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The long-term enhanced brightness of the magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408
Francesco Coti Zelati, Alice Borghese, Nanda Rea +6
We present the evolution of the X-ray emission properties of the magnetar 1E 1547.0-5408 since February 2004 over a time period covering three outbursts. We analyzed new and archiv…
Chasing candidate Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients in the 1,000 orbits INTEGRAL/IBIS catalog
V. Sguera, L. Sidoli, A. J. Bird +2
We report results from an investigation at hard X-rays (above 18 keV) and soft X-rays (below 10 keV) of a sample of X-ray transients located on the Galactic plane and detected with…
GRB 190114C in the nuclear region of an interacting galaxy -- A detailed host analysis using ALMA, HST and VLT
A. de Ugarte Postigo, C. C. Thöne, S. Martın +28
GRB 190114C is the first GRB for which the detection of very-high energy emission up to the TeV range has been reported. It is still unclear whether environmental properties might…
Bright gamma-ray flares observed in GRB131108A
Donggeun Tak, Z. Lucas Uhm, Bing Zhang
GRB 131108A is a bright long Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) detected by the Large Area Telescope and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Dedicated temp…
Optimizing neural network techniques in classifying Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sources
Miloš Kovačević, Graziano Chiaro, Sara Cutini +1
Machine learning is an automatic technique that is revolutionizing scientific research, with innovative applications and wide use in astrophysics. The aim of this study was to deve…
GRB171010A / SN2017htp: a GRB-SN at z=0.33
A. Melandri, D. B. Malesani, L. Izzo +41
The number of supernovae known to be connected with long-duration gamma-ray bursts is increasing and the link between these events is no longer exclusively found at low redshift ($…
Fermi and Swift Observations of GRB 190114C: Tracing the Evolution of High-Energy Emission from Prompt to Afterglow
M. Ajello, M. Arimoto, M. Axelsson +147
We report on the observations of gamma-ray burst (GRB) 190114C by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The early-time observations reveal mul…
Awakening of the fast-spinning accreting Be/X-ray pulsar A0538-66
L. Ducci, S. Mereghetti, A. Santangelo
A0538-66 is a Be/X-ray binary (Be/XRB) hosting a 69 ms pulsar. It emitted bright X-ray outbursts with peak luminosity up to erg/s during the first years after its di…
A decade of Gamma-Ray Bursts observed by -LAT: The 2 GRB catalog
M. Axelsson, E. Bissaldi, N. Omodei +1
The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the spacecraft routinely observes high-energy emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Here we present the second catalog of LAT-detecte…
XMM-Newton observations of PSR J0726-2612, a radio-loud XDINS
Michela Rigoselli, Sandro Mereghetti, Valery Suleimanov +4
We present the results of an XMM-Newton observation of the slowly rotating ( s), highly magnetized ( G) radio pulsar PSR J0726-2612. A previous…
Discovery of a 2.8 s pulsar in a 2 d orbit High-Mass X-ray Binary powering the Ultraluminous X-ray source ULX-7 in M51
G. A. Rodríguez Castillo, G. L. Israel, A. Belfiore +26
We discovered 2.8 s pulsations in the X-ray emission of the ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) M51 ULX-7 within the UNSEeN project, which was designed to hunt for new pulsating ULXs…
Detailed X-ray spectroscopy of the magnetar 1E 2259+586
D. Pizzocaro, A. Tiengo, S. Mereghetti +7
Magnetic field geometry is expected to play a fundamental role in magnetar activity. The discovery of a phase-variable absorption feature in the X-ray spectrum of SGR 0418+5729, in…
Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients uncovered by the EXTraS project: flares reveal the development of magnetospheric instability in accreting neutron stars
L. Sidoli, K. A. Postnov, A. Belfiore +5
The low luminosity, X-ray flaring activity, of the sub-class of high mass X-ray binaries called Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients, has been investigated using XMM-Newton public obse…
The afterglow and kilonova of the short GRB 160821B
E. Troja, A. J. Castro-Tirado, J. Becerra Gonzalez +22
GRB 160821B is a short duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) detected and localized by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in the outskirts of a spiral galaxy at z=0.1613, at a projected p…
Follow-up observations of X-ray emitting hot subdwarf stars: the compact He-poor sdO star Feige 34
N. La Palombara, S. Mereghetti, P. Esposito +1
We report on results obtained with the XMM-Newton observation of Feige 34 carried out in April 2018. This is the first spectroscopic X-ray observation of a compact and helium-poor…
Long X-ray flares from the central source in RCW 103
P. Esposito, A. De Luca, R. Turolla +7
We observed the slowly revolving pulsar 1E 161348-5055 (1E 1613, spin period of 6.67 h) in the supernova remnant RCW 103 twice with XMM-Newton and once with the Very Large Telescop…
The nature of the infrared counterpart and of the optical nebula associated with the Central Compact Object in Vela Jr.\
R. P. Mignani, A. De Luca, S. Zharikov +3
The X-ray source CXO\, J085201.4461753in the few kyr-old Vela Jr. supernova remnant (G266.2-1.2) belongs to the peculiar class of isolated neutron stars dubbed "Central Compact…
X-ray absorbing column densities of a complete sample of short Gamma Ray Bursts
L. Asquini, S. Campana, P. D'Avanzo +11
We update a flux-limited complete sample of Swift-based SGRBs (SBAT4, D'Avanzo et al. 2014), bringing it to 25 events and doubling its previous redshift range. We then evaluate the…
Exploring the role of X-ray reprocessing and irradiation in the anomalous bright optical outbursts of A0538-66
L. Ducci, S. Mereghetti, K. Hryniewicz +2
In 1981, the Be/X-ray binary (Be/XRB) A0538-66 showed outbursts characterized by high peak luminosities in the X-ray and optical bands. The optical outbursts were qualitatively exp…
Fermi Large Area Telescope Fourth Source Catalog
LAT collaboration
We present the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope catalog (4FGL) of gamma-ray sources. Based on the first eight years of science data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope missio…
GRB 190114C: from prompt to afterglow?
M. E. Ravasio, G. Oganesyan, O. S. Salafia +6
GRB 190114C is the first gamma-ray burst detected at Very High Energies (VHE, i.e. >300 GeV) by the MAGIC Cherenkov telescope. The analysis of the emission detected by the Fermi sa…
Optical spectroscopy and demographics of redback millisecond pulsar binaries
Jay Strader, Samuel J. Swihart, Laura Chomiuk +12
We present the first optical spectroscopy of five confirmed (or strong candidate) redback millisecond pulsar binaries, obtaining complete radial velocity curves for each companion…
MAGIC and Fermi-LAT gamma-ray results on unassociated HAWC sources
M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi, L. A. Antonelli +336
The HAWC Collaboration released the 2HWC catalog of TeV sources, in which 19 show no association with any known high-energy (HE; E > 10 GeV) or very-high-energy (VHE; E > 300 GeV)…
The multi-outburst activity of the magnetar in Westerlund I
A. Borghese, N. Rea, R. Turolla +17
After two major outbursts in 2006 and 2011, on 2017 May 16 the magnetar CXOU J164710.2-455216, hosted within the massive star cluster Westerlund I, emitted a short (20 ms) burst, w…