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most citedThe Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

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astro-ph.GA2019★ 60 cited

LLAMA: The - Relation of the most luminous local AGNs

Turgay Caglar, Leonard Burtscher, Bernhard Brand +17

The - relation is considered a result of co-evolution between the host galaxies and their super-massive black holes. For elliptical-bulge hosting inactive gala…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 69 cited

NICER X-ray Observations of Seven Nearby Rotation-Powered Millisecond Pulsars

S. Guillot, M. Kerr, P. S. Ray +18

NICER observed several rotation-powered millisecond pulsars to search for or confirm the presence of X-ray pulsations. When broad and sine-like, these pulsations may indicate therm…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 168 cited

Constraining the Neutron Star Mass-Radius Relation and Dense Matter Equation of State with NICER. II. Emission from Hot Spots on a Rapidly Rotating Neutron Star

Slavko Bogdanov, Frederick K. Lamb, Simin Mahmoodifar +10

We describe the model of surface emission from a rapidly rotating neutron star that is applied to Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer X-ray data of millisecond pulsars in or…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 174 cited

Constraining the Neutron Star Mass-Radius Relation and Dense Matter Equation of State with NICER. I. The Millisecond Pulsar X-ray Data Set

Slavko Bogdanov, Sebastien Guillot, Paul S. Ray +27

We present the set of deep Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray timing observations of the nearby rotation-powered millisecond pulsars PSRs J0437-4715, J0030+04…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 1.8k cited

PSR J0030+0451 Mass and Radius from NICER Data and Implications for the Properties of Neutron Star Matter

M. C. Miller, F. K. Lamb, A. J. Dittmann +18

Neutron stars are not only of astrophysical interest, but are also of great interest to nuclear physicists, because their attributes can be used to determine the properties of the…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 1.7k cited

A NICER View of PSR J0030+0451: Millisecond Pulsar Parameter Estimation

Thomas E. Riley, Anna L. Watts, Slavko Bogdanov +13

We report on Bayesian parameter estimation of the mass and equatorial radius of the millisecond pulsar PSR J00300451, conditional on pulse-profile modeling of Neutron Star Inter…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 27 cited

Molecular Gas Inflows and Outflows in Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies at and one QSO at

R. Herrera-Camus, E. Sturm, J. Graciá-Carpio +12

Aims. We aim to search and characterize inflows and outflows of molecular gas in four ultraluminous infrared galaxies (ULIRGs) at and one distant QSO at . Me…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 17 cited

The Broad-lined Ic Supernova ZTF18aaqjovh (SN 2018bvw): An Optically-discovered Engine-driven Supernova Candidate with Luminous Radio Emission

Anna Y. Q. Ho, Alessandra Corsi, S. Bradley Cenko +23

We present ZTF18aaqjovh (SN 2018bvw), a high-velocity ("broad-lined") stripped-envelope (Type Ic) supernova (Ic-BL SN) discovered in the Zwicky Transient Facility one-day cadence s…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 76 cited

Star Formation in Accretion Disks and SMBH Growth

Alexander J. Dittmann, M. Coleman Miller

Accretion disks around active galactic nuclei are potentially unstable to star formation at large radii. We note that when the compact objects formed from some of these stars spira…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 44 cited

AGN feedback in a galaxy merger: Multi-phase, galaxy-scale outflows including a fast molecular gas blob ~6 kpc away from IRAS F08572+3915

R. Herrera-Camus, A. Janssen, E. Sturm +12

To understand the role that AGN feedback plays in galaxy evolution we need in-depth studies of the multi-phase structure and energetics of galaxy-wide outflows. In this work we pre…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 19 cited

A Dissection of Spatially Resolved AGN Feedback across the Electromagnetic Spectrum

Travis Fischer, Krista Lynne Smith, Steve Kraemer +7

We present optical SuperNova Integral Field Spectrograph (SNIFS) integral field spectroscopy, Hubble Space Telescope optical imaging, Chandra X-ray imaging, and Very Large Array ra…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 152 cited

Molecular outflows in local galaxies: Method comparison and a role of intermittent AGN driving

D. Lutz, E. Sturm, A. Janssen +17

We report new detections and limits from a NOEMA and ALMA CO(1-0) search for molecular outflows in 13 local galaxies with high FIR surface brightness, and combine with results from…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 35 cited

Discovery of an X-ray Quasar Wind Driving the Cold Gas Outflow in the Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy IRAS F05189-2524

Robyn N. Smith, Francesco Tombesi, Sylvain Veilleux +2

We present new XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations of the galaxy merger IRAS F05189-2524 which is classified as an ultra-luminous infrared galaxy (ULIRG) and optical Seyfert 2 at $z…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 11 cited

The nature of the broadband X-ray variability in the dwarf Seyfert galaxy NGC 4395

E. S. Kammoun, E. Nardini, A. Zoghbi +14

We present a flux-resolved X-ray analysis of the dwarf Seyfert 1.8 galaxy NGC 4395, based on three archival and one archival observations. The source is known…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 18 cited

Polarimetry of relativistic tidal disruption event Swift J2058+0516

K. Wiersema, A. B. Higgins, A. J. Levan +8

A small fraction of candidate tidal disruption events (TDEs) show evidence of powerful relativistic jets, which are particularly pronounced at radio wavelengths, and likely contrib…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 19 cited

Swift-XRT Follow-up of Gravitational Wave Triggers in the Second Advanced LIGO/Virgo Observing Run

N. J. Klingler, J. A. Kennea, P. A. Evans +37

The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory carried out prompt searches for gravitational wave (GW) events detected by the LIGO/Virgo Collaboration (LVC) during the second observing run ("O…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 28 cited

Timing the pulsations of the accreting millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 during its 2019 outburst

Peter Bult, Deepto Chakrabarty, Zaven Arzoumanian +5

In this paper we present a coherent timing analysis of the 401 Hz pulsations of the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 during its 2019 outburst. Using observations…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 106 cited

ZTF Early Observations of Type Ia Supernovae I: Properties of the 2018 Sample

Yuhan Yao, Adam A. Miller, S. R. Kulkarni +32

Early-time observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) are essential to constrain their progenitor properties. In this paper, we present high-quality light curves of 127 SNe Ia dis…

physics.space-ph2019★ 20 cited

Turbulence and Transport During Guide-Field Reconnection at the Magnetopause

L. Price, M Swisdak, J. F. Drake +1

We analyze the development and influence of turbulence in three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations of guide-field magnetic reconnection at the magnetopause with parameters ba…

astro-ph.EP2019★ 41 cited

Characterization of the Nucleus, Morphology and Activity of Interstellar Comet 2I/Borisov by Optical and Near-Infrared GROWTH, Apache Point, IRTF, ZTF and Keck Observations

Bryce T. Bolin, Carey M. Lisse, Mansi M. Kasliwal +52

We present visible and near-infrared photometric and spectroscopic observations of interstellar object 2I/Borisov taken from 2019 September 10 to 2019 November 29 using the GROWTH,…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 5 cited

New radio constraints on the obscured star formation rates of massive GRB hosts at redshifts 2-3.5

Pradip Gatkine, Stuart Vogel, Sylvain Veilleux

It is not clear whether gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are unbiased tracers of cosmic star formation at . Since dusty starburst galaxies are significant contributors to the cosmic…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 109 cited

GROWTH on S190814bv: Deep Synoptic Limits on the Optical/Near-Infrared Counterpart to a Neutron Star-Black Hole Merger

Igor Andreoni, Daniel A. Goldstein, Mansi M. Kasliwal +49

On 2019 August 14, the Advanced LIGO and Virgo interferometers detected the high-significance gravitational wave (GW) signal S190814bv. The GW data indicated that the event resulte…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 65 cited

Caltech-NRAO Stripe 82 Survey (CNSS). III: The First Radio-discovered Tidal Disruption Event, CNSS J0019+00

M. M. Anderson, K. P. Mooley, G. Hallinan +8

We present the discovery of a nuclear transient with the Caltech-NRAO Stripe 82 Survey (CNSS), a dedicated radio transient survey carried out with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Arr…

quant-ph2019★ 21 cited

Back-action evading impulse measurement with mechanical quantum sensors

Sohitri Ghosh, Daniel Carney, Peter Shawhan +1

The quantum measurement of any observable naturally leads to noise added by the act of measurement. Approaches to evade or reduce this noise can lead to substantial improvements in…