Astrophysics with the laser interferometer space antenna

P Amaro-Seoane, J Andrews, M Arca Sedda… - Living Reviews in …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract The Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA) will be a transformative experiment
for gravitational wave astronomy, and, as such, it will offer unique opportunities to address …

Challenges for ΛCDM: An update

L Perivolaropoulos, F Skara - New Astronomy Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
A number of challenges to the standard Λ CDM model have been emerging during the past
few years as the accuracy of cosmological observations improves. In this review we discuss …

Modules for experiments in stellar astrophysics (MESA): time-dependent convection, energy conservation, automatic differentiation, and infrastructure

AS Jermyn, EB Bauer, J Schwab… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We update the capabilities of the open-knowledge software instrument Modules for
Experiments in Stellar Astrophysics (MESA). The new auto _ diff module implements …

[HTML][HTML] The early data release of the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument

D Collaboration, AG Adame, J Aguilar… - The Astronomical …, 2024 - escholarship.org
The Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument (DESI) completed its 5 month Survey Validation
in 2021 May. Spectra of stellar and extragalactic targets from Survey Validation constitute …

Tidal disruption events

S Gezari - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The concept of stars being tidally ripped apart and consumed by a massive black hole
(MBH) lurking in the center of a galaxy first captivated theorists in the late 1970s. The …

A sun-like star orbiting a black hole

K El-Badry, HW Rix, E Quataert… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We report discovery of a bright, nearby () Sun-like star orbiting a dark object. We identified
the system as a black hole candidate via its astrometric orbital solution from the Gaia …

IceCube-Gen2: the window to the extreme Universe

MG Aartsen, R Abbasi, M Ackermann… - Journal of Physics G …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The observation of electromagnetic radiation from radio to γ-ray wavelengths has provided a
wealth of information about the Universe. However, at PeV (10 15 eV) energies and above …

Fast radio bursts at the dawn of the 2020s

E Petroff, JWT Hessels, DR Lorimer - The Astronomy and Astrophysics …, 2022 - Springer
Since the discovery of the first fast radio burst (FRB) in 2007, and their confirmation as an
abundant extragalactic population in 2013, the study of these sources has expanded at an …

Intermediate-mass black holes

JE Greene, J Strader, LC Ho - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
We describe ongoing searches for intermediate-mass black holes with M BH≈ 10–105 M⊙.
We review a range of search mechanisms, both dynamical and those that rely on accretion …

The final season reimagined: 30 tidal disruption events from the ZTF-I Survey

E Hammerstein, S van Velzen, S Gezari… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) offer a unique way to study dormant black holes. While the
number of observed TDEs has grown thanks to the emergence of wide-field surveys in the …