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astro-ph.HE2010★ 2 cited

Perspectives on Gamma-Ray Pulsar Emission

Matthew G. Baring

Pulsars are powerful sources of radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum. This paper highlights some theoretical insights into non-thermal, magnetospheric pulsar gamma-ray rad…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 71 cited

Scientific Prospects for Hard X-ray Polarimetry

H. Krawczynski, A. Garson, Q. Guo +4

X-ray polarimetry promises to give qualitatively new information about high-energy sources. Examples of interesting source classes are binary black hole systems, rotation and accre…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 239 cited

Insights Into the High-Energy Gamma-ray Emission of Markarian 501 from Extensive Multifrequency Observations in the Fermi Era

LAT collaboration, A. A. Abdo et al., the MAGIC collaboration +6

We report on the gamma-ray activity of the blazar Mrk 501 during the first 480 days of Fermi operation. We find that the average LAT gamma-ray spectrum of Mrk 501 can be well descr…

astro-ph.HE2010

General Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic and Monte Carlo Modeling of Sagittarius A*

Guy Hilburn, Edison Liang, Siming Liu +1

We present results of models of the physical space and parameters of the accretion disk of Sagittarius A*, as well as simulations of its emergent spectrum. This begins with HARM, a…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 47 cited

Search for gamma-ray emission from magnetars with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

LAT collaboration

We report on the search for 0.1-10 GeV emission from magnetars in 17 months of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations. No significant evidence for gamma-ray emission from an…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 18 cited

A Suzaku X-Ray Study of the Particle Acceleration Processes in the Relativistic Jet of Blazar Mrk 421

Alfred B. Garson, Matthew G. Baring, Henric Krawczynski

We report on the findings of a 364 ksec observation of the BL LAC object Mrk 421 with the X-ray observatory Suzaku. The analysis in this paper uses fluxes and hardness ratios in th…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 31 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of Gamma-ray Pulsars PSR J1057-5226, J1709-4429, and J1952+3252

Fermi LAT Collaboration, A. A. Abdo

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data have confirmed the pulsed emission from all six high-confidence gamma-ray pulsars previously known from the EGRET observations. We report…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 1 cited

Lepton Acceleration in Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Matthew G. Baring

Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) act as calorimeters for the relativistic pair winds emanating from within the pulsar light cylinder. Their radiative dissipation in various wavebands is…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 30 cited

Fermi observations of high-energy gamma-ray emission from GRB 090217A

Fermi-LAT, Fermi-GBM Collaborations

The Fermi observatory is advancing our knowledge of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) through pioneering observations at high energies, covering more than 7 decades in energy with the two on…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 11 cited

Photospheric radius expansion during magnetar bursts

Anna L. Watts, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Alexander J. van der Horst +6

On August 24th 2008 the new magnetar SGR 0501+4516 (discovered by SWIFT) emitted a bright burst with a pronounced double-peak structure in hard X-rays, reminiscent of the double-pe…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 167 cited

Eight gamma-ray pulsars discovered in blind frequency searches of Fermi LAT data

P. M. Saz Parkinson, M. Dormody, M. Ziegler +34

We report the discovery of eight gamma-ray pulsars in blind frequency searches using the LAT, onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Five of the eight pulsars are young (tau_…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 384 cited

Fermi Observations of GRB 090510: A Short Hard Gamma-Ray Burst with an Additional, Hard Power-Law Component from 10 keV to GeV Energies

The Fermi LAT, GBM Collaborations

We present detailed observations of the bright short-hard gamma-ray burst GRB 090510 made with the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi o…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 68 cited

Particle Energization in 3D Magnetic Reconnection of Relativistic Pair Plasmas

Wei Liu, Hui Li, Lin Yin +3

We present large scale 3D particle-in-cell (PIC) simulations to examine particle energization in magnetic reconnection of relativistic electron-positron (pair) plasmas. The initial…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 129 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope Constraints on the Gamma-ray Opacity of the Universe

The Fermi LAT, the GBM Collaboration, : +1

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) includes photons with wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared, which are effective at attenuating gamma rays with energy above ~10 GeV dur…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 28 cited

Suzaku Observations of Luminous Quasars: Revealing the Nature of High-Energy Blazar Emission in Quiescent States

LAT Collaboration, A. A. Abdo, F. Tavecchio +5

We present the results from the Suzaku X-ray observations of five flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), namely PKS0208-512, Q0827+243, PKS1127-145, PKS1510-089 and 3C 454.3. All the…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 95 cited

Detection of the energetic pulsar PSR B1509-58 and its pulsar wind nebula in MSH 15-52 using the Fermi-Large Area Telescope

LAT Collaboration, Pulsar Timing Consortium

We report the detection of high energy gamma-ray emission from the young and energetic pulsar PSR B150958 and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN) in the composite supernova remnant SNR…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 118 cited

The Vela Pulsar: Results from the First Year of Fermi LAT Observations

A. A. Abdo

We report on analysis of timing and spectroscopy of the Vela pulsar using eleven months of observations with the Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. The in…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 10 cited

Using Gamma-Ray Burst Prompt Emission to Probe Relativistic Shock Acceleration

Matthew G. Baring

It is widely accepted that the prompt transient signal in the 10 keV - 10 GeV band from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) arises from multiple shocks internal to the ultra-relativistic expan…

astro-ph.HE2010★ 172 cited

Fermi-LAT discovery of GeV gamma-ray emission from the young supernova remnant Cassiopeia A

A. Abdo

We report on the first detection of GeV high-energy gamma-ray emission from a young supernova remnant with the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Thes…