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Identifying Kilonovae in the Presence of Optical Afterglow for the Wide Field Survey Telescope
Huan Yang, Zhengyan Liu, Liang-Duan Liu +2
Identifying kilonovae associated with binary neutron star mergers is often complicated by the presence of a dominant synchrotron afterglow. In this work, we evaluate the performanc…
X-rays breaking out of pre-explosion ejecta mark a supernova's first light
Weimin Yuan, Qiu-Ju Huang, Jin-Ping Zhu +130
Massive stars die as core-collapse supernovae, whose optical light emerges days after the implosion. Theory predicts that the initial collapse-driven shock, upon breaking through t…
Unraveling the mysteries of supernovae with SKA+VLBI
Tao An, Zhengwei Liu, Ailing Wang +6
Supernovae (SNe) drive cosmic chemical enrichment and shape galactic feedback, yet the link between progenitors and explosion outcomes remains poorly constrained because the earlie…
\texttt{TransFit-MAG}: Self-Consistent Modeling of Magnetar-Powered Transients from Shock Breakout to Spin-Down Heating
Jing-Yao Li, Liang-Duan Liu, Yun-Wei Yu +2
Magnetar engines are widely invoked to power luminous optical transients, but their early emission depends on the coupled evolution of engine injection, shock heating, adiabatic co…
Polarization Signature of Companion-Fed Supernovae Arising from BH-NS/BH Progenitor Systems
Xudong Wen, He Gao, Shunke Ai +3
The formation of black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) or BH-BH systems may be accompanied with special supernova (SN) signals, due to the accretion feedback from the companion BH. The a…
A Population Study on the Radio Emission of Fast Blue Optical Transients
Jian-Feng Liu, Liang-Duan Liu, Yun-Wei Yu +1
Despite the fact that the progenitor of fast blue optical transients (FBOTs) is still up for debate, FBOTs are sometimes suggested to originate from the core-collapse of ultra-stri…
iPTF14hls in the circumstellar medium interaction model: A promising candidate for a pulsational pair-instability supernova
Ling-Jun Wang, Liang-Duan Liu, Wei-Li Lin +4
iPTF14hls is a luminous Type II supernova (SN) with a bumpy light curve that remains debated for its origin. It maintains roughly a constant effective temperature and luminosity si…
The Peculiar Precursor of a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Binary Merger Involving a Magnetar
Shuo Xiao, Yan-Qiu Zhang, Zi-Pei Zhu +42
The milestone discovery of GW 170817-GRB 170817A-AT 2017gfo has shown that gravitational wave (GW) could be produced during the merger of neutron star-neutron star/black hole and t…
The effects of a magnetar engine on the gamma-ray burst-associated supernovae: Application to double-peaked SN 2006aj
Zhen-Dong Zhang, Yun-Wei Yu, Liang-Duan Liu
A millisecond magnetar engine has been widely suggested to exist in gamma-ray burst (GRB) phenomena, in view of its substantial influences on the GRB afterglow emission. In this pa…
A hot and luminous source at the site of the fast transient AT2018cow at 2-3 years after its explosion
Ning-Chen Sun, Justyn R. Maund, Paul A. Crowther +1
We report the discovery of a luminous late-time source at the position of the fast blue optical transient (FBOT) AT2018cow on images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) at 71…
An environmental analysis of the Type Ib SN 2019yvr and the possible presence of an inflated binary companion
Ning-Chen Sun, Justyn R. Maund, Paul A. Crowther +5
SN 2019yvr is the second Type Ib supernova (SN) with a possible direct detection of its progenitor (system); however, the spectral energy distribution (SED) of the pre-explosion so…
Searching for gravitationally lensed gamma-ray bursts with their afterglows
Sheng-Nan Chen, Xu-Dong Wen, He Gao +8
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) at high redshifts are expected to be gravitationally lensed by objects of different mass scales. Besides a single recent claim, no lensed GRB has been detec…
Error Analysis of the Light Curve Solution of Contact Binaries Based on the W-D Code
Liang Liu
We use the idea of repeat measurement to determine the mean value and error of light curve solution parameters of contact binaries. Our simulation is realized by the Monte Carlo al…
No Detectable Kilonova Counterpart is Expected for O3 Neutron Star-Black Hole Candidates
Jin-Ping Zhu, Shichao Wu, Yuan-Pei Yang +5
We analyse the tidal disruption probability of potential neutron star--black hole (NSBH) merger gravitational wave (GW) events, including GW190426_152155, GW190814, GW200105_162426…
Thermonuclear Explosions and Accretion-induced Collapses of White Dwarfs in Active Galactic Nucleus Accretion Disks
Jin-Ping Zhu, Yuan-Pei Yang, Bing Zhang +3
White dwarfs (WDs) embedded in gaseous disks of active galactic nucleus (AGNs) can rapidly accrete materials from the disks and grow in mass to reach or even exceed the Chandrasekh…
The Deep and Low-Mass-Ratio Contact Binary CSS J022914.4+044340 with A Luminous Additional Companion
Liang Liu, Xu-Zhi Li
The first B-, V-, Rc-, and Ic-band light curves of CSS J022914.4+044340 are presented and analyzed. It is found that CSS J022914.4+044340 is a low mass ratio (0.198 +- 0.005) deep…
Magnetar-Driven Shock Breakout Revisited and Implications for Double-Peaked Type I Superluminous Supernovae
Liang-Duan Liu, He Gao, Xiao-Feng Wang +1
The discovery of early bumps in some type-I superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) before the main peaks offers an important clue to their energy source mechanisms. In this paper, we u…
Giant X-ray and optical Bump in GRBs: evidence for fall-back accretion model
Litao Zhao, He Gao, WeiHua Lei +2
The successful operation of dedicated detectors has brought us valuable information for understanding the central engine and the progenitor of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). For instance…
Kilonova Emission From Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers. II. Luminosity Function and Implications for Target-of-opportunity Observations of Gravitational-wave Triggers and Blind Searches
Jin-Ping Zhu, Shichao Wu, Yuan-Pei Yang +8
We present detailed simulations of black hole-neutron star (BH-NS) mergers kilonova and gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow and kilonova luminosity function, and discuss the detectabil…
A Reader Friendly Formalism for Circumstellar Material-Supernova Ejecta Interaction Model
Liang-Duan Liu, Ling-Jun Wang, He Gao
The interaction of a SN ejecta with a pre-existing circumstellar material (CSM) is one of the most promising energy sources for a variety of optical transients. Recently, a semi-an…
Special supernova signature from BH-NS/BH progenitor systems
He Gao, Liang-Duan Liu, Wei-Hua Lei +1
The gravitational-wave detection by the LIGO-Virgo scientific collaboration shows that the black hole and neutron star (BH-NS) or BH-BH systems with a BH mass of tens of solar mass…
The Second Plateau in X-ray Afterglow Providing Additional Evidence for Rapidly Spinning Magnetars as the GRB Central Engine
Litao Zhao, Liangduan Liu, He Gao +3
Evidence for the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been collected in the Neil Gehrels \emph{Swift} data. For instance, some GRBs show an internal X-ray plateau followed…
Kilonova Emission From Black Hole-Neutron Star Mergers. I. Viewing-Angle-Dependent Lightcurves
Jin-Ping Zhu, Yuan-Pei Yang, Liang-Duan Liu +5
In this paper, we present a numerical method to study the predicted lightcurves as a function of viewing angle. We extrapolate the fitting formulae for the mass and velocity of tid…
The Energy Sources of Double-peaked superluminous supernova PS1-12cil and luminous supernova SN 2012aa
Long Li, Shan-Qin Wang, Liang-Duan Liu +3
In this paper, we present the study for the energy reservoir powering the light curves (LCs) of PS1-12cil and SN 2012aa which are superluminous and luminous supernovae (SNe), respe…