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20072025
most citedAn extremely luminous X-ray outburst at the birth of a supernova

513 citations · 1.8k across the 17 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

GRB 230204B: GIT Discovery of a Fast Fading Afterglow Associated with an Energetic GRB from a Massive-Star Progenitor

Vishwajeet Swain, Varun Bhalerao, Harsh Kumar +19

We present a comprehensive multi-wavelength study of a bright gamma-ray burst GRB 230204B, analyzing both prompt and afterglow emissions. This GRB is highly energetic, with an isot…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 6 cited

Rubin ToO 2024: Envisioning the Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Target of Opportunity program

Igor Andreoni, Raffaella Margutti, John Banovetz +86

The Legacy Survey of Space and Time (LSST) at Vera C. Rubin Observatory is planned to begin in the Fall of 2025. The LSST survey cadence has been designed via a community-driven pr…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 1 cited

Windows on the Universe: Establishing the Infrastructure for a Collaborative Multi-messenger Ecosystem

The 2023 Windows on the Universe Workshop White Paper Working Group, T. Ahumada, J. E. Andrews +43

In this White Paper, we present recommendations for the scientific community and funding agencies to foster the infrastructure for a collaborative multi-messenger and time-domain a…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 26 cited

Minutes-duration Optical Flares with Supernova Luminosities

Anna Y. Q. Ho, Daniel A. Perley, Ping Chen +74

In recent years, certain luminous extragalactic optical transients have been observed to last only a few days. Their short observed duration implies a different powering mechanism…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 13 cited

The Panchromatic Afterglow of GW170817: The full uniform dataset, modeling, comparison with previous results and implications

Sphesihle Makhathini, Kunal P. Mooley, Murray Brightman +35

We present the full panchromatic afterglow light curve data of GW170817, including new radio data as well as archival optical and X-ray data, between 0.5 and 940 days post-merger.…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 128 cited

The Koala: A Fast Blue Optical Transient with Luminous Radio Emission from a Starburst Dwarf Galaxy at

Anna Y. Q. Ho, D. A. Perley, S. R. Kulkarni +25

We present ZTF18abvkwla (the "Koala"), a fast blue optical transient discovered in the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) One-Day Cadence (1DC) Survey. ZTF18abvkwla has a number of fe…