10 papers
Time-evolving Diagnostic of the Ionized Absorbers in NGC 4051. II. High-throughput Time-resolved Spectroscopy
Alfredo Luminari, Fabrizio Nicastro, Roberto Serafinelli +5
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are one of the most powerful sources in the Universe. The accretion-liberated energy can strongly impact the surrounding environment, up to the host g…
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…
ENGRAVE follow-up of a type IIb supernova spatially coincident with the sub-threshold gravitational wave trigger S250818k
K. Ackley, M. T. Botticella, A. Boye +54
The candidate gravitational wave (GW) event S250818k was one of only three non-retracted LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA public alerts issued during the fourth observing run of the network (O4) w…
An energetic dirty fireball detected in soft X-rays
C. -Y. Dai, J. Quirola-Vásquez, Y. -H. Wang +76
The collapse of massive stars drives explosions that power relativistic fireballs. If only a small amount of matter is entrained, such clean fireballs can expand with Lorentz facto…
Dense gas linked to star-forming regions photoionised by embedded gamma-ray bursts
Aishwarya Linesh Thakur, Luigi Piro, Alfredo Luminari +4
The 1-100 pc region embedding long-duration gamma-ray bursts (lGRBs) has been hitherto unexplored, as extremely high ionisation by the GRB prevents application of optical absorptio…
Time-evolving diagnostic of the ionized absorbers in NGC 4051. I. High-resolution time-averaged spectroscopy
Roberto Serafinelli, Fabrizio Nicastro, Alfredo Luminari +6
We present a high-resolution X-ray spectroscopic study of the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4051 using two XMM-Newton high-resolution Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) obser…