10 papers
The Delay Time Distribution of Quasi-Periodic Eruptions
Margaret Shepherd, K. Decker French, Jason T. Hinkle +4
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are quasi-periodic X-ray bursts observed in the nucleus of a galaxy. Multiple pieces of observational evidence link QPEs to tidal disruption events…
FEADME: Fast Elliptical Accretion Disk Modeling Engine
Nicholas Earl, K. Decker French, Jason T. Hinkle +5
We present FEADME (Fast Elliptical Accretion Disk Modeling Engine), a GPU-accelerated Python framework for modeling broad Balmer-line emission using a relativistic elliptical accre…
Comparison of X-ray Emission Properties of TDEs and Soft Flares from AGNs
Samaresh Mondal, K. Decker French, Jason T. Hinkle
X-ray flaring activity from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) may mimic the expected emission from tidal disruption events (TDEs), thus contaminating TDE searches. To compare X-ray emi…
Identifying Changing-Look AGN Transitions in Light Curve Data with the Zwicky Transient Facility
Margaret E. Verrico, K. Decker French, Vivienne F. Baldassare +10
Changing-Look AGN (CL-AGN) are AGN which transition between Seyfert types, challenging AGN unification models. Most CL-AGN have been identified via repeat spectroscopy, making it d…
STONKS first results: Long-term transients in the XMM-Newton Galactic plane survey
Robbie Webbe, E. Quintin, N. A. Webb +5
The study of astronomical transients at high energies provides insights into some of the most extreme physical events in the universe; however, carrying out their detection and fas…
The very faint X-ray transient Swift J174610-290018 at the Galactic center
Giovanni Stel, Gabriele Ponti, Nathalie Degenaar +17
Very Faint X-ray Transients (VFXTs) are a class of X-ray binary systems that exhibit occasional outbursts with peak X-ray luminosities (L_X< 1e36 erg s^-1) much lower than typical…