Core-collapse supernovae from 9 to 120 solar masses based on neutrino-powered explosions

T Sukhbold, T Ertl, SE Woosley, JM Brown… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Nucleosynthesis, light curves, explosion energies, and remnant masses are calculated for a
grid of supernovae (SNe) resulting from massive stars with solar metallicity and masses from …

The allowed parameter space of a long-lived neutron star as the merger remnant of GW170817

S Ai, H Gao, ZG Dai, XF Wu, A Li… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Due to the limited sensitivity of the current gravitational wave (GW) detectors, the central
remnant of the binary neutron star (NS) merger associated with GW170817 remains an open …

Gaia17biu/SN 2017egm in NGC 3191: the closest hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova to date is in a “normal,” massive, metal-rich spiral galaxy

S Bose, S Dong, A Pastorello… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) have been predominantly found in
low-metallicity, star-forming dwarf galaxies. Here we identify Gaia17biu/SN 2017egm as an …

Internal x-ray plateau in short GRBs: Signature of supramassive fast-rotating quark stars?

A Li, B Zhang, NB Zhang, H Gao, B Qi, T Liu - Physical Review D, 2016 - APS
A supramassive, strongly magnetized millisecond neutron star (NS) has been proposed to
be the candidate central engine of at least some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs), based on …

The Luminosity Function of Tidal Disruption Flares for the ZTF-I Survey

Z Lin, N Jiang, X Kong, S Huang, Z Lin… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
The high-cadence survey of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has completely dominated
the discovery of tidal disruption events (TDEs) in the past few years and resulted in the …

Explaining the most energetic supernovae with an inefficient jet-feedback mechanism

A Gilkis, N Soker, O Papish - The Astrophysical Journal, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We suggest that the energetic radiation from core-collapse super-energetic supernovae
(SESNe) is due to a long-lasting accretion process onto the newly born neutron star (NS) …

R-mode Stability of GW190814's Secondary Component as a Supermassive and Superfast Pulsar

X Zhou, A Li, BA Li - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The nature of GW190814's secondary component m 2 of mass 2.50–2.67 M⊙ in the mass
gap between the currently known maximum mass of neutron stars and the minimum mass of …

X-Rays from the Location of the Double-humped Transient ASASSN-15lh

R Margutti, BD Metzger, R Chornock… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the detection of persistent soft X-ray radiation with ${L} _ {x}\sim {10}^{41} $–10
42 erg s–1 at the location of the extremely luminous, double-humped transient ASASSN …

Results from a systematic survey of X-ray emission from hydrogen-poor superluminous SNe

R Margutti, R Chornock, BD Metzger… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results from a sensitive X-ray survey of 26 nearby hydrogen-poor
superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) with Swift, Chandra, and XMM. This data set …

A statistical study of superluminous supernovae using the magnetar engine model and implications for their connection with gamma-ray bursts and hypernovae

YW Yu, JP Zhu, SZ Li, HJ Lü, YC Zou - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
By fitting the bolometric light curves of 31 superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) with the
magnetar engine model, we derive the ejecta masses and magnetar parameters for these …