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astro-ph.HE2020★ 6 cited

Strongly pulsed thermal X-rays from a single extended hot spot on PSR J2021+4026

Michela Rigoselli, Sandro Mereghetti, Roberto Taverna +2

The radio-quiet pulsar PSR J2021+4026 is mostly known because it is the only rotation-powered pulsar that shows variability in its γ-ray emission. Using XMM-Newton archival data, w…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 15 cited

The INTEGRAL view of the pulsating hard X-ray sky: from accreting and transitional millisecond pulsars to rotation-powered pulsars and magnetars

A. Papitto, M. Falanga, W. Hermsen +30

In the last 25 years, a new generation of X-ray satellites imparted a significant leap forward in our knowledge of X-ray pulsars. The discovery of accreting and transitional millis…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 13 cited

NuSTAR Observations of Abell 2163: Constraints on Non-thermal Emission

Randall Rojas Bolivar, Daniel Wik, Simona Giacintucci +4

Since the first non-thermal reports of inverse Compton (IC) emission from the intracluster medium (ICM) of galaxy clusters at hard X-ray energies, we have yet to unambiguously conf…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 11 cited

Multi-messenger astronomy with INTEGRAL

C. Ferrigno, V. Savchenko, A. Coleiro +19

At the time of defining the science objectives of the INTernational Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), such a rapid and spectacular development of multi-messenger astron…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 16 cited

A New Transient Ultraluminous X-ray Source in NGC 7090

D. J. Walton, M. Heida, M. Bachetti +17

We report on the discovery of a new, transient ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) in the galaxy NGC 7090. This new ULX, which we refer to as NGC 7090 ULX3, was discovered via monitor…

astro-ph.HE2020

X-ray and Radio Bursts from the Magnetar 1E1547.0-5408

G. L. Israel, M. Burgay, N. Rea +10

We report on simultaneous radio and X-ray observations of the radio-emitting magnetar 1E1547.0-5408 on 2009 January 25 and February 3, with the 64-m Parkes radio telescope and the…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 21 cited

The new magnetar SGR J1830-0645 in outburst

F. Coti Zelati, A. Borghese, G. L. Israel +13

The detection of a short hard X-ray burst and an associated bright soft X-ray source by the Swift satellite in 2020 October heralded a new magnetar in outburst, SGR J1830-0645. Pul…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 77 cited

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array for probing cosmology and fundamental physics with gamma-ray propagation

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium, :, H. Abdalla +496

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA), the new-generation ground-based observatory for -ray astronomy, provides unique capabilities to address significant open questions in astrop…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 81 cited

Advances in Understanding High-Mass X-ray Binaries with INTEGRAL and Future Directions

Peter Kretschmar, Felix Fürst, Lara Sidoli +48

High mass X-ray binaries are among the brightest X-ray sources in the Milky Way, as well as in nearby Galaxies. Thanks to their highly variable emissions and complex phenomenology,…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 15 cited

ZBLLAC -- A spectroscopic database of BL Lacertae objects

M. Landoni, R. Falomo, S. Paiano +1

This paper describes the database of optical spectra of BL Lacertae (BLL) objects ZBLLAC available at the URL https://web.oapd.inaf.it/zbllac/. At the present date, it contains cal…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 6 cited

Dust-scattering halo and giant hard X-ray flare from the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient IGR J16479-4514 investigated with XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL

V. Sguera, A. Tiengo, L. Sidoli +1

We report results from the analysis of XMM-Newton and INTEGRAL data of IGR J16479-4514. The unpublished XMM-Newton observation, performed in 2012, occurred during the source eclips…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 10 cited

A Multi-wavelength search for Black Widows and Redbacks counterparts of candidate -ray millisecond pulsars

C. Braglia, R. P. Mignani, A. Belfiore +6

The wealth of detections of millisecond pulsars (MSPs) in -rays by {\em Fermi} has spurred searches for these objects among the several unidentified -ray sources. Interesting…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 39 cited

The X-ray reactivation of the radio bursting magnetar SGR 1935+2154

A. Borghese, F. Coti Zelati, N. Rea +4

A few years after its discovery as a magnetar, SGR J1935+2154 started a new burst-active phase on 2020 April 27, accompanied by a large enhancement of its X-ray persistent emission…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 135 cited

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to a dark matter signal from the Galactic centre

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium, :, A. Acharyya +449

We provide an updated assessment of the power of the Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) to search for thermally produced dark matter at the TeV scale, via the associated gamma-ray sig…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 19 cited

Radio pulsations from the -ray millisecond pulsar PSR J2039-5617

A. Corongiu, R. P. Mignani, A. S. Seyffert +9

The predicted nature of the candidate redback pulsar 3FGL\,J2039.65618 was recently confirmed by the discovery of -ray millisecond pulsations (Clark et al. 2020, hereafter Pa…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 61 cited

Einstein@Home Discovery of the Gamma-ray Millisecond Pulsar PSR J2039-5617 Confirms Its Predicted Redback Nature

C. J. Clark, L. Nieder, G. Voisin +19

The Fermi Large Area Telescope gamma-ray source 3FGL J2039.65618 contains a periodic optical and X-ray source that was predicted to be a "redback" millisecond pulsar (MSP) binar…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 45 cited

A search for optical and near-infrared counterparts of the compact binary merger GW190814

A. L. Thakur, S. Dichiara, E. Troja +29

We report on our observing campaign of the compact binary merger GW190814, detected by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo detectors on August 14th, 2019. This signal has the best…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 20 cited

The slow heartbeats of an ultra-luminous X-ray source in NGC 3621

S. E. Motta, M. Marelli, F. Pintore +6

We report on the results of X-ray observations of 4XMM J111816.0-324910, a transient ultra-luminous X-ray source located in the galaxy NGC 3621. This system is characterised by a t…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 36 cited

A Supernova Candidate at z=0.092 in XMM-Newton Archival Data

G. Novara, P. Esposito, A. Tiengo +14

During a search for X-ray transients in the XMM-Newton archive within the EXTraS project, we discovered a new X-ray source that is detected only during a ~5 min interval of a ~21 h…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 67 cited

A very young radio-loud magnetar

P. Esposito, N. Rea, A. Borghese +20

The magnetar Swift ,J1818.0-1607 was discovered in March 2020 when Swift detected a 9 ms hard X-ray burst and a long-lived outburst. Prompt X-ray observations revealed a spin perio…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 348 cited

INTEGRAL discovery of a burst with associated radio emission from the magnetar SGR 1935+2154

S. Mereghetti, V. Savchenko, C. Ferrigno +23

We report on INTEGRAL observations of the soft -ray repeater SGR 1935+2154 performed between 2020 April 28 and May 3. Several short bursts with fluence of …

astro-ph.HE2020★ 11 cited

NuSTAR observation of the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient IGR J11215-5952 during its 2017 outburst

L. Sidoli, K. Postnov, A. Tiengo +4

We report on the results of a NuSTAR observation of the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient pulsar IGRJ11215-5952 during the peak of its outburst in June 2017. IGRJ11215-5952 is the on…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 13 cited

The X-ray outburst of the Galactic Center magnetar over six years of Chandra observations

N. Rea, F. Coti Zelati, D. Vigano' +16

The magnetar SGR J1745-2900 discovered at parsecs distance from the Milky Way central black hole, Sagittarius A*, represents the closest pulsar to a supermassive black hole ever de…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 25 cited

Classification of Blazar Candidates of Uncertain Type from the Fermi LAT 8-Year Source Catalog with an Artificial Neural Network

Miloš Kovačević, Graziano Chiaro, Sara Cutini +1

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected more than 5000 gamma-ray sources in its first 8 years of operation. More than 3000 of them are blazars. About 60 per cent of the F…