Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions years after a nearby tidal disruption event

M Nicholl, DR Pasham, A Mummery, M Guolo… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are luminous bursts of soft X-rays from the nuclei of
galaxies, repeating on timescales of hours to weeks,,,–. The mechanism behind these rare …

A precursor plateau and pre-maximum [O ii] emission in the superluminous SN2019szu: a pulsational pair-instability candidate

A Aamer, M Nicholl, A Jerkstrand… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present a detailed study on SN2019szu, a Type I superluminous supernova at z= 0.213
that displayed unique photometric and spectroscopic properties. Pan-STARRS and ZTF …

Roaring to Softly Whispering: X-Ray Emission after∼ 3.7 yr at the Location of the Transient AT2018cow and Implications for Accretion-powered Scenarios

G Migliori, R Margutti, BD Metzger… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the first deep X-ray observations of luminous fast blue optical transient (LFBOT)
AT 2018cow at∼ 3.7 yr since discovery, together with the reanalysis of the observation at …

A search for extragalactic fast optical transients in the Tomo-e Gozen high-cadence survey

K Oshikiri, M Tanaka, N Tominaga… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
The population of optical transients evolving within a time-scale of a few hours or a day (so-
called fast optical transients, FOTs) has recently been debated extensively. In particular, our …

SN 2022jli: a type Ic supernova with periodic modulation of its light curve and an unusually long rise

T Moore, SJ Smartt, M Nicholl, S Srivastav… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We present multiwavelength photometry and spectroscopy of SN 2022jli, an unprecedented
Type Ic supernova discovered in the galaxy NGC 157 at a distance of≈ 23 Mpc. The …

“Tidal Peeling Events”: Low-eccentricity Tidal Disruption of a Star by a Stellar-mass Black Hole

C Xin, Z Haiman, R Perna, Y Wang… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Close encounters between stellar-mass black holes (BHs) and stars occur frequently in
dense star clusters and in the disks of active galactic nuclei. Recent studies have shown that …

SN 2023tsz: a helium-interaction-driven supernova in a very low-mass galaxy

B Warwick, J Lyman, M Pursiainen… - Monthly Notices of …, 2025 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT SN 2023tsz is a Type Ibn supernova (SN Ibn), an uncommon subtype of
stripped-envelope core-collapse supernovae (SNe), discovered in an extremely low-mass …

Training a convolutional neural network for real–bogus classification in the ATLAS survey

JG Weston, KW Smith, SJ Smartt… - RAS Techniques …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present a convolutional neural network (CNN) for use in the real–bogus classification of
transient detections made by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) and …

Double “acct”: a distinct double-peaked supernova matching pulsational pair instability models

CR Angus, SE Woosley, RJ Foley… - The Astrophysical …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
We present multiwavelength data of SN 2020acct, a double-peaked stripped-envelope
supernova (SN) in NGC 2981 at∼ 150 Mpc. The two peaks are temporally distinct, with …

Identification of the optical counterpart of the fast X-Ray transient EP240414a

S Srivastav, TW Chen, JH Gillanders… - The Astrophysical …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
Fast X-ray transients (FXTs) are extragalactic bursts of X-rays first identified in archival X-ray
data and are now routinely discovered in real time by the Einstein Probe, which is …