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astro-ph.HE2013★ 14 cited

Deep GMRT radio observations and a multi-wavelength study of the region around HESS J1858+020

J. M. Paredes, C. H. Ishwara-Chandra, V. Bosch-Ramon +3

There are a number of very high energy sources in the Galaxy that remain unidentified. Multi-wavelength and variability studies, and catalogue searches, are powerful tools to ident…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 23 cited

Formation of large-scale magnetic structures associated with the Fermi bubbles

Maxim V. Barkov, Valenti Bosch-Ramon

The Fermi bubbles are part of a complex region of the Milky Way. This region presents broadband extended non-thermal radiation, apparently coming from a physical structure rooted i…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 50 cited

Long-term TeV and X-ray Observations of the Gamma-ray Binary HESS J0632+057

VERITAS Collaboration, E. Aliu, S. Archambault +297

HESS J0632+057 is the only gamma-ray binary known so far whose position in the sky allows observations with ground-based observatories both in the northern and southern hemispheres…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 165 cited

Constraints on axionlike particles with H.E.S.S. from the irregularity of the PKS 2155-304 energy spectrum

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +211

Axionlike particles (ALPs) are hypothetical light (sub-eV) bosons predicted in some extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In astrophysical environments comprising h…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 25 cited

Analysis of X-ray spectral variability and black hole mass determination of the NLS1 galaxy Mrk 766

S. Giacche`, R. Gilli, L. Titarchuk

We present an XMM-Newton time-resolved spectral analysis of the NLS1 galaxy Mrk 766. We analyse eight available observations of the EPIC-pn camera taken between May 2000 and June 2…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 54 cited

H.E.S.S. Observations of the Crab during its March 2013 GeV Gamma-Ray Flare

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +217

Context. On March 4, 2013, the Fermi-LAT and AGILE reported a flare from the direction of the Crab Nebula in which the high-energy (HE; E > 100 MeV) flux was six times above its qu…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 1 cited

The stability of strong waves and its implications for pulsar wind shocks

Iwona Mochol, John G. Kirk

Strong waves can mediate a shock transition between a pulsar wind and its surroundings, playing the role of an extended precursor, in which the energy is effectively transferred fr…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 9 cited

On The {\it Fermi} -Lat Surplus of the Diffuse Galactic Gamma-Ray Emission

Heinrich J. Voelk, Evgeny G. Berezhko

Recent observations of the diffuse Galactic \gr emission (DGE) by the {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope ({\it Fermi}-LAT) have shown significant deviations, above a few GeV until ab…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 188 cited

Simple analytical approximations for treatment of inverse Compton scattering of relativistic electrons in the black-body radiation field

Dmitry Khangulyan, Felix A. Aharonian, Stanislav R. Kelner

The inverse Compton (IC) scattering of relativistic electrons is one of the major gamma-ray production mechanisms in different environments. Often the target photons for the IC sca…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 15 cited

HESS J1818-154, a new composite supernova remnant discovered in TeV gamma rays and X-rays

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Aharonian +217

Composite supernova remnants (SNRs) constitute a small subclass of the remnants of massive stellar explosions where non-thermal radiation is observed from both the expanding shell-…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 82 cited

Diffuse PeV neutrinos from EeV cosmic ray sources: semi-relativistic hypernova remnants in star-forming galaxies

Ruo-Yu Liu, Xiang-Yu Wang, Susumu Inoue +2

We argue that the excess of sub-PeV/PeV neutrinos recently reported by IceCube could plausibly originate through pion-production processes in the same sources responsible for cosmi…

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★ 20 cited

A multi-dimensional numerical scheme for two-fluid Relativistic MHD

Maxim Barkov, Serguei S. Komissarov, Vitaly Korolev +1

The paper describes an explicit multi-dimensional numerical scheme for Special Relativistic Two-Fluid Magnetohydrodynamics of electron-positron plasma and a suit of test problems.…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 3 cited

The beaming pattern of External Compton Emission from relativistic outflows

S. R. Kelner, E. Lefa, F. M. Rieger +1

The beaming pattern of radiation emitted by a relativistically moving source like jets in microquasars, AGN and GRBs, is a key issue for understanding of acceleration and radiation…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 43 cited

Nonthermal radiation of young supernova remnants: the case of Cas A

V. N. Zirakashvili, F. A. Aharonian, R. Yang +2

The processes responsible for the broad-band radiation of the young supernova remnant Cas A are explored using a new code which is designed for a detailed treatment of the diffusiv…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 25 cited

Radiative damping and emission signatures of strong superluminal waves in pulsar winds

Iwona Mochol, John G. Kirk

We analyse the damping by radiation reaction and by Compton drag of strong, superluminal electromagnetic waves in the context of pulsar winds. The associated radiation signature is…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 13 cited

Constraints on the source of ultra-high energy cosmic rays using anisotropy vs chemical composition

Ruo-Yu Liu, Andrew Taylor, Martin Lemoine +2

The joint analysis of anisotropy signals and chemical composition of ultra-high energy cosmic rays offers strong potential for shedding light on the sources of these particles. Fol…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 72 cited

Interpretation of the unprecedentedly long-lived high-energy emission of GRB 130427A

Ruo-Yu Liu, Xiang-Yu Wang, Xue-Feng Wu

High energy photons (>100 MeV) are detected by the Fermi/LAT from GRB 130427A up to almost one day after the burst, with an extra hard spectral component being discovered in the hi…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 47 cited

Evolution of the Relativistic Plasmoid-Chain in the Poynting-Dominated Plasma

Makoto Takamoto

In this paper, we investigate the evolution of the plasmoid-chain in a Poynting-dominated plasma. We model the relativistic current sheet with cold background plasma using the rela…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 56 cited

The Vela-X Pulsar Wind Nebula revisited with 4 years of Fermi-Large Area Telescope observations

M. -H. Grondin, R. W. Romani, M. Lemoine-Goumard +3

The Vela supernova remnant is the closest supernova remnant to Earth containing an active pulsar, the Vela pulsar (PSR B0833-45). This pulsar is the archetype of the middle-aged pu…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 12 cited

Limits on Primordial Black Hole evaporation with the H.E.S.S. array of Cherenkov telescopes

J-F. Glicenstein, A. Barnacka, M. Vivier +1

Data collected by the H.E.S.S. array between 2004 and 2012 have been used to search for photon bursts from primordial black hole explosions. Bursts were searched for in a 30 second…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 11 cited

Suzaku Detection of Thermal X-Ray Emission Associated with the Western Radio Lobe of Fornax A

Hiromi Seta, Makoto S. Tashiro, Susumu Inoue

We present the results of X-ray mapping observations of the western radio lobe of the Fornax A galaxy, using the X-ray Imaging Spectrometer (XIS) onboard the Suzaku satellite with…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 9 cited

X-ray and Radio Follow-up Observations of High-Redshift Blazar Candidates in the Fermi-LAT Unassociated Source Population

Y. Takahashi, J. Kataoka, K. Niinuma +6

We report on the results of X-ray and radio follow-up observations of two GeV gamma-ray sources 2FGL J0923.5+1508 and 2FGL J1502.1+5548, selected as candidates for high-redshift bl…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 55 cited

On the origin of >10 GeV photons in gamma-ray burst afterglows

Xiang-Yu Wang, Ruo-Yu Liu, Martin Lemoine

Fermi/LAT has detected long-lasting high-energy photons (>100 MeV) from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), with the highest energy photons reaching about 100 GeV. One proposed scenario is th…