Erica Hammerstein

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Journal article Astrophysical Journal Letters Aug 2026

TDE 2025abcr: A Tidal Disruption Event in the Outskirts of a Massive Galaxy

Robert Stein, Jonathan Carney, Charlotte Ward … Joshua S. Bloom … +29 moreShow fewer
Robert Stein, Jonathan Carney, Charlotte Ward, Raffaella Margutti, Xander J. Hall, Itai Sfaradi, Igor Andreoni, Panos Charalampopoulos, Ryan Chornock, Suvi Gezari, Geoffrey Mo, Yuhan Yao, Akash Anumarlapudi, Eric C. Bellm, Joshua S. Bloom, Malte Busmann, Ilaria Caiazzo, S. Bradley Cenko, Matthew J. Graham, Steven L. Groom, Daniel Gruen, Erica Hammerstein, Benjamin C. Kaiser, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Brendan O’Connor, Antonella Palmese, Josiah Purdum, Jillian C. Rastinejad, Reed Riddle, Ben Rusholme, Jesper Sollerman, Jean J. Somalwar, Sylvain Veilleux
DOI
Journal article The Astrophysical Journal Nov 2025

Optically Overluminous Tidal Disruption Events: Outflow Properties and Implications for Extremely Relativistic Disruptions

Yuhan Yao, Kate D. Alexander, Wenbin Lu … Joshua S. Bloom … +21 moreShow fewer
Yuhan Yao, Kate D. Alexander, Wenbin Lu, Jean J. Somalwar, Vikram Ravi, Ryan Chornock, Raffaella Margutti, Daniel A. Perley, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Paz Beniamini, Nayana A.J., Joshua S. Bloom, Collin T. Christy, Matthew J. Graham, Steven L. Groom, Erica Hammerstein, George Helou, Mansi M. Kasliwal, S. R. Kulkarni, Russ R. Laher, Ashish A. Mahabal, Jérémy Neveu, Reed Riddle, Roger Smith, Sjoert van Velzen
DOI
Journal article The Astrophysical Journal Nov 2024

Subrelativistic Outflow and Hours-timescale Large-amplitude X-Ray Dips during Super-Eddington Accretion onto a Low-mass Massive Black Hole in the Tidal Disruption Event AT2022lri

Yuhan Yao, Muryel Guolo, Francesco Tombesi … Joshua S. Bloom … +31 moreShow fewer
Yuhan Yao, Muryel Guolo, Francesco Tombesi, Ruancun Li, Suvi Gezari, Javier A. García, Lixin Dai, Ryan Chornock, Wenbin Lu, S. R. Kulkarni, Keith C. Gendreau, Dheeraj R. Pasham, S. Bradley Cenko, Erin Kara, Raffaella Margutti, Yukta Ajay, Thomas Wevers, Tom M. Kwan, Igor Andreoni, Joshua S. Bloom, Andrew J. Drake, Matthew J. Graham, Erica Hammerstein, Russ R. Laher, Natalie LeBaron, Ashish A. Mahabal, Brendan O’Connor, Josiah Purdum, Vikram Ravi, Huei Sears, Yashvi Sharma, Roger Smith, Jesper Sollerman, Jean J. Somalwar, Avery Wold
DOI
Journal article Astrophysical Journal Letters Jan 2024

Characterizing the Ordinary Broad-line Type Ic SN 2023pel from the Energetic GRB 230812B

Gokul P. Srinivasaragavan, Vishwajeet Swain, Brendan O'Connor … Joshua S. Bloom … +38 moreShow fewer
Gokul P. Srinivasaragavan, Vishwajeet Swain, Brendan O'Connor, Shreya Anand, Tomás Ahumada, Daniel Perley, Robert Stein, Jesper Sollerman, Christoffer Fremling, S. Bradley Cenko, S. Antier, Nidhal Guessoum, Thomas Hussenot-Desenonges, Patrice Hello, Stephen Lesage, Erica Hammerstein, M. Coleman Miller, Igor Andreoni, Varun Bhalerao, Joshua S. Bloom, Anirban Dutta, Avishay Gal-Yam, K. -Ryan Hinds, Amruta Jaodand, Mansi Kasliwal, Harsh Kumar, Alexander S. Kutyrev, Fabio Ragosta, Vikram Ravi, Kritti Sharma, Rishabh Singh Teja, Sheng Yang, G. C. Anupama, Eric C. Bellm, Michael W. Coughlin, Ashish A. Mahabal, Frank J. Masci, Utkarsh Pathak, Josiah Purdum, Oliver J. Roberts, Roger Smith, Avery Wold
DOI arXiv
Journal article Astrophysical Journal Letters Sep 2023

Tidal Disruption Event Demographics with the Zwicky Transient Facility: Volumetric Rates, Luminosity Function, and Implications for the Local Black Hole Mass Function

Yuhan Yao, Vikram Ravi, Suvi Gezari … Joshua S. Bloom … +25 moreShow fewer
Yuhan Yao, Vikram Ravi, Suvi Gezari, Sjoert van Velzen, Wenbin Lu, Steve Schulze, Jean J. Somalwar, S. R. Kulkarni, Erica Hammerstein, Matt Nicholl, Matthew J. Graham, Daniel A. Perley, S. Bradley Cenko, Robert Stein, Angelo Ricarte, Urmila Chadayammuri, Eliot Quataert, Eric C. Bellm, Joshua S. Bloom, Richard Dekany, Andrew J. Drake, Steven L. Groom, Ashish A. Mahabal, Thomas A. Prince, Reed Riddle, Ben Rusholme, Yashvi Sharma, Jesper Sollerman, Lin Yan
DOI arXiv
Journal article Nature Jan 2023

Publisher Correction: A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole

Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Daniel A. Perley … Joshua S. Bloom … +77 moreShow fewer
Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Daniel A. Perley, Yuhan Yao, Wenbin Lu, S. Bradley Cenko, Harsh Kumar, Shreya Anand, Anna Y. Q. Ho, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Antonio de Ugarte Postigo, Ana Sagués-Carracedo, Steve Schulze, D. Alexander Kann, S. R. Kulkarni, Jesper Sollerman, Nial Tanvir, Armin Rest, Luca Izzo, Jean J. Somalwar, David L. Kaplan, Tomás Ahumada, G. C. Anupama, Katie Auchettl, Sudhanshu Barway, Eric C. Bellm, Varun Bhalerao, Joshua S. Bloom, Michael Bremer, Mattia Bulla, Eric Burns, Sergio Campana, Poonam Chandra, Panos Charalampopoulos, Jeff Cooke, Valerio D'Elia, Kaustav Kashyap Das, Dougal Dobie, José Feliciano Agüı́ Fernández, James Freeburn, Cristoffer Fremling, Suvi Gezari, Simon Goode, Matthew J. Graham, Erica Hammerstein, Viraj R. Karambelkar, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Erik C. Kool, Melanie Krips, Russ R. Laher, Giorgos Leloudas, Andrew Levan, Michael J. Lundquist, Ashish A. Mahabal, Michael S. Medford, M. Coleman Miller, Anais Möller, Kunal P. Mooley, A. J. Nayana, Guy Nir, Peter T. H. Pang, Emmy Paraskeva, Richard A. Perley, Glen Petitpas, Miika Pursiainen, Vikram Ravi, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Reed Riddle, Mickael Rigault, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Ben Rusholme, Yashvi Sharma, I. A. Smith, Robert D. Stein, Christina Thöne, Aaron Tohuvavohu, Frank Valdes, Jan van Roestel, Susanna D. Vergani, Qinan Wang, Jielai Zhang
DOI
Journal article Nature Dec 2022

A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole

Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Daniel A. Perley … Joshua S. Bloom … +77 moreShow fewer
Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Daniel A. Perley, Yuhan Yao, Wenbin Lu, S. Bradley Cenko, Harsh Kumar, Shreya Anand, Anna Y. Q. Ho, Mansi M. Kasliwal, Antonio de Ugarte Postigo, Ana Sagués-Carracedo, Steve Schulze, D. Alexander Kann, S. R. Kulkarni, Jesper Sollerman, Nial Tanvir, Armin Rest, Luca Izzo, Jean J. Somalwar, David L. Kaplan, Tomás Ahumada, G. C. Anupama, Katie Auchettl, Sudhanshu Barway, Eric C. Bellm, Varun Bhalerao, Joshua S. Bloom, Michael Bremer, Mattia Bulla, Eric Burns, Sergio Campana, Poonam Chandra, Panos Charalampopoulos, Jeff Cooke, Valerio D'Elia, Kaustav Kashyap Das, Dougal Dobie, José Feliciano Agüı́ Fernández, James Freeburn, Cristoffer Fremling, Suvi Gezari, Simon Goode, Matthew J. Graham, Erica Hammerstein, Viraj R. Karambelkar, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Erik C. Kool, Melanie Krips, Russ R. Laher, Giorgos Leloudas, Andrew Levan, Michael J. Lundquist, Ashish A. Mahabal, Michael S. Medford, M. Coleman Miller, Anais Möller, Kunal P. Mooley, A. J. Nayana, Guy Nir, Peter T. H. Pang, Emmy Paraskeva, Richard A. Perley, Glen Petitpas, Miika Pursiainen, Vikram Ravi, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Reed Riddle, Mickael Rigault, Antonio C. Rodriguez, Ben Rusholme, Yashvi Sharma, I. A. Smith, Robert D. Stein, Christina Thöne, Aaron Tohuvavohu, Frank Valdes, Jan van Roestel, Susanna D. Vergani, Qinan Wang, Jielai Zhang
DOI arXiv
Journal article Astrophysical Journal Sep 2022

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

Yuhan Yao, Wenbin Lu, Muryel Guolo … Joshua S. Bloom … +28 moreShow fewer
Yuhan Yao, Wenbin Lu, Muryel Guolo, Dheeraj R. Pasham, Suvi Gezari, Marat Gilfanov, Keith C. Gendreau, Fiona Harrison, S. Bradley Cenko, S. R. Kulkarni, Jon M. Miller, Dominic J. Walton, Javier A. Garcı́a, Sjoert van Velzen, Kate D. Alexander, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Matt Nicholl, Erica Hammerstein, Pavel Medvedev, Daniel Stern, Vikram Ravi, R. Sunyaev, Joshua S. Bloom, Matthew J. Graham, Erik C. Kool, Ashish A. Mahabal, Frank J. Masci, Josiah Purdum, Ben Rusholme, Yashvi Sharma, Roger Smith, Jesper Sollerman
DOI arXiv
Journal article arXiv e-prints Jun 2022

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

Yuhan Yao, Wenbin Lu, Muryel Guolo … Joshua S. Bloom … +28 moreShow fewer
Yuhan Yao, Wenbin Lu, Muryel Guolo, Dheeraj R. Pasham, Suvi Gezari, Marat Gilfanov, Keith C. Gendreau, Fiona Harrison, S. Bradley Cenko, S. R. Kulkarni, Jon M. Miller, Dominic J. Walton, Javier A. García, Sjoert van Velzen, Kate D. Alexander, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Matt Nicholl, Erica Hammerstein, Pavel Medvedev, Daniel Stern, Vikram Ravi, R. Sunyaev, Joshua S. Bloom, Matthew J. Graham, Erik C. Kool, Ashish A. Mahabal, Frank J. Masci, Josiah Purdum, Ben Rusholme, Yashvi Sharma, Roger Smith, Jesper Sollerman
arXiv