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Late-Time Evolution of the Massive Stellar Merger M101 OT2015-1
Marco A. Gómez-Muñoz, Nadejda Blagorodnova, Tomasz Kamiński +6
Luminous red novae (LRNe) are astronomical transients arising from unstable mass transfer and common envelope phases in close binary systems, culminating in stellar mergers. Their…
Exploring stellar evolution with Luminous Red Novae and Interacting Gap Transients
Nadejda Blagorodnova
Interacting gap transients encompass several families of astrophysical phenomena where eruptive mass loss and interaction play an important role in shaping the observational proper…
AT 2022csn: A Photometrically Peculiar Optical/UV Tidal Disruption Event in a Type II AGN
Yael Dgany, Iair Arcavi, Grisha Zeltyn +18
The emission mechanism and host galaxy preference of optical/UV tidal disruption events (TDEs) are still not entirely understood. We present observations of the TDE AT 2022csn, whi…
Dust Formation in Common Envelope Binary Interactions -- III. Lightcurves
Chunliang Mu, Orsola De Marco, Luis C. Bermúdez-Bustamante +6
Luminous red novae are transient events thought to arise from common envelope binary interactions. In this paper, we perform post-processing light-curve calculations for two, 3D hy…
Comparative Study of Two Luminous Red Novae I. Progenitor Modeling and Dust Formation
M. Wavasseur, N. Blagorodnova, M. A. Gómez-Muñoz +1
Luminous red novae are astrophysical transients associated with unstable mass transfer in interacting binaries and are commonly interpreted as outcomes of common-envelope evolution…
XP-TEAL: Gaia XP Tool for Emission and Absorption Lines II. Gaia-HELIX catalogue of H emitters in Gaia BP/RP spectra
S. Malhotra, M. Weiler, F. Anders +8
Context: With Gaia's third Data Release (DR3), low-resolution BP/RP (XP) spectra became available for more than 219 million sources. In previous work, we developed a fast method fo…
Red novae, their progenitors, and remnants
Tomasz Kaminski, Nadejda Blagorodnova
Red novae or luminous red novae are a class of optical transients that have emerged over the past two decades. They occupy an intermediate luminosity regime between classical novae…
A Faint Progenitor System for the Faint Supernova 2024vjm
Erez A. Zimmerman, Avishay Gal-Yam, Paul J. Groot +68
Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) are well known for their role as standardizable cosmological candles. Their uniformity is credited to their single origin as thermonuclear explosions of…
Dynamical binary interactions in the 2040s
Nadejda Blagorodnova, Ondřej Pejcha, Tomek Kamiński +15
Dynamical binary interactions such as common envelope (CE) evolution or stellar mergers are a critical phase in the formation of a wide variety of binary phenomena, ranging from bl…
Hot springs and dust reservoirs: JWST reveals the dusty, molecular aftermath of extragalactic stellar mergers
Viraj Karambelkar, Mansi Kasliwal, Ryan M. Lau +7
We present James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) observations of four Luminous Red Novae (LRNe): dusty, extragalactic transients from stellar mergers following common-envelope evolutio…
A catalog to unite them all: REGALADE, a revised galaxy compilation for the advanced detector era
Hugo Tranin, Nadejda Blagorodnova, Marco A. Gómez-Muñoz +10
Many applications in transient science, gravitational wave follow-up, and galaxy population studies require all-sky galaxy catalogs with reliable distances, extents, and stellar ma…
The slow brightening of WNTR23bzdiq / WTP19aalzlk : Possible onset of common-envelope evolution in an asymptotic giant branch star?
Viraj Karambelkar, Mansi Kasliwal, Kishalay De +6
We present WNTR23bzdiq/WTP19aalzlk, a slow eruption of an early-asymptotic giant branch (AGB) star in M31 identified by the Wide-field Infrared Transient Explorer (WINTER) near-inf…
Cluster-lensed supernova yields from the Vera C. Rubin Observatory and Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope
M. Bronikowski, T. Petrushevska, J. D. R. Pierel +5
Through gravitational lensing, galaxy clusters can magnify supernovae (SNe) and create multiple images of the same SN. This enables measurements of cosmological parameters, which w…
Hertzsprung gap stars in nearby galaxies and the Quest for Luminous Red Novae Progenitors
Hugo Tranin, Nadejda Blagorodnova, Viraj Karambelkar +5
After the main sequence phase, stars more massive than 2.5 M rapidly evolve through the Hertzsprung gap as yellow giants and supergiants (YSG), before settling into the red…
A Superluminous Supernova Lightened by Collisions with Pulsational Pair-instability Shells
Weili Lin, Xiaofeng Wang, Lin Yan +23
Superluminous supernovae are among the most energetic stellar explosions in the Universe, but their energy sources remain an open question. Here we present long-term observations o…
Volumetric rates of Luminous Red Novae and Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients with the Zwicky Transient Facility
Viraj R. Karambelkar, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Nadejda Blagorodnova +27
Luminous red novae (LRNe) are transients characterized by low luminosities and expansion velocities, and are associated with mergers or common envelope ejections in stellar binarie…
Searching for the Next Galactic Luminous Red Nova
Harry Addison, Nadejda Blagorodnova, Paul J. Groot +3
Luminous red novae (LRNe) are astrophysical transients believed to be caused by the partial ejection of a binary star's common envelope (CE) and the merger of its components. The f…
AT 2019qyl in NGC 300: Internal Collisions in the Early Outflow from a Very Fast Nova in a Symbiotic Binary
Jacob E. Jencson, Jennifer E. Andrews, Howard E. Bond +39
Nova eruptions, thermonuclear explosions on the surfaces of white dwarfs (WDs), are now recognized to be among the most common shock-powered astrophysical transients. We present th…
The luminous red nova AT 2018bwo in NGC 45 and its binary yellow supergiant progenitor
Nadejda Blagorodnova, Jakub Klencki, Ondrej Pejcha +12
Luminous Red Novae (LRNe) are astrophysical transients associated with the partial ejection of a binary system's common envelope (CE) shortly before its merger. Here we present the…
Multi-wavelength Photometry and Progenitor Analysis of the Nova V906 Car
Jerrick Wee, Nadejda Blagorodnova, Bryan Edward Penprase +12
We present optical and infrared photometry of the classical nova V906 Car, also known as Nova Car 2018 and ASASSN-18fv, discovered by ASASS-SN survey on 16.32 March 2018 UT (MJD 58…
Progenitor, Precursor and Evolution of the Dusty Remnant of the Stellar Merger M31-LRN-2015
Nadejda Blagorodnova, Viraj Karambelkar, Scott M. Adams +12
M31-2015-LRN is a likely stellar merger discovered in the Andromeda Galaxy in 2015. We present new optical to mid-infrared photometry and optical spectroscopy for this event. Archi…
Characterization of the Nucleus, Morphology and Activity of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov by Optical and Near-Infrared GROWTH, Apache Point, IRTF, ZTF and Keck Observations
Bryce T. Bolin, Carey M. Lisse, Mansi M. Kasliwal +52
We present visible and near-infrared photometric and spectroscopic observations of interstellar object 2I/Borisov taken from 2019 September 10 to 2019 November 29 using the GROWTH,…
A New Class of Changing-Look LINERs
Sara Frederick, Suvi Gezari, Matthew J. Graham +28
We report the discovery of six active galactic nuclei (AGN) caught "turning on" during the first nine months of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey. The host galaxies were c…
Discovery of an intermediate-luminosity red transient in M51 and its likely dust-obscured, infrared-variable progenitor
Jacob E. Jencson, Scott M. Adams, Howard E. Bond +49
We present the discovery of an optical transient (OT) in Messier 51, designated M51 OT2019-1 (also ZTF19aadyppr, AT 2019abn, ATLAS19bzl), by the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF). Th…