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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★ 7 cited

Systematic Analysis of the Effects of Mode Conversion on Thermal Radiation from Neutron Stars

Akihiro Yatabe, Shoichi Yamada

In this paper, we systematically calculate the polarization in soft X-rays emitted from magnetized neutron stars, which are expected to be observed by the next-generation X-ray sat…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 5 cited

Detection of the thermal component in GRB 160107A

Yuta Kawakubo, Takanori Sakamoto, Satoshi Nakahira +14

We present the detection of a blackbody component in GRB 160107A emission by using the combined spectral data of the CALET Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (CGBM) and the MAXI Gas Slit Came…

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★ 152 cited

Energy Spectrum of Cosmic-ray Electron and Positron from 10 GeV to 3 TeV Observed with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +88

First results of a cosmic-ray electron + positron spectrum, from 10 GeV to 3 TeV, is presented based upon observations with the CALET instrument on the ISS starting in October, 201…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 1 cited

An Interpretation of the Cosmic Ray Spectrum from 10 GeV to 3 TeV Measured by CALET on the ISS

S. Bhattacharyya, H. Motz, Y. Asaoka +1

A combined interpretation of the CALET spectrum up to 3 TeV and the AMS-02 positron spectrum up to 500 GeV was performed and the results are discussed. To parametri…

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★ 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★ 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★ 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★ 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★ 29 cited

Heavy Nuclei as Thermal Insulation for Proto-Neutron Stars

Ken'ichiro Nakazato, Hideyuki Suzuki, Hajime Togashi

A proto-neutron star (PNS) is a newly formed compact object in a core collapse supernova. In this Letter, the neutrino emission from the cooling process of a PNS is investigated us…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 1 cited

Validation of Radiative Transfer Computation with Monte Carlo Method for Ultra-Relativistic Background Flow

Ayako Ishii, Naofumi Ohnishi, Hiroki Nagakura +2

We developed a three-dimensional radiative transfer code for an ultra-relativistic background flow-field by using the Monte Carlo (MC) method in the context of gamma-ray burst (GRB…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 18 cited

Hitomi X-ray studies of Giant Radio Pulses from the Crab pulsar

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +201

To search for giant X-ray pulses correlated with the giant radio pulses (GRPs) from the Crab pulsar, we performed a simultaneous observation of the Crab pulsar with the X-ray satel…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 71 cited

A new equation of state for core-collapse supernovae based on realistic nuclear forces and including a full nuclear ensemble

S. Furusawa, H. Togashi, H. Nagakura +4

We have constructed a nuclear equation of state (EOS) that includes a full nuclear ensemble for use in core-collapse supernova simulations. It is based on the EOS for uniform nucle…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 19 cited

Search for Thermal X-ray Features from the Crab nebula with Hitomi Soft X-ray Spectrometer

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +192

The Crab nebula originated from a core-collapse supernova (SN) explosion observed in 1054 A.D. When viewed as a supernova remnant (SNR), it has an anomalously low observed ejecta m…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 2 cited

Shedding new light on the Crab with polarized X-rays

M. Chauvin, H. -G. Florén, M. Friis +13

Strong magnetic fields, synchrotron emission, and Compton scattering are omnipresent in compact celestial X-ray sources. Emissions in the X-ray energy band are consequently expecte…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 70 cited

A Detailed Comparison of Multi-Dimensional Boltzmann Neutrino Transport Methods in Core-Collapse Supernovae

Sherwood Richers, Hiroki Nagakura, Christian D. Ott +3

The mechanism driving core-collapse supernovae is sensitive to the interplay between matter and neutrino radiation. However, neutrino radiation transport is very difficult to simul…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 8 cited

The Origin of the Possible Massive Black Hole in the Progenitor System of iPTF13bvn

Ryosuke Hirai

This letter complements a formation scenario of the progenitor of the supernova iPTF13bvn proposed in Hirai (2017). Although the scenario was successful in reproducing various obse…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 3 cited

A Parametric Study of the Acoustic Mechanism for Core-Collapse Supernovae

A. Harada, H. Nagakura, W. Iwakami +1

We investigate the criterion for the acoustic mechanism to work successfully in core-collapse supernovae. The acoustic mechanism is an alternative to the neutrino-heating mechanism…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 43 cited

Neutrino emissions in all flavors up to the pre-bounce of massive stars and the possibility of their detections

Chinami Kato, Hiroki Nagakura, Shun Furusawa +5

This paper is a sequel to our previous one (Kato et al.2015), which calculated the luminosities and spectra of electron-type anti-neutrinos ('s) from the progenitors of co…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 85 cited

Northern sky Galactic Cosmic Ray anisotropy between 10-1000 TeV with the Tibet Air Shower Array

gamma Collaboration, M. Amenomori

We report the analysis of the TeV large-scale sidereal anisotropy of Galactic cosmic rays (GCRs) with the data collected by the Tibet Air Shower Array from October, 1995…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 5 cited

Decaying Fermionic Dark Matter Search with CALET

S. Bhattacharyya, H. Motz, S. Torii +1

The ISS-based CALET (CALorimetric Electron Telescope) detector can play an important role in indirect search for Dark Matter (DM), measuring the electron+positron flux in the TeV r…