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astro-ph.HE2019★ 18 cited

Simultaneous observations of the blazar PKS2155-304 from Ultra-Violet to TeV energies

H. E. S. S., Fermi, NuSTAR collaborations

The results of the first ever contemporaneous multi-wavelength observation campaign on the BL Lac object PKS2155-304 involving Swift, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. are reported. T…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 25 cited

H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT observations of PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 during its 2014 and 2017 periastron passages

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, R. Adam +222

PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 is a gamma-ray binary system consisting of a pulsar in an eccentric orbit around a bright Oe stellar-type companion star that features a dense circumstellar di…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 5 cited

An Artificial Intelligence based approach for constraining the redshift of blazars using --ray observation

K K Singh, V K Dhar, P J Meintjes

In this paper, we discuss an artificial intelligence based approach to constrain the redshift of blazars using combined --ray observations from the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Teles…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 274 cited

A very-high-energy component deep in the Gamma-ray Burst afterglow

H. Abdalla R. Adam F. Aharonian F. Ait Benkhali E. O. Anguener M. Arakawa, C. Arcaro, C. Armand +219

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are brief flashes of gamma rays, considered to be the most energetic explosive phenomena in the Universe. The emission from GRBs comprises a short (typicall…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 28 cited

H.E.S.S. detection of very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the quasar PKS 0736+017

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +225

Flat-spectrum radio-quasars (FSRQs) are rarely detected at very-high-energies (VHE; E>100 GeV) due to their low-frequency-peaked SEDs. At present, only 6 FSRQs are known to emit VH…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 27 cited

Overview of non-transient gamma-ray binaries and prospects for the Cherenkov Telescope Array

M. Chernyakova, D. Malyshev, A. Paizis +20

We simulate the spectral behaviour of the non-transient gamma-ray binaries using archival observations as a reference. With this we test the CTA capability to measure the sources'…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 15 cited

Long term multi-wavelength view of the blazar 1ES 1218+304

K. K. Singh, B. Bisschoff, B. van Soelen +3

In this work, we present a multi-wavelength study of the blazar 1ES 1218+304 using near simultaneous observations over 10 years during the period September 1, 2008 to August 31, 20…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 3 cited

Results from the long-term Fermi-LAT observations of the white dwarf binary pulsar AR Scorpii

Q. Kaplan, P. J. Meintjes, K. K. Singh +3

The discovery of the white dwarf binary system AR Scorpii (AR Sco) with its fascinating non-thermal dominated multi-frequency emission has sparked renewed interest in potential hig…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 1 cited

Supersoft X-ray emission from a white dwarf binary not powered by nuclear fusion

Thomas J. Maccarone, Thomas J. Nelson, Peter J. Brown +17

Supersoft X-ray sources are stellar objects which emit X-rays with temperatures of about 1 million Kelvin and luminosities well in excess of what can be produced by stellar coronae…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 47 cited

Constraints on the emission region of 3C 279 during strong flares in 2014 and 2015 through VHE gamma-ray observations with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, R. Adam +224

The flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 279 is known to exhibit pronounced variability in the high-energy (MeVGeV) -ray band, which is continuously monitored with Fer…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 14 cited

Extremely High energy peaked BL Lac nature of the TeV blazar Mrk 501

K K Singh, P J Meintjes, F A Ramamonjisoa +1

Extremely High energy peaked BL Lac (EHBL) objects are a special class of blazars with peculiar observational properties at X-ray and --ray energies. The observations of these s…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 11 cited

Optical polarization properties of February 2010 outburst of the blazar Mrk 421

K K Singh, P J Meintjes, B van Soelen +2

In this paper, we explore the behavior of optical polarization during the multi-wavelength outburst of the blazar Mrk 421 detected in February 2010. We use optical polarization mea…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 33 cited

H.E.S.S. and Suzaku observations of the Vela X pulsar wind nebula

H. E. S. S. Collaboration

Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) represent the most prominent population of Galactic very-high-energy gamma-ray sources and are thought to be an efficient source of leptonic cosmic rays.…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 16 cited

Upper Limits on Very-High-Energy Gamma-ray Emission from Core-Collapse Supernovae Observed with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +225

Young core-collapse supernovae with dense-wind progenitors may be able to accelerate cosmic-ray hadrons beyond the knee of the cosmic-ray spectrum, and this may result in measurabl…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 8 cited

H.E.S.S. observations of the flaring gravitationally lensed galaxy PKS 1830-211

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +224

PKS 1830-211 is a known macrolensed quasar located at a redshift of z=2.5. Its high-energy gamma-ray emission has been detected with the Fermi-LAT instrument and evidence for lensi…

astro-ph.GA2019★ 7 cited

Using synchrotron emission modelling of relativistic hydrodynamic jet simulations to study the FR I/FR II dichotomy of Active Galactic nuclei radio jets

Izak P. van der Westhuizen, Brian van Soelen, Petrus J. Meintjes +1

In this paper three dimensional relativistic hydrodynamic simulations of AGN jets are presented to investigate the FR I/FR II dichotomy. Three simulations are presented which illus…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 38 cited

Prolonged sub-luminous state of the new transitional pulsar candidate CXOU J110926.4-650224

Francesco Coti Zelati, Alessandro Papitto, Domitilla de Martino +12

We report on a multi-wavelength study of the unclassified X-ray source CXOU J110926.4-650224 (J1109). We identified the optical counterpart as a blue star with a magnitude of $\sim…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 17 cited

The orbital parameters of the gamma-ray binary LMC P3

B. van Soelen, N. Komin, A. Kniazev +1

LMC P3 is the most luminous gamma-ray binary discovered to date and the first detected outside of the Galaxy, with an orbital period of 10.301 d. We report on optical spectroscopic…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 4 cited

VHE Gamma-ray Observation of Crab Nebula with HAGAR Telescope Array

B. B. Singh, R. J. Britto, V. R. Chitnis +13

HAGAR is a system of seven Non-imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes located at Hanle in the Ladakh region of the Indian Himalayas at an altitude of 4270 meters {\it amsl}. Sinc…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 66 cited

The 2014 TeV Gamma-ray Flare of Mrk 501 Seen with H.E.S.S.: Temporal and Spectral Constraints on Lorentz Invariance Violation

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +232

The blazar Mrk 501 (z=0.034) was observed at very-high-energy (VHE, ~GeV) gamma-ray wavelengths during a bright flare on the night of 2014 June 23-24 (MJD 56832) with…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 33 cited

Full orbital solution for the binary system in the northern Galactic disc microlensing event Gaia16aye

Łukasz Wyrzykowski, P. Mróz, K. A. Rybicki +182

Gaia16aye was a binary microlensing event discovered in the direction towards the northern Galactic disc and was one of the first microlensing events detected and alerted to by the…