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 …

High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy

C Guépin, K Kotera, F Oikonomou - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
The discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos and the first hints of coincident
electromagnetic and neutrino emissions opened new opportunities in multi-messenger …

A sun-like star orbiting a black hole

K El-Badry, HW Rix, E Quataert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We report discovery of a bright, nearby () Sun-like star orbiting a dark object. We identified
the system as a black hole candidate via its astrometric orbital solution from the Gaia …

The complete light-curve sample of spectroscopically confirmed SNe Ia from Pan-STARRS1 and cosmological constraints from the combined pantheon sample

DM Scolnic, DO Jones, A Rest, YC Pan… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present optical light curves, redshifts, and classifications for 365 spectroscopically
confirmed Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Pan-STARRS1 (PS1) Medium …

A single fast radio burst localized to a massive galaxy at cosmological distance

KW Bannister, AT Deller, C Phillips, JP Macquart… - Science, 2019 - science.org
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are brief radio emissions from distant astronomical sources. Some
are known to repeat, but most are single bursts. Nonrepeating FRB observations have had …

Illuminating gravitational waves: A concordant picture of photons from a neutron star merger

MM Kasliwal, E Nakar, LP Singer, DL Kaplan, DO Cook… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Merging neutron stars offer an excellent laboratory for simultaneously studying strong-field
gravity and matter in extreme environments. We establish the physical association of an …

A galaxy lacking dark matter

P Van Dokkum, S Danieli, Y Cohen, A Merritt… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Studies of galaxy surveys in the context of the cold dark matter paradigm have shown that
the mass of the dark matter halo and the total stellar mass are coupled through a function …

H0LiCOW–IX. Cosmographic analysis of the doubly imaged quasar SDSS 1206+ 4332 and a new measurement of the Hubble constant

S Birrer, T Treu, CE Rusu, V Bonvin… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We present a blind time-delay strong lensing (TDSL) cosmographic analysis of the doubly
imaged quasar SDSS 1206+ 4332. We combine the relative time delay between the quasar …

A WC/WO star exploding within an expanding carbon–oxygen–neon nebula

A Gal-Yam, R Bruch, S Schulze, Y Yang, DA Perley… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The final fate of massive stars, and the nature of the compact remnants they leave behind
(black holes and neutron stars), are open questions in astrophysics. Many massive stars are …

GALAXY CLUSTERS DISCOVERED VIA THE SUNYAEV–ZEL'DOVICH EFFECT IN THE 2500-SQUARE-DEGREE SPT-SZ SURVEY

LE Bleem, B Stalder, T De Haan, KA Aird… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a catalog of galaxy clusters selected via their Sunyaev–Zel'dovich (SZ) effect
signature from 2500 deg 2 of South Pole Telescope (SPT) data. This work represents the …