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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

14.2k citations

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astro-ph.HE2015★ 143 cited

Multiwavelength Study of Quiescent States of Mrk 421 with Unprecedented Hard X-Ray Coverage Provided by NuSTAR in 2013

M. Baloković, D. Paneque, G. Madejski +305

We present coordinated multiwavelength observations of the bright, nearby BL Lac object Mrk 421 taken in 2013 January-March, involving GASP-WEBT, Swift, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, V…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 266 cited

The 1st Fermi Lat Supernova Remnant Catalog

Fabio Acero, Markus Ackermann, Marco Ajello +156

To uniformly determine the properties of supernova remnants (SNRs) at high energies, we have developed the first systematic survey at energies from 1 to 100 GeV using data from the…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 405 cited

Fermi-LAT Observations of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission Toward the Galactic Center

LAT Collaboration

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided the most detailed view to date of the emission towards the Galactic centre (GC) in high-energy gamma-rays. This paper describes th…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 268 cited

Multiwavelength Evidence for Quasi-periodic Modulation in the Gamma-ray Blazar PG 1553+113

The Fermi LAT collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +139

We report for the first time a gamma-ray and multi-wavelength nearly-periodic oscillation in an active galactic nucleus. Using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) we have discover…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 143 cited

Teraelectronvolt pulsed emission from the Crab pulsar detected by MAGIC

MAGIC Collaboration, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +139

Aims: To investigate the extension of the very-high-energy spectral tail of the Crab pulsar at energies above 400 GeV. Methods: We analyzed 320 hours of good quality data of…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 77 cited

Search for extended gamma-ray emission from the Virgo galaxy cluster with Fermi-LAT

M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert +118

Galaxy clusters are one of the prime sites to search for dark matter (DM) annihilation signals. Depending on the substructure of the DM halo of a galaxy cluster and the cross secti…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 71 cited

First NuSTAR Observations of Mrk 501 within a Radio to TeV Multi-Instrument Campaign

A. Furniss, K. Noda, S. Boggs +273

We report on simultaneous broadband observations of the TeV-emitting blazar Markarian 501 between 1 April and 10 August 2013, including the first detailed characterization of the s…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 45 cited

The WEBT campaign on the BL Lac object PG 1553+113 in 2013. An analysis of the enigmatic synchrotron emission

C. M. Raiteri, A. Stamerra, M. Villata +2

A multifrequency campaign on the BL Lac object PG 1553+113 was organized by the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) in 2013 April-August, involving 19 optical, two near-IR, and thr…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 89 cited

Deep view of the Large Magellanic Cloud with 6 years of Fermi-LAT observations

LAT Collaboration

The nearby Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) provides a rare opportunity of a spatially resolved view of an external star-forming galaxy in gamma-rays. The LMC was detected at 0.1-100Ge…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 32 cited

Very-high-energy γ-ray observations of novae and dwarf novae with the MAGIC telescopes

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +148

Context. In the last five years the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) instrument detected GeV γ-ray emission from five novae. The GeV emission can be interpreted in terms of an inve…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 306 cited

2FHL: The Second Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources

LAT Collaboration

We present a catalog of sources detected above 50 GeV by the {\it Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) in 80 months of data. The newly delivered Pass 8 event-level analysis allows the…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 27 cited

PSR J1906+0722: An Elusive Gamma-ray Pulsar

C. J. Clark, H. J. Pletsch, J. Wu +117

We report the discovery of PSR J1906+0722, a gamma-ray pulsar detected as part of a blind survey of unidentified Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) sources being carried out on the v…

astro-ph.HE2015

Gamma-ray and neutrino diffuse emissions of the Galaxy above the TeV

Daniele Gaggero, Dario Grasso, Antonio Marinelli +2

As recently shown, Fermi-LAT measurements of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Galaxy favor the presence of a smooth softening in the primary cosmic-ray spectrum with increas…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 118 cited

Search for gamma-ray emission from the Coma Cluster with six years of Fermi-LAT data

LAT Collaboration, Y. Rephaeli

We present results from γ-ray observations of the Coma cluster incorporating 6 years of Fermi-LAT data and the newly released {\emph{Pass 8}} event-level analysis. Our analysis of…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 33 cited

Search for Early Gamma-ray Production in Supernovae Located in a Dense Circumstellar Medium with the Fermi LAT

M. Ackermann, I. Arcavi, L. Baldini +108

Supernovae (SNe) exploding in a dense circumstellar medium (CSM) are hypothesized to accelerate cosmic rays in collisionless shocks and emit GeV gamma rays and TeV neutrinos on a t…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 313 cited

Updated Search for Spectral Lines from Galactic Dark Matter Interactions with Pass 8 Data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope

LAT Collaboration

Dark matter in the Milky Way may annihilate directly into gamma rays, producing a monoenergetic spectral line. Therefore, detecting such a signature would be strong evidence for da…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 6 cited

Diffuse Synchrotron Emission from Galactic Cosmic Ray Electrons

Giuseppe Di Bernardo, Dario Grasso, Carmelo Evoli +1

Synchrotron diffuse radiation (SDR) emission is one of the major Galactic components, in the 100 MHz up to 100 GHz frequency range. Its spectrum and sky map provide valuable measur…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 57 cited

Secondary antiprotons as a Galactic Dark Matter probe

Carmelo Evoli, Daniele Gaggero, Dario Grasso

We present a novel determination of the astrophysical uncertainties associated to the secondary antiproton flux originating from cosmic-ray spallation on the interstellar gas. We s…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 174 cited

The gamma-ray and neutrino sky: A consistent picture of Fermi-LAT, Milagro, and IceCube results

Daniele Gaggero, Dario Grasso, Antonio Marinelli +2

We compute the gamma-ray and neutrino diffuse emission of the Galaxy on the basis of a recently proposed phenomenological model characterized by radially dependent cosmic-ray (CR)…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 1.1k cited

Searching for Dark Matter Annihilation from Milky Way Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies with Six Years of Fermi-LAT Data

LAT Collaboration

The dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) of the Milky Way are some of the most dark matter (DM) dominated objects known. We report on gamma-ray observations of Milky Way dSp…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 198 cited

Search for Gamma-Ray Emission from DES Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy Candidates with Fermi-LAT Data

LAT Collaboration, The DES Collaboration, A. Drlica-Wagner +123

Due to their proximity, high dark-matter content, and apparent absence of non-thermal processes, Milky Way dwarf spheroidal satellite galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for the…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 129 cited

The 2009 multiwavelength campaign on Mrk 421: Variability and correlation studies

MAGIC Collaboration, J. Aleksić, S. Ansoldi +270

We performed a 4.5-month multi-instrument campaign (from radio to VHE gamma rays) on Mrk421 between January 2009 and June 2009, which included VLBA, F-GAMMA, GASP-WEBT, Swift, RXTE…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 13 cited

MAGIC observations of MWC 656, the only known Be/BH system

J. Aleksić, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +149

Context: MWC 656 has recently been established as the first observationally detected high-mass X-ray binary system containing a Be star and a black hole (BH). The system has been a…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 512 cited

The Third Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, W. Atwood +139

The third catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi-LAT (3LAC) is presented. It is based on the third Fermi-LAT catalog (3FGL) of sources detected between 100…