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astro-ph.HE2017★ 43 cited

Temperature Structure in the Perseus Cluster Core Observed with Hitomi

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +192

The present paper investigates the temperature structure of the X-ray emitting plasma in the core of the Perseus cluster using the 1.8--20.0 keV data obtained with the Soft X-ray S…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 126 cited

Atomic data and spectral modeling constraints from high-resolution X-ray observations of the Perseus cluster with Hitomi

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +192

The Hitomi SXS spectrum of the Perseus cluster, with 5 eV resolution in the 2-9 keV band, offers an unprecedented benchmark of the atomic modeling and database for hot collis…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 36 cited

An X-ray survey of the central molecular zone: variability of the Fe Ka emission line

R. Terrier, M. Clavel, S. Soldi +4

There is now abundant evidence that the luminosity of the Galactic super-massive black hole (SMBH) has not always been as low as it is nowadays. The observation of varying non-ther…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 38 cited

Glimpses of the past activity of Sgr A* inferred from X-ray echoes in Sgr C

Dimitri Chuard, Régis Terrier, Andrea Goldwurm +6

For a decade now, evidence has accumulated that giant molecular clouds located within the central molecular zone of our Galaxy reflect X-rays coming from past outbursts of the supe…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 18 cited

Hitomi Observations of the LMC SNR N132D: Highly Redshifted X-ray Emission from Iron Ejecta

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +191

We present Hitomi observations of N132D, a young, X-ray bright, O-rich core-collapse supernova remnant in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). Despite a very short observation of only…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 87 cited

THESEUS: a key space mission concept for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics

G. Stratta, R. Ciolfi, L. Amati +55

The recent discovery of the electromagnetic counterpart of the gravitational wave source GW170817, has demonstrated the huge informative power of multi-messenger observations. Duri…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 64 cited

TeV gamma-ray observations of the binary neutron star merger GW170817 with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +250

We search for high-energy gamma-ray emission from the binary neutron star merger GW170817 with the H.E.S.S. Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes. The observations presented here have b…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 116 cited

Solar abundance ratios of the iron-peak elements in the Perseus Cluster

Hitomi Collaboration

The metal abundance of the hot plasma that permeates galaxy clusters represents the accumulation of heavy elements produced by billions of supernovae. Therefore, X-ray spectroscopy…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 6 cited

Dark matter searches toward the Galactic Centre halo with H.E.S.S

Lucia Rinchiuso, Emmanuel Moulin

The presence of dark matter in the Universe is nowadays widely supported by a large body of astronomical and cosmological observations. The central region of the Milky Way is expec…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 192 cited

The SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts II: New FRB discoveries and their follow-up

S. Bhandari, E. F. Keane, E. D. Barr +47

We report the discovery of four Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) in the ongoing SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts (SUPERB) at the Parkes Radio Telescope: FRBs 150610, 15120…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 13 cited

Glimpse of the highly obscured HMXB IGR J16318-4848 with Hitomi

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +191

We report a Hitomi observation of IGR J16318-4848, a high-mass X-ray binary system with an extremely strong absorption of N_H~10^{24} cm^{-2}. Previous X-ray studies revealed that…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 60 cited

All-flavor search for a diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos with 9 years of ANTARES data

ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André +125

The ANTARES detector is at present the most sensitive neutrino telescope in the Northern Hemisphere. The highly significant cosmic neutrino excess observed by the Antarctic IceCube…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 17 cited

Microquasars as heating sources of the intergalactic medium during reionisation of the Universe

Vanesa M. Douna, Leonardo J. Pellizza, Philippe Laurent +1

The effect of the primeval sources of radiation and particles on the thermodynamical state of the intergalactic medium during the Epoch of Reionisation is still unclear. In this wo…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 58 cited

Hitomi Observation of Radio Galaxy NGC 1275: The First X-ray Microcalorimeter Spectroscopy of Fe-Kα Line Emission from an Active Galactic Nucleus

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +191

The origin of the narrow Fe-Kα fluorescence line at 6.4 keV from active galactic nuclei has long been under debate; some of the possible sites are the outer accretion disk, the bro…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 27 cited

Cosmic-rays, gas, and dust in nearby anticentre clouds : II -- Interstellar phase transitions and the Dark Neutral Medium

Q. Remy, I. A. Grenier, D. J. Marshall +1

H 21-cm and CO 2.6-mm line emissions respectively trace the atomic and molecular gas phases, but they miss most of the opaque H and diffuse H present…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 34 cited

Detection of two TeV shell-type remnants at GeV energies with Fermi-LAT: HESS J1731-347 and SN 1006

Benjamin Condon, Marianne Lemoine-Goumard, Fabio Acero +1

We report the first high-significance GeV gamma-ray detections of supernova remnants HESS J1731-347 and SN 1006, both of which have been previously detected by imaging atmospheric…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 193 cited

Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory

A. Albert, M. Andre, M. Anghinolfi +1931

The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observatories recently discovered gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. A short gamma-ray burst (GRB) that followed the merg…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 2 cited

The ANTARES Collaboration: Contributions to ICRC 2017 Part I: Neutrino astronomy (diffuse fluxes and point sources)

ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André +125

Papers on neutrino astronomy (diffuse fluxes and point sources, prepared for the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017, Busan, South Korea) by the ANTARES Collaborati…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 3.6k cited

Gravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor +1

On 2017 August 17, the gravitational-wave event GW170817 was observed by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors, and the gamma-ray burst (GRB) GRB 170817A was observed independently…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 152 cited

Atmospheric gas dynamics in the Perseus cluster observed with Hitomi

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +195

Extending the earlier measurements reported in Hitomi collaboration (2016, Nature, 535, 117), we examine the atmospheric gas motions within the central 100~kpc of the Perseus clust…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 9 cited

Gravitational lensing time delays with massive photons

J-F. Glicenstein

This paper investigates the use of gravitational time delays of macro-lenses to constrain a possible photon mass. The time delay between the 2 compact images of a source of massive…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 916 cited

INTEGRAL Detection of the First Prompt Gamma-Ray Signal Coincident with the Gravitational Wave Event GW170817

V. Savchenko, C. Ferrigno, E. Kuulkers +20

We report the e INTernational Gamma-ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) detection of the short gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A (discovered by Fermi-GBM) with a signal-to-noise ratio…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 68 cited

Measurements of resonant scattering in the Perseus cluster core with Hitomi SXS

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +192

Thanks to its high spectral resolution (~5 eV at 6 keV), the Soft X-ray Spectrometer (SXS) on board Hitomi enables us to measure the detailed structure of spatially resolved emissi…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 12 cited

INTEGRAL observations of GW170104

V. Savchenko, C. Ferrigno, E. Bozzo +16

We used data from the INTErnational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL) to set upper-limits on the -ray and hard X-ray prompt emission associated with the gravitational…