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Peter Clark

@Lightbulb500

Postdoctoral Research Fellow at @unisouthampton. Working on TDEs and supernovae 💥💥😎. Opinions are my own. 🇪🇺 He/Him @lightbulb500.bsky.social

 Northern Ireland
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Joined September 2009
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It's time for a new paper thread! 🥳 This time on unusual tidal disruption events (TDEs) If you'd like to skip right to the science, the paper is open access through #MNRAS here: academic.oup.com/mnras/artic… #AcademicChatter @UoPCosmology 1 / 22
Long-term follow-up observations of extreme coronal line emitting galaxies

Long-term follow-up observations of extreme coronal line emitting galaxies

ABSTRACT. We present new spectroscopic and photometric follow-up observations of the known sample of extreme coronal line-emitting galaxies (ECLEs) identif

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Hey everyone! Time for another paper thread 😎 This time on the weird and wonderful transient AT 2018dyk You can read along in this thread, or if you'd prefer to get straight to the paper you can find it ... Via MNRAS: academic.oup.com/mnras/artic…
AT 2018dyk: tidal disruption event or active galactic nucleus? Follow-up observations of an extreme...

AT 2018dyk: tidal disruption event or active galactic nucleus? Follow-up observations of an extreme...

ABSTRACT. We present fresh insights into the nature of the tidal disruption event (TDE) candidate AT 2018dyk. AT 2018dyk has sparked a debate in the litera

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On a final note, the MIR observations were made by favourite telescope WISE, which was decommissioned and burned up in Earth's atmosphere last year after more than 14 years of data gathering. 🫡
Artist's impression of the WISE spacecraft in orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

ALT Artist's impression of the WISE spacecraft in orbit. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech

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Thanks for reading! Very happy to answer any questions you might have on this or the paper itself ☺️
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