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most citedUniaxial Strain in Graphene by Raman Spectroscopy: G peak splitting, Gruneisen Parameters and Sample Orientation

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astro-ph.HE2021★ 5 cited

X-ray spectral-timing variability of 1A 0535+262 during the 2020 giant outburst

P. Reig, R. C. Ma, L. Tao +3

The Be/X-ray binary 1A 0535+262 underwent a giant X-ray outburst in November 2020, peaking at erg s (1--100 keV, 1.8 kpc), the brightest outburst recor…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 18 cited

Non-ideal MHD simulations of subcritical prestellar cores with non-equilibrium chemistry

Aris Tritsis, Christoph Federrath, Karen Willacy +1

Non-ideal magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) effects are thought to be gravity's closest ally in overcoming the support of magnetic fields and in forming stars. Here, we modify the publicly…

physics.optics2021★ 35 cited

Thermalization of light's orbital angular momentum in nonlinear multimode waveguide systems

Fan O. Wu, Qi Zhong, Huizhong Ren +3

We show that the orbital angular momentum (OAM) of a light field can be thermalized in a nonlinear cylindrical multimode optical waveguide. We find, that upon thermal equilibrium,…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 6 cited

Comparison of hydrostatic and lensing cluster mass estimates:a pilot study in MACS J0647.7+7015

A. Ferragamo, J. F. Macías-Pérez, V. Pelgrims +6

The detailed characterization of scaling laws relating the observables of cluster of galaxies to their mass is crucial for obtaining accurate cosmological constraints with clusters…

cs.SI2021★ 19 cited

Identification of Twitter Bots Based on an Explainable Machine Learning Framework: The US 2020 Elections Case Study

Alexander Shevtsov, Christos Tzagkarakis, Despoina Antonakaki +1

Twitter is one of the most popular social networks attracting millions of users, while a considerable proportion of online discourse is captured. It provides a simple usage framewo…

physics.app-ph2021★ 17 cited

Experimental demonstration of ultrathin broken-symmetry metasurfaces with controllably sharp resonant response

Odysseas Tsilipakos, Luca Maiolo, Francesco Maita +5

Symmetry-protected resonances can be made to couple with free space by introducing a small degree of geometric asymmetry, leading to controllably-sharp spectral response. Here, we…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 29 cited

Stripped-Envelope Stars in Different Metallicity Environments I. Evolutionary Phases, Classification and Populations

David R. Aguilera-Dena, Norbert Langer, John Antoniadis +5

Massive stars that become stripped of their hydrogen envelope through binary interaction or winds can be observed either as Wolf-Rayet stars, if they have optically thick winds, or…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 12 cited

Dynamo effect in unstirred self-gravitating turbulence

Axel Brandenburg, Evangelia Ntormousi

In many astrophysical environments, self-gravity can generate kinetic energy, which, in principle, is available for driving dynamo action. Using direct numerical simulations, we sh…

physics.optics2021★ 15 cited

Chirality sensing employing PT-symmetric and other resonant gain-loss optical systems

Ioannis Katsantonis, Sotiris Droulias, Costas M. Soukoulis +3

Molecular chirality detection and enantiomer discrimination are very important issues for many areas of science and technology, prompting intensive investigations via optical metho…

physics.optics2021★ 18 cited

Transforming space with non-Hermitian dielectrics

Ivor Krešić, Konstantinos G. Makris, Ulf Leonhardt +1

Coordinate transformations are a versatile tool to mould the flow of light, enabling a host of astonishing phenomena such as optical cloaking with metamaterials. Moving away from t…

astro-ph.HE2021

Probing the innermost regions of AGN jets and their magnetic fields with RadioAstron. V. Space and ground millimeter-VLBI imaging of OJ 287

Jose L. Gómez, Efthalia Traianou, Thomas P. Krichbaum +27

We present the first polarimetric space VLBI observations of OJ 287, observed with RadioAstron at 22 GHz during a perigee session on 2014 April 4 and five near-in-time snapshots, t…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 10 cited

Multiwavelength study of the gravitationally lensed blazar QSO B0218+357 between 2016 and 2020

MAGIC Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi +208

We report multiwavelength observations of the gravitationally lensed blazar QSO B0218+357 in 2016-2020. Optical, X-ray and GeV flares were detected. The contemporaneous MAGIC obser…

physics.optics2021★ 20 cited

Topological photonic Su-Schrieffer-Heeger-type coupler

Nikolaos K. Efremidis

We examine the coupling process between the surface modes of a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger lattice both in the linear and the nonlinear regimes. We first develop a coupled-mode theory for…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 8 cited

What defines a compact symmetric object? A carefully vetted sample of CSOs

Anthony C. S. Readhead, Sebastian Kiehlmann, Matthew L. Lister +6

Compact Symmetric Objects (CSOs), young jetted-AGN of overall projected size <1 kpc, are of great interest due to their youth and evolution. The classification was introduced to di…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 53 cited

Noise analysis in the European Pulsar Timing Array data release 2 and its implications on the gravitational-wave background search

A. Chalumeau, S. Babak, A. Petiteau +49

The European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA) collaboration has recently released an extended data set for six pulsars (DR2) and reported evidence for a common red noise signal. Here we…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 19 cited

Duality in spatially resolved star-formation relations in local LIRGs

M. Sánchez-García, M. Pereira-Santaella, S. García-Burillo +10

We analyse the star formation (SF) relations in a sample of 16 nearby luminous infrared galaxies (LIRGs) with more than 2800 regions defined on scales of 90 to 500 pc. We used ALMA…

physics.optics2021★ 10 cited

Unravelling ultrashort laser excitation of nickel at 800 nm wavelength

T Genieys, M Petrakakis, G Tsibidis +2

The optical response of nickel is studied in a wide range of laser fluence, below and above the ablation threshold, by selfreflectivity measurements of ultrashort 800nm single lase…

quant-ph2021★ 3 cited

Microscopic dynamics and an effective Landau-Zener transition in the quasi-adiabatic preparation of spatially ordered states of Rydberg excitations

A. F. Tzortzakakis, D. Petrosyan, M. Fleischhauer +1

We examine the adiabatic preparation of spatially-ordered Rydberg excitations of atoms in finite one-dimensional lattices by frequency-chirped laser pulses, as realized in a number…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 79 cited

The Unanticipated Phenomenology of the Blazar PKS~2131021: A Unique Super-Massive Black Hole Binary Candidate

S. O'Neill, S. Kiehlmann, A. C. S. Readhead +24

Most large galaxies host supermassive black holes in their nuclei and are subject to mergers, which can produce a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB), and hence periodic signatu…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 11 cited

Tracing the Ionization Structure of the Shocked Filaments of NGC 6240

Anne M. Medling, Lisa J. Kewley, Daniela Calzetti +14

We study the ionization and excitation structure of the interstellar medium in the late-stage gas-rich galaxy merger NGC 6240 using a suite of emission line maps at 25 pc res…

astro-ph.HE2021

An expanded ultraluminous X-ray source catalogue

M. C. i Bernadich, A. D. Schwope, K. Kovlakas +2

Context. ULXs ( erg s) are excellent probes of accretion physics, star formation and IMBHs searches. As the sample size of X-ray data from modern obser…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 282 cited

Common-red-signal analysis with 24-yr high-precision timing of the European Pulsar Timing Array: Inferences in the stochastic gravitational-wave background search

S. Chen, R. N. Caballero, Y. J. Guo +49

We present results from the search for a stochastic gravitational-wave background (GWB) as predicted by the theory of General Relativity using six radio millisecond pulsars from th…

astro-ph.HE2021

Constraints on magnetic field and particle content in blazar jets through optical circular polarization

I. Liodakis, D. Blinov, S. B. Potter +1

Polarization offers a unique view in the physical processes of astrophysical jets. We report on optical circular polarization observations of two famous blazars, namely 3C 279 and…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 15 cited

A new automated tool for the spectral classification of OB stars

E. Kyritsis, G. Maravelias, A. Zezas +3

(abridged) We develop a tool for the automated spectral classification of OB stars according to their sub-types. We use the regular Random Forest (RF) algorithm, the Probabilistic…