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A search for minute-time-scale flares from the transient AT\,2024wpp
Eran O. Ofek, Lior Ozer, Ruslan Konno +21
The AT 2018cow-like fast blue optical transient AT2022tsd showed a large number of few-minute-duration, high-luminosity (~10^43 erg/s) flares. We present an intensive search for su…
Minutes-duration Optical Flares with Supernova Luminosities
Anna Y. Q. Ho, Daniel A. Perley, Ping Chen +74
In recent years, certain luminous extragalactic optical transients have been observed to last only a few days. Their short observed duration implies a different powering mechanism…
PTF11rka: an interacting supernova at the crossroads of stripped-envelope and H-poor super-luminous stellar core collapses
Elena Pian, Paolo A. Mazzali, Takashi J. Moriya +17
The hydrogen-poor supernova PTF11rka (z = 0.0744), reported by the Palomar Transient Factory, was observed with various telescopes starting a few days after the estimated explosion…
SMBH Seeds: Model Discrimination with High Energy Emission Based on Scaling Relation Evolution
Sagi Ben-Ami, Alexey Vikhlinin, Abraham Loeb
We explore the expected X-ray (0.5-2keV) signatures from super massive black holes (SMBHs) at high redshifts () assuming various models for their seeding mechanism and e…
Modelling the Type Ic SN 2004aw: a Moderately Energetic Explosion of a Massive C+O Star without a GRB
P. A. Mazzali, D. N. Sauer, E. Pian +5
An analysis of the Type Ic supernova (SN) 2004aw is performed by means of models of the photospheric and nebular spectra and of the bolometric light curve. SN2004aw is shown not to…
iPTF16fnl: a faint and fast tidal disruption event in an E+A galaxy
N. Blagorodnova, S. Gezari, T. Hung +30
We present ground-based and \textit{Swift} observations of iPTF16fnl, a likely tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) survey a…