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astro-ph.HE2009★ 69 cited

3D simulations of supernova remnants evolution including non-linear particle acceleration

Gilles Ferrand, Anne Decourchelle, Jean Ballet +2

If a sizeable fraction of the energy of supernova remnant shocks is channeled into energetic particles (commonly identified with Galactic cosmic rays), then the morphological evolu…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 86 cited

On the shape of the spectrum of cosmic-rays accelerated inside superbubbles

Gilles Ferrand, Alexandre Marcowith

Supernova remnants are believed to be a major source of cosmic-rays in the Galaxy. As their progenitors are commonly found clustered in OB associations, one has to consider the pos…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 115 cited

The dust-scattering X-ray rings of the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 1547.0-5408

A. Tiengo, G. Vianello, P. Esposito +14

On 2009 January 22 numerous strong bursts were detected from the anomalous X-ray pulsar 1E 1547.0-5408. Swift/XRT and XMM-Newton/EPIC observations carried out in the following two…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 205 cited

Fermi observations of Cassiopeia and Cepheus: diffuse gamma-ray emission in the outer Galaxy

LAT collaboration

We present the analysis of the interstellar gamma-ray emission measured by the Fermi Large Area Telescope toward a region in the second Galactic quadrant at 100 deg < l < 145 deg a…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 2 cited

Radio lobes and X-ray hot spots of the extraordinary microquasar in NGC 7793

Roberto Soria, Manfred Pakull, Jess Broderick +2

We have studied the newly-discovered microquasar in NGC 7793 in radio, optical and X-ray bands. This system comprises a large (250 x 120 pc) line-emitting optical nebula, detected…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 2 cited

Fermi detected blazars seen by INTEGRAL

V. Beckmann, C. Ricci, S. Soldi

Multiwavelength observations are essential to constrain physical parameters of the blazars observed by Fermi/LAT. Among the 187 AGN significantly detected in public INTEGRAL data a…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 76 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Cosmic-Ray Induced gamma-ray Emission of the Earth's Atmosphere

LAT collaboration

We report on measurements of the cosmic-ray induced gamma-ray emission of Earth's atmosphere by the Large Area Telescope onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The LAT has ob…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 19 cited

XMM-Newton and Swift observations prove GRB 090709A to be a distant, standard, long GRB

A. De Luca, P. Esposito, G. L. Israel +4

GRB 090709A is a long gamma-ray burst (GRB) discovered by Swift, featuring a bright X-ray afterglow as well as a faint infrared transient with very red and peculiar colors. The bur…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 304 cited

A Global Spectral Study of Black Hole X-ray Binaries

Robert Dunn, Rob Fender, Elmar Koerding +2

(Abridged) We report on a consistent and comprehensive spectral analysis of the X-ray emission of 25 Black Hole X-ray Binaries. All publicly available observations of the black hol…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 216 cited

Detection of Gamma-Ray Emission from the Starburst Galaxies M82 and NGC 253 with the Large Area Telescope on Fermi

Fermi LAT Collaboration, A. A. Abdo

We report the detection of high-energy gamma-ray emission from two starburst galaxies using data obtained with the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 49 cited

Fermi Observations of the Very Hard Gamma-ray Blazar PG 1553+113

LAT Collaboration

We report the observations of PG 1553+113 during the first ~200 days of Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope science operations, from 4 August 2008 to 22 February 2009 (MJD 54682.7-5488…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 332 cited

Radio-Loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 as a New Class of Gamma-Ray AGN

LAT Collaboration, G. Ghisellini, L. Maraschi +1

We report the discovery with Fermi/LAT of gamma-ray emission from three radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies: PKS 1502+036 (z=0.409), 1H 0323+342 (z=0.061) and PKS 2004-447 (z…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 279 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Crab Pulsar and Nebula

The Fermi LAT collaboration, the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium, : +1

We report on gamma-ray observations of the Crab Pulsar and Nebula using 8 months of survey data with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). The high quality light curve obtained usi…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 131 cited

Truncation of the Inner Accretion Disk around a Black Hole at Low Luminosity

John A. Tomsick, Kazutaka Yamaoka, Stephane Corbel +3

Most black hole binaries show large changes in X-ray luminosity caused primarily by variations in mass accretion rate. An important question for understanding black hole accretion…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 27 cited

GRB 090313: X-shooter's first shot at a GRB

A. de Ugarte Postigo, P. Goldoni, C. C. Thöne +26

Context. X-shooter is the first second-generation instrument to become operative at the ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT). It is a broad-band medium-resolution spectrograph designed w…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 139 cited

Fermi LAT Observations of LS 5039

The Fermi LAT collaboration

The first results from observations of the high mass X-ray binary LS 5039 using the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope data between 2008 August and 2009 June are presented. Our result…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 147 cited

Fermi observations of TeV-selected AGN

S. J. Fegan, D. Sanchez, Fermi LAT Collaboration +2

We report on observations of TeV-selected AGN made during the first 5.5 months of observations with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on-board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fer…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 39 cited

Measurement of the atmospheric muon flux with a 4 GeV threshold in the ANTARES neutrino telescope

ANTARES collaboration

A new method for the measurement of the muon flux in the deep-sea ANTARES neutrino telescope and its dependence on the depth is presented. The method is based on the observation of…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 448 cited

Fermi Observations of GRB 090902B: A Distinct Spectral Component in the Prompt and Delayed Emission

GBM collaboration, LAT Collaboration, The Swift Team

We report on the observation of the bright, long gamma-ray burst, GRB 090902B, by the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT) instruments on-board the Fermi ob…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 104 cited

Multiwavelength monitoring of the enigmatic Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 PMN J0948+0022 in March-July 2009

LAT Collaboration, E. Angelakis, C. Bailyn +39

Following the recent discovery of gamma rays from the radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy PMN J0948+0022 (z=0.5846), we started a multiwavelength campaign from radio to gamma r…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 65 cited

Fermi observations of high-energy gamma-ray emission from GRB 080825C

LAT Collaboration

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (FGST) has opened a new high-energy window in the study of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Here we present a thorough analysis of GRB 080825C, which tr…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 198 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope Gamma-Ray Detection of the Radio Galaxy M87

The Fermi LAT Collaboration, A. A. Abdo, D. E. Harris +2

We report the Fermi-LAT discovery of high-energy (MeV/GeV) gamma-ray emission positionally consistent with the center of the radio galaxy M87, at a source significance of over 10 s…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 52 cited

Fermi LAT detection of pulsed gamma-rays from the Vela-like pulsars PSR J1048-5832 and PSR J2229+6114

Fermi LAT collaboration, Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium

We report the detection of gamma-ray pulsations (> 0.1 GeV) from PSR J2229+6114 and PSR J1048-5832, the latter having been detected as a low-significance pulsar by EGRET. Data in t…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 163 cited

Swift and Fermi observations of the early afterglow of the short Gamma-Ray Burst 090510

M. De Pasquale, P. Schady, N. P. M. Kuin +11

We present the observations of GRB090510 performed by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope and the Swift observatory. This is a bright, short burst that shows an extended emission d…