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    • The Tidal Disruption Event AT2021ehb : Evidence of Relativistic Disk Reflection, and Rapid Evolution of the Disk-Corona System 

      Yao, Yuhan; Lu, Wenbin; Guolo, Muryel; Pasham, Dheeraj R.; Gezari, Suvi; Gilfanov, Marat; Gendreau, Keith C.; Harrison, Fiona; Cenko, S. Bradley; Kulkarni, S. R.; Miller, Jon M.; Walton, Dominic J.; García, Javier A.; Velzen, Sjoert van; Alexander, Kate D.; Miller-Jones, James C. A.; Nicholl, Matt; Hammerstein, Erica; Medvedev, Pavel; Stern, Daniel; Ravi, Vikram; Sunyaev, R.; Bloom, Joshua S.; Graham, Matthew J.; Kool, Erik C.; Mahabal, Ashish A.; Masci, Frank J.; Purdum, Josiah; Rusholme, Ben; Sharma, Yashvi; Smith, Roger; Sollerman, Jesper (2022-09-15)
      We present X-ray, UV, optical, and radio observations of the nearby ($\approx78$ Mpc) tidal disruption event (TDE) AT2021ehb/ZTF21aanxhjv during its first 430 days of evolution. AT2021ehb occurs in the nucleus of a galaxy ...
    • Unusual Hard X-Ray Flares Caught in NICER Monitoring of the Binary Supermassive Black Hole Candidate AT2019cuk/Tick Tock/SDSS J1430+2303 

      Masterson, Megan; Kara, Erin; Pasham, Dheeraj R.; D’Orazio, Daniel J.; Walton, Dominic J.; Fabian, Andrew C.; Lucchini, Matteo; Remillard, Ronald A.; Arzoumanian, Zaven; Burkhonov, Otabek; Choi, Hyeonho; Ehgamberdiev, Shuhrat A.; Ferrara, Elizabeth C.; Guolo, Muryel; Im, Myungshin; Kim, Yonggi; Mirzaqulov, Davron O.; Paek, Gregory S. H.; Sung, Hyun-Il; Yoon, Joh-Na (2023-03-14)
      The nuclear transient AT2019cuk/Tick Tock/SDSS J1430+2303 has been suggested to harbor a supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary near coalescence. We report results from high-cadence NICER X-ray monitoring with multiple ...