4 papers
Constraints on Late-Time Flaring from Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients using the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite and the Zwicky Transient Facility
Rahul Jayaraman, Anna Y. Q. Ho, Michael M. Fausnaugh +14
The Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient (LFBOT) AT2022tsd exhibited minutes-timescale optical flares in the tens of days following the initial transient event, likely due to a cen…
Optical Super-orbital Modulation of SMC X-1: Disk Precession and a Revised Pulsar Mass
Masafumi Niwano, Nobuyuki Kawai, Michael Fausnaugh
The observational determination of the lower limit of neutron star masses is crucial for the physics of core-collapse supernovae. In this light, SMC X-1 is an important object beca…
Predicting the Age of Astronomical Transients from Real-Time Multivariate Time Series
Hali Huang, Daniel Muthukrishna, Prajna Nair +5
Astronomical transients, such as supernovae and other rare stellar explosions, have been instrumental in some of the most significant discoveries in astronomy. New astronomical sky…
Multi-messenger astrophysics in the gravitational-wave era
Geoffrey Mo, Rahul Jayaraman, Danielle Frostig +3
The observation of GW170817, the first binary neutron star merger observed in both gravitational waves (GW) and electromagnetic (EM) waves, kickstarted the age of multi-messenger G…