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astro-ph.HE2016★ 92 cited

Polarimetric evidence of a white dwarf pulsar in the binary system AR Scorpii

D. A. H. Buckley, P. J. Meintjes, S. B. Potter +2

The variable star AR Sco was recently discovered to pulse in brightness every 1.97 min from ultraviolet wavelengths into the radio regime. The system is composed of a cool, low-mas…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 38 cited

Gamma-ray blazar spectra with H.E.S.S. II mono analysis: the case of PKS 2155-304 and PG 1553+113

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +332

The addition of a 28 m Cherenkov telescope (CT5) to the H.E.S.S. array extended the experiment's sensitivity to lower energies. The lowest energy threshold is obtained using monosc…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 11 cited

First limits on the very-high energy gamma-ray afterglow emission of a fast radio burst: H.E.S.S. observations of FRB 150418

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +265

Aims: Following the detection of the fast radio burst FRB150418 by the SUPERB project at the Parkes radio telescope, we aim to search for very-high energy gamma-ray afterglow emiss…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 59 cited

Deeper H.E.S.S. observations of Vela Junior (RX J0852.04622): Morphology studies and resolved spectroscopy

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +260

Aims. We study gamma-ray emission from the shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) RX J0852.04622 to better characterize its spectral properties and its distribution over the SNR. Me…

math.AP2016

More generalized groundwater model with space-time Caputo Fabrizio fractional differentiation

J-D Djida, A. Atangana

We prove existence and uniqueness of the flow of water within a confined aquifer with fractional diffusion in space and fractional time derivative in the sense of Caputo-Fabrizio.…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 50 cited

Characterizing the gamma-ray long-term variability of PKS 2155-304 with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +244

Studying the temporal variability of BL Lac objects at the highest energies provides unique insights into the extreme physical processes occurring in relativistic jets and in the v…

astro-ph.SR2016★ 22 cited

Orbital and Superorbital Monitoring of the Be/X-ray binary A0538-66: constraints on the system parameters

A. F. Rajoelimanana, P. A. Charles, P. J. Meintjes +3

We combine the decade long photometry of the Be/X-ray binary system A0538-66 provided by the MACHO and OGLE IV projects with high resolution SALT spectroscopy to provide detailed c…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 57 cited

H.E.S.S. limits on line-like dark matter signatures in the 100 GeV to 2 TeV energy range close to the Galactic Centre

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +246

A search for dark matter line-like signals was performed in the vicinity of the Galactic Centre by the H.E.S.S. experiment on observational data taken in 2014. An unbinned likeliho…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 46 cited

The supernova remnant W49B as seen with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +253

The supernova remnant (SNR) W49B originated from a core-collapse supernova that occurred between one and four thousand years ago, and subsequently evolved into a mixed-morphology r…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 116 cited

H.E.S.S. observations of RX J1713.7-3946 with improved angular and spectral resolution; evidence for gamma-ray emission extending beyond the X-ray emitting shell

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +252

Supernova remnants exhibit shock fronts (shells) that can accelerate charged particles up to very high energies. In the past decade, measurements of a handful of shell-type superno…

stat.ME2016★ 66 cited

Modelling Censored Losses Using Splicing: a Global Fit Strategy With Mixed Erlang and Extreme Value Distributions

Tom Reynkens, Roel Verbelen, Jan Beirlant +1

In risk analysis, a global fit that appropriately captures the body and the tail of the distribution of losses is essential. Modelling the whole range of the losses using a standar…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 314 cited

Search for dark matter annihilations towards the inner Galactic halo from 10 years of observations with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdallah +245

The inner region of the Milky Way halo harbors a large amount of dark matter (DM). Given its proximity, it is one of the most promising targets to look for DM. We report on a searc…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 17 cited

A search for very high-energy flares from the microquasars GRS 1915+105, Circinus X-1, and V4641 Sgr using contemporaneous H.E.S.S. and RXTE observations

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +244

Microquasars are potential -ray emitters. Indications of transient episodes of -ray emission were recently reported in at least two systems: Cyg X-1 and Cyg X-3. The identifi…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 20 cited

Extended VHE gamma-ray emission towards SGR1806-20, LBV1806-20, and stellar cluster Cl*1806-20

H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +241

Using the High Energy Spectroscopic System (H.E.S.S.) telescopes we have discovered a steady and extended very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray source towards the luminous blue variable…

math.ST2016★ 1 cited

Reducing MSE in estimation of heavy tails: a Bayesian approach

Gaonyalelwe Maribe, Andréhette Verster, Jan Beirlant

Bias reduction in tail estimation has received considerable interest in extreme value analysis. Estimation methods that minimize the bias while keeping the mean squared error (MSE)…

stat.ME2016★ 19 cited

Fitting tails affected by truncation

Jan Beirlant, Isabel Fraga Alves, Tom Reynkens

In several applications, ultimately at the largest data, truncation effects can be observed when analysing tail characteristics of statistical distributions. In some cases truncati…

math.CA2016★ 1 cited

Derivative with two fractional orders: New door of investigation toward revolution in fractional calculus

Abdon Atangana

In order to describe more complex problem using the concept of fractional derivatives, we introduce in this paper the concept of fractional derivatives with orders. The new definit…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 48 cited

Long-term study of Mkn 421 with the HAGAR Array of Telescopes

Atreyee Sinha, Amit Shukla, Lab Saha +8

Context:The HAGAR Telescope Array at Hanle, Ladakh has been regularly monitoring the nearby blazar Mkn 421 for the past 7yrs. Aims: Blazars show flux variability in all timescales…

math.CO2016★ 2 cited

Large Cayley digraphs and bipartite Cayley digraphs of odd diameters

Marcel Abas, Tomas Vetrik

Let be the largest number of vertices in a Cayley digraph of degree and diameter , and let be the largest order of a bipartite Cayley digraph for given…

stat.ME2016

Some Reliability Properties of Transformed-Transformer Family of Distributions

Nil Kamal Hazra, Pradip Kundu, Asok K. Nanda

The Transformed-Transformer family of distributions are the resulting family of distributions as transformed from a random variable through another transformer random variable…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 30 cited

Detailed spectral and morphological analysis of the shell type SNR RCW 86

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +232

Aims: We aim for an understanding of the morphological and spectral properties of the supernova remnant RCW~86 and for insights into the production mechanism leading to the RCW~86…