Recent Publications

Extragalactic fast X-ray transient from a weak relativistic jet associated with a Type Ic-BL supernova

| Research Square
Author(s): Gao, H., Sun, H., Li, W., et. al
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein


Back from the dead: AT2019aalc as a candidate repeating TDE in an AGN

| arXiv
Author(s): Veres, P.M., Franckowiak, A., van Velzen, S., et. al
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein


Probing Presupernova Mass Loss in Double-peaked Type Ibc Supernovae from the Zwicky Transient Facility

| Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Das, K.K., Kasliwal, M.M., Sollerman, J., et. al
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein


Spectroscopic observations of progenitor activity 100 days before a Type Ibn supernova

| arXiv
Author(s): Brennan, S.J., Sollerman, J., Irani, I., et. al
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein


Searching for gravitational wave optical counterparts with the Zwicky Transient Facility: summary of O4a

| arXiv
Author(s): Ahumada, T., Anand, S., Coughlin, M.W., et. al
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein


WINTER commissioning and early performance: a new time-domain near-IR facility

| Proceedings of SPIE the International Society for Optical Engineering
Author(s): Frostig, D., Burdge, K.B., De, K., et. al
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein


The complex circumstellar environment of supernova 2023ixf

| Nature
Author(s): Zimmerman, E.A., Irani, I., Chen, P., et. al
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein


Spectroscopic observations of progenitor activity 100 days before a Type Ibn supernova?

| Astronomy and Astrophysics
Author(s): Brennan, S.J., Sollerman, J., Irani, I., et. al
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein


Rubin ToO 2024: Envisioning the Vera C. Rubin Observatory LSST Target of Opportunity program

| arXiv
Author(s): Andreoni, I., Margutti, R., Banovetz, J., et. al
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein


tdescore: An Accurate Photometric Classifier for Tidal Disruption Events

| Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Stein, R., Mahabal, A., Reusch, S., et. al
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein, Suvi Gezari


Atmospheric Escape From Three Terrestrial Planets in the L 98-59 System

| The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Emeline F. Fromont, John P. Ahlers, Laura N. R. do Amaral, et. al
UMD Author(s): Emeline Franoise Fromont


Quasi-periodic X-ray eruptions years after a nearby tidal disruption event

| arXiv
Author(s): Nicholl, M., Pasham, D.R., Mummery, A., et. al
UMD Author(s): Robert David Stein


Bound star clusters observed in a lensed galaxy 460 Myr after the Big Bang

| arXiv e-prints
Author(s): Adamo, Angela, Bradley, Larry D., Vanzella, Eros, et. al
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti


Star Formation Efficiency in Nearby Galaxies Revealed with a New CO-to-H2 Conversion Factor Prescription

| The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Teng, Yu-Hsuan, Chiang, I-Da, Sandstrom, Karin M., et. al
UMD Author(s): Yu-Hsuan (Eltha) Teng


Violent Starbursts and Quiescence Induced by Far-ultraviolet Radiation Feedback in Metal-poor Galaxies at High Redshift

| The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Kazuyuki Sugimura, Massimo Ricotti, Jongwon Park, et. al
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti


Explanations for the two-component spectral energy distributions of gravitationally lensed stars at high redshifts

| arXiv
Author(s): Nabizadeh, Armin, Zackrisson, Erik, Lundqvist, Emma, et. al
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti


Semimajor-axis Jumps as the Activity Trigger in Centaurs and High-perihelion Jupiter-family Comets

| The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Author(s): Eva Lilly, Peter Jevčák, Charles Schambeau, et. al
UMD Author(s): James M. Bauer


What can we learn from the Nitrogen abundance of High-z galaxies?

| arXiv
Author(s): Stiavelli, Massimo, Morishita, Takahiro, Chiaberge, Marco, et. al
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti


Reaching for the stars - JWST/NIRSpec spectroscopy of a lensed star candidate at z=4.76

| Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Author(s): Furtak, Lukas J., Meena, Ashish K., Zackrisson, Erik, et. al
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti


Violent starbursts and quiescence induced by FUV radiation feedback in metal-poor galaxies at high-redshift

| arXiv
Author(s): Sugimura, Kazuyuki, Ricotti, Massimo, Park, Jongwon, et. al
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti


Extreme ionizing properties of a metal-poor, MUV ≃-12 star complex in the first gigayear

| Astronomy & Astrophysics
Author(s): Vanzella, E., Loiacono, F., Messa, M., et. al
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti


JWST NIRSpec High-resolution Spectroscopy of MACS0647-JD at z=10.167: Resolved [OII] Doublet and Electron Density in an Early Galaxy

| arXiv
Author(s): Abdurro’uf, Larson, Rebecca L., Coe, Dan, et. al
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti


Unveiling the Cosmic Gems Arc at z ∼ 10.2 with JWST

| arXiv
Author(s): Bradley, Larry D., Adamo, Angela, Vanzella, Eros, et. al
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti


The discovery of bound star clusters 460 Myr after the Big Bang

| arXiv
Author(s): Adamo, Angela, Bradley, Larry D., Vanzella, Eros, et. al
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti


The Extended [C ii] under Construction? Observation of the Brightest High-z Lensed Star-forming Galaxy at z=6.2

| The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Fudamoto, Yoshinobu, Inoue, Akio K., Coe, Dan, et. al
UMD Author(s): Massimo Ricotti