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astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

A magnetar giant flare in the nearby starburst galaxy M82

Sandro Mereghetti, Michela Rigoselli, Ruben Salvaterra +32

Giant flares, short explosive events releasing up to 10 erg of energy in the gamma-ray band in less than one second, are the most spectacular manifestation of magnetars, you…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 9 cited

Multiwavelength observations of PSR J2021+4026 across a mode change reveal a phase shift in its X-ray emission

M. Razzano, A. Fiori, P. M. Saz Parkinson +6

Context. We have investigated the multiwavelength emission of PSR J2021+4026, the only isolated gamma-ray pulsar known to be variable, which in October 2011 underwent a simultaneou…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 169 cited

The Third Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars

David A. Smith, Philippe Bruel, Colin J. Clark +156

We present 294 pulsars found in GeV data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Another 33 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) discovered in deep radio…

astro-ph.HE2023

Radio WISSH: tuning on the most luminous quasars in the Universe

Gabriele Bruni, Javier Moldón, Enrico Piconcelli +8

In the past years, the results obtained by the WISSH quasar project provided a novel general picture on the distinctive multi-band properties of hyper-luminous ( e…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

Sensitivity of the Cherenkov Telescope Array to TeV photon emission from the Large Magellanic Cloud

The Cherenkov Telescope Array Consortium

A deep survey of the Large Magellanic Cloud at ~0.1-100TeV photon energies with the Cherenkov Telescope Array is planned. We assess the detection prospects based on a model for the…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 3 cited

Timing the X-ray pulsating companion of the hot-subdwarf HD 49798 with NICER

Michela Rigoselli, Davide De Grandis, Sandro Mereghetti +1

HD 49798 is a hot subdwarf of O spectral type in a 1.55 day orbit with the X-ray source RX J0648.0-4418, a compact object with spin period of 13.2 s. We use recent data from the NI…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

The LHAASO PeVatron bright sky: what we learned

Martina Cardillo, Andrea Giuliani

The recent detection of 12 gamma-ray Galactic sources well above E > 100 TeV by the LHAASO observatory has been a breakthrough in the context of Cosmic Ray (CR) origin search. Alth…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

XTE J1906+090: a persistent low luminosity Be X-ray Binary

V. Sguera, L. Sidoli, A. J. Bird +1

We present new results from INTEGRAL and Swift observations of the hitherto poorly studied and unidentified X-ray source XTE J1906+090. A bright hard X-ray outburst (luminosity of…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

Measuring the Cosmic X-ray Background in 3-20keV with Straylight from NuSTAR

Steven Rossland, Daniel Wik, Brian Grefenstette +13

By characterizing the contribution of stray light to large datasets from the NuSTAR X-ray observatory collected over 2012--2017, we report a measurement of the cosmic X-ray backgro…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

The largest bright ULX population in a galaxy: X-ray variability and Luminosity Function in the Cartwheel ring Galaxy

Chiara Salvaggio, Anna Wolter, Andrea Belfiore +1

We analyse all the available Chandra observations of the Cartwheel Galaxy and its compact group, taken between 2001 and 2008, with the main aim of addressing the variability in the…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 47 cited

The first JWST spectrum of a GRB afterglow: No bright supernova in observations of the brightest GRB of all time, GRB 221009A

A. J. Levan, G. P. Lamb, B. Schneider +57

We present JWST and Hubble Space Telescope (HST) observations of the afterglow of GRB 221009A, the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever observed. This includes the first mid-IR spe…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 23 cited

The peak-flux of GRB 221009A measured with GRBAlpha

Jakub Ripa, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Yasushi Fukazawa +42

The brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed, long-duration GRB 221009A, was detected by GRBAlpha nano-satellite without saturation. We present light curves of the prompt emission i…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 143 cited

Fermi-GBM Discovery of GRB 221009A: An Extraordinarily Bright GRB from Onset to Afterglow

S. Lesage, P. Veres, M. S. Briggs +136

We report the discovery of GRB 221009A, the highest flux gamma-ray burst ever observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). This GRB has continuous prompt emission lasting m…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 19 cited

The power of the rings: the GRB 221009A soft X-ray emission from its dust-scattering halo

Andrea Tiengo, Fabio Pintore, Beatrice Vaia +11

GRB 221009A is the brightest gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever detected and occurred at low Galactic latitude. Owing to this exceptional combination, its prompt X-ray emission could be de…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 3 cited

X-ray nondetection of PSR J0250+5854

C. M. Tan, M. Rigoselli, P. Esposito +1

We conducted a deep XMM$\unicode{x2013}$Newton observing campaign on the 23.5-s radio pulsar PSR J0250+5854 in order to better understand the connection between long-period, radio-…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 41 cited

The IXPE view of GRB 221009A

Michela Negro, Niccoló Di Lalla, Nicola Omodei +108

We present the IXPE observation of GRB 221009A which includes upper limits on the linear polarization degree of both prompt and afterglow emission in the soft X-ray energy band. GR…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 12 cited

The brightest GRB ever detected: GRB 221009A as a highly luminous event at z = 0.151

D. B. Malesani, A. J. Levan, L. Izzo +39

Context: The extreme luminosity of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) makes them powerful beacons for studies of the distant Universe. The most luminous bursts are typically detected at moder…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

Capturing the lowest luminosity state of the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient XTE J1739-302

Lara Sidoli, Gabriele Ponti, Vito Sguera +1

We report here on the results of the analysis of Chandra, XMM-Newton and NuSTAR recent observations of the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transient XTEJ1739-302. The source was caught in a…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 14 cited

Localisation of gamma-ray bursts from the combined SpIRIT+HERMES-TP/SP nano-satellite constellation

Matt Thomas, Michele Trenti, Riccardo Campana +24

Multi-messenger observations of the transient sky to detect cosmic explosions and counterparts of gravitational wave mergers critically rely on orbiting wide-FoV telescopes to cove…