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most citedModeling Star Formation Histories of Changing-Look AGN Host Galaxies with Prospector

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astro-ph.GA2026

The Delay Time Distribution of Quasi-Periodic Eruptions

Margaret Shepherd, K. Decker French, Jason T. Hinkle +4

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are quasi-periodic X-ray bursts observed in the nucleus of a galaxy. Multiple pieces of observational evidence link QPEs to tidal disruption events…

astro-ph.IM2026

NAPTIME: A Neural-Process Framework for Rubin Alert Classification

Nicholas Earl, Siddharth Chaini, K. Decker French +3

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time will produce a high-volume stream of irregularly sampled multiband alerts for which spectroscopic confirmation will be…

astro-ph.GA2026★ 1 cited

Identifying Changing-Look AGN Transitions in Light Curve Data with the Zwicky Transient Facility

Margaret E. Verrico, K. Decker French, Vivienne F. Baldassare +10

Changing-Look AGN (CL-AGN) are AGN which transition between Seyfert types, challenging AGN unification models. Most CL-AGN have been identified via repeat spectroscopy, making it d…

astro-ph.GA2026

The Delay Time Distribution of Tidal Disruption Events

Margaret Shepherd, K. Decker French, Nicholas C. Stone +6

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) can be observed when stars get too close to supermassive black holes and are torn apart and accreted. The delay time distribution of TDEs, or rate of…

astro-ph.HE2025

FEADME: Fast Elliptical Accretion Disk Modeling Engine

Nicholas Earl, K. Decker French, Jason T. Hinkle +5

We present FEADME (Fast Elliptical Accretion Disk Modeling Engine), a GPU-accelerated Python framework for modeling broad Balmer-line emission with a relativistic elliptical accret…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Radio Variability in Recently-Quenched Galaxies: The Impact of TDE or AGN Driven Outflows

K. Decker French, Kristina Nyland, Pallavi Patil +7

Outflows and jets launched from the nuclei of galaxies emit radio synchrotron emission that can be used to study the impact of accretion energy on the host galaxy. The decades-long…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 5 cited

Modeling Star Formation Histories of Changing-Look AGN Host Galaxies with Prospector

Margaret E. Verrico, K. Decker French, Katherine Suess +7

Changing-look active galactic nuclei, or CL-AGN, are AGN which appear to transition between Seyfert Type 1 and 2 over periods of months to years. Several mechanisms to trigger thes…

astro-ph.HE2024

AT 2020nov: Evidence for Disk Reprocessing in a Rare Tidal Disruption Event

Nicholas Earl, K. Decker French, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz +23

We present a detailed analysis of AT 2020nov, a tidal disruption event (TDE) in the center of its host galaxy, located at a redshift of . AT 2020nov exhibits unique feat…