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AT 2022cmc is a luminous optical transient ($\nu L_{\nu} \gtrsim 10^{45}$ erg s$^{-1}$) accompanied by decaying non-thermal X-rays (peak duration $t_{\rm X} \lesssim$ days and isotropic energy $E_{\rm X,iso} \gtrsim 10^{53}$ erg) and a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-03 Tatsuya Matsumoto , Brian D. Metzger

We report the first direct detection of an exoplanet in the visible polarized light. The transiting planet HD189733b is one of the very hot Jupiters with shortest periods and, thus, smallest orbits, which makes them ideal candidates for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 S. V. Berdyugina , A. V. Berdyugin , D. M. Fluri , V. Piirola

We present photometric and polarimetric observations of a new magnetic cataclysmic variable, presumably a polar, USNO-A2.0 0825-18396733. The photometric observations were carried out with the SAO RAS Zeiss-1000 telescope, and the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-29 V. L. Afanasiev , N. V. Borisov , M. M. Gabdeev

We present a catalog of early-time (~10^2-10^4s) photometry and polarimetry of all Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) optical afterglows observed with RINGO2 imaging polarimeter on the Liverpool Telescope. For the 19 optical afterglows observed, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 I. A. Steele , D. Kopac , D. M. Arnold , R. J. Smith , S. Kobayashi , H. E. Jermak , C. G. Mundell , A. Gomboc , C. Guidorzi , A. Melandri , J. Japelj

We report on the variation in the optical polarization of the blazar PKS 1749+096 observed in 2008--2015. The degree of polarization (PD) tends to increase in short flares having a time-scale of a few days. The object favors a polarization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Makoto Uemura , Ryosuke Itoh , Ioannis Liodakis , Dmitry Blinov , Masanori Nakayama , Longyin Xu , Naoko Sawada , Hsiang-Yun Wu , Issei Fujishiro

We present three-epoch polarimetric images of the quasar 3C 454.3 obtained with the Very Long Baseline Array at 22 and 43 GHz. 22 GHz polarized intensity images show a sudden change in the polarization structure of a bright eastern…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jose-Luis Gomez , Alan P. Marscher , Antonio Alberdi

SPOrt is an ASI-funded experiment specifically designed to measure the sky polarization at 22, 32 and 90 GHz, which was selected in 1997 by ESA to be flown on the International Space Station. Starting in 2006 and for at least 18 months, it…

Optical polarization of seven selected BL Lac objects in UBVRI bands was studied with the Nordic Optical Telescope from December 10-14, 1999. Two of them, 3C 66A and PKS 0735+178, were monitored for 4 nights for a total integration time of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 L. Tommasi , E. Palazzi , E. Pian , V. Piirola , E. Poretti , F. Scaltriti , A. Sillanpaa , L. Takalo , A. Treves

We present a coarsely-sampled map of the region |l|<=2 degrees, |b|<=0.1 degrees in the 492 GHz 3P1-->3P0 fine structure transition of neutral carbon, observed with the Antarctic Submillimeter Telescope and Remote Observatory (AST/RO). The…

As the third paper in the multiple-part series, we report the statistical properties of radio bursts detected from the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20201124A with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio telescope…

Observations of the extragalactic ($z=0.0141$) transient AT2018cow established a new class of energetic explosions shocking a dense medium, which produce luminous emission at millimeter and sub-millimeter wavelengths. Here we present…

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We study the optical linear and circular polarisation in the optically-thin regime of the core and jet of M87. Observations were acquired two days before the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) campaign in early April 2017. A high degree ($\sim…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-06-17 A. Y. Fresco , J. A. Fernández-Ontiveros , M. A. Prieto , J. A. Acosta-Pulido , A. Merloni

We report the polarized optical light curve of a gamma-ray burst afterglow obtained using the RoboPol instrument. Observations began 655 seconds after the initial burst of gamma-rays from GRB131030A, and continued uninterrupted for 2 hours.…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extra-galactic sources with unknown physical mechanisms. They emit millisecond-duration radio pulses with isotropic equivalent energy of $10^{36}\sim10^{41}$ ergs. This corresponds to a brightness temperature of…

The LIGO detection of gravitational waves (GW) from merging black holes in 2015 marked the beginning of a new era in observational astronomy. The detection of an electromagnetic signal from a GW source is the critical next step to explore…

We present a detailed investigation of the flaring activity observed from a BL Lac object, S5 0716+714 , during its brightest ever optical state in the second half of January 2015. Observed almost simultaneously in the optical, X-rays and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-26 Sunil Chandra , Haocheng Zhang , Pankaj Kushwaha , K. P. Singh , M. Bottcher , Navpreet Kaur , K. S. Baliyan

We report 31 polarimetric observations of the afterglow of GRB 030329 with high signal-to-noise and high sampling frequency. We establish the polarization light curve, detect sustained polarization at the percent level, and find significant…

We are searching for hot, constant-color, offset optical flares in the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) data stream that are ${>}10''$ from any galaxy in public imaging data from the PanSTARRS survey. Here, we present the first discovery…