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most citedAn ultraviolet-optical flare from the tidal disruption of a helium-rich stellar core

469 citations · 1.5k across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

astro-ph.HE201677 cited

Constraints on the Progenitor of SN 2016gkg From Its Shock-Cooling Light Curve

Iair Arcavi, Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Peter J. Brown +17

SN 2016gkg is a nearby Type IIb supernova discovered shortly after explosion. Like several other Type IIb events with early-time data, SN 2016gkg displays a double-peaked light cur…

astro-ph.SR201649 cited

Early observations of the nearby type Ia supernova SN 2015F

R. Cartier, M. Sullivan, R. Firth +25

We present photometry and time-series spectroscopy of the nearby type Ia supernova (SN Ia) SN 2015F over days to days relative to maximum light, obtained as part of the…

astro-ph.HE2016107 cited

Superluminous supernova 2015bn in the nebular phase: evidence for the engine-powered explosion of a stripped massive star

M. Nicholl, E. Berger, R. Margutti +25

We present nebular-phase imaging and spectroscopy for the hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova SN 2015bn, at redshift z=0.1136, spanning +250-400 d after maximum light. The light…

astro-ph.HE2016237 cited

The Superluminous Transient ASASSN-15lh as a Tidal Disruption Event from a Kerr Black Hole

G. Leloudas, M. Fraser, N. C. Stone +47

When a star passes within the tidal radius of a supermassive black hole, it will be torn apart. For a star with the mass of the Sun () and a non-spinning black hole with a…

astro-ph.HE2014109 cited

Zooming In on the Progenitors of Superluminous Supernovae With the HST

R. Lunnan, R. Chornock, E. Berger +25

We present Hubble Space Telescope (HST) rest-frame ultraviolet imaging of the host galaxies of 16 hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe), including 11 events from the Pan-S…

astro-ph.SR2014361 cited

PESSTO : survey description and products from the first data release by the Public ESO Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects

S. J. Smartt, S. Valenti, M. Fraser +99

The Public European Southern Observatory Spectroscopic Survey of Transient Objects (PESSTO) began as a public spectroscopic survey in April 2012. We describe the data reduction str…