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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.SR2019★ 9 cited

Coronal Jets, and the Jet-CME Connection

Alphonse C. Sterling

Solar coronal jets have been observed in detail since the early 1990s. While it is clear that these jets are magnetically driven, the details of the driving process has recently be…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 15 cited

Hi-C 2.1 Observations of Small-Scale Miniature-Filament-Eruption-Like Cool Ejections in Active Region Plage

Alphonse C. Sterling, Ronald L. Moore, Navdeep K. Panesar +5

We examine 172 Ang ultra-high-resolution images of a solar plage region from the Hi-C 2.1 ("Hi-C") rocket flight of 2018 May 29. Over its five-minute flight, Hi-C resolves a pletho…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 4 cited

Measuring and modeling the rate of separator reconnection between an emerging and existing active region

Marika I. McCarthy, Dana W. Longcope, Anna Malanushenko +1

Magnetic reconnection occurs when new flux emerges into the corona and becomes incorporated into the existing coronal field. A new active region (AR) emerging in the vicinity of an…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 56 cited

Hi-C 2.1 Observations of Jetlet-like Events at Edges of Solar Magnetic Network Lane

Navdeep K. Panesar, Alphonse C. Sterling, Ronald L. Moore +15

We present high-resolution, high-cadence observations of six, fine-scale, on-disk jet-like events observed by the High-resolution Coronal Imager 2.1 (Hi-C 2.1) during its sounding-…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 61 cited

Fine-scale explosive energy release at sites of prospective magnetic flux cancellation in the core of the solar active region observed by Hi-C 2.1, IRIS and SDO

Sanjiv K. Tiwari, Navdeep K. Panesar, Ronald L. Moore +14

The second Hi-C flight (Hi-C2.1) provided unprecedentedly-high spatial and temporal resolution (250km, 4.4s) coronal EUV images of Fe IX/X emission at 172 Å, of AR 12712 on 2…

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.IM2019★ 94 cited

The Multi-slit Approach to Coronal Spectroscopy with the Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE)

Bart De Pontieu, Juan Martinez-Sykora, Paola Testa +6

The Multi-slit Solar Explorer (MUSE) is a proposed mission aimed at understanding the physical mechanisms driving the heating of the solar corona and the eruptions that are at the…

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.GA2019★ 28 cited

Does black-hole growth depend fundamentally on host-galaxy compactness?

Q. Ni, G. Yang, W. N. Brandt +5

Possible connections between central black-hole (BH) growth and host-galaxy compactness have been found observationally, which may provide insight into BH-galaxy coevolution: compa…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 69 cited

The High-Resolution Coronal Imager, Flight 2.1

Laurel A. Rachmeler, Amy R. Winebarger, Sabrina L. Savage +49

The third flight of the High-Resolution Coronal Imager (Hi-C 2.1) occurred on May 29, 2018, the Sounding Rocket was launched from White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. The instr…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 16 cited

Solar Active Region Heating Diagnostics from High Temperature Emission using the Marshall Grazing Incidence X-ray Spectrometer (MaGIXS)

P. S. Athiray, Amy R. Winebarger, Will T. Barnes +7

The relative amount of high temperature plasma has been found to be a useful diagnostic to determine the frequency of coronal heating on sub-resolution structures. When the loops a…

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.IM2019★ 46 cited

Evaluation of Automated Fermi GBM Localizations of Gamma-ray Bursts

Adam Goldstein, Corinne Fletcher, Peter Veres +14

The capability of the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) to localize gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is evaluated for two different automated algorithms: the GBM Team's RoboBA algorithm a…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 11 cited

The Hot Gas Exhaust of Starburst Engines in Mergers: Testing Models of Stellar Feedback and Star Formation Regulation

Beverly J. Smith, Peter Wagstaff, Curtis Struck +4

Using archival data from the Chandra X-ray telescope, we have measured the spatial extent of the hot interstellar gas in a sample of 49 nearby interacting galaxy pairs, mergers, an…

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.IM2019★ 25 cited

Prospects for Gravitational Wave Measurement of ZTFJ1539+5027

Tyson B. Littenberg, Neil J. Cornish

The short-period eclipsing binary ZTFJ1539+5027 discovered by Burdge et al. (2019) will be a strong gravitational-wave source for the Laser Interferometer Space Antenna (LISA). We…

astro-ph.CO2019★ 243 cited

A gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant following the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1186

This paper presents the gravitational-wave measurement of the Hubble constant () using the detections from the first and second observing runs of the Advanced LIGO and Virgo d…

gr-qc2019★ 147 cited

Model comparison from LIGO-Virgo data on GW170817's binary components and consequences for the merger remnant

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1191

GW170817 is the very first observation of gravitational waves originating from the coalescence of two compact objects in the mass range of neutron stars, accompanied by electromagn…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 25 cited

The Hamburg Meteorite Fall: Fireball trajectory, orbit and dynamics

P. G. Brown, D. Vida, D. E. Moser +10

The Hamburg (H4) meteorite fell on January 17, 2018 at 01:08 UT approximately 10km North of Ann Arbor, Michigan. More than two dozen fragments totaling under one kilogram were reco…