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Gaia GraL: Gaia DR2 Gravitational Lens Systems. VI. Spectroscopic Confirmation and Modeling of Quadruply-Imaged Lensed Quasars
D. Stern, S. G. Djorgovski, A. Krone-Martins +23
Combining the exquisite angular resolution of Gaia with optical light curves and WISE photometry, the Gaia Gravitational Lenses group (GraL) uses machine learning techniques to ide…
A Family Tree of Optical Transients from Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies
Sara Frederick, Suvi Gezari, Matthew J. Graham +17
The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has discovered five new events belonging to an emerging class of AGN undergoing smooth flares with large amplitudes and rapid rise times. This s…
A luminous X-ray transient in SDSS J143359.16+400636.0: a likely tidal disruption event
Murray Brightman, Charlotte Ward, Daniel Stern +9
We present the discovery of a luminous X-ray transient, serendipitously detected by Swift's X-ray Telescope (XRT) on 2020 February 5, located in the nucleus of the galaxy SDSS J143…
Candidate Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Binary Black Hole Merger Gravitational Wave Event S190521g
M. J. Graham, K. E. S. Ford, B. McKernan +24
We report the first plausible optical electromagnetic (EM) counterpart to a (candidate) binary black hole (BBH) merger. Detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), the EM flar…
A tidal disruption event coincident with a high-energy neutrino
Robert Stein, Sjoert van Velzen, Marek Kowalski +55
Cosmic neutrinos provide a unique window into the otherwise-hidden mechanism of particle acceleration in astrophysical objects. A flux of high-energy neutrinos was discovered in 20…
Deep modeling of quasar variability
Yutaro Tachibana, Matthew J. Graham, Nobuyuki Kawai +4
Quasars have long been known as intrinsically variable sources, but the physical mechanism underlying the temporal optical/UV variability is still not well understood. We propose a…
Chandra Observations of Candidate Sub-Parsec Binary Supermassive Black Holes
M. Lynne Saade, Daniel Stern, Murray Brightman +10
We present analysis of Chandra X-ray observations of seven quasars that were identified as candidate sub-parsec binary supermassive black hole (SMBH) systems in the Catalina Real-T…