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Transient astrophysical phenomena
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Preferential occurrence of fast radio bursts in massive star-forming galaxies
Zhang, B. The physics of fast radio bursts. Rev. Mod. Phys. 95, 035005 (2023). Article ADS CAS Google…
Selection bias obfuscates the discovery of fast radio burst sources
Lorimer, D. R., Bailes, M., McLaughlin, M. A., Narkevic, D. J. & Crawford, F. A bright millisecond radio…
A nebular origin for the persistent radio emission of fast radio bursts
Zhang, B. The physics of fast radio bursts. Rev. Mod. Phys. 95, 035005 (2023). Article ADS CAS Google…
Lense–Thirring precession after a supermassive black hole disrupts a star
Observations and data analysis We used data from the NICER (X-ray), XMM-Newton (X-ray), Swift (X-ray and UV), the…
A magnetar giant flare in the nearby starburst galaxy M82
Mereghetti, S. The strongest cosmic magnets: soft gamma-ray repeaters and anomalous X-ray pulsars. Astron. Astrophys. Rev. 15, 225–287…
Stripped-envelope supernova light curves argue for central engine activity
Sharon, A. & Kushnir, D. The γ-ray deposition histories of core-collapse supernovae. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 496,…
Thermonuclear explosions on neutron stars reveal the speed of their jets
Gallo, E. et al. A dark jet dominates the power output of the stellar black hole Cygnus X-1.…
The complex circumstellar environment of supernova 2023ixf
Waxman, E. & Katz, B. in Handbook of Supernovae (eds Alsabti, A. & Murdin, P.) 967–1015 (Springer, 2017).…
A lanthanide-rich kilonova in the aftermath of a long gamma-ray burst
Eichler, D., Livio, M., Piran, T. & Schramm, D. N. Nucleosynthesis, neutrino bursts and γ-rays from coalescing neutron…
Rapid spin changes around a magnetar fast radio burst
Kouveliotou, C. et al. An X-ray pulsar with a superstrong magnetic field in the soft γ-ray repeater SGR1806−20.…