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Research

Publications

*The list contains only the publications affiliating HKU (Physics) or publications by members of our departments (sorted by publication year and the name of the Journal).

Achromatic interfacial Cherenkov radiation from photonic crystals

X.F. Xi, Z. Gong, R.X. Chen, Z. Wang, O.D. Miller, Y. Yang, H.S. Chen, I. Kaminer, X. Lin

Applied Physics Reviews, Vol. 13(2), 021407:1-10, 2026

Exploring the connection between compact object mergers and fast X-ray transients: The cases of LXT 240402A and EP250207b

R. L. Becerra, Y.-H. Yang, E. Troja, M. El Kabir, S. Dichiara, N. Passaleva, B. O’Connor, R. Ricci, C. Fryer, L. Hu, Q. Wu, M. Yadav, A. M. Watson, A. Tsvetkova, C. Angulo-Valdez, M. D. Caballero-García, A. J. Castro-Tirado, C. C. Cheung, D. Frederiks, M. Gritsevich, J. E. Grove, M. Kerr, W. H. Lee, A. L. Lysenko, M. Pereyra, A. Ridnaia, R. Sánchez-Ramírez, H. Sun, D. Svinkin, M. Ulanov, R. Woolf, B. Zhang

Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 705, A233:1-14, 2026

Revisiting the unification of tidal disruption events with polarimetry

H.C.I. Wichern, G. Leloudas, M. Pursiainen, A. Cikota, G.K. Jaisawal, P. Charalampopoulos, M. Bulla, L. Dai, J.P. Anderson, M. Gromadzki, C.P. Gutiérrez, T.E. Müller-Bravo, M. Nicholl

Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 705, A250:1-26, 2026

Mini-supernovae from white dwarf–neutron star mergers: Viewing-angle-dependent spectra and light curves

Y.C. Kang, J.P. Zhu, L.J. Shao, J.H. Zhong, J.H. Zhang, B. Zhang

Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 706, A106:1-12, 2026

Polarization of reflected X-ray emission from the Sgr A molecular complex: Multiple flares, multiple sources?

I. Khabibullin, E. Churazov, R. Ferrazzoli, P. Kaaret, J.J. Kolodziejczak, F. Marin, R. Sunyaev, J. Svoboda, A. Vikhlinin, T. Barnouin, C.T. Chen, E. Costa, L. Di Gesu, A. Di Marco, S.R. Ehlert, W. Forman, D.E. Kim, R. Kraft, W.P. Maksym, G. Matt, J. Poutanen, P. Soffitta, D.A. Swartz, I. Agudo, L.A. Antonelli, L. Baldini, W.H. Baumgartner, R. Bellazzini, S. Bianchi, S.D. Bongiorno, R. Bonino, A. Brez, N. Bucciantini, F. Capitanio, S. Castellano, E. Cavazzuti, S. Ciprini, A. De Rosa, E. Del Monte, N. Di Lalla, I. Donnarumma, V. Doroshenko, M. Dovciak, T. Enoto, Y. Evangelista, S. Fabiani, J.A. Garcia, S. Gunji, K. Hayashida, J. Heyl, W. Iwakiri, S.G. Jorstad, V. Karas, F. Kislat, T. Kitaguchi, H. Krawczynski, F. La Monaca, L. Latronico, I. Liodakis, S. Maldera, A. Manfreda, A.P. Marscher, H.L. Marshall, F. Massaro, I. Mitsuishi, T. Mizuno, F. Muleri, M. Negro, C.Y. Ng, S.L. O’Dell, N. Omodei, C. Oppedisano, A. Papitto, G.G. Pavlov, A.L. Peirson, M. Pesce-Rollins, P.-O. Petrucci, M. Pilia, A. Possenti, S. Puccetti, B.D. Ramsey, J. Rankin, A. Ratheesh, O.J. Roberts, R.W. Romani, C. Sgro, P. Slane, G. Spandre, T. Tamagawa, F. Tavecchio, R. Taverna, Y. Tawara, A.F. Tennant, N.E. Thomas, F. Tombesi, A. Trois, S.S. Tsygankov, R. Turolla, J. Vink, M.C. Weisskopf, K.W. Wu, F. Xie, S. Zane

Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 707, A270:1-17, 2026

Infrared observations reveal the reprocessing envelope in the tidal disruption event AT 2019azh

T.M. Reynolds, L. Thomsen, S. Mattila, T. Nagao, J.P. Anderson, F.E. Bauer, P. Charalampopoulos, L.X. Dai, S. Faris, M. Gromadzki, C.P. Gutiérrez, H. Kuncarayakti, C. Inserra, E. Kankare, T. Kravtsov, J. Moldon, S. Moran, M. Pérez Torres, P. Wiseman, S. van Velzen

Astronomy & Astrophysics, Vol. 708, A139:1-18, 2026