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astro-ph.HE2026

Aarmed with Data: Bumps, Outflows, and Disk-like Emission in TDE 2025aarm

Aysha Aamer, Kate D. Alexander, Charlotte R. Angus +42

The origin of the optical emission in tidal disruption events (TDEs) remains one of the major outstanding questions in the field, in part due to the limited number of nearby events…

astro-ph.HE2026

Automatically distinguishing Rubin transients from AGN using variability metrics

Dylan Magill, Matt Nicholl, Philip Wiseman +7

Stochastic variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN) can produce contaminants in the search for explosive extragalactic transients (such as supernovae and tidal disruption events…

astro-ph.HE2026

AT 2024qfm: a luminous fast blue optical transient at a redshift of z = 0.2267 identified by Lasair-ZTF

M. Fulton, S. J. Smartt, S. Srivastav +20

Luminous fast blue optical transients (LFBOTs) emit from x-ray to radio wavelengths, epitomised by the discovery of AT 2018cow in a host galaxy at 65 Mpc. In the following eight ye…

astro-ph.HE2026

Peak 'Nebular' Emission and Early Flux Excesses in Ca-strong Supernovae

C. -G. Touchard-Paxton, K. Maguire, C. Frohmaier +27

Calcium-strong supernovae (Ca-strong SNe) are a class of thermonuclear transient characterised by rapid photometric evolution (rise times of <= 16 d) and nebular-phase spectra domi…

astro-ph.HE2026

AT2025agpz in Rubin commissioning data: distinguishing a luminous interacting supernova from nuclear transients in compact galaxies

C. R. Angus, M. Quilt, H. F. Stevance +37

The Vera C. Rubin Observatory's Legacy Survey of Space and Time will discover unprecedented numbers of rare, long-lived optical transients, many of which will be too faint or too n…

astro-ph.HE2026

SCAT Data Release 1: 1812 optical spectra of 1331 transients

Michael A. Tucker, Mark E. Huber, Benjamin J. Shappee +19

We present the first data release (DR1) of the Spectroscopic Classification of Astronomical Transients (SCAT) survey, covering the first years of observations (March 20…