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astro-ph.GA2020★ 48 cited

The Rapid Build-up of Massive Early-type Galaxies. Supersolar Metallicity, High Velocity Dispersion and Young Age for an ETG at z=3.35

Paolo Saracco, Danilo Marchesini, Francesco La Barbera +8

Thanks to very deep spectroscopic observations carried out at the Large Binocular Telescope, we measured simultaneously stellar age, metallicity and velocity dispersion for C1-2315…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 11 cited

Joint Suzaku and Chandra observations of the MKW4 galaxy group out to the virial radius

Arnab Sarkar, Yuanyuan Su, Scott Randall +5

We present joint Suzaku and Chandra observations of MKW4. With a global temperature of 1.6 keV, MKW4 is one of the smallest galaxy groups that have been mapped in X-rays out to the…

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.IM2020★ 16 cited

Analysis of the unconcentrated background of the EPIC-pn camera on board XMM-Newton

Martino Marelli, Silvano Molendi, Mariachiara Rossetti +8

Our understanding of the background of the EPIC/pn camera onboard XMM-Newton is incomplete. This affects the study of extended sources and can influence the predictions of the back…

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.CO2020★ 64 cited

Fast magnetic field amplification in distant galaxyclusters

Gabriella Di Gennaro, Reinout J. van Weeren, Gianfranco Brunetti +16

In the present-day Universe, magnetic fields pervade galaxy clusters, with strengths of a few microGauss obtained from Faraday Rotation. Evidence for cluster magnetic fields is als…

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.GA2020★ 46 cited

SUPER III. Broad Line Region properties of AGN at z2

G. Vietri, V. Mainieri, D. Kakkad +27

The SINFONI survey for Unveiling the Physics and Effect of Radiative feedback (SUPER) was designed to conduct a blind search for AGN-driven outflows on X-ray selected AGN at redshi…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 74 cited

The WISSH QSOs project IX. Cold gas content and environment of luminous QSOs at z~2.4-4.7

M. Bischetti, C. Feruglio, E. Piconcelli +23

Sources at the brightest end of QSO luminosity function during the peak epoch of star formation and black hole accretion (z~2-4, i.e. Cosmic noon) are privileged sites to study the…

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.IM2020★ 16 cited

Prediction and understanding of soft proton contamination in XMM-Newton: a machine learning approach

E. A. Kronberg, F. Gastaldello, S. Haaland +10

One of the major and unfortunately unforeseen sources of background for the current generation of X-ray telescopes are few tens to hundreds of keV (soft) protons concentrated by th…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 22 cited

High-resolution, 3D radiative transfer modelling V. A detailed model of the M51 interacting pair

Angelos Nersesian, Sebastien Viaene, Ilse De Looze +13

Investigating the dust heating mechanisms in galaxies provides a deeper understanding of how the internal energy balance drives their evolution. Over the last decade, radiative tra…

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.GA2020★ 48 cited

The web of the Giant: spectroscopic confirmation of a Large Scale Structure around the z=6.31 quasar SDSS J1030+0524

Marco Mignoli, Roberto Gilli, Roberto Decarli +14

We report on the spectroscopic confirmation of a large scale structure around the luminous, z=6.31 QSO SDSS~J1030+0524, that is powered by a billion solar mass black hole. The stru…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 5 cited

Multiple AGN activity during the BCG assembly of XDCPJ0044.0-2033 at z~1.6

A. Travascio, A. Bongiorno, P. Tozzi +13

Undisturbed galaxy clusters are characterized by a massive and large elliptical galaxy at their center, i.e. the Brightest Cluster Galaxy (BCG). How these central galaxies form is…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 176 cited

Quasars as standard candles III. Validation of a new sample for cosmological studies

E. Lusso, G. Risaliti, E. Nardini +15

We present a new catalogue of ~2,400 optically selected quasars with spectroscopic redshifts and X-ray observations from either Chandra or XMM-Newton. The sample can be used to inv…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 38 cited

A Planck-selected dusty proto-cluster at z=2.16 associated with a strong over-density of massive H emitting galaxies

Yusei Koyama, Maria del Carmen Polletta, Ichi Tanaka +6

We discovered an over-density of H-alpha-emitting galaxies associated with a Planck compact source in the COSMOS field (PHzG237.0+42.5) through narrow-band imaging observations wit…

astro-ph.GA2020★ 18 cited

SPT-CL J2032-5627: a new Southern double relic cluster observed with ASKAP

S. W. Duchesne, M. Johnston-Hollitt, I. Bartalucci +2

We present a radio and X-ray analysis of the galaxy cluster SPT-CL J2032-5627. Investigation of public data from the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) at 943 MHz…

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…