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astro-ph.HE2014★ 164 cited

Search for Prompt Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +300

We present constraints derived from a search of four years of IceCube data for a prompt neutrino flux from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). A single low-significance neutrino, compatible w…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 61 cited

Large scale distribution of ultra high energy cosmic rays detected at the Pierre Auger Observatory with zenith angles up to 80

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

We present the results of an analysis of the large angular scale distribution of the arrival directions of cosmic rays with energy above 4 EeV detected at the Pierre Auger Observat…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 210 cited

Searches for Anisotropies in the Arrival Directions of the Highest Energy Cosmic Rays Detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory

Pierre Auger Collaboration

We analyze the distribution of arrival directions of ultra-high energy cosmic rays recorded at the Pierre Auger Observatory in 10 years of operation. The data set, about three time…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 61 cited

Gamma-ray flaring activity from the gravitationally lensed blazar PKS 1830-211 observed by Fermi LAT

The Fermi LAT Collaboration, A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann +126

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope routinely detects the highly dust-absorbed, reddened, and MeV-peaked flat spectrum radio quasar PKS 1830…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 823 cited

The spectrum of isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 100 MeV and 820 GeV

The Fermi LAT collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +142

The γ-ray sky can be decomposed into individually detected sources, diffuse emission attributed to the interactions of Galactic cosmic rays with gas and radiation fields, and a res…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 296 cited

Atmospheric and Astrophysical Neutrinos above 1 TeV Interacting in IceCube

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +301

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory was designed primarily to search for high-energy (TeV--PeV) neutrinos produced in distant astrophysical objects. A search for ~TeV neu…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 17 cited

Search for patterns by combining cosmic-ray energy and arrival directions at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Energy-dependent patterns in the arrival directions of cosmic rays are searched for using data of the Pierre Auger Observatory. We investigate local regions around the highest-ener…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 309 cited

Depth of Maximum of Air-Shower Profiles at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Composition Implications

Pierre Auger Collaboration

Using the data taken at the Pierre Auger Observatory between December 2004 and December 2012, we have examined the implications of the distributions of depths of atmospheric shower…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 13 cited

A Partial Eclipse of the Heart: The Absorbed X-ray Low State in Mrk 1048

M. L. Parker, N. Schartel, S. Komossa +3

We present two new XMM-Newton observations of an unprecedented low flux state in the Seyfert 1 Mrk 1048 (NGC 985), taken in 2013. The X-ray flux below 1 keV drops by a factor of 4-…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 390 cited

Depth of Maximum of Air-Shower Profiles at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Measurements at Energies above 10^17.8 eV

Pierre Auger Collaboration

We report a study of the distributions of the depth of maximum, Xmax, of extensive air-shower profiles with energies above 10^17.8 eV as observed with the fluorescence telescopes o…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 55 cited

Development of a General Analysis and Unfolding Scheme and its Application to Measure the Energy Spectrum of Atmospheric Neutrinos with IceCube

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +301

We present the development and application of a generic analysis scheme for the measurement of neutrino spectra with the IceCube detector. This scheme is based on regularized unfol…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 164 cited

Properties of flat-spectrum radio-loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

L. Foschini, M. Berton, A. Caccianiga +27

We have conducted a multiwavelength survey of 42 radio loud narrow-1ine Seyfert 1 galaxies (RLNLS1s), selected by searching among all the known sources of this type and omitting th…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 85 cited

Neutrino and cosmic-ray emission from multiple internal shocks in gamma-ray bursts

Mauricio Bustamante, Philipp Baerwald, Kohta Murase +1

Gamma-ray bursts are short-lived, luminous explosions at cosmological distances, thought to originate from relativistic jets launched at the deaths of massive stars. They are among…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 244 cited

The Landscape of the Neutrino Mechanism of Core-Collapse Supernovae: Neutron Star and Black Hole Mass Functions, Explosion Energies and Nickel Yields

Ondrej Pejcha, Todd A. Thompson

If the neutrino luminosity from the proto-neutron star formed during a massive star core collapse exceeds a critical threshold, a supernova (SN) results. Using spherical quasi-stat…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 259 cited

Muons in air showers at the Pierre Auger Observatory: Mean number in highly inclined events

Pierre Auger Collaboration

We present the first hybrid measurement of the average muon number in air showers at ultra-high energies, initiated by cosmic rays with zenith angles between and $80^\ci…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 50 cited

Searches for small-scale anisotropies from neutrino point sources with three years of IceCube data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +300

Recently, IceCube found evidence for a diffuse signal of astrophysical neutrinos in an energy range of to the -scale. The origin of those events, b…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 330 cited

The Spectrum and Morphology of the Fermi Bubbles

LAT Collaboration

The Fermi bubbles are two large structures in the gamma-ray sky extending to above and below the Galactic center. We analyze 50 months of Fermi Large Area Telescope data…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 1.2k cited

Observation of High-Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos in Three Years of IceCube Data

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +294

A search for high-energy neutrinos interacting within the IceCube detector between 2010 and 2012 provided the first evidence for a high-energy neutrino flux of extraterrestrial ori…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 32 cited

A Correlation Between Hard Gamma-ray Sources and Cosmic Voids Along the Line of Sight

A. Furniss, P. M. Sutter, J. R. Primack +1

We estimate the galaxy density along lines of sight to hard extragalactic gamma-ray sources by correlating source positions on the sky with a void catalog based on the Sloan Digita…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 39 cited

Multimessenger Search for Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos: Results for Initial LIGO-Virgo and IceCube

The IceCube Collaboration, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration +1185

We report the results of a multimessenger search for coincident signals from the LIGO and Virgo gravitational-wave observatories and the partially completed IceCube high-energy neu…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 195 cited

Searches for Extended and Point-like Neutrino Sources with Four Years of IceCube Data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +301

We present results on searches for point-like sources of neutrinos using four years of IceCube data, including the first year of data from the completed 86-string detector. The tot…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 36 cited

Detection of high velocity outflows in Seyfert 1 galaxy Mrk 590

Anjali Gupta, Smita Mathur, Yair Krongold

We report on the detection of ultra-fast outflows in the Seyfert~1 galaxy Mrk 590. These outflows are identified through highly blue-shifted absorption lines of OVIII and NeIX in t…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 32 cited

Magnetic Deflections of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays from Centaurus A

Azadeh Keivani, Glennys R. Farrar, Michael Sutherland

We present the results of a study that simulates trajectories of ultra-high energy cosmic rays from Centaurus A to Earth, for particle rigidities from EV to 100 EV, i.e.,…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 247 cited

A fast and long-lived outflow from the supermassive black hole in NGC 5548

J. S. Kaastra, G. A. Kriss, M. Cappi +31

Supermassive black holes in the nuclei of active galaxies expel large amounts of matter through powerful winds of ionized gas. The archetypal active galaxy NGC 5548 has been studie…