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astro-ph.IM2018★ 34 cited

Testing the accuracy of the ionospheric Faraday rotation corrections through LOFAR observations of bright northern pulsars

N. K. Porayko, A. Noutsos, C. Tiburzi +13

Faraday rotation of polarized emission from pulsars measured at radio frequencies provides a powerful tool to investigate the interstellar and interplanetary magnetic fields. Howev…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 173 cited

A -ray determination of the Universe's star-formation history

LAT Collaboration, M. Ajello, K. Helgason +4

The light emitted by all galaxies over the history of the Universe produces the extragalactic background light (EBL) at ultraviolet, optical, and infrared wavelengths. The EBL is a…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 65 cited

Searching a Thousand Radio Pulsars for Gamma-ray Emission

David A. Smith, Philippe Bruel, Ismaël Cognard +15

Identifying as many gamma-ray pulsars as possible in the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data helps test pulsar emission models by comparing predicted and observed properties for…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 37 cited

Unresolved Gamma-Ray Sky through its Angular Power Spectrum

M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, L. Baldini +107

The gamma-ray sky has been observed with unprecedented accuracy in the last decade by the Fermi large area telescope (LAT), allowing us to resolve and understand the high-energy Un…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 36 cited

A detailed study of giant pulses from PSR B1937+21 using the Large European Array for Pulsars

J. W. McKee, B. W. Stappers, C. G. Bassa +13

We have studied 4265 giant pulses (GPs) from the millisecond pulsar B1937+21; the largest-ever sample gathered for this pulsar, in observations made with the Large European Array f…

astro-ph.EP2018

VOEvent for Solar and Planetary Sciences

Baptiste Cecconi, Pierre Le Sidaner, Lukasz Tomasik +5

With its Planetary Space Weather Service (PSWS), the Europlanet-H2020 Research Insfrastructure (EPN2020RI) project is proposing a compelling set of databases and tools to that prov…

astro-ph.SR2018★ 31 cited

First Detection of Solar Flare Emission in Middle-Ultraviolet Balmer Continuum

Marie Dominique, Andrei N. Zhukov, Petr Heinzel +8

We present the first detection of solar flare emission at middle-ultraviolet wavelengths around 2000 A by the channel 2 of the Large-Yield RAdiometer (LYRA) onboard the PROBA2 miss…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 293 cited

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND): Science and Design

GRAND Collaboration, Jaime Alvarez-Muniz, Rafael Alves Batista +48

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a planned large-scale observatory of ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic particles, with energies exceeding 10^8 GeV. Its goal is…

astro-ph.GA2018★ 93 cited

Constraining astrophysical observables of Galaxy and Supermassive Black Hole Binary Mergers using Pulsar Timing Arrays

Siyuan Chen, Alberto Sesana, Christopher J. Conselice

We present an analytic model to describe the supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) merger rate in the Universe with astrophysical observables: galaxy stellar mass function, pair f…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 52 cited

Studying the solar system with the International Pulsar Timing Array

R. N. Caballero, Y. J. Guo, K. J. Lee +77

Pulsar-timing analyses are sensitive to errors in the solar-system ephemerides (SSEs) that timing models utilise to estimate the location of the solar-system barycentre, the quasi-…

physics.space-ph2018★ 42 cited

Solar wind interaction with comet 67P: impacts of corotating interaction regions

Niklas J. T. Edberg, A. I. Eriksson, E. Odelstad +18

We present observations from the Rosetta Plasma Consortium of the effects of stormy solar wind on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Four corotating interaction regions (CIRs), where…

physics.space-ph2018★ 52 cited

CME impact on comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Niklas J. T. Edberg, M. Alho, M. André +22

We present Rosetta observations from comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko during the impact of a coronal mass ejection (CME). The CME impacted on 5-6 Oct 2015, when Rosetta was about 80…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 108 cited

LOFAR discovery of a 23.5-second radio pulsar

C. M. Tan, C. G. Bassa, S. Cooper +16

We present the discovery of PSR J0250+5854, a radio pulsar with a spin period of 23.5 s. This is the slowest-spinning radio pulsar known. PSR J0250+5854 was discovered by the LOFAR…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 15 cited

The first ultraviolet detection of the Large Magellanic Cloud pulsar PSR B0540-69 and its multi-wavelength properties

R. P. Mignani, A. Shearer, A. de Luca +9

We observed the young ( yrs) pulsar PSR B0540-69 in the near-ultraviolet (UV) for the first time with the Space Telescope Imaging Spectrograph (STIS) aboard the {\em Hub…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 39 cited

VERITAS and Fermi-LAT observations of new HAWC sources

VERITAS Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, A. Archer +280

The HAWC (High Altitude Water Cherenkov) collaboration recently published their 2HWC catalog, listing 39 very high energy (VHE; >100~GeV) gamma-ray sources based on 507 days of obs…

physics.space-ph2018★ 47 cited

Ion velocity and electron temperature inside and around the diamagnetic cavity of comet 67P

Elias Odelstad, Anders I. Eriksson, Fredrik L. Johansson +7

A major point of interest in cometary plasma physics has been the diamagnetic cavity, an unmagnetized region in the inner-most part of the coma. Here, we combine Langmuir and Mutua…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 41 cited

Discovery of synchronous X-ray and radio moding of PSR B0823+26

W. Hermsen, L. Kuiper, R. Basu +10

Simultaneous observations of PSR B0823+26 with ESA's XMM-Newton, the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope and international stations of the Low Frequency Array revealed synchronous X-ra…

astro-ph.IM2018

Identifying transient and variable sources in radio images

Antonia Rowlinson, Adam J. Stewart, Jess W. Broderick +16

With the arrival of a number of wide-field snapshot image-plane radio transient surveys, there will be a huge influx of images in the coming years making it impossible to manually…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 24 cited

Supermassive Hot Jupiters Provide More Favourable Conditions for the Generation of Radio Emission via the Cyclotron Maser Instability - A Case Study Based on Tau Bootis b

C. Weber, N. V. Erkaev, V. A. Ivanov +5

We investigate under which conditions supermassive hot Jupiters can sustain source regions for radio emission, and whether this emission could propagate to an observer outside the…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 50 cited

An Orbitrap-based laser desorption/ablation mass spectrometer designed for spaceflight

Ricardo Arevalo, Laura Selliez, Christelle Briois +8

RATIONALE: The investigation of cryogenic planetary environments as potential harbors for extant life and/or contemporary sites of organic synthesis represents an emerging focal po…

physics.space-ph2018★ 19 cited

Study of hot flow anomalies using Cluster multi-spacecraft measurements

Gabor Facsko, Jean-Gabriel Trotignon, Iannis Dandouras +2

Hot flow anomalies (HFAs) were first discovered in the early 1980s at the bow shock of the Earth. In the 1990s these features were studied, observed and simulated very intensively…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 74 cited

Krypton isotopes and noble gas abundances in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Martin Rubin, Kathrin Altwegg, Hans Balsiger +24

The ROSINA mass spectrometer DFMS on board ESA's Rosetta spacecraft detected the major isotopes of the noble gases argon, krypton, and xenon in the coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gera…

physics.space-ph2018★ 56 cited

Solar Wind Turbulence Studies using MMS Fast Plasma Investigation Data

Riddhi Bandyopadhyay, A. Chasapis, R. Chhiber +17

Studies of solar wind turbulence traditionally employ high-resolution magnetic field data, but high-resolution measurements of ion and electron moments have been possible only rece…

astro-ph.EP2018★ 28 cited

Cold electrons at comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

Ilka A. D. Engelhardt, Anders I. Eriksson, Erik Vigren +4

The electron temperature of the plasma is one important aspect of the environment. Electrons created by photoionization or impact ionization of atmospheric gas have energies …