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We present the discovery of a slowly-evolving, extragalactic radio transient, FIRST J141918.9+394036, identified by comparing a catalog of radio sources in nearby galaxies against new observations from the Very Large Array Sky Survey.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-24 C. J. Law , B. M. Gaensler , B. D. Metzger , E. O. Ofek , L. Sironi

In this article I will briely review the current status of radio observations of nearby supernovae and their remnants. This review will initially address observations of the radio light curves of nearby core-collapse supernovae, followed by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Beswick

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star or sub-stellar object passes close enough to a galaxy's supermassive black hole to be disrupted by tidal forces. NGC 4845 (d=17 Mpc) was host to a TDE, IGR J12580+0134, detected in November…

The Palomar Transient Factory (PTF) team recently reported the discovery of a rapidly fading optical transient source, PTF11agg. A long-lived scintillating radio counterpart was identified, but the search for a high energy counterpart…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Xue-Feng Wu , He Gao , Xuan Ding , Bing Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai , Jian-Yan Wei

The mergers of two neutron stars are typically accompanied by broad-band electromagnetic emission from either a relativistic jet or a kilonova. It has also been long predicted that coherent radio emission will occur during the merger phase…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 A. Rowlinson , R. L. C. Starling , K. Gourdji , G. E. Anderson , S. ter Veen , S. Mandhai , R. A. M. J. Wijers , T. W. Shimwell , A. J. van der Horst

We use relativistic hydrodynamic numerical calculations to study the interaction between a jet and a homologous outflow produced dynamically during binary neutron star mergers. We quantify how the thermal energy supplied by the jet to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Paul C. Duffell , Eliot Quataert , Daniel Kasen , Hannah Klion

Rowlinson et al. 2023 recently claimed the detection of a coherent radio flash 76.6 minutes after a short gamma-ray burst. They proposed that the radio emission may be associated with a long-lived neutron star engine. We show through…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Nikhil Sarin , Teagan A. Clarke , Spencer J. Magnall , Paul D. Lasky , Brian D. Metzger , Edo Berger , Navin Sridhar

Giant radio relics are arc-like structures of diffuse, non-thermal synchrotron radiation that trace shock waves induced by galaxy cluster mergers. The particle (re-)acceleration mechanism producing such radio relics is unclear. One major…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-07 A. Jones , F. de Gasperin , V. Cuciti , D. N. Hoang , A. Botteon , M. Brüggen , G. Brunetti , K. Finner , W. R. Forman , C. Jones , R. P. Kraft , T. Shimwell , R. J. van Weeren

In a search for low surface brightness radio nebulae using the ASKAP-EMU survey, we discovered a faint radio shell, G289.6+5.8, and its central point radio source at the position of the soft gamma-ray source IGR J11187-5438. The central…

The properties of fast radio bursts (FRBs) indicate that the physical origin of this type of astrophysical phenomenon is related to neutron stars. The first detected repeating source, FRB 121102, is associated with a persistent radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-02 Yu-Han Yang , Zi-Gao Dai

The physical nature of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs), a new type of cosmological transients discovered recently, is not known. It has been suggested that FRBs can be produced when a spinning supra-massive neutron star loses centrifugal support…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Bing Zhang

Recent long-term radio follow-up observations of GW 170817 reveals a simple power-law rising light curve, with a slope of $t^{0.78}$, up to 93 days after the merger. The latest X-ray detection at 109 days is also consistent with such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Xiang-Yu Wang , Zhi-Qiu Huang

Aims: We study the supernova remnant G20.0-0.2 and its surroundings in order to look for the high energy counterpart of the radio nebula and to find evidence of interaction between the shock front and the interstellar medium. Methods: We…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 Alberto Petriella , Sergio Paron , Elsa Giacani

Gravitational waves and electromagnetic radiations from a neutron star merger were discovered on 17 August 2017. Multiband observations of the optical transient have identified brightness and spectrum features broadly consistent with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-07 Li-Xin Li

The merger of a neutron star binary may result in the formation of a rapidly-spinning magnetar. The magnetar can potentially survive for seconds or longer as a supramassive neutron star before collapsing to a black hole if, indeed, it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-09 Wen-fai Fong , Brian D. Metzger , Edo Berger , Feryal Ozel

The recent transient event Swift J1644+57 has been interpreted as emission from a collimated relativistic jet, powered by the sudden onset of accretion onto a supermassive black hole following the tidal disruption of a star. Here we model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Brian D. Metzger , Dimitrios Giannios , Petar Mimica

The coalescence of double neutron star (NS-NS) and black hole (BH)-NS binaries are prime sources of gravitational waves (GW) for Advanced LIGO/Virgo and future ground-based detectors. Neutron-rich matter released from such events undergo…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Brian D. Metzger

As an explosion develops in the collapsed core of a massive star, neutrino emission drives convection in a hot bubble of radiation, nucleons, and pairs just outside a proto-neutron star. Shortly thereafter, neutrinos drive a wind-like…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. Pruet , S. E. Woosley , R. Buras , H. -T. Janka , R. D. Hoffman

We report the detection of a potential cosmic radio transient source using the two stations of the Long Wavelength Array. The transient was detected on 18 October 2017 08:47 UTC near the celestial equator while reducing 10,240 hours of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-29 S. S. Varghese , K. S. Obenberger , J. Dowell , G. B. Taylor

As a new kind of radio transient sources detected at $\sim 1.4$ GHz, fast radio bursts are specially characterized by their short durations and high intensities. Although only ten events are detected so far, fast radio bursts may actually…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-22 Y. F. Huang , J. J. Geng