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astro-ph.HE2022★ 1 cited

Morphology of Shocked Lateral Outflows in Colliding Hydrodynamic Flows

R. N. Markwick, A. Frank, J. Carroll-Nellenback +6

Supersonic interacting flows occurring in phenomena such as protostellar jets give rise to strong shocks, and have been demonstrated in several laboratory experiments. To study suc…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 1 cited

Magnetar spin-down glitch clearing the way for FRB-like bursts and a pulsed radio episode

G. Younes, M. G. Baring, A. K. Harding +16

Magnetars are a special subset of the isolated neutron star family, with X-ray and radio emission mainly powered by the decay of their immense magnetic fields. Many attributes of m…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 9 cited

Revisiting GeV-scale annihilating dark matter with the AMS-02 positron fraction

Iason Krommydas, Ilias Cholis

Antimatter cosmic-rays are used to probe new phenomena in physics, including dark matter annihilation. We use the cosmic-ray positron fraction spectrum by the Alpha Magnetic Spectr…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 12 cited

High-Energy Photon Opacity in the Twisted Magnetospheres of Magnetars

Kun Hu, Matthew G. Baring, Alice K. Harding +1

Magnetars are neutron stars characterized by strong surface magnetic fields generally exceeding the quantum critical value of 44.1 TeraGauss. High-energy photons propagating in the…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 2 cited

Possible counterpart signal of the Fermi bubbles at the cosmic-ray positrons

Ilias Cholis, Iason Krommydas

The inner galaxy has hosted cosmic-ray burst events including those responsible for the gamma-ray Fermi bubbles and the eROSITA bubbles in X-rays. In this work, we study the AMS-02…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 2 cited

Polarized Radiation Signals from Highly Magnetized Neutron Star Surfaces

Kun Hu, Matthew G. Baring, Joseph A. Barchas +1

The surfaces of neutron stars are likely sources of strongly polarized soft X rays due to the presence of strong magnetic fields. Scattering transport in the surface layers is crit…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 22 cited

Gamma-ray emission from the Sagittarius Dwarf Spheroidal galaxy due to millisecond pulsars

Roland M. Crocker, Oscar Macias, Dougal Mackey +13

The Fermi Bubbles are giant, gamma-ray emitting lobes emanating from the nucleus of the Milky Way discovered in ~1-100 GeV data collected by the Large Area Telescope on board the F…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 12 cited

Intensity and Polarization Characteristics of Extended Neutron Star Surface Regions

Kun Hu, Matthew G. Baring, Joseph A. Barchas +1

The surfaces of neutron stars are sources of strongly polarized soft X rays due to the presence of strong magnetic fields. Radiative transfer mediated by electron scattering and fr…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 28 cited

Pulse Peak Migration during the Outburst Decay of the Magnetar SGR 1830-0645: Crustal Motion and Magnetospheric Untwisting

G. Younes, S. K. Lander, M. G. Baring +12

Magnetars, isolated neutron stars with magnetic field strengths typically ~G, exhibit distinctive months-long outburst epochs during which strong evolution of soft…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 8 cited

X-ray burst and persistent emission properties of the magnetar SGR 1830-0645 in outburst

G. Younes, C. -P. Hu, K. Bansal +18

We report on NICER X-ray monitoring of the magnetar SGR 1830-0645 covering 223 days following its October 2020 outburst, as well as Chandra and radio observations. We present the m…