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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

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astro-ph.HE2021★ 5 cited

Torque reversal and orbital profile of X-ray pulsar OAO 1657-415

Zhenxuan Liao, Jiren Liu, Peter A. Jenke +1

OAO 1657-415 is an atypical supergiant X-ray binary among wind-fed and disk-fed systems, showing alternate spin-up/spin-down intervals lasting on the order of tens of days. We stud…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 1 cited

Fermi-GBM Observations of GRB 210812A: Signatures of a Million Solar Mass Gravitational Lens

P. Veres, N. Bhat, N. Fraija +1

Observing gravitationally lensed objects in the time domain is difficult, and well-observed time-varying sources are rare. Lensed gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) offer improved timing prec…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 7 cited

Comparison of Anomalous and Galactic Cosmic Ray Oxygen at 1 au during 1997-2020

Shuai Fu, Lingling Zhao, Xiaoping Zhang +2

Using quiet-time measurements of element oxygen within the energy range 7.3--237.9 MeV nuc from the ACE spacecraft at 1 au, we compare the energy spectra and intensities of…

astro-ph.HE2021

Low-efficiency long gamma-ray bursts: A case study with AT2020blt

Nikhil Sarin, Rachel Hamburg, Eric Burns +3

The Zwicky Transient Facility recently announced the detection of an optical transient AT2020blt at redshift , consistent with the afterglow of an on-axis gamma-ray burst. H…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 4 cited

Disk vs wind accretion in X-ray pulsar GX 301-2

Jiren Liu, Long Ji, Peter A. Jenke +8

GX 301-2 provides a rare opportunity to study both disk and wind accretion in a same target. We report Insight-HXMT observations of the spin-up event of GX 301-2 happened in 2019 a…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 136 cited

The Fermi GBM Gamma-Ray Burst Spectral Catalog: 10 Years of Data

S. Poolakkil, R. Preece, C. Fletcher +17

We present the systematic spectral analyses of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GBM) during its first ten years of operation. This catalog con…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 13 cited

GRB 191016A: A Long Gamma-Ray Burst Detected by TESS

Krista Lynne Smith, Ryan Ridden-Harper, Michael Fausnaugh +8

The TESS exoplanet-hunting mission detected the rising and decaying optical afterglow of GRB 191016A, a long Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) detected by Swift-BAT but without prompt XRT or U…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 70 cited

Identification of a Local Sample of Gamma-Ray Bursts Consistent with a Magnetar Giant Flare Origin

E. Burns, D. Svinkin, K. Hurley +23

Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are known to arise from distinct progenitor channels: short GRBs mostly from neutron star mergers and long GRBs from a rare type of core-collap…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 10 cited

The X-ray pulsar XTE J1858+034 observed with NuSTAR and Fermi/GBM: spectral and timing characterization plus a cyclotron line

C. Malacaria, P. Kretschmar, K. K. Madsen +7

Accreting X-ray pulsars (XRPs) undergo luminous X-ray outbursts during which the spectral and timing behavior of the neutron star can be studied in detail. We analyze a ob…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 74 cited

Rapid Spectral Variability of a Giant Flare from a Magnetar in NGC 253

O. J. Roberts, P. Veres, M. G. Baring +18

Magnetars are slowly-rotating neutron stars with extremely strong magnetic fields ( G), episodically emitting ms long X-ray bursts with energies of $\sim10^{4…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 101 cited

A bright gamma-ray flare interpreted as a giant magnetar flare in NGC 253

D. Svinkin, D. Frederiks, K. Hurley +33

Magnetars are young, highly magnetized neutron stars that produce extremely rare giant flares of gamma-rays, the most luminous astrophysical phenomena in our Galaxy. The detection…