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- Goddard Space Flight CenterUS361 papers
- Marshall Space Flight CenterUS357 papers
- Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFR280 papers
- Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial PhysicsDE240 papers
- University of Maryland, College ParkUS239 papers
- Universities Space Research AssociationUS214 papers
- Stanford UniversityUS212 papers
- National Institute for AstrophysicsIT196 papers
- University of Rome Tor VergataIT184 papers
- Commissariat à l'Énergie Atomique et aux Énergies AlternativesFR179 papers
- University of PaduaIT178 papers
- Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Roma Tor VergataIT175 papers
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Can We Find the Emission Mechanism Behind the Extremely Bright GRB 230812B?
Utkarsh Pathak, Sameer K. Patil, Hitesh Tanenia +23
GRB 230812B is a bright long-duration GRB with a luminous, long-lived afterglow and an AstroSat/CZTI polarization measurement during the prompt phase, enabling a joint study of its…
GRB 260310A / SN 2026fgk: A Multi-Wavelength Study of a Nearby Underluminous Long GRB and SN with a Complex Afterglow
Ramandeep Gill, Rosa L. Becerra, Antonio de Ugarte Postigo +54
We present a comprehensive multi-wavelength study of GRB 260310A / SN 2026fgk, a nearby (), long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) with an exceptionally underluminous prompt…
Las Cumbres Observatory Gravitational-Wave Follow-up in the Third and Fourth Observing Runs: Strengths and Weaknesses of a Rapid Response Galaxy Targeted Strategy
Ido Keinan, Iair Arcavi, D. Andrew Howell +34
We present a summary of gravitational-wave (GW) follow-up using the Las Cumbres Observatory global network of telescopes during the third (O3) and fourth (O4) observing runs of the…
Fastest or Significant: A Systematic Framework for Validating Global Minimum Variability Timescale Measurements of Gamma-ray Bursts
S. Bala, P. Veres, A. Goldstein +3
The minimum variability timescale (MVT) is a key observable used to probe the central engines of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) by constraining the emission region size and the outflow Lo…
Constraints on the intergalactic magnetic field from Fermi-LAT observations of GRB 221009A
Lea Burmeister, Paolo Da Vela, Francesco Longo +5
A cosmological origin of the magnetic fields in large scale structures of the Universe would require a non-negligible magnetic field in cosmic voids, which, however, remains undete…
From Observations to Simulations: A Neural-Network Approach to Intracluster Medium Kinematics
E. Gatuzz, J. ZuHone, J. S. Sanders +4
We present a systematic comparison between {\it XMM-Newton} velocity maps of the Virgo, Centaurus, Ophiuchus and A3266 clusters and synthetic velocity maps generated from the Illus…
The Quiescent Merging Nature of the Coma Cluster Revealed by ICM Velocity Structure
E. Gatuzz, J. Sanders, A. Liu +4
The hot gas permeating galaxy clusters-the intracluster medium (ICM)-is a key tracer of their assembly history and internal dynamics. Understanding the motion of this gas provides…
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…
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…
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…
NuSTAR Observations of the Galaxy Cluster Abell 3667
Mohammad S. Mirakhor, Stephen A. Walker
We present an analysis of the hard X-ray emission from the central region of Abell 3667 using deep NuSTAR observations. While previous studies on the nature of the hard X-ray exces…
The bulk motion of gas in the core of the Centaurus galaxy cluster
XRISM collaboration
Galaxy clusters, the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe, contain vast amounts of dark matter, galaxies, and hot ionised gas known as the intracluster medium (…
Broadband study of the Be X-ray binary RX J0520.5-6932 during its outburst in 2024
H. N. Yang, C. Maitra, G. Vasilopoulos +18
A new giant outburst of the Be X-ray binary RX J0520.5-6932 was detected and subsequently observed with several space-borne and ground-based instruments. This study presents a comp…
Extragalactic Magnetar Giant Flare GRB 231115A: Insights from Fermi/GBM Observations
Aaron C. Trigg, Rachael Stewart, Alex Van Kooten +22
We present the detection and analysis of GRB 231115A, a candidate extragalactic magnetar giant flare (MGF) observed by Fermi/GBM and localized by INTEGRAL to the starburst galaxy M…
Measuring the ICM velocity structure within the A3266 galaxy cluster
E. Gatuzz, J. Sanders, A. Liu +7
We present a detailed analysis of the velocity structure of the hot intracluster medium (ICM) within the A3266 galaxy cluster, including new observations taken between June and Nov…
High-resolution imaging of the evolving bipolar outflows in symbiotic novae: The case of the RSOphiuchi 2021 nova outburst
R. Lico, M. Giroletti, U. Munari +6
The recurrent and symbiotic nova RS Ophiuchi (RSOph) underwent a new outburst phase during August 2021, about 15 years after the last event that occurred in 2006. This outburst rep…
Studying geometry of the ultraluminous X-ray pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 using X-ray and optical polarimetry
Juri Poutanen, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Victor Doroshenko +108
Discovery of pulsations from a number of ULXs proved that accretion onto neutron stars can produce luminosities exceeding the Eddington limit by several orders of magnitude. The co…
The NuSTAR View of Perseus: the ICM and a Peculiar Hard Excess
Samantha Creech, Daniel R. Wik, Steven Rossland +3
As the brightest galaxy cluster in the X-ray sky, Perseus is an excellent target for studying the Intracluster Medium (ICM), but until recently, its active galactic nucleus (AGN) m…
Unveiling the origin of the optical/UV emission from the Galactic ULX Swift J0243.6+6124 during its 2017-2018 giant outburst
J. Alfonso-Garzón, J. van den Eijnden, N. P. M. Kuin +8
From late September 2017 to February 2018, the Be X-ray binary (BeXB) Swift J0243.6+6124 underwent an unprecedently bright giant outburst. The reported X-ray luminosities were so h…
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…
iid2022: A Workshop on Statistical Methods for Event Data in Astronomy
Eric D. Feigelson, Massimiliano Bonamente
We review the iid2022 workshop on statistical methods for X-ray and -ray astronomy and high--energy astrophysics event data in astronomy, held in Guntersville, AL, on Nov. 15-18…
Measuring the hot ICM velocity structure function using XMM-Newton observations
Efrain Gatuzz, R. Mohapatra, C. Federrath +4
It has been shown that the gas velocities within the intracluster medium (ICM) can be measured by applying novel XMM-Newton EPIC-pn energy scale calibration, which uses instrumenta…
X-ray polarimetry and spectroscopy of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GX 9+9: an in-depth study with IXPE and NuSTAR
F. Ursini, R. Farinelli, A. Gnarini +101
We report on a comprehensive analysis of simultaneous X-ray polarimetric and spectral data of the bright atoll source GX 9+9 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and…
Extreme Variability in a Long Duration Gamma-ray Burst Associated with a Kilonova
P. Veres, P. N. Bhat, E. Burns +19
The recent discovery of a kilonova from the long duration gamma-ray burst, GRB 211211A, challenges classification schemes based on temporal information alone. Gamma-ray properties…