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astro-ph.HE2019★ 69 cited

NICER X-ray Observations of Seven Nearby Rotation-Powered Millisecond Pulsars

S. Guillot, M. Kerr, P. S. Ray +18

NICER observed several rotation-powered millisecond pulsars to search for or confirm the presence of X-ray pulsations. When broad and sine-like, these pulsations may indicate therm…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 37 cited

Constraining the Local Burst Rate Density of Primordial Black Holes with HAWC

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +84

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) may have been created by density fluctuations in the early Universe and could be as massive as solar masses or as small as the Planck mass. I…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 28 cited

Timing the pulsations of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 during its 2019 outburst

Peter Bult, Deepto Chakrabarty, Zaven Arzoumanian +5

In this paper we present a coherent timing analysis of the 401 Hz pulsations of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 during its 2019 outburst. Using observations…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 35 cited

The SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts IV: Discovery and polarimetry of a 12.1-second radio pulsar

V. Morello, E. F. Keane, T. Enoto +19

We report the discovery of PSR~J22513711, a radio pulsar with a spin period of 12.1 seconds, the second longest currently known. Its timing parameters imply a characteristic age…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 41 cited

An evolving broad iron line from the first Galactic ultraluminous X-ray pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124

Gaurava K. Jaisawal, Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge, Andrew C. Fabian +15

We present a spectral study of the ultraluminous Be/X-ray transient pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 using Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) observations during the syste…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 69 cited

Fermi and Swift Observations of GRB 190114C: Tracing the Evolution of High-Energy Emission from Prompt to Afterglow

M. Ajello, M. Arimoto, M. Axelsson +147

We report on the observations of gamma-ray burst (GRB) 190114C by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The early-time observations reveal mul…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 238 cited

Multiple Galactic Sources with Emission Above 56 TeV Detected by HAWC

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert +99

We present the first catalog of gamma-ray sources emitting above 56 and 100 TeV with data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory, a wide field-of-view observator…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 119 cited

An Optically Targeted Search for Gravitational Waves emitted by Core-Collapse Supernovae during the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1195

We present the results from a search for gravitational-wave transients associated with core-collapse supernovae observed within a source distance of approximately 20 Mpc during the…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 31 cited

NICER observes a secondary peak in the decay of a thermonuclear burst from 4U 1608-52

Gaurava K. Jaisawal, Jérôme Chenevez, Peter Bult +14

We report for the first time below 1.5 keV, the detection of a secondary peak in an Eddington-limited thermonuclear X-ray burst observed by the Neutron Star Interior Composition Ex…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 127 cited

Search for Eccentric Binary Black Hole Mergers with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during their First and Second Observing Runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1183

When formed through dynamical interactions, stellar-mass binary black holes may retain eccentric orbits ( at 10 Hz) detectable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors.…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 42 cited

Search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1196

We present the results of targeted searches for gravitational-wave transients associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo,…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 174 cited

Predicting the LISA white dwarf binary population in the Milky Way with cosmological simulations

Astrid Lamberts, Sarah Blunt, Tyson Littenberg +3

Short-period (P<1 hour) white dwarf binaries will be the most numerous sources for the space-based gravitational wave detector LISA. Based on thousands of resolved systems, we will…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 18 cited

A joint NICER and XMM-Newton view of the "Magnificent" thermally emitting X-ray Isolated Neutron Star RX J1605.3+3249

Christian Malacaria, Slavko Bogdanov, Wynn C. G. Ho +9

Thermally emitting X-ray isolated neutron stars represent excellent targets for testing cooling surface emission and atmosphere models, which are used to infer physical parameters…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 26 cited

NICER Discovers Spectral Lines During Photospheric Radius Expansion Bursts from 4U 1820-30: Evidence for Burst-driven Winds

T. E. Strohmayer, D. Altamirano, Z. Arzoumanian +14

We report the discovery with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) of narrow emission and absorption lines during photospheric radius expansion (PRE) X-ray bursts…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 23 cited

Discovery of Soft X-ray Pulsations from PSR J1231-1411 using NICER

Paul S. Ray, Sebastien Guillot, Scott M. Ransom +10

We report the discovery of soft X-ray pulsations from the nearby millisecond pulsar PSR J12311411 using NICER. The pulsed emission is characterized by a broad and asymmetric mai…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 65 cited

Probing Blazar Emission Processes with Optical/Gamma-ray Flare Correlations

I. Liodakis, R. W. Romani, A. V. Filippenko +2

Even with several thousand {\it Fermi}-LAT blazar detections, the -ray emission mechanism is poorly understood. We explore correlated optical/-ray flux variations for 178 {\i…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 39 cited

A Search for High-Energy Counterparts to Fast Radio Bursts

Virginia Cunningham, S. Bradley Cenko, Eric Burns +8

We report on a search for high-energy counterparts to fast radio bursts (FRBs) with the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM), Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), and the Neil Gehrels…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 26 cited

Spectral and Timing Analysis of the accretion-powered pulsar 4U 1626-67 observed with Suzaku and NuSTAR

Wataru B. Iwakiri, Katja Pottschmidt, Sebastian Falkner +13

We present an analysis of the spectral shape and pulse profile of the accretion-powered pulsar 4U 1626-67 observed with Suzaku and NuSTAR during a spin-up state. The pulsar, which…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 1 cited

NICER Observations of the 2018 Outburst of XTE J1810-197

Tolga Guver, Ersin Gogus, Eda Vurgun +9

We present the earliest available soft X-ray observations of XTE J1810-187, the prototypical transient magnetar, obtained 75--84 days after its 2018 outburst with the Neutron Star…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 147 cited

Measurement of the Crab Nebula Spectrum Past 100 TeV with HAWC

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert +102

We present TeV gamma-ray observations of the Crab Nebula, the standard reference source in ground-based gamma-ray astronomy, using data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 14 cited

Fermi GBM follow-up of LIGO-Virgo binary black hole mergers -- detection prospects

P. Veres, T. Dal Canton, E. Burns +4

Fermi-Gamma-ray Burst Monitor observed a 1 s long gamma-ray signal (GW150914-GBM) starting 0.4 s after the first gravitational wave detection from the binary black hole merger GW15…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 9 cited

Discovery of a radio transient in M81

G. E. Anderson, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, M. J. Middleton +9

We report the discovery of a radio transient in the spiral galaxy M81. The transient was detected in early 2015 as part of a two-year survey of M81 made up of 12 epochs using the K…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 1 cited

Determining the Equation of State of Cold, Dense Matter with X-ray Observations of Neutron Stars

Slavko Bogdanov, Anna L. Watts, Deepto Chakrabarty +9

The unknown state of matter at ultra-high density, large proton/neutron number asymmetry, and low temperature is a major long-standing problem in modern physics. Neutron stars prov…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 9 cited

Opportunities for Multimessenger Astronomy in the 2020s

E. Burns, A. Tohuvavohu, J. M. Bellovary +22

Electromagnetic observations of the sky have been the basis for our study of the Universe for millennia, cosmic ray studies are now entering their second century, the first neutrin…