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Fast Radio Bursts Mysterious bursts of radio light that last only a few milliseconds and have an origin that is yet unknown. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad913a8c3c16ab176704ebd/1525291526665-7TPP4E9MTBOVVET71UB4/credit_nasa.jpg Research - Gamma-Ray Bursts Studies of the most energetic forms of light in the universe. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad913a8c3c16ab176704ebd/1525892663520-5JQWD137C9JQZPZIT9SB/neverendingsupernovaJurik-Peter.jpg Research - Exotic Supernovae Discovery and classification of superluminous and other types of rare supernovae. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad913a8c3c16ab176704ebd/1525291458090-JY4I57GZ3PLNZMB32MZL/Credit_james_guillochon.png Research - Tidal Disruption Events What happens when a star gets torn apart by a supermassive black hole? https://www.transients.science/contact daily 0.75 2015-08-21 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5411ffcfe4b065f40cc78e37/1410549503016-FX7BY2QPAPQPQZPX8H5W/Trade+18_0559.jpg Contact https://www.transients.science/gamma-ray-bursts daily 0.75 2018-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad913a8c3c16ab176704ebd/1534354789560-T2LX3INJLK3J33463NSO/howwecreated.jpg Gamma-Ray Bursts Artist's representation of a GRB. (Credit: ESO/A. Roquette, CC BY-SA) https://www.transients.science/404page daily 0.75 2018-04-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad913a8c3c16ab176704ebd/1524619543883-MZ6HRDZUZTEZQ3GJQ1P2/Cosmic_Transients.png 404Page https://www.transients.science/supernovae daily 0.75 2018-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad913a8c3c16ab176704ebd/1525873629279-Q21EVRUKCLNQY10WY3RW/lc-cartoon.png Exotic Supernovae Light curves of different types of supernova. Superluminous events stand out from the common SNe Ia, Ibc and IIP due to their brightness and slower evolution, often with complex ‘bumps and wiggles’. (Credit: M. Nicholl) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad913a8c3c16ab176704ebd/1525873517093-M71BG8DS1RHO4WSWL87U/cfa-008-neutronstar_illI.jpg Exotic Supernovae Artist’s impression of a newborn magnetar embedded in a superluminous supernova. The magnetic spin-down power can keep the ejecta hotter for longer than in a normal supernova, making it glow brighter and bluer. (Credit: M. Weiss/CfA) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad913a8c3c16ab176704ebd/1525873748564-SVVW199X8YCGR11CG2M8/image-asset.png Exotic Supernovae Left: archival image from SDSS of the field around SN2015bn, a superluminous supernova at z=0.11. The host galaxy (marked by crosshairs) is a faint dwarf. Right: Follow-up image from the Liverpool Telescope showing SN2015bn far outshining its host. (Credit: Nicholl et al 2016) https://www.transients.science/multi-messenger daily 0.75 2018-11-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad913a8c3c16ab176704ebd/1534429187063-W7V3RWA3K16X0NJ4P55N/fig1-5.jpg Multi-Messenger Astronomy Artist's representation of the gravitational waves emanating from a binary neutron star system. (Credit: R. 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Credit: ESO. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad913a8c3c16ab176704ebd/1528137872766-SLXOJGLQUT4XDWACAQSP/lbol.jpg Tidal Disruption Events Bolometric light curve of PS16dtm compared to models of TDEs, suggesting that the flare will remain bright for years (Blanchard et al. 2017). https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad913a8c3c16ab176704ebd/1527953105171-HOG132BZEPXMASWIBE5C/TDE.png Tidal Disruption Events Diagram showing the tidal disruption of a star that comes within the tidal disruption radius of a black hole. Credit: S. Gezari, Physics Today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad913a8c3c16ab176704ebd/1527949758483-E5PM67D8QAJIS3AODVD0/image_4659-Tidal-Disruption-Event.jpg Tidal Disruption Events Artist's representation of a tidal disruption event (a star being torn apart by a black hole). Credit: NASA / CXC / M. Weiss. https://www.transients.science/transient-modeling daily 0.75 2018-08-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ad913a8c3c16ab176704ebd/1534429811622-U2N91EZKOUH1IRG2QS09/f1.jpg Transient Modeling Theoretical models generated with MOSFiT (The Modular Open Source Fitter for Transients) for different observations of a binary neutron star merger. (Villar et al. 2017)