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THE MASS-LOSS-INDUCED ECCENTRIC KOZAI MECHANISM: A NEW CHANNEL FOR THE PRODUCTION OF CLOSE COMPACT OBJECT-STELLAR BINARIES by Shappee, Benjamin J, Thompson, Todd A

“…Over a broad range of initial inclinations and eccentricities, an appreciable fraction of hierarchical triple star systems with similar masses are essentially…”
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Rapid eccentricity oscillations and the mergers of compact objects in hierarchical triples by Antognini, Joe M., Shappee, Benjamin J., Thompson, Todd A., Amaro-Seoane, Pau

“…Kozai-Lidov (KL) oscillations can accelerate compact object mergers via gravitational wave radiation by driving the inner binaries of hierarchical triples to…”
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A Swift Fix for Nuclear Outbursts by Hinkle, Jason T., Holoien, Thomas W.-S., Shappee, Benjamin. J., Auchettl, Katie

“…Abstract In November 2020, the Swift team announced an update to the UltraViolet and Optical Telescope calibration to correct for the loss of sensitivity over…”
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Discovery and Early Evolution of ASASSN-19bt, the First TDE Detected by TESS by Holoien, Thomas W.-S., Vallely, Patrick J., Auchettl, Katie, Stanek, K. Z., Kochanek, Christopher S., French, K. Decker, Prieto, Jose L., Shappee, Benjamin J., Brown, Jonathan S., Fausnaugh, Michael M., Dong, Subo, Thompson, Todd A., Bose, Subhash, Neustadt, Jack M. M., Cacella, P., Brimacombe, J., Kendurkar, Malhar R., Beaton, Rachael L., Boutsia, Konstantina, Chomiuk, Laura, Connor, Thomas, Morrell, Nidia, Newman, Andrew B., Rudie, Gwen C., Shishkovksy, Laura, Strader, Jay

“…We present the discovery and early evolution of ASASSN-19bt, a tidal disruption event (TDE) discovered by the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN)…”
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The Dynamic, Chimeric Inner Disk of PDS 70 by Gaidos, Eric, Thanathibodee, Thanawuth, Hoffman, Andrew, Ong, Joel, Hinkle, Jason, Shappee, Benjamin J., Banzatti, Andrea

“…Abstract Transition disks, with inner regions depleted in dust and gas, could represent later stages of protoplanetary disk evolution when newly formed planets…”
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Searching for Bumps in the Cosmological Road: Do Type Ia Supernovae with Early Excesses Have Biased Hubble Residuals? by Ye, Christine, Jones, David O., Hoogendam, Willem B., Shappee, Benjamin J., Dhawan, Suhail, Sharief, Sammy N.

“…Abstract Flux excesses in the early-time light curves of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are predicted by multiple theoretical models and have been observed in a…”
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An Episode of Occultation Events in Gaia21bcv by Hodapp, Klaus W., Gaidos, Eric, Kenworthy, Matthew A., Tucker, Michael, Shappee, Benjamin J., Payne, Anna V., Do, Aaron

“…Abstract A previously unremarkable star near the Canis Major OB1/R1 association underwent an episode of multiple deep brightness minima. Light curves based on…”
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The Curious Case of ASASSN-20hx: A Slowly Evolving, UV- and X-Ray-Luminous, Ambiguous Nuclear Transient by Hinkle, Jason T., Holoien, Thomas W.-S., Shappee, Benjamin. J., Neustadt, Jack M. M., Auchettl, Katie, Vallely, Patrick J., Shahbandeh, Melissa, Kluge, Matthias, Kochanek, Christopher S., Stanek, K. Z., Huber, Mark E., Post, Richard S., Bersier, David, Ashall, Christopher, Tucker, Michael A., Williams, Jonathan P., de Jaeger, Thomas, Do, Aaron, Fausnaugh, Michael, Gruen, Daniel, Hopp, Ulrich, Myles, Justin, Obermeier, Christian, Payne, Anna V., Thompson, Todd A.

“…Abstract We present observations of ASASSN-20hx, a nearby ambiguous nuclear transient (ANT) discovered in NGC 6297 by the All-Sky Automated Survey for…”
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The Largest M Dwarf Flares from ASAS-SN by Schmidt, Sarah J., Shappee, Benjamin J., van Saders, Jennifer L., Stanek, K. Z., Brown, Jonathan S., Kochanek, C. S., Dong, Subo, Drout, Maria R., Frank, Stephan, Holoien, T. W.-S., Johnson, Sean, Madore, Barry F., Prieto, J. L., Seibert, Mark, Seidel, Marja K., Simonian, Gregory V. A.

“…The All-sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) is the only project in existence to scan the entire sky in optical light approximately every day,…”
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Chandra, HST/STIS, NICER, Swift, and TESS Detail the Flare Evolution of the Repeating Nuclear Transient ASASSN -14ko by Payne, Anna V., Auchettl, Katie, Shappee, Benjamin J., Kochanek, Christopher S., Boyd, Patricia T., Holoien, Thomas W.-S., Fausnaugh, Michael M., Ashall, Chris, Hinkle, Jason T., Vallely, Patrick J., Stanek, K. Z., Thompson, Todd A.

“…Abstract ASASSN-14ko is a nuclear transient at the center of the AGN ESO 253−G003 that undergoes periodic flares. Optical flares were first observed in 2014 by…”
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The Far Side of the Galactic Bar/Bulge Revealed through Semi-regular Variables by Hey, Daniel R., Huber, Daniel, Shappee, Benjamin J., Bland-Hawthorn, Joss, Tepper-García, Thor, Sanderson, Robyn, Chakrabarti, Sukanya, Saunders, Nicholas, Hunt, Jason A. S., Bedding, Timothy R., Tonry, John

“…Abstract The Galactic bulge is critical to our understanding of the Milky Way. However, due to the lack of reliable stellar distances, the structure and…”
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Investigating the Nature of the Luminous Ambiguous Nuclear Transient ASASSN-17jz by Holoien, Thomas W.-S., Neustadt, Jack M. M., Vallely, Patrick J., Auchettl, Katie, Hinkle, Jason T., Romero-Cañizales, Cristina, Shappee, Benjamin. J., Kochanek, Christopher S., Stanek, K. Z., Chen, Ping, Dong, Subo, Prieto, Jose L., Thompson, Todd A., Brink, Thomas G., Filippenko, Alexei V., Zheng, WeiKang, Bersier, David, Bose, Subhash, Burgasser, Adam J., Channa, Sanyum, de Jaeger, Thomas, Hestenes, Julia, Im, Myungshin, Jeffers, Benjamin, Jun, Hyunsung D., Lansbury, George, Post, Richard S., Ross, Timothy W., Stern, Daniel, Tang, Kevin, Tucker, Michael A., Valenti, Stefano, Yunus, Sameen, Zhang, Keto D.

“…Abstract We present observations of the extremely luminous but ambiguous nuclear transient (ANT) ASASSN-17jz, spanning roughly 1200 days of the object’s…”
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Evaluating the Consistency of Cosmological Distances Using Supernova Siblings in the Near-infrared by Dwomoh, Arianna M., Peterson, Erik R., Scolnic, Daniel, Ashall, Chris, DerKacy, James M., Do, Aaron, Johansson, Joel, Jones, David O., Riess, Adam G., Shappee, Benjamin J.

“…Abstract The study of supernova (SN) siblings, supernovae with the same host galaxy, is an important avenue for understanding and measuring the properties of…”
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Extrapolation of Type Ia Supernova Spectra into the Near-infrared Using Principal Component Analysis by Burrow, Anthony, Baron, E., Burns, Christopher R., Hsiao, Eric Y., Lu, Jing, Ashall, Chris, Brown, Peter J., DerKacy, James M., Folatelli, G., Galbany, Lluís, Hoeflich, P., Krisciunas, Kevin, Morrell, N., Phillips, M. M., Shappee, Benjamin J., Stritzinger, Maximilian D., Suntzeff, Nicholas B.

“…Abstract We present a method of extrapolating the spectroscopic behavior of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) in the near-infrared (NIR) wavelength regime up to 2.30…”
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The Changing-look Blazar B2 1420+32 by Mishra, Hora D., Dai, Xinyu, Chen, Ping, Cheng, Jigui, Jayasinghe, T., Tucker, Michael A., Vallely, Patrick J., Bersier, David, Bose, Subhash, Do, Aaron, Dong, Subo, Holoien, Thomas W.-S., Huber, Mark E., Kochanek, Christopher S., Liang, Enwei, Payne, Anna V., Prieto, Jose, Shappee, Benjamin J., Stanek, K. Z., Bhatiani, Saloni, Cox, John, DeFrancesco, Cora, Shen, Zhiqiang, Thompson, Todd A., Wang, Junfeng

“…Abstract Blazars are active galactic nuclei with their relativistic jets pointing toward the observer, comprising two major subclasses, flat-spectrum radio…”
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Blast from the past: constraining progenitor models of SN 1972E by Do, Aaron, Shappee, Benjamin J, De Cuyper, Jean-Pierre, Tonry, John L, Hunt, Cynthia, Schweizer, François, Phillips, Mark M, Burns, Christopher R, Beaton, Rachael, Hainaut, Olivier

“…ABSTRACT We present a novel technique to study Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) by constraining surviving companions of historical extragalactic SN by combining…”
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The Architecture of the GW Ori Young Triple-star System and Its Disk: Dynamical Masses, Mutual Inclinations, and Recurrent Eclipses by Czekala, Ian, Andrews, Sean M., Torres, Guillermo, Rodriguez, Joseph E., Jensen, Eric L. N., Stassun, Keivan G., Latham, David W., Wilner, David J., Gully-Santiago, Michael A., Grankin, Konstantin N., Lund, Michael B., Kuhn, Rudolf B., Stevens, Daniel J., Siverd, Robert J., James, David, Gaudi, B. Scott, Shappee, Benjamin J., Holoien, Thomas W.-S.

“…We present spatially and spectrally resolved Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) observations of gas and dust orbiting the pre-main-sequence…”
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A New Cepheid Distance to the Giant Spiral M101 Based on Image Subtraction of Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys Observations by Shappee, Benjamin J, Stanek, K. Z

“…We accurately determine a new Cepheid distance to M101 (NGC 5457) using archival Hubble Space Telescope (HST)/Advanced Camera for Surveys V and I time series…”
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1ES 1927+654: An AGN Caught Changing Look on a Timescale of Months by Trakhtenbrot, Benny, Arcavi, Iair, MacLeod, Chelsea L., Ricci, Claudio, Kara, Erin, Graham, Melissa L., Stern, Daniel, Harrison, Fiona A., Burke, Jamison, Hiramatsu, Daichi, Hosseinzadeh, Griffin, Howell, D. Andrew, Smartt, Stephen J., Rest, Armin, Prieto, Jose L., Shappee, Benjamin J., Holoien, Thomas W.-S., Bersier, David, Filippenko, Alexei V., Brink, Thomas G., Zheng, WeiKang, Li, Ruancun, Remillard, Ronald A., Loewenstein, Michael

“…We study the sudden optical and ultraviolet (UV) brightening of 1ES 1927+654, which until now was known as a narrow-line active galactic nucleus (AGN). 1ES…”
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Exploring metallicity-dependent rates of Type Ia supernovae and their impact on galaxy formation by Gandhi, Pratik J, Wetzel, Andrew, Hopkins, Philip F, Shappee, Benjamin J, Wheeler, Coral, Faucher-Giguère, Claude-André

“…ABSTRACT Type Ia supernovae are critical for feedback and elemental enrichment in galaxies. Recent surveys like the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernova…”
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