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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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astro-ph.HE2021

A significant detection of X-ray Polarization in Sco X-1 with PolarLight and constraints on the corona geometry

Xiangyun Long, Hua Feng, Hong Li +23

We report the detection of X-ray polarization in the neutron star low mass X-ray binary Scorpius (Sco) X-1 with PolarLight. The result is energy dependent, with a non-detection in…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 53 cited

Probing the incompressibility of nuclear matter at ultra-high density through the prompt collapse of asymmetric neutron star binaries

A. Perego, D. Logoteta, D. Radice +5

Using 250 neutron star merger simulations with microphysics, we explore for the first time the role of nuclear incompressibility in the prompt collapse threshold for binaries with…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 10 cited

Multiwavelength study of the gravitationally lensed blazar QSO B0218+357 between 2016 and 2020

MAGIC Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi +208

We report multiwavelength observations of the gravitationally lensed blazar QSO B0218+357 in 2016-2020. Optical, X-ray and GeV flares were detected. The contemporaneous MAGIC obser…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 41 cited

Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift During the LIGO-Virgo Run O3b

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1632

We search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by the Fermi and Swift satellites during the second half of the third observing run of Advanced L…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 96 cited

All-sky search for gravitational wave emission from scalar boson clouds around spinning black holes in LIGO O3 data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1669

This paper describes the first all-sky search for long-duration, quasi-monochromatic gravitational-wave signals emitted by ultralight scalar boson clouds around spinning black hole…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 74 cited

Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1694

We present a targeted search for continuous gravitational waves (GWs) from 236 pulsars using data from the third observing run of LIGO and Virgo (O3) combined with data from the se…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 50 cited

Neutrino emission from binary neutron star mergers: characterizing light curves and mean energies

Marco Cusinato, Federico Maria Guercilena, Albino Perego +4

Neutrinos are copiously emitted by neutron star mergers, due to the high temperatures reached by dense matter during the merger and its aftermath. Neutrinos influence the merger dy…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 63 cited

Numerical relativity simulations of prompt collapse mergers: threshold mass and phenomenological constraints on neutron star properties after GW170817

Rahul Kashyap, Abhishek Das, David Radice +10

We determine the threshold mass for prompt (no bounce) black hole formation in equal-mass neutron star (NS) mergers using a new set of 227 numerical relativity simulations. We cons…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 24 cited

Observation of the gamma-ray binary HESS J0632+057 with the H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS telescopes

C. B. Adams, W. Benbow, A. Brill +409

The results of gamma-ray observations of the binary system HESS J0632+057 collected during 450 hours over 15 years, between 2004 and 2019, are presented. Data taken with the atmosp…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 61 cited

Search for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars in O3 LIGO data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1634

Results are presented of searches for continuous gravitational waves from 20 accreting millisecond X-ray pulsars with accurately measured spin frequencies and orbital parameters, u…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 1 cited

Exploring the accretion-ejection geometry of GRS 1915+105 in the obscured state with future X-ray spectro-polarimetry

Ajay Ratheesh, Giorgio Matt, Francesco Tombesi +3

GRS 1915+105 has been in a bright flux state for more than 2 decades, but in 2018 a significant drop in flux was observed, partly due to changes in the central engine along with in…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 5 cited

Search for Very High-Energy Emission from the millisecond pulsar PSR J0218+4232

V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +198

PSR J0218+4232 is one of the most energetic millisecond pulsars known and has long been considered as one of the best candidates for very high-energy (VHE; >100 GeV) gamma-ray emis…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 5 cited

Searching for very-high-energy electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational-wave events with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

Barbara Patricelli, Alessandro Carosi, Lara Nava +27

The detection of electromagnetic (EM) emission following the gravitational wave (GW) event GW170817 opened the era of multi-messenger astronomy with GWs and provided the first dire…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 8 cited

First detection of VHE gamma-ray emission from TXS~1515--273, study of its X-ray variability and spectral energy distribution

MAGIC Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi +196

We report here on the first multi-wavelength (MWL) campaign on the blazar TXS 1515-273, undertaken in 2019 and extending from radio to very-high-energy gamma rays (VHE). Up until n…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 52 cited

Measurement of the Iron Spectrum in Cosmic Rays from 10 GeV to 2.0 TeV with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +77

The Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET), in operation on the International Space Station since 2015, collected a large sample of cosmic-ray iron over a wide energy interval. In…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 49 cited

Investigation of the correlation patterns and the Compton dominance variability of Mrk 421 in 2017

MAGIC Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi +284

We present a detailed characterisation and theoretical interpretation of the broadband emission of the paradigmatic TeV blazar Mrk 421, with special focus on the multi-band flux co…

astro-ph.HE2021

Signatures of deconfined quark phases in binary neutron star mergers

Aviral Prakash, David Radice, Domenico Logoteta +6

(abridged) We investigate the quark deconfinement phase transition in the context of binary neutron star (BNS) mergers. We employ a new finite-temperature composition-dependent equ…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 23 cited

Catalog of Long-Term Transient Sources in the First 10 Years of Fermi-LAT Data

L. Baldini, J. Ballet, D. Bastieri +112

We present the first Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog of long-term -ray transient sources (1FLT). This comprises sources that were detected on monthly time intervals dur…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 91 cited

Search for intermediate mass black hole binaries in the third observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration

Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) span the approximate mass range --, between black holes (BHs) formed by stellar collapse and the supermassive BHs at the c…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 36 cited

Simulating the Galactic Multi-messenger Emissions with HERMES

Andrej Dundovic, Carmelo Evoli, Daniele Gaggero +1

The study of non-thermal processes such as synchrotron emission, inverse Compton scattering, bremsstrahlung and pion production is crucial to understand the properties of the Galac…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 38 cited

Gamma rays from Fast Black-Hole Winds

LAT Collaboration

Massive black holes at the centers of galaxies can launch powerful wide-angle winds that, if sustained over time, can unbind the gas from the stellar bulges of galaxies. These wind…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 22 cited

X-ray polarimetry of the Crab nebula with PolarLight: polarization recovery after the glitch and a secular position angle variation

Xiangyun Long, Hua Feng, Hong Li +24

We report follow-up observations of the Crab nebula with the PolarLight X-ray polarimeter, which revealed a possible variation in polarization associated with a pulsar glitch in 20…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 44 cited

The KM3NeT potential for the next core-collapse supernova observation with neutrinos

KM3NeT Collaboration, S. Aiello, A. Albert +245

The KM3NeT research infrastructure is under construction in the Mediterranean Sea. It consists of two water Cherenkov neutrino detectors, ARCA and ORCA, aimed at neutrino astrophys…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 59 cited

The First Fermi-LAT Solar Flare Catalog

M. Ajello, L. Baldini, D. Bastieri +82

We present the first Fermi - Large Area Telescope (LAT) solar flare catalog covering the 24 th solar cycle. This catalog contains 45 Fermi -LAT solar flares (FLSFs) with emission i…