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astro-ph.HE2015★ 41 cited

Crab flares due to turbulent dissipation of the pulsar striped wind

Jonathan Zrake

We interpret -ray flares from the Crab Nebula as the signature of turbulence in the pulsar's electromagnetic outflow. Turbulence is triggered upstream by dynamical instability o…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 99 cited

Gamma rays from the quasar PKS 1441+25: story of an escape

A. U. Abeysekara, S. Archambault, A. Archer +103

Outbursts from gamma-ray quasars provide insights on the relativistic jets of active galactic nuclei and constraints on the diffuse radiation fields that fill the Universe. The det…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 143 cited

Multiwavelength Study of Quiescent States of Mrk 421 with Unprecedented Hard X-Ray Coverage Provided by NuSTAR in 2013

M. Baloković, D. Paneque, G. Madejski +305

We present coordinated multiwavelength observations of the bright, nearby BL Lac object Mrk 421 taken in 2013 January-March, involving GASP-WEBT, Swift, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, V…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 73 cited

Radio detection prospects for a bulge population of millisecond pulsars as suggested by Fermi LAT observations of the inner Galaxy

Francesca Calore, Mattia Di Mauro, Fiorenza Donato +2

Analogously to globular clusters, the dense stellar environment of the Galactic center has been proposed to host a large population of as-yet undetected millisecond pulsars (MSPs).…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 266 cited

The 1st Fermi Lat Supernova Remnant Catalog

Fabio Acero, Markus Ackermann, Marco Ajello +156

To uniformly determine the properties of supernova remnants (SNRs) at high energies, we have developed the first systematic survey at energies from 1 to 100 GeV using data from the…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 5 cited

On TeV Gamma Rays and the Search for Galactic Neutrinos

Matthew D. Kistler

The IceCube neutrino discovery presents an opportunity to answer long-standing questions in high-energy astrophysics. For their own sake and relations to other processes, it is imp…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 405 cited

Fermi-LAT Observations of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission Toward the Galactic Center

LAT Collaboration

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has provided the most detailed view to date of the emission towards the Galactic centre (GC) in high-energy gamma-rays. This paper describes th…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 6 cited

Problems and Prospects from a Flood of Extragalactic TeV Neutrinos in IceCube

Matthew D. Kistler

The steep spectrum of neutrinos measured by IceCube extending from >1 PeV down to ~10 TeV has an energy flux now encroaching on the Fermi isotropic GeV background. We examine sever…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 81 cited

The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: The Number Counts of Active Galactic Nuclei and the Resolved Fraction of the Cosmic X-ray Background

F. A. Harrison, J. Aird, F. Civano +41

We present the 3-8 keV and 8-24 keV number counts of active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified in the NuSTAR extragalactic surveys. NuSTAR has now resolved 33-39% of the X-ray backgr…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 4 cited

A Tale of Two Pulsars and the Origin of TeV Gamma Rays from the Galactic Center

Matthew D. Kistler

The Galactic Center (GC) has been long known to host gamma-ray emission detected to >10 TeV. HESS data now points to two plausible origins: the supermassive black hole (perhaps wit…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 138 cited

Relativistic Simulations of Eccentric Binary Neutron Star Mergers: One-arm Spiral Instability and Effects of Neutron Star Spin

William E. East, Vasileios Paschalidis, Frans Pretorius +1

We perform general-relativistic hydrodynamical simulations of dynamical capture binary neutron star mergers, emphasizing the role played by the neutron star spin. Dynamical capture…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 4 cited

Gamma Rays, Electrons, Hard X-Rays, and the Central Parsec of the Milky Way

Matthew D. Kistler

The complex interplay of processes at the Galactic Center is at the heart of numerous past, present, and (likely) future mysteries. We aim at a more complete understanding of how s…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 145 cited

Evidence against star-forming galaxies as the dominant source of IceCube neutrinos

Keith Bechtol, Markus Ahlers, Mattia Di Mauro +2

The cumulative emission resulting from hadronic cosmic-ray interactions in star-forming galaxies (SFGs) has been proposed as the dominant contribution to the astrophysical neutrino…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 98 cited

One-arm Spiral Instability in Hypermassive Neutron Stars Formed by Dynamical-Capture Binary Neutron Star Mergers

Vasileios Paschalidis, William E. East, Frans Pretorius +1

Using general-relativistic hydrodynamical simulations, we show that merging binary neutron stars can form hypermassive neutrons stars that undergo the one-arm spiral instability. W…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 2 cited

NuSTAR Hard X-ray Survey of the Galactic Center Region I: Hard X-ray Morphology and Spectroscopy of the Diffuse Emission

Kaya Mori, Charles J. Hailey, Roman Krivonos +35

We present the first sub-arcminute images of the Galactic Center above 10 keV, obtained with NuSTAR. NuSTAR resolves the hard X-ray source IGR J17456-2901 into non-thermal X-ray fi…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 268 cited

Multiwavelength Evidence for Quasi-periodic Modulation in the Gamma-ray Blazar PG 1553+113

The Fermi LAT collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +139

We report for the first time a gamma-ray and multi-wavelength nearly-periodic oscillation in an active galactic nucleus. Using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) we have discover…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 34 cited

Extremes of the jet-accretion power relation of blazars, as explored by NuSTAR

T. Sbarrato, G. Ghisellini, G. Tagliaferri +9

Hard X-ray observations are crucial to study the non-thermal jet emission from high-redshift, powerful blazars. We observed two bright z>2 flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) in ha…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 77 cited

Search for extended gamma-ray emission from the Virgo galaxy cluster with Fermi-LAT

M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Albert +118

Galaxy clusters are one of the prime sites to search for dark matter (DM) annihilation signals. Depending on the substructure of the DM halo of a galaxy cluster and the cross secti…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 71 cited

First NuSTAR Observations of Mrk 501 within a Radio to TeV Multi-Instrument Campaign

A. Furniss, K. Noda, S. Boggs +273

We report on simultaneous broadband observations of the TeV-emitting blazar Markarian 501 between 1 April and 10 August 2013, including the first detailed characterization of the s…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 49 cited

Gamma-ray flare activity from PSR B1259-63 during 2014 periastron passage and comparison to its 2010 passage

G. A. Caliandro, C. C. Cheung, J. Li +4

PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 is a gamma-ray binary system containing a radio pulsar in a highly elliptical ~3.4-year orbit around a Be star. In its 2010 periastron passage, multiwavelength…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 89 cited

Deep view of the Large Magellanic Cloud with 6 years of Fermi-LAT observations

LAT Collaboration

The nearby Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) provides a rare opportunity of a spatially resolved view of an external star-forming galaxy in gamma-rays. The LMC was detected at 0.1-100Ge…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 11 cited

Suzaku observations of a shock front tracing the western edge of the giant radio halo in the Coma Cluster

Y. Uchida, A. Simionescu, T. Takahashi +5

We present the results of new Suzaku observations of the Coma Cluster, the X-ray brightest, nearby, merging system hosting a well studied, typical giant radio halo. It has been pre…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 41 cited

Freely decaying turbulence in force-free electrodynamics

Jonathan Zrake, William E. East

Freely decaying relativistic force-free turbulence is studied for the first time. We initiate the magnetic field at a short wavelength and simulate its relaxation toward equilibriu…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 104 cited

Space- and Ground-Based Gamma-Ray Astrophysics

S. Funk

In recent years, observational -ray astronomy has seen a remarkable range of exciting new results in the high-energy and very-high energy regimes. Coupled with extensive theoret…