3 papers
astro-ph.HE2025
Lost and Found - A gallery of overlooked optical nuclear transients from the ZTF archive
E. Quintin, E. Russeil, M. Llamas Lanza +12
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) correspond to the destruction of a star by the tidal forces around a black hole, leading to outbursts which can last from months to years. These tran…
astro-ph.HE2025
Early Identification of Optical Tidal Disruption Events: A science module for the Fink broker
Miguel Llamas Lanza, Sergey Karpov, Etienne Russeil +5
The detection of tidal disruption events (TDEs) is one of the key science goals of large optical time-domain surveys such as the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) and the upcoming Ve…
astro-ph.HE2025
GRB220831A: a hostless, intermediate Gamma-ray burst with an unusual optical afterglow
James Freeburn, Brendan O'Connor, Jeff Cooke +20
GRB220831A is a gamma-ray burst (GRB) with a duration and spectral peak energy that places it at the interface between the distribution of long-soft and short-hard GRBs. In thi…