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Beyond Spin: QCD Magnetars
Rachid Ouyed
We present a unified framework in which anomalous X-ray pulsars (AXPs), soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs), superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I), luminous fast blue optical transients (…
Late-Onset Energy Injection in Type Ic SNe and W-Shaped O II Absorption in SLSNe-I
Rachid Ouyed
We show that delayed (weeks-months) energy injection into expanding Type Ic supernova (SN) ejecta can reproduce the luminosity and spectral evolution of hydrogen-poor superluminous…
Optical Flares in the Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transient AT2022tsd ("Tasmanian Devil")
Rachid Ouyed
We propose that luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) signal the delayed conversion of a massive neutron star (NS; M_NS > ~1.8 Msun) into a highly magnetized hybrid star (…
Modeling the Light Curve and Spectra of SN 2023aew
Rachid Ouyed
We propose that the delayed conversion of a neutron star (NS) into either a quark star (QS) or a hybrid star (HS), occurring approximately 105-109 days after the supernova (SN) exp…
The Quark-Nova model for FRBs: model comparison with observational data
Rachid Ouyed, Denis Leahy, Nico Koning
We utilize the Quark-Novae (QN) model for Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs; Ouyed et al. 2021; arXiv:2005.09793) to evaluate its performance in reproducing the distribution and statistical…
Quark clusters, QCD vacuum and the cosmological 7Li, Dark Matter and Dark Energy problems
Rachid Ouyed, Denis Leahy, Nico Koning +1
We propose a non-exotic electromagnetic solution (within the standard model of particle physics) to the cosmological 7Li problem based upon a narrow 2 MeV photo-emission line from…