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An Off-Nuclear Tidal Disruption Event Discovered At Late Times: The Case Of TDE 2023mfm
Itai Sfaradi, Ryan Chornock, Yuhan Yao +24
We present the discovery and analysis of the optically selected tidal disruption event (TDE) 2023mfm, which originates from a wandering massive black hole (MBH) in a massive ($\sim…
Relativistic outflows power a quasi-periodic eruption: constraints on energetics, mass loss, and emission mechanisms
Joheen Chakraborty, Erin Kara, Wenbin Lu +17
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are recurring bursts of X-ray radiation originating from supermassive black holes (SMBHs). They are an unprecedented type of structured, high-amplit…
Cows, Tasmanian Devils, and Other Mysteries: Diversity and Origins of Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients
Anna Y. Q. Ho, Wenbin Lu
By repeatedly mapping the sky, optical telescopes have unveiled a diverse landscape of transients, ephemeral celestial events arising from the destruction of stars and stellar remn…
Radio Observations of the Unusual Tidal Disruption Event AT 2022wtn: a Fast and Highly Energetic Outflow
Gavin Farley, Tanmoy Laskar, Noah Franz +11
We present multi-epoch, multi-frequency radio observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT 2022wtn, obtained with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) and Giant Metrewa…
VLA Observations Confirm AT 2023mfm as an Off-nuclear Tidal Disruption Event
Wenkai Li, Collin T. Christy, Kate D. Alexander +15
We report new radio observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) AT 2023mfm, which we identified as a high-confidence candidate in a systematic search for off-nuclear TDEs. Hig…
A 14-year-old Mystery: The Peculiar Case of the Engine-driven SN 2012ap
Itai Sfaradi, Raffaella Margutti, Ryan Chornock +29
We present late-time ( d) optical (Keck), X-ray (Chandra and NuSTAR), and radio (VLA, ALMA, and the uGMRT) observations of the Type Ic-BL SN 2012ap. Previous studies of…
Fast X-ray Transients produced by Off-axis Jet-Cocoons from Long Gamma-Ray Bursts
Jian-He Zheng, Wenbin Lu
Fast X-ray transients (FXTs) have been detected for over a decade, yet their origins are still enigmatic. The observed association between FXTs and broad-lined Type Ic supernovae (…
Long-Integration Magnetar Burst Observatory (LIMBO): Instrument Summary and Early FRB Rate Constraints
Darby McCauley, Aaron Parsons, Wei Liu +3
The Long-Integration Magnetar Burst Observatory (LIMBO) is a real-time radio transient detection pipeline designed to search for dispersed fast radio bursts (FRBs) from Galactic ma…
AT2024lhc and AT2024kmq in the landscape of featureless tidal disruption events
Yuhan Yao, Ryan Chornock, Andrew Mummery +39
We study AT2024kmq and AT2024lhc, two tidal disruption events (TDEs) with blue featureless spectra associated with high-mass black holes (). Both even…