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most citedObservation of a new particle in the search for the Standard Model Higgs boson with the ATLAS detector at the LHC

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astro-ph.HE2018★ 56 cited

Accretion geometry of the black-hole binary Cygnus X-1 from X-ray polarimetry

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

Black-hole binary (BHB) systems comprise a stellar-mass black hole and a closely orbiting companion star. Matter is transferred from the companion to the black hole, forming an acc…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 55 cited

Comparing treatments of weak reactions with nuclei in simulations of core-collapse supernovae

Hiroki Nagakura, Shun Furusawa, Hajime Togashi +3

We perform an extensive study of the influence of nuclear weak interactions on core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), paying particular attention to consistency between nuclear abundanc…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 21 cited

Detection of a gamma-ray flare from the high-redshift blazar DA 193

Vaidehi S. Paliya, M. Ajello, R. Ojha +10

High-redshift () blazars are the most powerful members of the blazar family. Yet, only a handful of them have both X-ray and -ray detection, thereby making it difficult to…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 41 cited

The Evolution towards Electron-capture Supernovae: the Flame Propagation and the Pre-bounce Electron-neutrino Radiation

K. Takahashi, K. Sumiyoshi, S. Yamada +2

A critical mass ONe core with a high ignition density is considered to end in gravitational collapse leading to neutron star formation. Being distinct from a Fe core collapse, the…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 15 cited

PoGO+ polarimetric constraint on the synchrotron jet emission of Cygnus X-1

Maxime Chauvin, Hans-Gustav Florén, Miranda Jackson +8

We report a polarimetric constraint on the hard X-ray synchrotron jet emission from the Cygnus X-1 black-hole binary system. The observational data were obtained using the PoGO+ ha…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 13 cited

On the importance of progenitor asymmetry to shock revival in core-collapse supernovae

Hiroki Nagakura, Kazuya Takahashi, Yu Yamamoto

The progenitor stars of core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe) are asymmetrically fluctuating due to turbulent convections in the late stages of their lives. The progenitor asymmetry at…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 53 cited

Testing a reported correlation between arrival directions of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays and a flux pattern from nearby starburst galaxies using Telescope Array data

Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe +138

The Pierre Auger Collaboration (Auger) recently reported a correlation between the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energies above 39 EeV and the flux pattern of 23 nearby st…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 41 cited

On the Neutrino Distributions in Phase Space for the Rotating Core-collapse Supernova Simulated with a Boltzmann-neutrino-radiation-hydrodynamics Code

Akira Harada, Hiroki Nagakura, Wakana Iwakami +5

With the Boltzmann-radiation-hydrodynamics code, which we have developed to solve numerically the Boltzmann equations for neutrino transfer, the Newtonian hydrodynamics equations,…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 39 cited

Detection of polarized gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula with Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +191

We present the results from the Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector (SGD) observation of the Crab nebula. The main part of SGD is a Compton camera, which in addition to being a spectrom…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 20 cited

Effects of rotation and magnetic field on the revival of a stalled shock in supernova explosions

Kotaro Fujisawa, Hirotada Okawa, Yu Yamamoto +1

We investigate axisymmetric steady solutions of (magneto)hydrodynamics equations that describe approximately accretion flows through a standing shock wave and discuss the effects o…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 59 cited

Mass composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays with the Telescope Array Surface Detector Data

Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe +139

The results on ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECR) mass composition obtained with the Telescope Array surface detector are presented. The analysis employs the boosted decision tr…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 1 cited

Possible GeV counterpart at the ground level associated with Fermi LAT gamma-ray bursts

C. R. A. Augusto, C. E. Navia, M. N. de Oliveira +3

From June 2014 to February 2017, the Fermi LAT detected 46 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with photon energies above 20 MeV, and the trigger coordinates of seven of them were within the F…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 19 cited

Search for GeV Gamma-ray Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Events by CALET

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

We present results on searches for gamma-ray counterparts of the LIGO/Virgo gravitational-wave events using CALorimetric Electron Telescope ({\sl CALET}) observations. The main ins…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 6 cited

Determining the stiffness of the equation of state using low T/W dynamical instabilities in differentially rotating stars

Motoyuki Saijo

We investigate the nature of low T/W dynamical instabilities in various ranges of the stiffness of the equation of state in differentially rotating stars. Here T is the rotational…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 179 cited

Extended Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Spectrum from 11 GeV to 4.8 TeV with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

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

Extended results on the cosmic-ray electron + positron spectrum from 11 GeV to 4.8 TeV are presented based on observations with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) on the I…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 12 cited

Influence of Earth-Directed Coronal Mass Ejections on the Sun's Shadow Observed by the Tibet-III Air Shower Array

M. Amenomori, X. J. Bi, D. Chen +78

We examine the possible influence of Earth-directed coronal mass ejections (ECMEs) on the Sun's shadow in the 3~TeV cosmic-ray intensity observed by the Tibet-III air shower (AS) a…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 32 cited

The origins of the gamma-ray flux variations of NGC 1275 based on 8 years of Fermi-LAT observations

K. Tanada, J. Kataoka, M. Arimoto +4

We present an analysis of 8 years of Fermi-LAT ( > 0.1 GeV) gamma-ray data obtained for the radio galaxy NGC 1275. The gamma-ray flux from NGC 1275 is highly variable on short (~ d…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 69 cited

Study of muons from ultra-high energy cosmic ray air showers measured with the Telescope Array experiment

Telescope Array Collaboration, R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe +138

One of the uncertainties in interpretation of ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) data comes from the hadronic interaction models used for air shower Monte Carlo (MC) simulations.…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 123 cited

The Cosmic-Ray Energy Spectrum between 2 PeV and 2 EeV Observed with the TALE detector in monocular mode

R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe, T. Abu-Zayyad +137

We report on a measurement of the cosmic ray energy spectrum by the Telescope Array Low-Energy Extension (TALE) air fluorescence detector. The TALE air fluorescence detector is als…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 51 cited

Comprehensive study of ejecta-companion interaction for core-collapse supernovae in massive binaries

Ryosuke Hirai, Philipp Podsiadlowski, Shoichi Yamada

We carry out a comprehensive study of supernova ejecta-companion interaction in massive binary systems. We aim to physically understand the kinematics of the interaction and predic…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 18 cited

The PoGO+ view on Crab off-pulse hard X-ray polarisation

M. Chauvin, H. -G. Florén, M. Friis +11

The linear polarisation fraction and angle of the hard X-ray emission from the Crab provide unique insight into high energy radiation mechanisms, complementing the usual imaging, t…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 57 cited

X-ray and Gamma-ray Observations of the Fermi Bubbles and NPS/Loop I Structures

Jun Kataoka, Yoshiaki Sofue, Yoshiyuki Inoue +3

The Fermi bubbles were possibly created by large injections of energy into the Galactic Center (GC), either by an active galactic nucleus (AGN) or by nuclear starburst more than ~1…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 32 cited

Evidence of Intermediate-Scale Energy Spectrum Anisotropy of Cosmic Rays E10 eV with the Telescope Array Surface Detector

R. U. Abbasi, M. Abe, T. Abu-Zayyad +136

An intermediate-scale energy spectrum anisotropy has been found in the arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays of energies above eV in the northern hemisphe…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 16 cited

Hitomi X-ray Observation of the Pulsar Wind Nebula G21.50.9

Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +194

We present results from the Hitomi X-ray observation of a young composite-type supernova remnant (SNR) G21.50.9, whose emission is dominated by the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) cont…