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most citedBAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey XXI: The Data Release 2 Overview

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Revisiting radio variability of the blazar 3C 454.3

Ashutosh Tripathi, Alok C. Gupta, Krista Lynne Smith +7

We examine lengthy radio light curves of the flat spectrum radio galaxy 3C 454.3 for possible quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs). The data used in this work were collected at five…

astro-ph.IM2024

MoonLITE: a CLPS-delivered NASA Astrophysics Pioneers lunar optical interferometer for sensitive, milliarcsecond observing

Gerard T. van Belle, David Ciardi, Daniel Hillsberry +8

MoonLITE (Lunar InTerferometry Explorer) is an Astrophysics Pioneers proposal to develop, build, fly, and operate the first separated-aperture optical interferometer in space, deli…

astro-ph.IM2024

Rapid multi-band space-based optical timing: revolutionizing accretion physics

Krista Lynne Smith

Optical timing with rapid, seconds-to-minutes cadences with high photometric precision and gap-free long baselines is necessary for an unambiguous physical picture of accretion phe…

astro-ph.HE2024

Optical Variability Properties of Southern TESS Blazars

Ryne Dingler, Krista Lynne Smith

We present a study of high-cadence, high-precision, optical light curves from the TESS satellite of 67 blazars in the southern sky. We provide descriptive flux statistics, power sp…

astro-ph.HE2024

Search for Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in TESS light curves of bright Fermi Blazars

Ashutosh Tripathi, Krista Lynne Smith, Paul J. Wiita +1

In a previous paper, we reported evidence for quasi-periodicities in the \textsl{TESS} light curves of BL Lacerate and two other blazars found serendipitously in the SDSS AGN catal…

astro-ph.SR2023

A Phenomenon Resembling Early Superhumps in a New SU UMa-Type Dwarf Nova with a 2-Hour Orbital Period

Rebecca Boyle, Colin Littlefield, Peter Garnavich +4

We investigate K2BS5, an optical transient that we identified in Campaign 13 of the Kepler/K2 archives by the "K2 Background Survey", and classify it as a new SU UMa-type dwarf nov…