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astro-ph.GA2017★ 28 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS). AGN feedback in [NeV] emitters

D. Vergani, B. Garilli, M. Polletta +36

Using an unconventional single line diagnostic that unambiguously identifies AGNs in composite galaxies we report statistical differences in the properties (stellar age, [OII] lumi…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 3 cited

Spectral analysis of IGR J01572-7259 during its 2016 outburst

N. La Palombara, P. Esposito, S. Mereghetti +3

We report on the results of the observation of IGR J01572-7259 during its most recent outburst in 2016 May, the first since 2008. The source reached a flux $f \sim 10^…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 18 cited

New spectro-photometric characterization of the substellar object HR 2562 B using SPHERE

D. Mesa, J. -L. Baudino, B. Charnay +32

HR2562 is an F5V star located at ~33 pc from the Sun hosting a substellar companion that was discovered using the GPI instrument. The main objective of the present paper is to prov…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 30 cited

The Einstein@Home Gamma-Ray Pulsar Survey II. Source Selection, Spectral Analysis and Multi-wavelength Follow-up

J. Wu, C. J. Clark, H. J. Pletsch +23

We report on the analysis of 13 gamma-ray pulsars discovered in the Einstein@Home blind search survey using Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Pass 8 data. The 13 new gamma-ray pulsa…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 1 cited

Circum-galactic medium in the halo of quasars

Riccardo Ottolina, Renato Falomo, Aldo Treves +4

The properties of circum-galactic gas in the halo of quasar host galaxies are investigated analyzing Mg II 2800 and C IV 1540 absorption-line systems along the line of sight close…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 87 cited

THESEUS: a key space mission concept for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics

G. Stratta, R. Ciolfi, L. Amati +55

The recent discovery of the electromagnetic counterpart of the gravitational wave source GW170817, has demonstrated the huge informative power of multi-messenger observations. Duri…

astro-ph.SR2017★ 10 cited

A search for the presence of magnetic fields in the two Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients IGR J08408-4503 and IGR J11215-5952

S. Hubrig, L. Sidoli, K. Postnov +4

A significant fraction of high-mass X-ray binaries are supergiant fast X-ray transients (SFXTs). The prime model for the physics governing their X-ray behaviour suggests that the w…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 8 cited

Overdensity of galaxies in the environment of quasar pairs

Angela Sandrinelli, Renato Falomo, Aldo Treves +2

We report on a study of the galaxy environments of low redshift physical quasars pairs. We selected 20 pairs having projected separation 0.5 Mpc and difference of systemic velo…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 51 cited

A universal relation for the propeller mechanisms in magnetic rotating stars at different scales

Sergio Campana, Luigi Stella, Sandro Mereghetti +1

Accretion of matter onto a magnetic, rotating object can be strongly affected by the interaction with its magnetic field. This occurs in a variety of astrophysical settings involvi…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 19 cited

The XXL Survey: XXIII. The Mass Scale of XXL Clusters from Ensemble Spectroscopy

A. Farahi, V. Guglielmo, A. E. Evrard +34

An X-ray survey with the XMM-Newton telescope, XMM-XXL, has identified hundreds of galaxy groups and clusters in two 25 deg fields. Combining spectroscopic and X-ray observatio…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 10 cited

Discovery of periodic dips in the brightest hard X-ray source of M31 with EXTraS

M. Marelli, A. Tiengo, A. De Luca +9

We performed a search for eclipsing and dipping sources in the archive of the EXTraS project - a systematic characterization of the temporal behaviour of XMM-Newton point sources.…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 16 cited

GRAWITA: VLT Survey Telescope observations of the gravitational wave sources GW150914 and GW151226

E. Brocato, M. Branchesi, E. Cappellaro +49

We report the results of deep optical follow-up surveys of the first two gravitational-wave sources, GW150914 and GW151226, done by the GRAvitational Wave Inaf TeAm Collaboration (…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 1k cited

Spectroscopic identification of r-process nucleosynthesis in a double neutron star merger

E. Pian, P. D'Avanzo, S. Benetti +81

The merger of two neutron stars is predicted to give rise to three major detectable phenomena: a short burst of gamma-rays, a gravitational wave signal, and a transient optical/nea…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 91 cited

The unpolarized macronova associated with the gravitational wave event GW170817

S. Covino, K. Wiersema, Y. Z. Fan +37

The merger of two dense stellar remnants including at least one neutron star (NS) is predicted to produce gravitational waves (GWs) and short duration gamma ray bursts (GRBs). In t…

astro-ph.GA2017★ 15 cited

The XXL Survey: XXII. The XXL-North spectrophotometric sample and galaxy stellar mass function in X-ray detected groups and clusters

V. Guglielmo, B. M. Poggianti, B. Vulcani +42

The fraction of galaxies bound in groups in the nearby Universe is high (50% at z~0). Systematic studies of galaxy properties in groups are important in order to improve our unders…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 23 cited

Dynamical models to explain observations with SPHERE in planetary systems with double debris belts

C. Lazzoni, S. Desidera, F. Marzari +66

A large number of systems harboring a debris disk show evidence for a double belt architecture. One hypothesis for explaining the gap between the belts is the presence of one or mo…

astro-ph.IM2017★ 207 cited

The THESEUS space mission concept: science case, design and expected performances

L. Amati, P. O'Brien, D. Goetz +208

THESEUS is a space mission concept aimed at exploiting Gamma-Ray Bursts for investigating the early Universe and at providing a substantial advancement of multi-messenger and time-…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 2 cited

Large Binocular Telescope observations of PSR J2043+2740

V. Testa, R. P. Mignani, N. Rea +5

We present the results of deep optical imaging of the radio/-ray pulsar PSR J2043+2740, obtained with the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT). With a characteristic age of 1.2 Myr,…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 20 cited

The first detection of a pulsar with ALMA

Roberto P. Mignani, Rosita Paladino, Bronek Rudak +8

Pulsars are neutron stars, stellar corpses left over after supernova explosions of stars about ten times as massive as our Sun, with densities comparable to the atomic nucleus', sp…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 5 cited

VLT observations of the magnetar CXO J164710.2-455216 and the detection of a candidate infrared counterpart

V. Testa, R. P. Mignani, W. Hummel +2

We present deep observations of the field of the magnetar CXOJ164710.2-455216 in the star cluster Westerlund 1, obtained in the near-infrared with the adaptive optics camera NACO@V…

astro-ph.CO2017★ 45 cited

The VIMOS Public Extragalactic Redshift Survey (VIPERS): An unbiased estimate of the growth rate of structure at using the clustering of luminous blue galaxies

F. G. Mohammad, B. R. Granett, L. Guzzo +34

We use the VIPERS final data release to investigate the performance of colour-selected populations of galaxies as tracers of linear large-scale motions. We empirically select volum…

astro-ph.EP2017★ 19 cited

Orbiting a binary: SPHERE characterisation of the HD 284149 system

Mariangela Bonavita, V. D'Orazi, D. Mesa +52

In this paper we present the results of the SPHERE observation of the HD 284149 system, aimed at a more detailed characterisation of both the primary and its brown dwarf companion.…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 40 cited

Chandra monitoring of the Galactic Centre magnetar SGR J1745-2900 during the initial 3.5 years of outburst decay

F. Coti Zelati, N. Rea, R. Turolla +15

We report on 3.5 years of Chandra monitoring of the Galactic Centre magnetar SGR J1745-2900 since its outburst onset in April 2013. The magnetar spin-down has shown at least two ep…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 5 cited

Updating the orbital ephemeris of the dipping source XB 1254-690 and the distance to the source

A. F. Gambino, R. Iaria, T. Di Salvo +5

XB 1254-690 is a dipping low mass X-ray binary system hosting a neutron star and showing type I X-ray bursts. We aim at obtaining more accurate orbital ephemeris and at constrainin…