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most citedLuminous Red Novae: Stellar Mergers or Giant Eruptions?

129 citations · 240 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

astro-ph.SR2026

AT 2025abao: The fourth luminous red nova in M 31

A. Reguitti, A. Pastorello, G. Valerin +15

We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of the luminous red nova (LRN) AT 2025abao, the fourth discovered in M 31. The LRN, associated to the asymptotic giant branch…

astro-ph.IM2025

Nova Explosions in 2040

Alessandro Ederoclite, Domitilla De Martino, Paul Groot +7

Novae are thermonuclear explosions on the surface of accreting white dwarfs and are key laboratories for studying explosive nucleosynthesis, particle acceleration, shock physics, a…

astro-ph.IM2025

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…

astro-ph.SR2024★ 6 cited

A study in scarlet -- II. Spectroscopic properties of a sample of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients

G. Valerin, A. Pastorello, E. Mason +65

We investigate the spectroscopic characteristics of Intermediate Luminosity Red Transients (ILRTs), a class of elusive objects with peak luminosity between that of classical novae…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 52 cited

The transitional gap transient AT 2018hso: new insights on the luminous red nova phenomenon

Y-Z. Cai, A. Pastorello, M. Fraser +20

Aims: AT 2018hso is a new transient showing transitional properties between those of LRNe and the class of intermediate luminosity red transients (ILRTs) similar to SN 2008S. Throu…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 20 cited

A luminous stellar outburst during a long-lasting eruptive phase first, and then SN IIn 2018cnf

A. Pastorello, A. Reguitti, A. Morales-Garoffolo +45

We present the results of the monitoring campaign of the Type IIn supernova (SN) 2018cnf (aka ASASSN-18mr). It was discovered about 10 days before the maximum light (on MJD = 58293…