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Optical Flashes from Beam-Driven Light Sails with the Roman, Rubin and Euclid Observatories
James Guillochon, Abraham Loeb
The primary challenge of rocket propulsion is the burden of accelerating the spacecraft's own fuel. Light sails leave the propellant at home, with the achievable speed set by the s…
A Self-Sustaining Black Hole Engine Powered by the Tidal Disruptions of Stars
James Guillochon, Avi Loeb
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) strongly prefer host galaxies undergoing, or recovering from, a burst of star formation, implying that a rare minority of galaxy types produces most…
Stellar Tidal Disruption Events with Abundances and Realistic Structures (STARS): Library of Fallback Rates
Jamie A. P. Law-Smith, David A. Coulter, James Guillochon +2
We present the STARS library, a grid of tidal disruption event (TDE) simulations interpolated to provide the mass fallback rate () to the black hole for a main-sequence star…
The Tidal Disruption of Sun-like Stars by Massive Black Holes
Jamie Law-Smith, James Guillochon, Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz
We present the first simulations of the tidal disruption of stars with realistic structures and compositions by massive black holes (BHs). We build stars in the stellar evolution c…
The tidal disruption event AT2017eqx: spectroscopic evolution from hydrogen rich to poor suggests an atmosphere and outflow
M. Nicholl, P. K. Blanchard, E. Berger +24
We present and analyse a new tidal disruption event (TDE), AT2017eqx at redshift z=0.1089, discovered by Pan-STARRS and ATLAS. The position of the transient is consistent with the…
Models and Simulations for the Photometric LSST Astronomical Time Series Classification Challenge (PLAsTiCC)
R. Kessler, G. Narayan, A. Avelino +26
We describe the simulated data sample for the "Photometric LSST Astronomical Time Series Classification Challenge" (PLAsTiCC), a publicly available challenge to classify transient…