Publications

For a full list of publications, go to NASA/ADS.

Selected Publications

Testing EMRI Models for Quasi-periodic Eruptions with 3.5 yr of Monitoring eRO-QPE1 

Chakraborty, J., Arcodia, R., Kara, E., et al., 2024 The Astrophysical Journal 12 

A New Population of Mid-infrared-selected Tidal Disruption Events: Implications for Tidal Disruption Event Rates and Host Galaxy Properties 

Masterson, M., De, K., Panagiotou, C., Kara, E., et al., 2024 The Astrophysical Journal 211 

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X-ray/UVOIR Frequency-resolved Time Lag Analysis of Mrk 335 Reveals Accretion Disk Reprocessing

Lewin, C., Kara E., Cackett, et al., 2023 The Astrophysical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal 954

A Luminous Dust-obscured Tidal Disruption Event Candidate in a Star-forming Galaxy at 42 Mpc

Panagiotou, C., De, K., Masterson, M., Kara, E. et al., 2023 The Astrophysical Journal L5

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Investigating the impact of vertically extended coronae on X-ray reverberation mapping

Lucchini, M., Mastroserio, G., Wang, J., Kara, E. et al., 2023 The Astrophysical Journal, in press.

Vertical wind structure in an X-ray binary revealed by a precessing accretion disk

Kosec, P., Kara, E., Fabian, et al., 2023 Nature Astronomy

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Evolution of a Relativistic Outflow and X-Ray Corona in the Extreme Changing-look AGN 1ES 1927+654

Masterson, M., Kara, E., Ricci et al., 2022 The Astrophysical Journal 35

Read  E. Kara Editorial in MIT Physics Alumni Magazine.

The NICER "Reverberation Machine": A Systematic Study of Time Lags in Black Hole X-Ray Binaries

Wang, J., Kara, E., Lucchini, M., et al., , 2022 The Astrophysical Journal 18

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Possible X-Ray Quasi-periodic Eruptions in a Tidal Disruption Event Candidate

Chakraborty, J., Kara, E., Masterson, et al., 2021 The Astrophysical Journal L40

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AGN STORM 2. I. First results: A Change in the Weather of Mrk 817

Kara, E., Mehdipour, M., Kriss,  et al., 2021 The Astrophysical Journal 151

The corona contracts in a black-hole transient

Kara, E., Steiner, J. F., Fabian, A. C., et al., 2019 Nature 198

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A global look at X-ray time lags in Seyfert galaxies

Kara, E., Alston, W. N., Fabian, A. C., et al., 2016 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 511

Relativistic reverberation in the accretion flow of a tidal disruption event

Kara, E., Miller, J. M., Reynolds, C., Dai, L., 2016 Nature 388

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