5 papers
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…
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…