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most citedA kilonova as the electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational-wave source

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astro-ph.HE2019★ 38 cited

GRB171010A / SN2017htp: a GRB-SN at z=0.33

A. Melandri, D. B. Malesani, L. Izzo +41

The number of supernovae known to be connected with long-duration gamma-ray bursts is increasing and the link between these events is no longer exclusively found at low redshift ($…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 109 cited

GROWTH on S190814bv: Deep Synoptic Limits on the Optical/Near-Infrared Counterpart to a Neutron Star-Black Hole Merger

Igor Andreoni, Daniel A. Goldstein, Mansi M. Kasliwal +49

On 2019 August 14, the Advanced LIGO and Virgo interferometers detected the high-significance gravitational wave (GW) signal S190814bv. The GW data indicated that the event resulte…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 52 cited

The transitional gap transient AT 2018hso: new insights on the luminous red nova phenomenon

Y-Z. Cai, A. Pastorello, M. Fraser +20

Aims: AT 2018hso is a new transient showing transitional properties between those of LRNe and the class of intermediate luminosity red transients (ILRTs) similar to SN 2008S. Throu…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 26 cited

The rise and fall of an extraordinary Ca-rich transient -- The discovery of ATLAS19dqr/SN 2019bkc

S. J. Prentice, K. Maguire, A. Flörs +25

This work presents the observations and analysis of ATLAS19dqr/SN 2019bkc, an extraordinary rapidly evolving transient event located in an isolated environment, tens of kiloparsecs…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 37 cited

SN2018kzr: a rapidly declining transient from the destruction of a white dwarf

Owen R. McBrien, Stephen J. Smartt, Ting-Wan Chen +31

We present SN2018kzr, the fastest declining supernova-like transient, second only to the kilonova, AT2017gfo. SN2018kzr is characterized by a peak magnitude of , peak…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 36 cited

Optical follow-up of the tidal disruption event iPTF16fnl: new insights from X-shooter observations

F. Onori, G. Cannizzaro, P. G. Jonker +11

We present the results from Nordic Optical Telescope and X-shooter follow-up campaigns of the tidal disruption event (TDE) iPTF16fnl, covering the first 100 days after the tr…