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astro-ph.HE2017★ 127 cited

Imprints of neutrino-pair flavor conversions on nucleosynthesis in ejecta from neutron-star merger remnants

Meng-Ru Wu, Irene Tamborra, Oliver Just +1

The remnant of neutron star mergers is dense in neutrinos. By employing inputs from one hydrodynamical simulation of a binary neutron star merger remnant with a black hole of $3\ M…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 34 cited

A non-thermal pulsed X-ray emission of AR~Scorpii

J. Takata, C. -P. Hu, L. C. C. Lin +5

We report the analysis result of UV/X-ray emission from AR~Scorpii, which is an intermediate polar (IP) composed of a magnetic white dwarf and a M-type star, with the XMM-Newton da…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 46 cited

ALMA Twenty-six arcmin Survey of GOODS-S at One-millimeter (ASAGAO): X-ray AGN Properties of Millimeter-Selected Galaxies

Y. Ueda, B. Hatsukade, K. Kohno +33

We investigate the X-ray active galactic nucleus (AGN) properties of millimeter galaxies in the Great Observatories Origins Deep Survey South (GOODS-S) field detected with the Atac…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 144 cited

Quark deconfinement as supernova explosion engine for massive blue-supergiant stars

Tobias Fischer, Niels-Uwe F. Bastian, Meng-Ru Wu +6

Blue-supergiant stars develop into core-collapse supernovae --- one of the most energetic outbursts in the universe --- when all nuclear burning fuel is exhausted in the stellar co…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 14 cited

Mid-infrared excess from the west hot spot of the radio galaxy Pictor A unveiled by WISE

Naoki Isobe, Shoko Koyama, Motoki Kino +5

Mid-infrared properties are reported of the west hot spot of the radio galaxy Pictor A with the Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer (WISE). The mid-infrared counterpart to the hot…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 16 cited

Centrally Concentrated X-ray Radiation from an Extended Accreting Corona in Active Galactic Nuclei

B. F. Liu, Ronald E. Taam, Erlin Qiao +1

The X-ray emission from bright active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is believed to originate in a hot corona lying above a cold, geometrically thin accretion disk. A highly concentrated c…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 37 cited

Enhanced Polarized Emission from the One-Parsec-Scale Hotspot of 3C 84 as a Result of the Interaction with Clumpy Ambient Medium

H. Nagai, Y. Fujita, M. Nakamura +4

We present Very Long Baseline Array polarimetric observations of the innermost jet of 3C84 (NGC1275) at 43GHz. A significant polarized emission is detected at the…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 7 cited

Searching for High Energy, Horizon-scale Emissions from Galactic Black Hole Transients during Quiescence

Lupin Chun-Che Lin, Hung-Yi Pu, Kouichi Hirotani +5

We search for the gamma-ray counterparts of stellar-mass black holes using long-term Fermi archive to investigate the electrostatic acceleration of electrons and positrons in the v…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 20 cited

Observable Emission Features of Black Hole GRMHD Jets on Event Horizon Scales

Hung-Yi Pu, Kinwah Wu, Ziri Younsi +3

The general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamical (GRMHD) formulation for black hole-powered jets naturally gives rise to a stagnation surface, wherefrom inflows and outflows along ma…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 61 cited

A search for cyclical sources of gamma-ray emission on the period range from days to years in the Fermi-LAT sky

D. A. Prokhorov, A. Moraghan

A systematic search for cyclical sources of gamma-ray emission on the period range from days to years in the Fermi-LAT sky is performed. Looking for cyclical emission, the sky is b…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 27 cited

Evolution of Spin, Orbital, and Superorbital Modulations of 4U 0114+650

Chin-Ping Hu, Yi Chou, C. -Y. Ng +2

We report a systematic analysis of the spin, orbital, and superorbital modulations of 4U 0114+650, a high-mass X-ray binary consists of one of the slowest spinning neutron stars. U…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 14 cited

What is the Hidden Depolarization Mechanism in Low Luminosity AGN?

Geoffrey C. Bower, Jason Dexter, Sera Markoff +2

Millimeter wavelength polarimetry of accreting black hole systems can provide a tomographic probe of the accretion flow on a wide range of linear scales. We searched for linear pol…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 28 cited

Magnetar-Powered Supernovae in Two Dimensions. II. Broad-Line Supernovae Ic

Ke-Jung Chen, Takashi J. Moriya, Stan Woosley +4

Nascent neutron stars with millisecond periods and magnetic fields in excess of Gauss can drive highly energetic and asymmetric explosions known as magnetar-powered super…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 28 cited

Mode change of a gamma-ray pulsar, PSR J2021+4026

J. Zhao, C. W. Ng, L. C. C. Lin +8

A glitch of a pulsar is known as a sudden increase in the spin frequency and spin-down rate (frequency time derivative), and it can be caused by a sudden rel\ ease of the stress bu…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 19 cited

Lepton acceleration in the vicinity of the event horizon: Very-high-energy emissions from super-massive black holes

Kouichi Hirotani, Hung-Yi Pu, Lupin Chun-Che Lin +5

Around a rapidly rotating black hole (BH), when the plasma accretion rate is much less than the Eddington rate, the radiatively inefficient accretion flow (RIAF) cannot supply enou…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 120 cited

Simultaneous X-ray, gamma-ray, and Radio Observations of the repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102

P. Scholz, S. Bogdanov, J. W. T. Hessels +19

We undertook coordinated campaigns with the Green Bank, Effelsberg, and Arecibo radio telescopes during Chandra X-ray Observatory and XMM-Newton observations of the repeating fast…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 17 cited

Interpreting the time variable RM observed in the core region of the TeV blazar Mrk 421

R. Lico, J. L. Gómez, K. Asada +1

In this work we interpret and discuss the time variable rotation measure (RM) found, for the first time over a 1-yr period, in the core region of a blazar. These results are based…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 26 cited

On the Absence of Non-thermal X-ray emission around Runaway O stars

J. A. Toalá, L. M. Oskinova, R. Ignace

Theoretical models predict that the compressed interstellar medium around runaway O stars can produce high-energy non-thermal diffuse emission, in particular, non-thermal X-ray and…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 27 cited

SWIFT Detection of a 65-Day X-ray Period from the Ultraluminous Pulsar NGC 7793 P13

Chin-Ping Hu, K. L. Li, Albert K. H. Kong +2

NGC 7793 P13 is an ultraluminous X-ray source harboring an accreting pulsar. We report on the detection of a ~65 d period X-ray modulation with Swift observations in this system. T…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 853 cited

The direct localization of a fast radio burst and its host

S. Chatterjee, C. J. Law, R. S. Wharton +22

Fast radio bursts are astronomical radio flashes of unknown physical nature with durations of milliseconds. Their dispersive arrival times suggest an extragalactic origin and imply…