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astro-ph.HE2026

Seeing Double: The Theory Defying Twin Flares of TDE 2022dbl

Xinze Guo, Ryan Chornock, Raffaella Margutti +13

Partial tidal disruption events, in which a star survives a close passage by a supermassive black hole and may be disrupted again on a subsequent encounter, provide a unique probe…

astro-ph.HE2026

X-ray Through Radio Observations and Modeling of the Soft X-ray Flash GRB 250419A

Genevieve Schroeder, Anna Y. Q. Ho, Gavin P. Lamb +24

Soft X-ray flashes (XRFs) are predicted from a variety of hypothesized phenomena, including "dirty fireballs" (relativistic jets with significant baryon loading), and gamma-ray bur…

astro-ph.GA2026

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…

astro-ph.HE2026

First Pre-peak Ultraviolet Spectrum of a Tidal Disruption Event: A Fast Outflow Revealed Prior to Maximum Light in TDE2025aarm

Erica Hammerstein, Ryan Chornock, Jean Somalwar +32

The tidal disruption and eventual accretion of a star by a massive black hole can lead to the launching of outflows and winds that encode important information about the tidal disr…

astro-ph.SR2026

Late-Time Evolution of the Massive Stellar Merger M101 OT2015-1

Marco A. Gómez-Muñoz, Nadejda Blagorodnova, Tomasz Kamiński +6

Luminous red novae (LRNe) are astronomical transients arising from unstable mass transfer and common envelope phases in close binary systems, culminating in stellar mergers. Their…

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…