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most citedThe Astropy Project: Building an inclusive, open-science project and status of the v2.0 core package

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astro-ph.HE2017★ 33 cited

A Search for Neutrino Emission from Fast Radio Bursts with Six Years of IceCube Data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +320

We present a search for coincidence between IceCube TeV neutrinos and fast radio bursts (FRBs). During the search period from 2010 May 31 to 2016 May 12, a total of 29 FRBs with 13…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 43 cited

Indirect dark matter searches in the dwarf satellite galaxy Ursa Major II with the MAGIC Telescopes

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +142

The dwarf spheroidal galaxy Ursa Major II (UMaII) is believed to be one of the most dark-matter dominated systems among the Milky Way satellites and represents a suitable target fo…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 193 cited

Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory

A. Albert, M. Andre, M. Anghinolfi +1931

The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observatories recently discovered gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. A short gamma-ray burst (GRB) that followed the merg…

astro-ph.HE2017

MAGIC Contributions to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017)

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +143

MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov) is a system of two 17 m diameter, F/1.03 Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes (IACT). They are dedicated to the observation of…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 45 cited

Constraining Lorentz invariance violation using the Crab Pulsar emission observed up to TeV energies by MAGIC

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +142

Spontaneous breaking of Lorentz symmetry at energies on the order of the Planck energy or lower is predicted by many quantum gravity theories, implying non-trivial dispersion relat…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 14 cited

Search for very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the microquasar Cygnus X-1 with the MAGIC telescopes

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +144

The microquasar Cygnus X-1 displays the two typical soft and hard X-ray states of a black-hole transient. During the latter, Cygnus X-1 shows a one-sided relativistic radio-jet. Re…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 32 cited

Constraints on particle acceleration in SS433/W50 from MAGIC and H.E.S.S. observations

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +408

The large jet kinetic power and non-thermal processes occurring in the microquasar SS 433 make this source a good candidate for a very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emitter. Gamma-ra…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 147 cited

Constraints on Galactic Neutrino Emission with Seven Years of IceCube Data

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +309

The origins of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos remain a mystery despite extensive searches for their sources. We present constraints from seven years of IceCube Neutrino Observ…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 97 cited

A cut-off in the TeV gamma-ray spectrum of the SNR Cassiopeia A

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +141

It is widely believed that the bulk of the Galactic cosmic rays are accelerated in supernova remnants (SNRs). However, no observational evidence of the presence of particles of PeV…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 11 cited

MAGIC observations of the microquasar V404 Cygni during the 2015 outburst

M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +142

The microquasar V404 Cygni underwent a series of outbursts in 2015, June 15-31, during which its flux in hard X-rays (20-40 keV) reached about 40 times the Crab Nebula flux. Becaus…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 6 cited

Observation of the Black Widow B1957+20 millisecond pulsar binary system with the MAGIC telescopes

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +145

B1957+20 is a millisecond pulsar located in a black widow type compact binary system with a low mass stellar companion. The interaction of the pulsar wind with the companion star w…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 15 cited

Measurement of the energy spectrum with IceCube-79

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +306

IceCube is a neutrino observatory deployed in the glacial ice at the geographic South Pole. The energy unfolding described in this paper is based on data taken with IceCube i…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 34 cited

Search for astrophysical sources of neutrinos using cascade events in IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +310

The IceCube neutrino observatory has established the existence of a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos inconsistent with the expectation from atmospheric backgrounds at a…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 23 cited

Prospects for CTA observations of the young SNR RX J1713.7-3946

The CTA Consortium, :, F. Acero +381

We perform simulations for future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observations of RX~J1713.73946, a young supernova remnant (SNR) and one of the brightest sources ever discovere…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 2 cited

Multiwavelength picture of the blazar S5 0716+714 during its brightest outburst

Marina Manganaro, Giovanna Pedaletti, Marlene Doert +24

S5 0716+714 is a well known BL Lac object, one of the brightest and most active blazars. The discovery in the Very High Energy band (VHE, E > 100 GeV) by MAGIC happened in 2008. In…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 33 cited

First Multi-wavelength Campaign on the Gamma-ray-loud Active Galaxy IC 310

M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +160

The extragalactic VHE gamma-ray sky is rich in blazars. These are jetted active galactic nuclei viewed at a small angle to the line-of-sight. Only a handful of objects viewed at a…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 52 cited

Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Gravitational Wave Event GW151226 and Candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube

A. Albert, M. Andre, M. Anghinolfi +1410

The Advanced LIGO observatories detected gravitational waves from two binary black hole mergers during their first observation run (O1). We present a high-energy neutrino follow-up…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 5 cited

Very-high-energy gamma-ray observations of the Type Ia Supernova SN 2014J with the MAGIC telescopes

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +149

In this work we present data from observations with the MAGIC telescopes of SN 2014J detected in January 21 2014, the closest Type Ia supernova since Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescop…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 20 cited

MAGIC detection of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the low-luminosity blazar 1ES 1741+196

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +159

We present the first detection of the nearby (z=0.084) low-luminosity BL Lac object 1ES 1741+196 in the very high energy (VHE: E100 GeV) band. This object lies in a triplet of i…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 179 cited

Extending the search for muon neutrinos coincident with gamma-ray bursts in IceCube data

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +305

We present an all-sky search for muon neutrinos produced during the prompt -ray emission of 1172 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The detection of…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 51 cited

Multiwavelength follow-up of a rare IceCube neutrino multiplet

M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +501

On February 17 2016, the IceCube real-time neutrino search identified, for the first time, three muon neutrino candidates arriving within 100 s of one another, consistent with comi…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 37 cited

Neutrinos and Cosmic Rays Observed by IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, M. G. Aartsen, M. Ackermann +303

The core mission of the IceCube Neutrino observatory is to study the origin and propagation of cosmic rays. IceCube, with its surface component IceTop, observes multiple signatures…