappee +10

We present the discovery that ATLAS18mlw was a tidal disruption event (TDE) in the galaxy WISEA J073544.83+663717.3, at a luminosity distance of 334 Mpc. Initially discovered by th…