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most citedMethods and results of an automatic analysis of a complete sample of Swift-XRT observations of GRBs

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astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

Very high-energy gamma rays from GRB 180720B and GRB 190829A with external Compton emission

Monica Barnard, Soebur Razzaque, Jagdish C. Joshi

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) comprise of short, bright, energetic flashes of emission from extragalactic sources followed by a longer afterglow phase of decreased brightness. Recent dis…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

The Green Bank North Celestial Cap Survey IX: Timing Follow-up for 128 Pulsars

A. E. McEwen, J. K. Swiggum, D. L. Kaplan +27

The Green Bank North Celestial Cap survey is one of the largest and most sensitive searches for pulsars and transient radio objects. Observations for the survey have finished; prio…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

GRB 180128A: A Second Magnetar Giant Flare Candidate from the Sculptor Galaxy

Aaron C. Trigg, Eric Burns, Oliver J. Roberts +14

Magnetars are slowly rotating neutron stars that possess the strongest magnetic fields () known in the cosmos. They display a range of transient high-en…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

The expansion of the GRB 221009A afterglow

S. Giarratana, O. S. Salafia, M. Giroletti +14

We observed -ray burst (GRB) 221009A using very long baseline interferomety (VLBI) with the European VLBI Network (EVN) and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), over a period sp…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 18 cited

Gamma rays from a reverse shock with turbulent magnetic fields in GRB 180720B

Makoto Arimoto, Katsuaki Asano, Koji S. Kawabata +14

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most electromagnetically luminous cosmic explosions. They are powered by collimated streams of plasma (jets) ejected by a newborn stellar-mass black…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

Commensal Transient Searches in Eight Short Gamma Ray Burst Fields

S. I. Chastain, A. J. van der Horst, A. Rowlinson +5

A new generation of radio telescopes with excellent sensitivity, instantaneous {\it uv} coverage, and large fields of view, are providing unprecedented opportunities for performing…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 22 cited

A search for the afterglows, kilonovae, and host galaxies of two short GRBs: GRB 211106A and GRB 211227A

M. Ferro, R. Brivio, P. D'Avanzo +30

Context: GRB 211106A and GRB 211227A are recent gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with initial X-ray positions suggesting associations with nearby galaxies (z < 0.7). Their prompt emission c…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

A LOFAR prompt search for radio emission accompanying X-ray flares in GRB 210112A

A. Hennessy, R. L. C. Starling, A. Rowlinson +14

The composition of relativistic gamma-ray burst (GRB) jets and their emission mechanisms are still debated, and they could be matter or magnetically dominated. One way to distingui…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 18 cited

Constraining the long-lived supramassive neutron stars by magnetar boosted kilonovae

Hao Wang, Paz Beniamini, Dimitrios Giannios

Kilonovae are optical transients following the merger of neutron star binaries, which are powered by the r-process heating of merger ejecta. However, if a merger remnant is a long-…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

Prompt Gamma-Ray Burst Emission from Internal Shocks -- New Insights

Sk. Minhajur Rahaman, Jonathan Granot, Paz Beniamini

Internal shocks are a leading candidate for the dissipation mechanism that powers the prompt -ray emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this scenario a compact central source…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 70 cited

A radio pulsar phase from SGR J1935+2154 provides clues to the magnetar FRB mechanism

Weiwei Zhu, Heng Xu, Dejiang Zhou +34

The megajansky radio burst, FRB 20200428, and other bright radio bursts detected from the Galactic source SGR J1935+2154 suggest that magnetars can make fast radio bursts (FRBs), b…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 169 cited

The Third Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars

David A. Smith, Philippe Bruel, Colin J. Clark +156

We present 294 pulsars found in GeV data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Another 33 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered in deep radio…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 230 cited

JWST detection of heavy neutron capture elements in a compact object merger

A. Levan, B. P. Gompertz, O. S. Salafia +80

The mergers of binary compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes are of central interest to several areas of astrophysics, including as the progenitors of gamma-ray burs…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 11 cited

Constraining the FRB mechanism from scintillation in the host galaxy

Pawan Kumar, Paz Beniamini, Om Gupta +1

Most FRB models can be divided into two groups based on the distance of the radio emission region from the central engine. The first group of models, the so-called `nearby' or magn…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

Chandra X-ray Observatory Observations of 13 Fermi LAT Sources

Blagoy Rangelov, Hui Yang, Brice Williams +3

In the latest data release from the Fermi -ray Space Telescope (the 4th Fermi LAT 14 yr Catalog, or 4FGL), more than 50% of the Galactic sources are yet to be identified. We obs…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Discovery of an Extremely Intermittent Periodic Radio Source

M. P. Surnis, K. M. Rajwade, B. W. Stappers +12

We report the serendipitous discovery of an extremely intermittent radio pulsar, PSR J1710-3452, with a relatively long spin period of 10.4 s. The object was discovered through the…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

Quasi-Periodic Peak Energy Oscillations in X-ray Bursts from SGR J1935+2154

Oliver J. Roberts, Matthew G. Baring, Daniela Huppenkothen +6

Magnetars are young neutron stars powered by the strongest magnetic fields in the Universe (10 G). Their transient X-ray emission usually manifests as short (a few hundre…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 11 cited

A NICER View on the 2020 Magnetar-Like Outburst of PSR J1846-0258

Chin-Ping Hu, Lucien Kuiper, Alice K. Harding +6

We report on our monitoring of the strong-field magnetar-like pulsar PSR J1846-0258 with the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) and the timing and spectral evolutio…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 11 cited

The Signature of Refreshed Shocks in the of Afterglow of GRB030329

Michael J. Moss, Robert Mochkovitch, Frédéric Daigne +2

GRB030329 displays one clear and, possibly, multiple less intense fast-rising () jumps in its optical afterglow light curve. The decay rate of the optical light cu…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

X-ray and near-infrared observations of the middle-aged pulsar B1055-52, its multiwavelength spectrum, and proper motion

B. Posselt, G. G. Pavlov, O. Kargaltsev +1

Previous observations of the middle-aged -ray, X-ray, and radio pulsar B1055-52 indicated some peculiarities, such as a suspected changing of the X-ray flux and spectral paramet…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to TeV photon emission from the Large Magellanic Cloud

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium

A deep survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud at ~0.1-100TeV photon energies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array is planned. We assess the detection prospects based on a model for the…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

Particle In Cell Simulations of Mildly Relativistic Outflows in Kilonova Emissions

Mohira Rassel, Patrick Kilian, Vito Aberham +3

The electromagnetic emission from neutron star mergers is comprised of multiple components. Synchrotron emission from the disk-powered jet as well as thermal emission from the merg…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 11 cited

Lepto-hadronic interpretation of 2021 RS Ophiuchi nova outburst

Agnibha De Sarkar, Nayana A. J., Nirupam Roy +2

Very high energy (VHE; 100 GeV E 100 TeV) and high energy (HE; 100 MeV E 100 GeV) gamma-rays were observed from the symbiotic recurrent nova RS Ophiuchi (RS O…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 18 cited

Deciphering the unusual stellar progenitor of GRB 210704A

R. L. Becerra, E. Troja, A. M. Watson +16

GRB~210704A is a burst of intermediate duration (~s) followed by a fading afterglow and an optical excess that peaked about 7 days after the explosion. Its propert…