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At present, there is a lack of effective probes to distinguish between mid-infrared (MIR) outbursts induced by tidal disruption events (TDEs) and changing-look active galactic nuclei (CLAGNs) based on only MIR data. Here, we propose that…

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Photometric missions such as Kepler and TESS have generated millions of light curves covering almost the entire sky, offering unprecedented opportunities to study stellar variability and advance our understanding of the Universe. In this…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-10 Paul F. X. Gregory , Jeroen Audenaert , Mykyta Kliapets , Daniel Muthukrishna , Andrew Tkachenko , Marek Skarka , Marc Hon , George R. Ricker

Luminosity determination within the ALICE experiment is based on the measurement, in van der Meer scans, of the cross sections for visible processes involving one or more detectors (visible cross sections). In 2015 and 2018, the Large…

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We report the discovery by the intermediate Palomar Transient Factory (iPTF) of a candidate tidal disruption event (TDE) iPTF16axa at $z=0.108$, and present its broadband photometric and spectroscopic evolution from 3 months of follow-up…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-21 T. Hung , S. Gezari , N. Blagorodnova , N. Roth , S. B. Cenko , S. R. Kulkarni , A. Horesh , I. Arcavi , C. McCully , Lin Yan , R. Lunnan , C. Fremling , Y. Cao , P. E. Nugent , P. Wozniak

A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) is the only experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) dedicated to the study of heavy ion collisions. The Time Projection Chamber (TPC) is the main tracking detector covering the pseudo rapidity…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2009-11-11 G. Renault , B. S. Nielsen , J. Westergaard , J. J. Gaardhøje

We present a search for luminous, long-duration ambiguous nuclear transients (ANTs) similar to the unprecedented discovery of the extreme, ambiguous event AT2021lwx with a $>150$\,d rise time and luminosity $10^{45.7}$\,erg\,s$^{-1}$. We…

In LHC Run 3, the upgraded ALICE detector will record Pb-Pb collisions at a rate of 50 kHz usingcontinuous readout. The resulting stream of raw data at 3.5 TB/s has to be processed with a setof lossy and lossless compression and data…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2022-09-21 Michael Lettrich

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) occur when a star is gravitationally disrupted by the tidal field of a supermassive black hole during a close encounter. Radio emission has recently been detected in TDEs and is commonly attributed to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 Yuri Sato , Mukul Bhattacharya , Jose Carpio , Jewel Capili , Kohta Murase

The unprecedented volume and rate of transient events that will be discovered by the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST) demands that the astronomical community update its followup paradigm. Alert-brokers -- automated software system to…

We present an analysis of twenty tidal disruption event (TDE) host galaxies observed with the MUSE integral-field spectrograph on ESO VLT. We investigate the presence of extended emission line regions (EELRs) and study stellar populations…

The ALICE Collaboration proposes a completely new apparatus, ALICE 3, for the LHC Runs 5 and 6. The detector consists of a large pixel-based tracking system covering eight units of pseudorapidity, complemented by multiple systems for…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2023-11-27 Nicola Nicassio

We introduce the Abductive Rule Learner with Context-awareness (ARLC), a model that solves abstract reasoning tasks based on Learn-VRF. ARLC features a novel and more broadly applicable training objective for abductive reasoning, resulting…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-02 Giacomo Camposampiero , Michael Hersche , Aleksandar Terzić , Roger Wattenhofer , Abu Sebastian , Abbas Rahimi

Luminous red novae (LRNe) are transients characterized by low luminosities and expansion velocities, and are associated with mergers or common envelope ejections in stellar binaries. Intermediate-luminosity red transients (ILRTs) are an…

Tidal disruption events are rare and diverse transients that occur when a star is torn apart by a supermassive black hole and accreted, which can result in a supersoft X-ray thermal transient. Here, we present nine tidal disruption event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-13 R. A. J. Eyles-Ferris , R. L. C. Starling , P. T. O'Brien , K. L. Page , P. A. Evans

The jets are the final state manifestation of the hard parton scattering. Since at LHC energies the production of hard processes in proton-proton collisions will be copious and varied, it is important to develop methods to identify them…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2009-12-07 Antonio Ortiz , Guy Paic

Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has detected a diverse range of gamma-ray transients since its launch in 2008. Over the years, Fermi has accumulated an extensive public archive of transient events. Traditional classification methods for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-31 Arpan Aryam John , Krushna Govind Shete , Shabnam Iyyani , Saptarshi Bej

We report a candidate repeating tidal disruption event (TDE), AT2022sxl, found from large-field optical survey data. Two flares with a separation time of $\sim$7.2\,yr between the two optical peaks are observed. Related mid-infrared (MIR)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-14 Shunhao Ji , Zhongxiang Wang , Litao Zhu , Stefan Geier , Alok C. Gupta

Decision-tree-based ensemble classification methods (DTEMs) are a prevalent tool for supervised anomaly detection. However, due to the continued growth of datasets, DTEMs result in increasing drawbacks such as growing memory footprints,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-01-10 Shay Vargaftik , Isaac Keslassy , Ariel Orda , Yaniv Ben-Itzhak

We report unnoticed but intriguing features in the peculiar nuclear transient AT 2022fpx, and investigate its type. These features include the constantly red optical color of $g-r>0$, a stable soft X-ray flare ($kT\sim100$ eV) in the past…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-09 Zheyu Lin , Ning Jiang , Yibo Wang , Xu Kong , Shifeng Huang , Zesen Lin , Chen Qin , Tianyu Xia

We discuss how a level-1 trigger, about 8 us after a hadron-hadron collision, can be derived from the Transition Radiation Detector (TRD) in A Large Ion Collider Experiment (ALICE) at the LHC. Chamber-wise track segments from fast…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2019-08-13 Jochen Klein