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Four new eclipsing accreting ultracompact white dwarf binaries found with the Zwicky Transient Facility
J. M. Khalil, J. van Roestel, E. C. Bellm +10
Context. Accreting ultracompact binaries contain a white dwarf that is accreting from a degenerate object and have orbital periods shorter than 65 minutes. Aims. The aims of this l…
SN 2021adxl: A luminous nearby interacting supernova in an extremely low metallicity environment
S. J. Brennan, S. Schulze, R. Lunnan +17
SN 2021adxl is a slowly evolving, luminous, Type IIn supernova with asymmetric emission line profiles, similar to the well-studied SN 2010jl. We present extensive optical, near-ult…
: An Accurate Photometric Classifier for Tidal Disruption Events
Robert Stein, Ashish Mahabal, Simeon Reusch +12
Optical surveys have become increasingly adept at identifying candidate Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) in large numbers, but classifying these generally requires extensive spectros…
An Optical Search for New Outbursting Low Mass X-Ray Binaries
Yuankun Wang, Eric C. Bellm, Allison Crossland +5
Transient Low-Mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs) are discovered largely by X-ray and gamma-ray all-sky monitors. The X-ray outburst is also accompanied by an optical brightening, which em…
A Pilot Search for Gravitational Self-Lensing Binaries with the Zwicky Transient Facility
Allison Crossland, Eric C. Bellm, Courtney Klein +5
Binary systems containing a compact object may exhibit periodic brightening episodes due to gravitational lensing as the compact object transits the companion star. Such ``self-len…
Panic at the ISCO: time-varying double-peaked broad lines from evolving accretion disks are common amongst optically variable AGN
Charlotte Ward, Suvi Gezari, Peter Nugent +12
About 3-10\% of Type I active galactic nuclei (AGN) have double-peaked broad Balmer lines in their optical spectra originating from the motion of gas in their accretion disk. Doubl…