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astro-ph.HE2016★ 38 cited

Gamma-ray blazar spectra with H.E.S.S. II mono analysis: the case of PKS 2155-304 and PG 1553+113

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +332

The addition of a 28 m Cherenkov telescope (CT5) to the H.E.S.S. array extended the experiment's sensitivity to lower energies. The lowest energy threshold is obtained using monosc…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 94 cited

The second catalog of flaring gamma-ray sources from the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis

S. Abdollahi, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +124

We present the second catalog of flaring gamma-ray sources (2FAV) detected with the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA), a tool that blindly searches for transients over the…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 33 cited

The Braking Index of a Radio-quiet Gamma-ray Pulsar

C. J. Clark, H. J. Pletsch, J. Wu +14

We report the discovery and timing measurements of PSR J1208-6238, a young and highly magnetized gamma-ray pulsar, with a spin period of 440 ms. The pulsar was discovered in gamma-…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 81 cited

The Einstein@Home Gamma-ray Pulsar Survey. I. Search Methods, Sensitivity and Discovery of New Young Gamma-ray Pulsars

C. J. Clark, J. Wu, H. J. Pletsch +11

We report on the results of a recent blind search survey for gamma-ray pulsars in Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data being carried out on the distributed volunteer computing sys…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 51 cited

Detection of the magnetar SGR J1745-2900 up to 291 GHz with evidence of polarized millimetre emission

P. Torne, G. Desvignes, R. P. Eatough +6

In Torne et al. (2015), we showed detections of SGR J1745-2900 up to 225 GHz (1.33 mm); at that time the highest radio frequency detection of pulsar emission. In this work, we pres…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 34 cited

A New, Low Braking Index For the LMC Pulsar B0540-69

F. E. Marshall, L. Guillemot, A. K. Harding +2

We report the results of a 16-month monitoring campaign using the Swift satellite of PSR B0540-69, a young pulsar in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Phase connection was maintained thr…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 7 cited

A model for distortions of polarisation-angle curves in radio pulsars

J. Dyks, M. Serylak, S. Oslowski +4

Some radio pulsar profiles (in particular those of millisecond pulsars contain wide emission structures which cover large intervals of pulse phase. Local distortions of an average…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 22 cited

Simultaneous radio and X-ray observations of PSR B0611+22

Kaustubh Rajwade, Andrew Seymour, Duncan R Lorimer +4

We report results from simultaneous radio and X-ray observations of PSR B0611+22 which is known to exhibit bursting in its single-pulse emission. The pulse phase of the bursts vary…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 47 cited

A deep campaign to characterize the synchronous radio/X-ray mode switching of PSR B0943+10

S. Mereghetti, L. Kuiper, A. Tiengo +14

We report on simultaneous X-ray and radio observations of the mode-switching pulsar PSR B0943+10 obtained with the XMM-Newton satellite and the LOFAR, LWA and Arecibo radio telesco…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 41 cited

Searching the Gamma-ray Sky for Counterparts to Gravitational Wave Sources: Fermi GBM and LAT Observations of LVT151012 and GW151226

J. L. Racusin, E. Burns, A. Goldstein +138

We present the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations of the LIGO binary black hole merger event GW151226 and candi- date LVT151012. No can…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 82 cited

A glitch in the millisecond pulsar J0613-0200

J. W. McKee, G. H. Janssen, B. W. Stappers +17

We present evidence for a small glitch in the spin evolution of the millisecond pulsar J06130200, using the EPTA Data Release 1.0, combined with Jodrell Bank analogue filterbank…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 258 cited

Minute-Timescale >100 MeV gamma-ray variability during the giant outburst of quasar 3C 279 observed by Fermi-LAT in 2015 June

LAT Collaboration

On 2015 June 16, Fermi-LAT observed a giant outburst from the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 279 with a peak MeV flux of $\sim3.6\times10^{-5}\;{\rm photons}\;{\rm cm}^{-2}\;…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 156 cited

A large light-mass component of cosmic rays at 10^{17} - 10^{17.5} eV from radio observations

S. Buitink, A. Corstanje, H. Falcke +101

Cosmic rays are the highest energy particles found in nature. Measurements of the mass composition of cosmic rays between 10^{17} eV and 10^{18} eV are essential to understand whet…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 36 cited

Low-radio-frequency eclipses of the redback pulsar J2215+5135 observed in the image plane with LOFAR

J. W. Broderick, R. P. Fender, R. P. Breton +30

The eclipses of certain types of binary millisecond pulsars (i.e. `black widows' and `redbacks') are often studied using high-time-resolution, `beamformed' radio observations. Howe…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 60 cited

A millisecond pulsar in an extremely wide binary system

C. G. Bassa, G. H. Janssen, B. W. Stappers +30

We report on 22 yrs of radio timing observations of the millisecond pulsar J10240719 by the telescopes participating in the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA). These observatio…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 481 cited

High-precision timing of 42 millisecond pulsars with the European Pulsar Timing Array

G. Desvignes, R. N. Caballero, L. Lentati +40

We report on the high-precision timing of 42 radio millisecond pulsars (MSPs) observed by the European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA). This EPTA Data Release 1.0 extends up to mid-2014…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 69 cited

Fermi-LAT Observations of the LIGO event GW150914

LAT collaboration

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has an instantaneous field of view covering of the sky and completes a survey of the full sky every ~3 hours. It provides a continuo…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 108 cited

Photon Mass Limits from Fast Radio Bursts

Luca Bonetti, John Ellis, Nikolaos E. Mavromatos +3

The frequency-dependent time delays in fast radio bursts (FRBs) can be used to constrain the photon mass, if the FRB redshifts are known, but the similarity between the frequency d…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 56 cited

The gamma-ray millisecond pulsar deathline, revisited - New velocity and distance measurements

L. Guillemot, D. A. Smith, H. Laffon +6

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) represent nearly half of the more than 160 currently known -ray pulsars detected by the Large Area Telescope on the \textit{Fermi} satellite, and a th…