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astro-ph.HE2013★ 293 cited

Fermi-LAT Observations of the Gamma-ray Burst GRB 130427A

LAT collaboration, GBM collaboration

The observations of the exceptionally bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A by the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provide constraints on the nature…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 74 cited

The First Pulse of the Extremely Bright GRB 130427A: A Test Lab for Synchrotron Shocks

R. Preece, J. Michael Burgess, A. von Kienlin +156

Gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A is one of the most energetic GRBs ever observed. The initial pulse up to 2.5 s is possibly the brightest well-isolated pulse observed to date. A fine…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 26 cited

MAGIC upper limits on the GRB 090102 afterglow

MAGIC Collaboration, J. Aleksić, S. Ansoldi +160

Indications of a GeV component in the emission from GRBs are known since the EGRET observations during the 1990's and they have been confirmed by the data of the Fermi satellite. T…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 54 cited

PAMELA and AMS-02 positron and electron spectra are reproduced by three-dimensional cosmic-ray modeling

Daniele Gaggero, Dario Grasso, Luca Maccione +2

The PAMELA collaboration recently released the absolute spectrum between 1 and 300 GeV in addition to the positron fraction and the spectrum previously measured in the…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 40 cited

MAGIC observations and multifrequency properties of the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar 3C 279 in 2011

J. Aleksić, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +168

We study the multifrequency emission and spectral properties of the quasar 3C 279. We observed 3C 279 in very high energy (VHE, E>100GeV) gamma rays, with the MAGIC telescopes duri…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 60 cited

Contemporaneous observations of the radio galaxy NGC 1275 from radio to very high energy gamma-rays

MAGIC Collaboration, J. Aleksić, S. Ansoldi +157

The radio galaxy NGC 1275, recently identified as a very high energy (VHE, >100 GeV) gamma-ray emitter by MAGIC, is one of the few non-blazar AGN detected in the VHE regime. In ord…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 475 cited

Dark Matter Constraints from Observations of 25 Milky Way Satellite Galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

LAT Collaboration, M. Ackermann, A. Albert +119

The dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies of the Milky Way are some of the most dark-matter-dominated objects known. Due to their proximity, high dark matter content, and lack of ast…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 121 cited

XIPE: the X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer

Paolo Soffitta, Xavier Barcons, Ronaldo Bellazzini +96

X-ray polarimetry, sometimes alone, and sometimes coupled to spectral and temporal variability measurements and to imaging, allows a wealth of physical phenomena in astrophysics to…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 79 cited

Determination of the Point-Spread Function for the Fermi Large Area Telescope from On-orbit Data and Limits on Pair Halos of Active Galactic Nuclei

LAT Collaboration

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is a pair-conversion telescope designed to detect photons with energies from 20 MeV to > 300 GeV. The pre-laun…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 104 cited

PSR J2021+4026 in the Gamma Cygni region: the first variable gamma-ray pulsar seen by the Fermi LAT

LAT collaboration

Long-term monitoring of PSR J2021+4026 in the heart of the Cygnus region with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) unveiled a sudden decrease in flux above 100 MeV over a time scal…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 34 cited

Search for long-lived gravitational-wave transients coincident with long gamma-ray bursts

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, J. Aasi +875

Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been linked to extreme core-collapse supernovae from massive stars. Gravitational waves (GW) offer a probe of the physics behind long GRBs. We inv…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 179 cited

Gravitational waves from known pulsars: results from the initial detector era

J. Aasi, J. Abadie, B. P. Abbott +892

We present the results of searches for gravitational waves from a large selection of pulsars using data from the most recent science runs (S6, VSR2 and VSR4) of the initial generat…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 65 cited

Measurement of the atmospheric energy spectrum from 100 GeV to 200 TeV with the ANTARES telescope

The ANTARES Collaboration, S. Adrián-Martínez, A. Albert +149

Atmospheric neutrinos are produced during cascades initiated by the interaction of primary cosmic rays with air nuclei. In this paper, a measurement of the atmospheric ν_μ+ \barν_μ…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 166 cited

Search for cosmic-ray induced gamma-ray emission in Galaxy Clusters

M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert +123

Current theories predict relativistic hadronic particle populations in clusters of galaxies in addition to the already observed relativistic leptons. In these scenarios hadronic in…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 34 cited

A Search for Neutrino Emission from the Fermi Bubbles with the ANTARES Telescope

ANTARES Collaboration, S. Adrián-Martínez, A. Albert +147

Analysis of the Fermi-LAT data has revealed two extended structures above and below the Galactic Centre emitting gamma rays with a hard spectrum, the so-called Fermi bubbles. Hadro…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 47 cited

Associating long-term gamma-ray variability with the superorbital period of LS I 61 303

LAT Collaboration

Gamma-ray binaries are stellar systems for which the spectral energy distribution (discounting the thermal stellar emission) peaks at high energies. Detected from radio to TeV gamm…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 69 cited

New Fermi-LAT event reconstruction reveals more high-energy gamma rays from Gamma-ray bursts

W. B. Atwood, L. Baldini, J. Bregeon +14

Based on the experience gained during the four and a half years of the mission, the Fermi -LAT collaboration has undertaken a comprehensive revision of the event-level analysis goi…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 22 cited

An active state of the BL Lac Object Markarian 421 detected by INTEGRAL in April 2013

E. Pian, M. Tuerler, M. Fiocchi +22

Multiwavelength variability of blazars offers indirect insight into their powerful engines and on the mechanisms through which energy is propagated from the centre down the jet. Th…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 77 cited

Search for muon neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts with the ANTARES neutrino telescope using 2008 to 2011 data

S. Adrián-Martínez, A. Albert, I. Al Samarai +146

A search for muon neutrinos in coincidence with gamma-ray bursts with the ANTARES neutrino detector using data from the end of 2007 to 2011 is performed. Expected neutrino fluxes a…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 1 cited

Galactic electron and positron properties from cosmic ray and radio observations

D. Grasso, G. Di Bernardo, C. Evoli +2

We perform a consistent modeling of cosmic ray electrons, positrons and of the radio emission of the Galaxy. For the time we reproduce all relevant data sets between 1 GeV and 1 Te…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 3 cited

Three dimensional modeling of CR propagation

Daniele Gaggero, Luca Maccione, Giuseppe Di Bernardo +2

We present here a major upgrade of DRAGON, a numerical package that computes the propagation of a wide set of CR species from both astrophysical and exotic origin in the Galaxy in…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 125 cited

Constraints on the Galactic Population of TEV Pulsar Wind Nebulae Using Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations

F. Acero, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +155

Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) have been established as the most populous class of TeV gamma-ray emitters. Since launch, the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT)identified five high-energy…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 247 cited

Search for Gamma-ray Spectral Lines with the Fermi Large Area Telescope and Dark Matter Implications

LAT Collaboration

Weakly Interacting Massive Particles (WIMPs) are a theoretical class of particles that are excellent dark matter candidates. WIMP annihilation or decay may produce essentially mono…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 67 cited

Rapid and multi-band variability of the TeV-bright active nucleus of the galaxy IC 310

The MAGIC Collaboration, J. Aleksić, L. A. Antonelli +161

Context. The radio galaxy IC 310 has recently been identified as a gamma-ray emitter based on observations at GeV energies with Fermi-LAT and at very high energies (VHE, E>100GeV)…