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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

14.2k citations

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18 papers · 2 filters

astro-ph.HE2012★ 9 cited

Chandra Observations of the Collisional Ring Galaxy NGC 922

A. H. Prestwich, J. L. Galache. T. Linden, V. Kalogara +5

In this paper we report on Chandra observations of the starburst galaxy NGC 922. NGC 922 is a drop-through ring galaxy with an expanding ring of star formation, similar in many res…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 21 cited

A variable ultraluminous X-ray source in a globular cluster in NGC 4649

T. P. Roberts, G. Fabbiano, B. Luo +9

We report the discovery of a new ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) associated with a globular cluster in the elliptical galaxy NGC 4649. The X-ray source was initially detected with…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 54 cited

Evolution of Post-Impact Companion Stars in SN Ia Remnants within the Single-Degenerate Scenario

Kuo-Chuan Pan, Paul Ricker, Ronald Taam

The nature of the progenitor systems of Type Ia supernovae is still uncertain. One way to distinguish between the single-degenerate scenario (SDS) and double-degenerate scenario (D…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 39 cited

Disk corona interaction: mechanism for the disk truncation and spectrum change in low luminosity AGN

Ronald E. Taam, B. F. Liu, W. Yuan +1

The truncation of an optically thick, geometrically thin accretion disk is investigated in the context of low luminosity AGN (LLAGN). We generalize the disk evaporation model used…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 1k cited

Common Envelope Evolution: Where we stand and how we can move forward

N. Ivanova, S. Justham, X. Chen +16

This work aims to present our current best physical understanding of common-envelope evolution (CEE). We highlight areas of consensus and disagreement, and stress ideas which shoul…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 39 cited

A Three Parsec-Scale Jet-Driven Outflow from Sgr A*

F. Yusef-Zadeh, R. Arendt, H. Bushouse +6

The compact radio source Sgr A* is coincident with a 4 million solar mass black hole at the dynamical center of the Galaxy and is surrounded by dense orbiting ionized and molecular…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 75 cited

Effect of Transition Magnetic Moments on Collective Supernova Neutrino Oscillations

Andre de Gouvea, Shashank Shalgar

We study the effect of Majorana transition magnetic moments on the flavor evolution of neutrinos and antineutrinos inside the core of Type-II supernova explosions. We find non-triv…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 149 cited

Interacting Cosmic Rays with Molecular Clouds: A Bremsstrahlung Origin of Diffuse High Energy Emission from the Inner 2deg by 1deg of the Galactic Center

F. Yusef-Zadeh, J. W. Hewitt, M. Wardle +8

The high energy activity in the inner few degrees of the Galactic center is traced by diffuse radio, X-ray and gamma-ray emission. The physical relationship between different compo…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 279 cited

X-ray Binary Evolution Across Cosmic Time

Tassos Fragos, Bret Lehmer, Michael Tremmel +8

High redshift galaxies permit the study of the formation and evolution of X-ray binary populations on cosmological timescales, probing a wide range of metallicities and star-format…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 257 cited

Mass Measurements of Black Holes in X-Ray Transients: Is There a Mass Gap?

Laura Kreidberg, Charles D. Bailyn, Will M. Farr +1

We explore possible systematic errors in the mass measurements of stellar mass black holes. We find that significant errors can arise from the assumption of zero or constant emissi…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 48 cited

A First Search for coincident Gravitational Waves and High Energy Neutrinos using LIGO, Virgo and ANTARES data from 2007

The ANTARES Collaboration, the LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration +959

We present the results of the first search for gravitational wave bursts associated with high energy neutrinos. Together, these messengers could reveal new, hidden sources that are…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 127 cited

Search for gravitational waves associated with gamma-ray bursts during LIGO science run 6 and Virgo science runs 2 and 3

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, J. Abadie +807

We present the results of a search for gravitational waves associated with 154 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that were detected by satellite-based gamma-ray experiments in 2009-2010, dur…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 71 cited

Swift follow-up observations of candidate gravitational-wave transient events

P. A. Evans, J. K. Fridriksson, N. Gehrels +813

We present the first multi-wavelength follow-up observations of two candidate gravitational-wave (GW) transient events recorded by LIGO and Virgo in their 2009-2010 science run. Th…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 138 cited

Impact of type ia supernova ejecta on binary companions in the single-degenerate scenario

Kuo-Chuan Pan, Paul Ricker, Ronald Taam

Type Ia supernovae are thought to be caused by thermonuclear explosions of a carbon-oxygen white dwarf in close binary systems. In the single-degenerate scenario (SDS), the compani…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 35 cited

An Inverse Compton Scattering Origin of X-ray Flares from Sgr A*

F. Yusef-Zadeh, M. Wardle, K. Dodds-Eden +6

The X-ray and near-IR emission from Sgr A* is dominated by flaring, while a quiescent component dominates the emission at radio and sub-mm wavelengths. The spectral energy distribu…

astro-ph.HE2012

The Future of X-ray Time Domain Surveys

Daryl Haggard, Gregory R. Sivakoff

Modern X-ray observatories yield unique insight into the astrophysical time domain. Each X-ray photon can be assigned an arrival time, an energy and a sky position, yielding sensit…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 96 cited

Estimating parameters of coalescing compact binaries with proposed advanced detector networks

J. Veitch, I. Mandel, B. Aylott +6

The advanced versions of the LIGO and Virgo ground-based gravitational-wave detectors are expected to operate from three sites: Hanford, Livingston, and Cascina. Recent proposals h…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 78 cited

Implications For The Origin Of GRB 051103 From LIGO Observations

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott +568

We present the results of a LIGO search for gravitational waves (GWs) associated with GRB 051103, a short-duration hard-spectrum gamma-ray burst (GRB) whose electromagnetically det…