Search Results - "Cenko, S. B."

The outflow structure of GW170817 from late-time broad-band observations by Troja, E, Piro, L, Ryan, G, van Eerten, H, Ricci, R, Wieringa, M H, Lotti, S, Sakamoto, T, Cenko, S B

“…ABSTRACT We present our broad-band study of GW170817 from radio to hard X-rays, including NuSTAR and Chandra observations up to 165  d after the merger, and a…”
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A year in the life of GW170817: the rise and fall of a structured jet from a binary neutron star merger by Troja, E, van Eerten, H, Ryan, G, Ricci, R, Burgess, J M, Wieringa, M H, Piro, L, Cenko, S B, Sakamoto, T

“…Abstract We present the results of our year-long afterglow monitoring of GW170817, the first binary neutron star (NS) merger detected by advanced LIGO and…”
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A Thousand Days After the Merger: Continued X-ray Emission from GW170817 by Troja, E., Eerten, H. van, Zhang, B., Ryan, G., Piro, L., Ricci, R., O’Connor, B., Wieringa, M.H., Cenko, S. B., Sakamoto, T.

“…Recent observations with the Chandra X-ray telescope continue to detect X-ray emission from the transient GW170817. In a total exposure of 96.6 ks, performed…”
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2SXPS: An Improved and Expanded Swift X-Ray Telescope Point-source Catalog by Evans, P. A., Page, Kim, Osborne, J. P., Beardmore, A. P., Willingale, R., Burrows, D. N., Kennea, J A, Perri, M., Capalbi, M., Tagliaferri, G., Cenko, S. B.

“…We present the 2SXPS (Swift-XRT Point Source) catalog, containing 206,335 point sources detected by the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) in the 0.3–10 keV energy…”
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Candidate Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Binary Black Hole Merger Gravitational-Wave Event S190521g by Graham, M. J., Ford, K. E. S., McKernan, B., Ross, N. P., Stern, D., Burdge, K., Coughlin, M., Djorgovsk, S. G., Drake, A. J., Duev, D., Kasliwal, M., Mahabal, A. A., Velzen, S. van, Belecki, J., Bellm, E. C., Burruss, R., Cenko, S. B., Cunningham, V., Helou, G., Kulkarni, S. R., Masci, F. J., Prince, T., Reiley, D., Rodriguez, H., Rusholme, B., Smith, R. M., Soumagnac, M. T.

“…We report the first plausible optical electromagnetic counterpart to a (candidate) binary black hole merger. Detected by the Zwicky Transient Facility, the…”
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A Multimessenger Picture of the Flaring Blazar TXS 0506+056: Implications for High-energy Neutrino Emission and Cosmic-Ray Acceleration by Keivani, A., Murase, K., Petropoulou, M., Fox, D. B., Cenko, S. B., Chaty, S., Coleiro, A., DeLaunay, J. J., Dimitrakoudis, S., Evans, P. A., Kennea, J. A., Marshall, F. E., Mastichiadis, A., Osborne, J. P., Santander, M., Tohuvavohu, A., Turley, C. F.

“…Detection of the IceCube-170922A neutrino coincident with the flaring blazar TXS 0506+056, the first and only ∼3 high-energy neutrino source association to…”
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The X-ray counterpart to the gravitational-wave event GW170817 by Troja, E., Piro, L., van Eerten, H., Wollaeger, R. T., Im, M., Fox, O. D., Butler, N. R., Cenko, S. B., Sakamoto, T., Fryer, C. L., Ricci, R., Lien, A., Ryan, R. E., Korobkin, O., Lee, S.-K., Burgess, J. M., Lee, W. H., Watson, A. M., Choi, C., Covino, S., D’Avanzo, P., Fontes, C. J., González, J. Becerra, Khandrika, H. G., Kim, J., Kim, S.-L., Lee, C.-U., Lee, H. M., Kutyrev, A., Lim, G., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Veilleux, S., Wieringa, M. H., Yoon, Y.

“…Detection of X-ray emission at a location coincident with the kilonova transient of the gravitational-wave event GW170817 provides the missing observational…”
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AN ACHROMATIC BREAK IN THE AFTERGLOW OF THE SHORT GRB 140903A: EVIDENCE FOR A NARROW JET by Troja, E., Sakamoto, T., Cenko, S. B., Lien, A., Gehrels, N., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Ricci, R., Capone, J., Toy, V., Kutyrev, A., Kawai, N., Cucchiara, A., Fruchter, A., Gorosabel, J., Jeong, S., Levan, A., Perley, D., Sanchez-Ramirez, R., Tanvir, N., Veilleux, S.

“…ABSTRACT We report the results of our observing campaign on GRB 140903A, a nearby (z = 0.351) short-duration (T90 ∼ 0.3 s) gamma-ray burst discovered by Swift…”
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A surge of light at the birth of a supernova by Bersten, M. C., Folatelli, G., García, F., Van Dyk, S. D., Benvenuto, O. G., Orellana, M., Buso, V., Sánchez, J. L., Tanaka, M., Maeda, K., Filippenko, A. V., Zheng, W., Brink, T. G., Cenko, S. B., de Jaeger, T., Kumar, S., Moriya, T. J., Nomoto, K., Perley, D. A., Shivvers, I., Smith, N.

“…The discovery of a newly born type IIb supernova reveals a rapid brightening at optical wavelengths that corresponds to the shock-breakout phase of the…”
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A luminous blue kilonova and an off-axis jet from a compact binary merger at z = 0.1341 by Troja, E., Ryan, G., Piro, L., van Eerten, H., Cenko, S. B., Yoon, Y., Lee, S.-K., Im, M., Sakamoto, T., Gatkine, P., Kutyrev, A., Veilleux, S.

“…The recent discovery of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) coincident with the gravitational-wave (GW) event GW170817 revealed the existence of a population of…”
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Swift J1112.2−8238: a candidate relativistic tidal disruption flare by Brown, G. C., Levan, A. J., Stanway, E. R., Tanvir, N. R., Cenko, S. B., Berger, E., Chornock, R., Cucchiaria, A.

“…We present observations of Swift J1112.2−8238, and identify it as a candidate relativistic tidal disruption flare. The outburst was first detected by…”
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Accurate flux calibration of GW170817: is the X-ray counterpart on the rise? by Troja, E, O’Connor, B, Ryan, G, Piro, L, Ricci, R, Zhang, B, Piran, T, Bruni, G, Cenko, S B, van Eerten, H

“…ABSTRACT X-ray emission from the gravitational wave transient GW170817 is well described as non-thermal afterglow radiation produced by a structured…”
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Caltech–NRAO Stripe 82 Survey (CNSS). III. The First Radio-discovered Tidal Disruption Event, CNSS J0019+00 by Anderson, M. M., Mooley, K. P., Hallinan, G., Dong, D., Phinney, E. S., Horesh, A., Bourke, S., Cenko, S. B., Frail, D., Kulkarni, S. R., Myers, S.

“…We present the discovery of a nuclear transient with the Caltech–NRAO Stripe 82 Survey (CNSS), a dedicated radio transient survey carried out with the Karl…”
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A deep survey of short GRB host galaxies over z ∼ 0–2: implications for offsets, redshifts, and environments by O’Connor, B, Troja, E, Dichiara, S, Beniamini, P, Cenko, S B, Kouveliotou, C, González, J B, Durbak, J, Gatkine, P, Kutyrev, A, Sakamoto, T, Sánchez-Ramírez, R, Veilleux, S

“…ABSTRACT A significant fraction (30 per cent) of well-localized short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) lack a coincident host galaxy. This leads to two main scenarios:…”
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The Broad Absorption Line Tidal Disruption Event iPTF15af: Optical and Ultraviolet Evolution by Blagorodnova, N., Cenko, S. B., Kulkarni, S. R., Arcavi, I., Bloom, J. S., Duggan, G., Filippenko, A. V., Fremling, C., Horesh, A., Hosseinzadeh, G., Karamehmetoglu, E., Levan, A., Masci, F. J., Nugent, P. E., Pasham, D. R., Veilleux, S., Walters, R., Yan, L., Zheng, W.

“…We present multiwavelength observations of the tidal disruption event (TDE) iPTF15af, discovered by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory survey at…”
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From core collapse to superluminous: the rates of massive stellar explosions from the Palomar Transient Factory by Frohmaier, C, Angus, C R, Vincenzi, M, Sullivan, M, Smith, M, Nugent, P E, Cenko, S B, Gal-Yam, A, Kulkarni, S R, Law, N M, Quimby, R M

“…ABSTRACT We present measurements of the local core-collapse supernova (CCSN) rate using SN discoveries from the Palomar Transient Factory (PTF). We use a Monte…”
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A Wolf–Rayet-like progenitor of SN 2013cu from spectral observations of a stellar wind by Gal-Yam, Avishay, Arcavi, I., Ofek, E. O., Ben-Ami, S., Cenko, S. B., Kasliwal, M. M., Cao, Y., Yaron, O., Tal, D., Silverman, J. M., Horesh, A., De Cia, A., Taddia, F., Sollerman, J., Perley, D., Vreeswijk, P. M., Kulkarni, S. R., Nugent, P. E., Filippenko, A. V., Wheeler, J. C.

“…The detection of strong emission lines in an early-time spectrum of type IIb supernova SN 2013cu reveals Wolf–Rayet-like wind signatures, suggesting that the…”
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Far-ultraviolet to Near-infrared Spectroscopy of a Nearby Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernova Gaia16apd by Yan, Lin, Quimby, R., Gal-Yam, A., Brown, P., Blagorodnova, N., Ofek, E. O., Lunnan, R., Cooke, J., Cenko, S. B., Jencson, J., Kasliwal, M.

“…We report the first maximum-light far-ultraviolet (FUV) to near-infrared (NIR) spectra (1000 − 1.62 m, rest) of a hydrogen-poor superluminous supernova,…”
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Light Curves of Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae from the Palomar Transient Factory by De Cia, Annalisa, Gal-Yam, A., Rubin, A., Leloudas, G., Vreeswijk, P., Perley, D. A., Quimby, R., Yan, Lin, Sullivan, M., Flörs, A., Sollerman, J., Bersier, D., Cenko, S. B., Gal-Yam, M., Maguire, K., Ofek, E. O., Prentice, S., Schulze, S., Spyromilio, J., Valenti, S., Arcavi, I., Corsi, A., Howell, D. A., Mazzali, P., Kasliwal, M. M., Taddia, F., Yaron, O.

“…We investigate the light-curve properties of a sample of 26 spectroscopically confirmed hydrogen-poor superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) in the Palomar…”
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iPTF Discovery of the Rapid "Turn-on" of a Luminous Quasar by Gezari, S., Hung, T., Cenko, S. B., Blagorodnova, N., Yan, Lin, Kulkarni, S. R., Mooley, K., Kong, A. K. H., Cantwell, T. M., Yu, P. C., Cao, Y., Fremling, C., Neill, J. D., Ngeow, C.-C., Nugent, P. E., Wozniak, P.

“…We present a radio-quiet quasar at z = 0.237 discovered "turning on" by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF). The transient, iPTF 16bco, was…”
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