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most citedFirst M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole

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astro-ph.HE2019★ 10 cited

Electron Firehose Instabilities in High- ICM shocks

Sunjung Kim, Ji-Hoon Ha, Dongsu Ryu +1

The preacceleration of electrons through reflection and shock drift acceleration (SDA) is essential for the diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) of nonthermal electrons in collisionl…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 16 cited

Investigation of X-ray timing and spectral properties of ESO 243-49 HLX-1 with long-term Swift Monitoring

Lupin Chun-Che Lin, Chin-Ping Hu, Kwan-Lok Li +5

The long-term Swift monitoring of ESO 243-49 HLX-1 provides an opportunity to investigate the detailed timing and spectral behaviour of this hyper-luminous X-ray source. Swift has…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 11 cited

Chandra Observations of the Spectacular A3411-12 Merger Event

Felipe Andrade-Santos, Reinout J. van Weeren, Gabriella Di Gennaro +17

We present deep Chandra observations of A3411-12, a remarkable merging cluster that hosts the most compelling evidence for electron re-acceleration at cluster shocks to date. Using…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 18 cited

Gamma-ray and Neutrino Emissions due to Cosmic-Ray Protons Accelerated at Intracluster Shocks in Galaxy Clusters

Ji-Hoon Ha, Dongsu Ryu, Hyesung Kang

We examine the cosmic-ray protons (CRp) accelerated at collisionless shocks in galaxy clusters using cosmological structure formation simulations. We find that in the intracluster…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 21 cited

Three-dimensional simulations of non-resonant streaming instability and particle acceleration near non-relativistic astrophysical shocks

Allard Jan van Marle, Fabien Casse, Alexandre Marcowith

We use particle-in-magnetohydrodynamics-cells to model particle acceleration and magnetic field amplification in a high Mach, parallel shock in three dimensions and compare the res…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 119 cited

An Optically Targeted Search for Gravitational Waves emitted by Core-Collapse Supernovae during the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1195

We present the results from a search for gravitational-wave transients associated with core-collapse supernovae observed within a source distance of approximately 20 Mpc during the…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 127 cited

Search for Eccentric Binary Black Hole Mergers with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during their First and Second Observing Runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1183

When formed through dynamical interactions, stellar-mass binary black holes may retain eccentric orbits ( at 10 Hz) detectable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors.…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 2 cited

X-Ray spectral evolution of PSR~J2032+4127 during the 2017 periastron passage

Partha Sarathi Pal, P. H. Thomas Tam, Yudong Cui +3

We report X-ray data analysis results obtained from Chandra, XMM-Newton, NuSTAR and Swift observations of PSR J2032+4127 taken before, during, and after the periastron on 2017 Nove…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 42 cited

Search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1196

We present the results of targeted searches for gravitational-wave transients associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo,…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 126 cited

Shock acceleration efficiency in radio relics

A. Botteon, G. Brunetti, D. Ryu +1

Radio relics in galaxy clusters are giant diffuse synchrotron sources powered in cluster outskirts by merger shocks. Although the relic-shock connection has been consolidated in re…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 36 cited

Turbulence Dynamo in Galaxy Clusters

Soonyoung Roh, Dongsu Ryu, Hyesung Kang +2

The existence of microgauss magnetic fields in galaxy clusters have been established through observations of synchrotron radiation and Faraday rotation. They are conjectured to be…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 37 cited

A Diffusive Shock Acceleration Model for Protons in Weak Quasi-parallel Intracluster Shocks

Dongsu Ryu, Hyesung Kang, Ji-Hoon Ha

Low sonic Mach number shocks form in the intracluster medium (ICM) during the formation of the large-scale structure of the universe. Nonthermal cosmic-ray (CR) protons are expecte…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 9 cited

Search for Ultra-High-Energy Neutrinos with the Telescope Array Surface Detector

R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe, T. Abu-Zayyad +133

We present an upper limit on the flux of ultra-high-energy down-going neutrinos for $E > 10^{18}\ \mbox{eV}$ derived with the nine years of data collected by the Telescope Array su…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 9 cited

Search for point sources of ultra-high energy photons with the Telescope Array surface detector

Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe +135

The surface detector (SD) of the Telescope Array (TA) experiment allows one to indirectly detect photons with energies of order eV and higher and to separate photons from…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 149 cited

All-sky search for continuous gravitational waves from isolated neutron stars using Advanced LIGO O2 data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1130

We present results of an all-sky search for continuous gravitational waves (CWs), which can be produced by fast-spinning neutron stars with an asymmetry around their rotation axis,…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 56 cited

Search for transient gravitational wave signals associated with magnetar bursts during Advanced LIGO's second observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1129

We present the results of a search for short and intermediate-duration gravitational-wave signals from four magnetar bursts in Advanced LIGO's second observing run. We find no evid…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 113 cited

Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in 2015-2017 LIGO Data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1149

We present a search for gravitational waves from 221 pulsars with rotation frequencies Hz. We use advanced LIGO data from its first and second observing runs spanning…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 117 cited

Optical spectroscopy and demographics of redback millisecond pulsar binaries

Jay Strader, Samuel J. Swihart, Laura Chomiuk +12

We present the first optical spectroscopy of five confirmed (or strong candidate) redback millisecond pulsar binaries, obtaining complete radial velocity curves for each companion…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 25 cited

Face changing companion of the redback millisecond pulsar PSR J1048+2339

Yee Xuan Yap, K. L. Li, A. K. H. Kong +3

We present optical observations of the redback millisecond pulsar PSR J1048+2339, which is a 4.66 ms radio pulsar in a compact binary with an orbital period of six hours. We obtain…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 19 cited

Filaments of Galaxies as a Clue to the Origin of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays

Jihyun Kim, Dongsu Ryu, Hyesung Kang +2

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are known to come from outside of our Galaxy, but their origin still remains unknown. The Telescope Array (TA) experiment recently identified…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 56 cited

Electron Preacceleration in Weak Quasi-perpendicular Shocks in High-beta Intracluster Medium

Hyesung Kang, Dongsu Ryu, Ji-Hoon Ha

Giant radio relics in the outskirts of galaxy clusters are known to be lit up by the relativistic electrons produced via diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) in shocks with low sonic…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 113 cited

Low-Latency Gravitational Wave Alerts for Multi-Messenger Astronomy During the Second Advanced LIGO and Virgo Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1135

Advanced LIGO's second observing run (O2), conducted from November 30, 2016 to August 25, 2017, combined with Advanced Virgo's first observations in August 2017 witnessed the birth…