output
19932026
most citedMethods and results of an automatic analysis of a complete sample of Swift-XRT observations of GRBs

1.8k citations

Showing 2025 · astro-ph.HEShow all

24 papers · 2 filters

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Pulsed, Polarized X-ray Emission from Neutron Star Surfaces: the Effects of Vacuum Birefringence in the Magnetosphere

Hoa Dinh Thi, Matthew G. Baring, Kun Hu +4

Intense magnetic fields in the atmospheres of neutron stars render non-trivial angular dependence of intensity and polarization of soft X-ray emission originating from their surfac…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Neutron star heating vs. HST observations

Luis E. Rodríguez, Andreas Reisenegger, Denis González-Caniulef +5

Passively cooling neutron stars (NSs) should reach undetectably low surface temperatures K in less than yr. However, HST observations have revealed likely thermal…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

The Intermediate Mass Black Hole in Omega Centauri: Constraints on Accretion from JWST

Steven Chen, Jeremy Hare, Oleg Kargaltsev +4

We analyze JWST observations of the central region of the globular cluster Centauri (NGC 5139, Cen hereafter), around the position of the candidate IMBH inferred by \cite{h…

astro-ph.HE2025

Multi Messenger Study of GRB 221009A with VHE Gamma-ray and Neutrino Afterglow from a Gaussian Structured Jet

T. Mondal, S. Razzaque, Jagdish C. Joshi +2

Recent detections of very-high-energy (VHE; ) emission from GRB afterglows, most notably the unprecedented brightness of GRB~221009A observed by LHAASO, reve…

astro-ph.HE2025

From Rare Events to a Population: Discovering Overlooked Extragalactic Magnetar Giant Flare Candidates in Archival Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Data

Aaron C. Trigg, Eric Burns, Michela Negro +16

Magnetar giant flares (MGFs) are rare, extremely bright bursts of gamma-rays from highly magnetized neutron stars. These events are challenging to identify because, at extragalacti…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 12 cited

GRB 250702B: Discovery of a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Black Hole Falling into a Star

Eliza Neights, Eric Burns, Chris L. Fryer +52

Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous electromagnetic events in the universe. Their prompt gamma-ray emission has typical durations between a fraction of a second and several minu…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Vacuum birefringence and the polarized X-ray emission from a radio magnetar

Rachael E. Stewart, Hoa Dinh Thi, George Younes +13

Magnetars are isolated neutron stars with exceptionally strong surface fields exceeding G. Their bright X-ray emission probes physical regimes in which quantum electrodyn…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Discovery and Analysis of Afterglows from Poorly Localised GRBs with the Gravitational-wave Optical Transient Observer (GOTO) All-sky Survey

Amit Kumar, B. P. Gompertz, B. Schneider +86

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), particularly those detected by wide-field instruments such as the Fermi/GBM, pose a challenge for optical follow-up due to their large initial localisation…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Combined dark matter search towards dwarf spheroidal galaxies with Fermi-LAT, HAWC, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS

LAT Collaboration, S. Abdollahi, L. Baldini +586

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) are excellent targets for indirect dark matter (DM) searches using gamma-ray telescopes because they are thought to have high DM content and a low…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Prospects for dark matter observations in dwarf spheroidal galaxies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array Observatory

K. Abe, S. Abe, J. Abhir +491

The dwarf spheroidal galaxies (dSphs) orbiting the Milky Way are widely regarded as systems supported by velocity dispersion against self-gravity, and as prime targets for the sear…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Afterglow Linear Polarization Signatures from Steep GRB Jets: Implications for Orphan Afterglows

Gal Birenbaum, Jonathan Granot, Paz Beniamini

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are the strongest explosions in the Universe, and are powered by initially ultra-relativistic jets. The angular profile of GRB jets encodes important inform…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

GRB 241105A: A test case for GRB classification and rapid r-process nucleosynthesis channels

Dimple, B. P. Gompertz, A. J. Levan +85

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) offer a powerful window to probe the progenitor systems responsible for the formation of heavy elements through the rapid neutron capture (r-) process, than…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

The Vela pulsar and its pulsar wind nebula Vela-X using 13 years of Fermi-LAT Observations

Alexander Lange, J. Eagle, O. Kargaltsev +2

We present results of more than 13 years of Fermi-LAT data analysis for the Vela pulsar from 60 MeV to 100 GeV and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN), Vela-X, for E > 1 GeV in the off-pu…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Swift/XRT monitoring of the orbital and superorbital modulations in 4U 1909+07

P. Romano, H. I. Cohen, E. Bozzo +5

We report on an observational campaign performed with Swift/XRT on the wind-fed supergiant X-ray binary 4U 1909+07 to investigate the nature of the orbital and superorbital modulat…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Modelling multiwavelength afterglows of the VHE-GRB population

Monica Barnard, Ankur Ghosh, Jagdish C. Joshi +1

The recent detection of very high energy (VHE, 100 GeV) -ray emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has provided new insights into afterglow physics. Understanding the…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Puzzling Variation of Gamma Rays from the Sun over the Solar Cycle Revealed with Fermi-LAT

A. Acharyya, A. Adelfio, M. Ajello +100

The steady-state gamma-ray emission from the Sun is thought to consist of two emission components due to interactions with Galactic cosmic rays: (1) a hadronic disk component, and…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 6 cited

The infrared counterpart and proper motion of magnetar SGR0501+4516

A. A. Chrimes, A. J. Levan, J. D. Lyman +19

Soft gamma repeaters (SGRs) are highly magnetised neutron stars (magnetars) notable for their gamma-ray and X-ray outbursts. In this paper, we use near-infrared (NIR) imaging of SG…

astro-ph.HE2025

Modeling the imprints of large-scale magnetized structures on -rays from extragalactic transients

Saikat Das, Soebur Razzaque, Nestor Mirabal +3

In the multimessenger era, the association of high-energy transients with their -ray counterparts can be obscured by magnetized large-scale structure surrounding the source. We…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 9 cited

Cosmic-Ray Constraints on the Flux of Ultra-High-Energy Neutrino Event KM3-230213A

Saikat Das, Bing Zhang, Soebur Razzaque +1

The detection of a ~PeV muon neutrino event by the KM3NeT telescope offers an unprecedented opportunity to probe the Universe at extreme energies. A photopion interactio…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 6 cited

The Galactic population of magnetars : a simulation-based inference study

Mattéo Sautron, Alexander Eli McEwen, George Younes +3

Population synthesis modeling of the observed dynamical and physical properties of a population is a highly effective method for constraining the underlying birth parameters and ev…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

The middle-aged pulsar PSR J1741-2054 and its bow-shock nebula in far ultraviolet

Vadim Abramkin, George G. Pavlov, Yuriy Shibanov +2

Context. The nearby middle-aged gamma-ray pulsar J1741-2054 and its pulsar wind nebula (PWN) have been studied in X-rays, and its bow-shock nebula (BSN) has been investigated in th…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 21 cited

The curious case of EP241021a: Unraveling the mystery of its exceptional rebrightening

Malte Busmann, Brendan O'Connor, Julian Sommer +19

Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) are a rare and poorly understood phenomenon with a variety of possible progenitors. The launch of the Einstein Probe (EP) mission has facilitated a rap…

astro-ph.HE2025

A Synthetic Population of Ultra-Luminous X-ray Sources: Optical-X-ray Correlation

Lutendo Nyadzani, Soebur Razzaque, Justin D. Finke

This paper presents an analysis of the predicted optical-to-X-ray spectral index () within the context of ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) associated with stellar ma…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 14 cited

The Cosmic Evolution of Fast Radio Bursts Inferred from the CHIME/FRB Baseband Catalog 1

Om Gupta, Paz Beniamini, Pawan Kumar +1

Redshift and luminosity distributions are essential for understanding the cosmic evolution of extragalactic objects and phenomena, such as galaxies, gamma-ray bursts, and fast radi…