8 papers
AT2025agpz in Rubin commissioning data: distinguishing a luminous interacting supernova from nuclear transients in compact galaxies
C. R. Angus, M. Quilt, H. F. Stevance +37
The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time will discover unprecedented numbers of rare, long-lived optical transients, many of which will be too faint or too n…
Continuous mass ablation of planets engulfed in stellar envelopes
Mike Y. M. Lau, Robert Andrassy, Giovanni Leidi +4
Most stars host short-period planets that are expected to be engulfed during post-main-sequence expansion. The dissolution of engulfed planets has been proposed as a possible mecha…
Converged simulations of the nozzle shock in tidal disruption events
Fangyi Fitz Hu, Ilya Mandel, Rebecca Nealon +1
When debris from a star that experienced a tidal disruption events (TDE) after passing too close to a massive black hole returns to pericenter on the second passage, it is compress…
Radio emission from tidal disruption events produced by the collision between super-Eddington outflows and the circumnuclear medium
Fangyi, Hu, Adelle Goodwin +4
In this Letter, we simulate the collision between outflows from the tidal disruption of a 1M main sequence star around a M black hole and an initially spheric…
The kangaroo's first hop: the early fast cooling phase of EP250108a/SN 2025kg
Rob A. J. Eyles-Ferris, Peter G. Jonker, Andrew J. Levan +52
Fast X-ray transients (FXTs) are a rare and poorly understood population of events. Previously difficult to detect in real time, the launch of the Einstein Probe with its wide fiel…
EP 250108a/SN 2025kg: Observations of the most nearby Broad-Line Type Ic Supernova following an Einstein Probe Fast X-ray Transient
J. C. Rastinejad, A. J. Levan, P. G. Jonker +66
With a small sample of fast X-ray transients (FXTs) with multi-wavelength counterparts discovered to date, the progenitors of FXTs and their connections to gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)…