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astro-ph.HE2017★ 49 cited

Can winds driven by active galactic nuclei account for the extragalactic gamma-ray and neutrino backgrounds?

Ruo-Yu Liu, Kohta Murase, Susumu Inoue +2

Various observations are revealing the widespread occurrence of fast and powerful winds in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that are distinct from relativistic jets, likely launched f…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 11 cited

Exclusion of standard gravitons by LIGO observation

Richard Lieu

Dyson (2013) argued that the extraordinarily large number of gravitons in a gravitational wave makes them impossible to be resolved as individual particles. While true, it is shown…

physics.plasm-ph2017★ 35 cited

Experiment to Form and Characterize a Section of a Spherically Imploding Plasma Liner

S. C. Hsu, S. J. Langendorf, K. C. Yates +13

We describe an experiment to form and characterize a section of a spherically imploding plasma liner by merging six supersonic plasma jets that are launched by newly designed conto…

astro-ph.IM2017

Does light from steady sources bear any observable imprint of the dispersive intergalactic medium?

Richard Lieu, Lingze Duan

There has recently been some interest in the prospect of detecting ionized intergalactic baryons by examining the properties of incoherent light from background cosmological source…

gr-qc2017★ 34 cited

All-sky search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the first Advanced LIGO observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +990

We present the results of a search for long-duration gravitational wave transients in the data of the LIGO Hanford and LIGO Livingston second generation detectors between September…

physics.plasm-ph2017★ 16 cited

Discrete stochastic charging of aggregate grains

Lorin S. Matthews, Babak Shotorban, Truell W. Hyde

Dust particles immersed in a plasma environment become charged through the collection of electrons and ions at random times, causing the dust charge to fluctuate about an equilibri…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 35 cited

First analysis of solar structures in 1.21 mm full-disc ALMA image of the Sun

R. Brajša, D. Sudar, A. O. Benz +11

Various solar features can be seen on maps of the Sun in the mm and sub-mm wavelength range. The recently installed Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) is capable o…

astro-ph.CO2017

Large scale density perturbations from a uniform distribution by wave transport

Richard Lieu

It has long been known that a uniform distribution of matter cannot produce a Poisson distribution of density fluctuations on very large scales by the motion of discrete…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 3.6k cited

Gravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor +1

On 2017 August 17, the gravitational-wave event GW170817 was observed by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors, and the gamma-ray burst (GRB) GRB 170817A was observed independently…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 1.5k cited

An Ordinary Short Gamma-Ray Burst with Extraordinary Implications: Fermi-GBM Detection of GRB 170817A

A. Goldstein, P. Veres, E. Burns +27

On August 17, 2017 at 12:41:06 UTC the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) detected and triggered on the short gamma-ray burst GRB 170817A. Approximately 1.7 s prior to this GRB, t…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 18 cited

Reconstruction of a Large-scale Pre-flare Coronal Current Sheet Associated with an Homologous X-shaped Flare

Chaowei Jiang, Xiaoli Yan, Xueshang Feng +4

As a fundamental magnetic structure in the solar corona, electric current sheets (CSs) can form either prior to or during solar flare, and they are essential for magnetic energy di…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 41 cited

The short GRB 170817A: Modelling the off-axis emission and implications on the ejecta magnetization

N. Fraija, F. De Colle, P. Veres +4

The short GRB 170817A, detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor, orbiting satellites and ground-based telescopes, was the electromagnetic counterpart of a gravitational-wave t…

gr-qc2017★ 136 cited

Effects of Data Quality Vetoes on a Search for Compact Binary Coalescences in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +957

The first observing run of Advanced LIGO spanned 4 months, from September 12, 2015 to January 19, 2016, during which gravitational waves were directly detected from two binary blac…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 31 cited

Modeling the high-energy emission in GRB 110721A and implications on the early multiwavelength and polarimetric observations

N. Fraija, W. H. Lee, M. Araya +3

GRB 110721A was detected by the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor and the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite and the Gamma-ray Burst Polarimeter onboard the IKAROS solar…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 167 cited

Shaken Snow Globes: Kinematic Tracers of the Multiphase Condensation Cascade in Massive Galaxies, Groups, and Clusters

M. Gaspari, M. McDonald, S. L. Hamer +16

We propose a novel method to constrain turbulence and bulk motions in massive galaxies, groups and clusters, exploring both simulations and observations. As emerged in the recent p…

physics.space-ph2017★ 14 cited

On the timing between terrestrial gamma ray flashes, radio atmospherics, and optical lightning emission

Thomas Gjesteland, Nikolai Østgaard, Phillip Bitzer +1

On 25 October 2012 the Reuven Ramaty High Energy Solar Spectroscope Imager (RHESSI) and the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) satellites passed over a thunderstorm on the…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 14 cited

Microscopic Processes in Global Relativistic Jets Containing Helical Magnetic Fields: Dependence on Jet Radius

Ken-Ichi Nishikawa, Yosuke Mizuno, Jose L. Gomez +12

In this study we investigate jet interaction at a microscopic level in a cosmological environment, which responds to a key open question in the study of relativistic jets. Using sm…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 24 cited

A General Precipitation-Limited L_X-T-R Relation Among Early-Type Galaxies

G. M. Voit, C. P. Ma, J. Greene +4

The relation between X-ray luminosity (L_X) and ambient gas temperature (T) among massive galactic systems is an important cornerstone of both observational cosmology and galaxy-ev…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 9 cited

The Grad-Shafranov Reconstruction of Toroidal Magnetic Flux Ropes: First Applications

Qiang Hu, M. G. Linton, B. E. Wood +2

This article completes and extends a recent study of the Grad-Shafranov (GS) reconstruction in toroidal geometry, as applied to a two and a half dimensional configurations in space…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 28 cited

Reanalysis of the BICEP2, Keck and Planck Data: No Evidence for Gravitational Radiation

J. Richard Gott, Wesley N. Colley

A joint analysis of data collected by the Planck and BICEP2+Keck teams has previously given for BICEP2 and for Keck. Analyzing…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 97 cited

Three-dimensional Features of the Outer Heliosphere Due to Coupling between the Interstellar and Heliospheric Magnetic Field. V. The Bow Wave, Heliospheric Boundary Layer, Instabilities, and Magnetic Reconnection

N. V. Pogorelov, J. Heerikhuisen, V. Roytershteyn +3

The heliosphere is formed due to interaction between the solar wind (SW) and local interstellar medium (LISM). The shape and position of the heliospheric boundary, the heliopause,…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 34 cited

Onset of a Large Ejective Solar Eruption from a Typical Coronal-Jet-Base Field Configuration

Navin Chandra Joshi, Alphonse C. Sterling, Ronald L. Moore +2

Utilizing multiwavelength observations and magnetic field data from SDO/AIA, SDO/HMI, GOES and RHESSI, we investigate a large-scale ejective solar eruption of 2014 December 18 from…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 83 cited

Magnetic Flux Cancelation as the Origin of Solar Quiet Region Pre-Jet Minifilaments

Navdeep K. Panesar, Alphonse C. Sterling, Ronald L. Moore

We investigate the origin of ten solar quiet region pre-jet minifilaments, using EUV images from SDO/AIA and magnetograms from SDO/HMI. We recently found panesar16b that quiet regi…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 27 cited

New Evidence that Magnetoconvection Drives Solar-Stellar Coronal Heating

Sanjiv K. Tiwari, Julia K. Thalmann, Navdeep K. Panesar +2

How magnetic energy is injected and released in the solar corona, keeping it heated to several million degrees, remains elusive. Coronal heating generally increases with increasing…