output
19932026
most citedGW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral

9.8k citations

Showing 2014 · astro-ph.HEShow all

13 papers · 2 filters

astro-ph.HE2014★ 61 cited

Large scale distribution of ultra high energy cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory with zenith angles up to 80

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

We present the results of an analysis of the large angular scale distribution of the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energy above 4 EeV detected at the Pierre Auger Observat…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 210 cited

Searches for Anisotropies in the Arrival Directions of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays Detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory

Pierre Auger Collaboration

We analyze the distribution of arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays recorded at the Pierre Auger Observatory in 10 years of operation. The data set, about three time…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 41 cited

Search for gamma-rays from the unusually bright GRB 130427A with the HAWC Gamma-ray Observatory

The HAWC collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +90

The first limits on the prompt emission from the long gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A in the energy band are reported. GRB 130427A was the most powerful b…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 17 cited

Search for patterns by combining cosmic-ray energy and arrival directions at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Energy-dependent patterns in the arrival directions of cosmic rays are searched for using data of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We investigate local regions around the highest-ener…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 309 cited

Depth of Maximum of Air-Shower Profiles at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Composition Implications

Pierre Auger Collaboration

Using the data taken at the Pierre Auger Observatory between December 2004 and December 2012, we have examined the implications of the distributions of depths of atmospheric shower…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 390 cited

Depth of Maximum of Air-Shower Profiles at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Measurements at Energies above 10^17.8 eV

Pierre Auger Collaboration

We report a study of the distributions of the depth of maximum, Xmax, of extensive air-shower profiles with energies above 10^17.8 eV as observed with the fluorescence telescopes o…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 259 cited

Muons in air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Mean number in highly inclined events

Pierre Auger Collaboration

We present the first hybrid measurement of the average muon number in air showers at ultra-high energies, initiated by cosmic rays with zenith angles between and $80^\ci…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 46 cited

Milagro Limits and HAWC Sensitivity for the Rate-Density of Evaporating Primordial Black Holes

A. A. Abdo, A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro +118

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are gravitationally collapsed objects that may have been created by density fluctuations in the early universe and could have arbitrarily small masses…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 198 cited

The Green Bank Northern Celestial Cap Pulsar Survey - I: Survey Description, Data Analysis, and Initial Results

K. Stovall, R. S. Lynch, S. M. Ransom +29

We describe an ongoing search for pulsars and dispersed pulses of radio emission, such as those from rotating radio transients (RRATs) and fast radio bursts (FRBs), at 350 MHz usin…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 23 cited

A Targeted Search for Point Sources of EeV Neutrons

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +482

A flux of neutrons from an astrophysical source in the Galaxy can be detected in the Pierre Auger Observatory as an excess of cosmic-ray air showers arriving from the direction of…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 37 cited

A search for point sources of EeV photons

Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +483

Measurements of air showers made using the hybrid technique developed with the fluorescence and surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory allow a sensitive search for point…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 53 cited

The Sensitivity of HAWC to High-Mass Dark Matter Annihilations

A. U. Abeysekara, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +101

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) observatory is a wide field-of-view detector sensitive to gamma rays of 100 GeV to a few hundred TeV. Located in central Mexico at 19 degre…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 132 cited

Probing the radio emission from air showers with polarization measurements

Pierre Auger Collaboration

The emission of radio waves from air showers has been attributed to the so-called geomagnetic emission process. At frequencies around 50 MHz this process leads to coherent radiatio…