Tidal disruption events

S Gezari - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The concept of stars being tidally ripped apart and consumed by a massive black hole
(MBH) lurking in the center of a galaxy first captivated theorists in the late 1970s. The …

Testing the nature of dark compact objects: a status report

V Cardoso, P Pani - Living Reviews in Relativity, 2019 - Springer
Very compact objects probe extreme gravitational fields and may be the key to understand
outstanding puzzles in fundamental physics. These include the nature of dark matter, the …

A kilonova following a long-duration gamma-ray burst at 350 Mpc

JC Rastinejad, BP Gompertz, AJ Levan, W Fong… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are divided into two populations,; long GRBs that derive from the
core collapse of massive stars (for example, ref.) and short GRBs that form in the merger of …

Euclid preparation-i. the euclid wide survey

R Scaramella, J Amiaux, Y Mellier, C Burigana… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Euclid is a mission of the European Space Agency that is designed to constrain the
properties of dark energy and gravity via weak gravitational lensing and galaxy clustering. It …

A repeating fast radio burst associated with a persistent radio source

CH Niu, K Aggarwal, D Li, X Zhang, S Chatterjee… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The dispersive sweep of fast radio bursts (FRBs) has been used to probe the ionized baryon
content of the intergalactic medium, which is assumed to dominate the total extragalactic …

Evidence for neutrino emission from the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068

IceCube Collaboration*†, R Abbasi, M Ackermann… - Science, 2022 - science.org
A supermassive black hole, obscured by cosmic dust, powers the nearby active galaxy NGC
1068. Neutrinos, which rarely interact with matter, could provide information on the galaxy's …

Third data release of the hyper suprime-cam subaru strategic program

H Aihara, Y AlSayyad, M Ando… - Publications of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
This paper presents the third data release of the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic
Program (HSC-SSP), a wide-field multi-band imaging survey with the Subaru 8.2 m …

Constraints on dark matter properties from observations of Milky Way satellite galaxies

EO Nadler, A Drlica-Wagner, K Bechtol, S Mau… - Physical review …, 2021 - APS
We perform a comprehensive study of Milky Way (MW) satellite galaxies to constrain the
fundamental properties of dark matter (DM). This analysis fully incorporates inhomogeneities …

The Zwicky Transient Facility: system overview, performance, and first results

EC Bellm, SR Kulkarni, MJ Graham… - Publications of the …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) is a new optical time-domain survey that uses
the Palomar 48 inch Schmidt telescope. A custom-built wide-field camera provides a 47 deg …

Overview of the DESI legacy imaging surveys

A Dey, DJ Schlegel, D Lang, R Blum… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys (http://legacysurvey. org/) are a combination of
three public projects (the Dark Energy Camera Legacy Survey, the Beijing–Arizona Sky …