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An Embedded X-Ray Source Shines through the Aspherical AT 2018cow: Revealing the Inner Workings of the Most Luminous Fast-evolving Optical Transients by Margutti, R., Metzger, B. D., Chornock, R., Vurm, I., Roth, N., Grefenstette, B. W., Savchenko, V., Cartier, R., Steiner, J. F., Terreran, G., Margalit, B., Migliori, G., Milisavljevic, D., Alexander, K. D., Bietenholz, M., Blanchard, P. K., Bozzo, E., Brethauer, D., Chilingarian, I. V., Coppejans, D. L., Ducci, L., Ferrigno, C., Fong, W., Götz, D., Guidorzi, C., Hajela, A., Hurley, K., Kuulkers, E., Laurent, P., Mereghetti, S., Nicholl, M., Patnaude, D., Ubertini, P., Banovetz, J., Bartel, N., Berger, E., Coughlin, E. R., Eftekhari, T., Frederiks, D. D., Kozlova, A. V., Laskar, T., Svinkin, D. S., Drout, M. R., MacFadyen, A., Paterson, K.

“…We present the first extensive radio to γ-ray observations of a fast-rising blue optical transient, AT 2018cow, over its first ∼100 days. AT 2018cow rose over…”
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An outflow powers the optical rise of the nearby, fast-evolving tidal disruption event AT2019qiz by Nicholl, M, Wevers, T, Oates, S R, Alexander, K D, Leloudas, G, Onori, F, Jerkstrand, A, Gomez, S, Campana, S, Arcavi, I, Charalampopoulos, P, Gromadzki, M, Ihanec, N, Jonker, P G, Lawrence, A, Mandel, I, Schulze, S, Short, P, Burke, J, McCully, C, Hiramatsu, D, Howell, D A, Pellegrino, C, Abbot, H, Anderson, J P, Berger, E, Blanchard, P K, Cannizzaro, G, Chen, T-W, Dennefeld, M, Galbany, L, González-Gaitán, S, Hosseinzadeh, G, Inserra, C, Irani, I, Kuin, P, Müller-Bravo, T, Pineda, J, Ross, N P, Roy, R, Smartt, S J, Smith, K W, Tucker, B, Wyrzykowski, Ł, Young, D R

“…ABSTRACT At 66 Mpc, AT2019qiz is the closest optical tidal disruption event (TDE) to date, with a luminosity intermediate between the bulk of the population…”
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Jets in Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae: Constraints from a Comprehensive Analysis of Radio Observations by Coppejans, D. L., Margutti, R., Guidorzi, C., Chomiuk, L., Alexander, K. D., Berger, E., Bietenholz, M. F., Blanchard, P. K., Challis, P., Chornock, R., Drout, M., Fong, W., MacFadyen, A., Migliori, G., Milisavljevic, D., Nicholl, M., Parrent, J. T., Terreran, G., Zauderer, B. A.

“…The energy source powering the extreme optical luminosity of hydrogen-stripped superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) is not known, but recent studies have…”
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X-rays from the location of the Bactrian Transient ASASSN-15lh by Margutti, R., Metzger, B.D., Chornock, R., Milisavljevic, D., Berger, E., Blanchard, P.K., Guidorzi, C., Migliori, G., Kamble, A., Lunnan, R., Nicholl, M., Coppejans, D.L., Dall'Osso, S., Drout, M.R., Perna, R., Sbarufatti, B.

“…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,…”
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