A double-edged sword: extra-galactic Fast X-ray Transients

Project Information

Starstruck

Grant agreement ID: 101095973

DOI

10.3030/101095973

EC signature date 21 June 2023

Start date 1 September 2023

End date 31 August 2028

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 3 000 000,00

EU contribution

€ 3 000 000,00

Coordinated by

STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (12)

Discovery of the Optical and Radio Counterpart to the Fast X-Ray Transient EP 240315a

Author(s): J. H. Gillanders; L. Rhodes; S. Srivastav; F. Carotenuto; J. Bright; M. E. Huber; H. F. Stevance; S. J. Smartt; K. C. Chambers; T.-W. Chen; R. Fender; A. Andersson; A. J. Cooper; P. G. Jonker; F. J. Cowie; T. de Boer; N. Erasmus; M. D. Fulton; H. Gao; J. Herman; C.-C. Lin; T. Lowe; E. A. Magnier; H.-Y. Miao; P. Minguez; T. Moore; C.-C. Ngeow; M. Nicholl; Y.-C. Pan; G. Pignata; A. Rest; X. Sheng; I. A. Smith; K. W. Smith; J. L. Tonry; R. J. Wainscoat; J. Weston; S. Yang; D. R. Young
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2024, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: AAS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2404.10660

Science objectives of the Einstein Probe mission

Author(s): Weimin Yuan, Lixin Dai, Hua Feng, Chichuan Jin, Peter Jonker, Erik Kuulkers, Yuan Liu, Kirpal Nandra, Paul O’Brien, Luigi Piro, Arne Rau, Nanda Rea, Jeremy Sanders, Lian Tao, Junfeng Wang, Xuefeng Wu, Bing Zhang, Shuangnan Zhang, Shunke Ai, Johannes Buchner, Esra Bulbul, Hechao Chen, Minghua Chen, Yong Chen, Yu-Peng Chen, Alexis Coleiro, Francesco Coti Zelati, Zigao Dai, Xilong Fan, Zhou Fan, Susanne Friedrich, He Gao, Chong Ge, Mingyu Ge, Jinjun Geng, Giancarlo Ghirlanda, Giulia Gianfagna, Lijun Gou, Sébastien Guillot, Xian Hou, Jingwei Hu, Yongfeng Huang, Long Ji, Shumei Jia, S. Komossa, Albert K. H. Kong, Lin Lan, An Li, Ang Li, Chengkui Li, Dongyue Li, Jian Li, Zhaosheng Li, Zhixing Ling, Ang Liu, Jinzhong Liu, Liangduan Liu, Zhu Liu, Jiawei Luo, Ruican Ma, Pierre Maggi, Chandreyee Maitra, Alessio Marino, Stephen Chi-Yung Ng, Haiwu Pan, Surangkhana Rukdee, Roberto Soria, Hui Sun, Pak-Hin Thomas Tam, Aishwarya Linesh Thakur, Hui Tian, Eleonora Troja, Wei Wang, Xiangyu Wang, Yanan Wang, Junjie Wei, Sixiang Wen, Jianfeng Wu, Ting Wu, Di Xiao, Dong Xu, Renxin Xu, Yanjun Xu, Yu Xu, Haonan Yang, Bei You, Heng Yu, Yunwei Yu, Binbin Zhang, Chen Zhang, Guobao Zhang, Liang Zhang, Wenda Zhang, Yu Zhang, Ping Zhou, Zecheng Zou
Published in: Science China Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy, Issue 68, 2025, ISSN 1674-7348
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S11433-024-2600-3

The Kangaroo’s First Hop: The Early Fast Cooling Phase of EP250108a/SN 2025kg

Author(s): Rob A. J. Eyles-Ferris, Peter G. Jonker, Andrew J. Levan, Daniele Bjørn Malesani, Nikhil Sarin, Christopher L. Fryer, Jillian C. Rastinejad, Eric Burns, Nial R. Tanvir, Paul T. O’Brien, Wen-fai Fong, Ilya Mandel, Benjamin P. Gompertz, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Steven Bloemen, Joe S. Bright, Francesco Carotenuto, Gregory Corcoran, Laura Cotter, Paul J. Groot, Luca Izzo, Tanmoy Laskar, Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Jesse Palmerio, Maria E. Ravasio, Jan van Roestel, Andrea Saccardi, Rhaana L. C. Starling, Aishwarya Linesh Thakur, Susanna D. Vergani, Paul M. Vreeswijk, Franz E. Bauer, Sergio Campana, Jennifer A. Chacón, Ashley A. Chrimes, Stefano Covino, Joyce N. D. van Dalen, Valerio D’Elia, Massimiliano De Pasquale, Nusrin Habeeb, Dieter H. Hartmann, Agnes P. C. van Hoof, Páll Jakobsson, Yashaswi Julakanti, Giorgos Leloudas, Daniel Mata Sánchez, Christopher J. Nixon, Daniëlle L. A. Pieterse, Giovanna Pugliese, Jonathan Quirola-Vásquez, Ben C. Rayson, Ruben Salvaterra, Ben Schneider, Manuel A. P. Torres, Tayyaba Zafar
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Issue 988, 2025, ISSN 2041-8205
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ADE1D9

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Author(s): Anne Inkenhaag; Peter G. Jonker; Andrew J. Levan; Jonathan Quirola-Vásquez; Franz E. Bauer; Deepak Eappachen
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2407.07167

Fast X-ray transient EP240315A from a Lyman-continuum-leaking galaxy at z ≈ 5

Author(s): Andrew J. Levan; Peter G. Jonker; Andrea Saccardi; Daniele Bjørn Malesani; Nial R. Tanvir; Luca Izzo; Kasper E. Heintz; Daniel Mata Sánchez; Jonathan Quirola-Vásquez; Manuel A. P. Torres; Susanna D. Vergani; Steve Schulze; Andrea Rossi; Paolo D’Avanzo; Benjamin P. Gompertz; Antonio Martin-Carrillo; Antonio de Ugarte Postigo; Benjamin Schneider; Weimin Yuan; Zhixing Ling; Wenjie Zhang; Xuan Mao; Yuan Liu; Hui Sun; Dong Xu; Zipei Zhu; José Feliciano Agüí Fernández; Lorenzo Amati; Franz E. Bauer; Sergio Campana; Francesco Carotenuto; Ashley Chrimes; Joyce N. D. van Dalen; Valerio D’Elia; Massimo Della Valle; Massimiliano De Pasquale; Vikram S. Dhillon; Lluís Galbany; Nicola Gaspari; Giulia Gianfagna; Andreja Gomboc; Nusrin Habeeb; Dieter Hartmann; Agnes P. C. van Hoof; Youdong Hu; Pall Jakobsson; Yashaswi Julakanti; Judith Korth; Chryssa Kouveliotou; Tanmoy Laskar; Stuart P. Littlefair; Elisabetta Maiorano; Jirong Mao; Andrea Melandri; M. Coleman Miller; Tamal Mukherjee; Samantha R. Oates; Paul O’Brien; Jesse T. Palmerio; Hannu Parviainen; Daniëlle L. A. Pieterse; Silvia Piranomonte; Luigi Piro; Giovanna Pugliese; Maria E. Ravasio; Ben Rayson; Ruben Salvaterra; Rubén Sánchez-Ramírez; Nikhil Sarin; Samuel P. R. Shilling; Rhaana L. C. Starling; Gianpiero Tagliaferri; Aishwarya Linesh Thakur; Christina C. Thöne; Klaas Wiersema; Isabelle Worssam; Tayyaba Zafar
Published in: Nature Astronomy, 2025, ISSN 2397-3366
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/S41550-025-02612-9

The Day-long, Repeating GRB 250702B: A Unique Extragalactic Transient

Author(s): Andrew J. Levan, Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Tanmoy Laskar, Rob A. J. Eyles-Ferris, Albert Sneppen, Maria Edvige Ravasio, Jillian C. Rastinejad, Joe S. Bright, Francesco Carotenuto, Ashley A. Chrimes, Gregory Corcoran, Benjamin P. Gompertz, Peter G. Jonker, Gavin P. Lamb, Daniele B. Malesani, Andrea Saccardi, Javier Sánchez-Sierras, Benjamin Schneider, Steve Schulze, Nial R. Tanvir, Susanna D. Vergani, Darach Watson, Jie An, Franz E. Bauer, Sergio Campana, Laura Cotter, Joyce N. D. van Dalen, Valerio D’Elia, Massimiliano De Pasquale, Antonio de Ugarte Postigo, null Dimple, Dieter H. Hartmann, Jens Hjorth, Luca Izzo, Páll Jakobsson, Amit Kumar, Andrea Melandri, Paul O’Brien, Silvia Piranomonte, Giovanna Pugliese, Jonathan Quirola-Vásquez, Rhaana Starling, Gianpiero Tagliaferri, Dong Xu, Makenzie E. Wortley
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Issue 990, 2025, ISSN 2041-8205
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ADF8E1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Author(s): J. Quirola-Vásquez; F. E. Bauer; P. G. Jonker; A. Levan; W. N. Brandt; M. Ravasio; D. Eappachen; Y. Q. Xue; X. C. Zheng
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2025, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2410.10015

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Author(s): H. C. I. Wichern; M. E. Ravasio; P. G. Jonker; J. A. Quirola-Vásquez; A. J. Levan; F. E. Bauer; D. A. Kann
Published in: Astronomy & Astrophysics, 2024, ISSN 0004-6361
Publisher: EDP Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2407.06371

The Einstein Probe Transient EP240414a: Linking Fast X-Ray Transients, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Luminous Fast Blue Optical Transients

Author(s): Joyce N. D. van Dalen; Andrew J. Levan; Peter G. Jonker; Daniele Bjørn Malesani; Luca Izzo; Nikhil Sarin; Jonathan Quirola-Vásquez; Daniel Mata Sánchez; Antonio de Ugarte Postigo; Agnes P. C. van Hoof; Manuel A. P. Torres; Steve Schulze; Stuart P. Littlefair; Ashley Chrimes; Maria E. Ravasio; Franz E. Bauer; Antonio Martin-Carrillo; Morgan Fraser; Alexander J. van der Horst; Pall Jakobsson; Paul O’Brien; Massimiliano De Pasquale; Giovanna Pugliese; Jesper Sollerman; Nial R. Tanvir; Tayyaba Zafar; Joseph P. Anderson; Lluís Galbany; Avishay Gal-Yam; Mariusz Gromadzki; Tomás E. Müller-Bravo; Fabio Ragosta; Jacco H. Terwel
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2025, ISSN 1538-4357
Publisher: AAS
DOI: 10.48550/ARXIV.2409.19056

Soft X-ray prompt emission from the high-redshift gamma-ray burst EP240315a

Author(s): Y. Liu; H. Sun; D. Xu; D. S. Svinkin; J. Delaunay; N. R. Tanvir; H. Gao; C. Zhang; Y. Chen; X.-F. Wu; B. Zhang; W. Yuan; J. An; G. Bruni; D. D. Frederiks; G. Ghirlanda; J.-W. Hu; A. Li; C.-K. Li; J.-D. Li; D. B. Malesani; L. Piro; G. Raman; R. Ricci; E. Troja; S. D. Vergani; Q.-Y. Wu; J. Yang; B.-B. Zhang; Z.-P. Zhu; A. de Ugarte Postigo; A. G. Demin; D. Dobie; Z. Fan; S.-Y. Fu; J. P. U. Fynbo; J.-J. Geng; G. Gianfagna; Y.-D. Hu; Y.-F. Huang; S.-Q. Jiang; P. G. Jonker; Y. Julakanti; J. A. Kennea; A. A. Kokomov; E. Kuulkers; W.-H. Lei; J. K. Leung; A. J. Levan; D.-Y. Li; Y. Li; S. P. Littlefair; X. Liu; A. L. Lysenko; Y.-N. Ma; A. Martin-Carrillo; P. O’Brien; T. Parsotan; J. Quirola-Vásquez; A. V. Ridnaia; S. Ronchini; A. Rossi; D. Mata-Sánchez; B. Schneider; R.-F. Shen; A. L. Thakur; A. Tohuvavohu; M. A. P. Torres; A. E. Tsvetkova; M. V. Ulanov; J.-J. Wei; D. Xiao; Y.-H. I. Yin; M. Bai; V. Burwitz; Z.-M. Cai; F.-S. Chen; H.-L. Chen; T.-X. Chen; W. Chen; Y.-F. Chen; Y.-H. Chen; H.-Q. Cheng; B. Cordier; C.-Z. Cui; W.-W. Cui; Y.-F. Dai; Z.-G. Dai; J. Eder; R. A. J. Eyles-Ferris; D.-W. Fan; C. Feldman; H. Feng; Z. Feng; P. Friedrich; X. Gao; J.-F. Gonzalez; J. Guan; D.-W Han; J. Han; D.-J. Hou; H.-B. Hu; T. Hu; M.-H. Huang; J. Huo; I. Hutchinson; Z. Ji; S.-M. Jia; Z.-Q. Jia; B.-W. Jiang; C.-C. Jin; G. Jin; J.-J. Jin; A. Keereman; H. Lerman; J.-F. Li; L.-H. Li; M.-S. Li; W. Li; Z.-D. Li; T.-Y. Lian; E.-W. Liang; Z.-X. Ling; C.-Z. Liu; H.-Y. Liu; H.-Q. Liu; M.-J. Liu; Y.-R. Liu; F.-J. Lu; H.-J. Lü; L.-D. Luo; F. L. Ma; J. Ma; J.-R. Mao; X. Mao; M. McHugh; N. Meidinger; K. Nandra; J. P. Osborne; H.-W. Pan; X. Pan; M. E. Ravasio; A. Rau; N. Rea; U. Rehman; J. Sanders; A. Santovincenzo; L.-M. Song; J. Su; L.-J. Sun; S.-L. Sun; X.-J. Sun; Y.-Y. Tan; Q.-J. Tang; Y.-H. Tao; J.-Z. Tong; C.-Y. Wang; H. Wang; J. Wang; L. Wang; W.-X. Wang; X.-F. Wang; X.-Y. Wang; Y.-L. Wang; Y.-S. Wang; D.-M. Wei; R. Willingale; S.-L. Xiong; H.-T. Xu; J.-J. Xu; X.-P. Xu; Y.-F. Xu; Z. Xu; C.-B. Xue; Y.-L. Xue; A.-L. Yan; F. Yang; H.-N. Yang; X.-T. Yang; Y.-J Yang; Y.-W. Yu; J. Zhang; M. Zhang; S.-N. Zhang; W.-D. Zhang; W.-J. Zhang; Y.-H. Zhang; Z. Zhang; Z. Zhang; Z.-L. Zhang; D.-H. Zhao; H.-S. Zhao; X.-F. Zhao; Z.-J. Zhao; L.-X. Zhou; Y.-L. Zhou; Y.-X. Zhu; Z.-C. Zhu; X.-X. Zuo
Published in: Nature Astronomy, 2025, ISSN 2397-3366
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1038/S41550-024-02449-8

EP 250108a/SN 2025kg: Observations of the Most Nearby Broad-line Type Ic Supernova Following an Einstein Probe Fast X-Ray Transient

Author(s): Jillian C. Rastinejad, Andrew J. Levan, Peter G. Jonker, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Christopher L. Fryer, Nikhil Sarin, Benjamin P. Gompertz, Chang Liu, Rob A. J. Eyles-Ferris, Wen-fai Fong, Eric Burns, James H. Gillanders, Ilya Mandel, Daniele Bjørn Malesani, Paul T. O’Brien, Nial R. Tanvir, Kendall Ackley, Amar Aryan, Franz E. Bauer, Steven Bloemen, Thomas de Boer, Clécio R. Bom, Jennifer A. Chacón, Ken Chambers, Ting-Wan Chen, Ashley A. Chrimes, Joyce N. D. van Dalen, Valerio D’Elia, Massimiliano De Pasquale, Michael D. Fulton, Paul J. Groot, Rahul Gupta, Dieter H. Hartmann, Agnes P. C. van Hoof, Mark E. Huber, Luca Izzo, Wynn Jacobson-Galan, Páll Jakobsson, Albert Kong, Tanmoy Laskar, Thomas B. Lowe, Eugene A. Magnier, Elisabetta Maiorano, Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Lluis Mas-Ribas, Daniel Mata Sánchez, Matt Nicholl, Christopher J. Nixon, Samantha R. Oates, Gregory Paek, Jesse Palmerio, Diego Paris, Daniëlle L. A. Pieterse, Giovanna Pugliese, Jonathan A. Quirola Vasquez, Jan van Roestel, Andrea Rossi, Alicia Rouco Escorial, Ruben Salvaterra, Benjamin Schneider, Stephen J. Smartt, Ken Smith, Ian A. Smith, Shubham Srivastav, Manuel A. P. Torres, Chiara Ventura, Paul Vreeswijk, Richard Wainscoat, Yi-Jung Yang, Sheng Yang
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Issue 988, 2025, ISSN 2041-8205
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ADE7F9

EP240801a/XRF 240801B: An X-Ray Flash Detected by the Einstein Probe and the Implications of Its Multiband Afterglow

Author(s): Shuai-Qing Jiang, Dong Xu, Agnes P. C. van Hoof, Wei-Hua Lei, Yuan Liu, Hao Zhou, Yong Chen, Shao-Yu Fu, Jun Yang, Xing Liu, Zi-Pei Zhu, Alexei V. Filippenko, Peter G. Jonker, A. S. Pozanenko, He Gao, Xue-Feng Wu, Bing Zhang, Gavin P Lamb, Massimiliano De Pasquale, Shiho Kobayashi, Franz Erik Bauer, Hui Sun, Giovanna Pugliese, Jie An, Valerio D’Elia, Johan P. U. Fynbo, WeiKang Zheng, Alberto J. Castro-Tirado, Yi-Han Iris Yin, Yuan-Chuan Zou, Adam T. Deller, N. S. Pankov, A. A. Volnova, A. S. Moskvitin, O. I. Spiridonova, D. V. Oparin, V. Rumyantsev, O. A. Burkhonov, Sh. A. Egamberdiyev, V. Kim, M. Krugov, A. M. Tatarnikov, R. Inasaridze, Andrew J. Levan, Daniele Bjørn Malesani, Maria E. Ravasio, Jonathan Quirola-Vásquez, Joyce N. D. van Dalen, Javi Sánchez-Sierras, Daniel Mata Sánchez, Stuart P. Littlefair, Jennifer A. Chacón, Manuel A. P. Torres, Ashley A. Chrimes, Nikhil Sarin, Antonio Martin-Carrillo, Vik Dhillon, Yi Yang, Thomas G. Brink, Rebecca L. Davies, Sheng Yang, Amar Aryan, Ting-Wan Chen, Albert K. H. Kong, Wen-Xiong Li, Rui-Zhi Li, Jirong Mao, Ignacio Pérez-García, Emilio J. Fernández-García, Moira Andrews, Joseph Farah, Zhou Fan, Estefania Padilla Gonzalez, D. Andrew Howell, Dieter Hartmann, Jing-Wei Hu, Páll Jakobsson, Cheng-Kui Li, Zhi-Xing Ling, Curtis McCully, Megan Newsome, Benjamin Schneider, Kaew Samaporn Tinyanont, Ning-Chen Sun, Giacomo Terreran, Qing-Wen Tang, Wen-Xin Wang, Jing-Jing Xu, Wei-Min Yuan, Bin-Bin Zhang, Hai-Sheng Zhao, Juan Zhang
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Issue 988, 2025, ISSN 2041-8205
Publisher: American Astronomical Society
DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/ADDEBF