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astro-ph.HE2017★ 51 cited

The hypersoft state of Cygnus X-3 - A key to jet quenching in X-ray binaries?

K. I. I. Koljonen, T. Maccarone, M. L. McCollough +5

Cygnus X-3 is a unique microquasar in the Galaxy hosting a Wolf-Rayet companion orbiting a compact object that most likely is a low-mass black hole. The unique source properties ar…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 112 cited

On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1095

On 2017 August 17 the merger of two compact objects with masses consistent with two neutron stars was discovered through gravitational-wave (GW170817), gamma-ray (GRB 170817A), and…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 1.3k cited

GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1101

On June 8, 2017 at 02:01:16.49 UTC, a gravitational-wave signal from the merger of two stellar-mass black holes was observed by the two Advanced LIGO detectors with a network signa…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 193 cited

Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory

A. Albert, M. Andre, M. Anghinolfi +1931

The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observatories recently discovered gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. A short gamma-ray burst (GRB) that followed the merg…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 3.6k cited

Gravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor +1

On 2017 August 17, the gravitational-wave event GW170817 was observed by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors, and the gamma-ray burst (GRB) GRB 170817A was observed independently…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 253 cited

Science with e-ASTROGAM (A space mission for MeV-GeV gamma-ray astrophysics)

A. De Angelis, V. Tatischeff, I. A. Grenier +248

e-ASTROGAM (enhanced ASTROGAM) is a breakthrough Observatory space mission, with a detector composed by a Silicon tracker, a calorimeter, and an anticoincidence system, dedicated t…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 266 cited

Search for post-merger gravitational waves from the remnant of the binary neutron star merger GW170817

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1105

The first observation of a binary neutron star coalescence by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors offers an unprecedented opportunity to study matter…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 227 cited

Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated with GW170817

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1100

The source of the gravitational-wave signal GW170817, very likely a binary neutron star merger, was also observed electromagnetically, providing the first multi-messenger observati…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 409 cited

Observation of a Large-scale Anisotropy in the Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays above eV

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +404

Cosmic rays are atomic nuclei arriving from outer space that reach the highest energies observed in nature. Clues to their origin come from studying the distribution of their arriv…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 11 cited

EAS age determination from the study of the lateral distribution of charged particles near the shower axis with the ARGO-YBJ experiment

YBJ Collaboration, B. Bartoli, P. Bernardini +69

The ARGO-YBJ experiment, a full coverage extensive air shower (EAS) detector located at high altitude (4300 m a.s.l.) in Tibet, China, has smoothly taken data, with very high stabi…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 82 cited

Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a Model-Based Cross-Correlation Search in Advanced LIGO Data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1046

We present the results of a semicoherent search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1, using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing ru…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 25 cited

Fermi observations of the LIGO event GW170104

Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Nicola Omodei, Dan Kocevski +3

We present the \emph{Fermi} Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) and Large Area Telescope (LAT) observations of the LIGO binary black hole merger (BBH) event GW170104. No candidate electr…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 3 cited

Measurement of Energy Spectrum of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays

Valerio Verzi, Dmitri Ivanov, Yoshiki Tsunesada

Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Rays (UHECRs) are charged particles of energies above eV that originate outside of the Galaxy. Because the flux of the UHECRs at Earth is very sm…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 209 cited

Cosmic-ray electron+positron spectrum from 7 GeV to 2 TeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

LAT Collaboration, S. Abdollahi, M. Ackermann +97

We present a measurement of the cosmic-ray electron+positron spectrum between 7 GeV and 2 TeV performed with almost seven years of data collected with the Fermi Large Area Telescop…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 23 cited

Prospects for CTA observations of the young SNR RX J1713.7-3946

The CTA Consortium, :, F. Acero +381

We perform simulations for future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observations of RX~J1713.73946, a young supernova remnant (SNR) and one of the brightest sources ever discovere…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 413 cited

The Fermi Galactic Center GeV Excess and Implications for Dark Matter

LAT Collaboration

The region around the Galactic center (GC) is now well established to be brighter at energies of a few GeV than expected from conventional models of diffuse gamma-ray emission and…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 25 cited

High-energy gamma-ray activity from V404 Cygni detected by AGILE during the 2015 June outburst

G. Piano, P. Munar-Adrover, F. Verrecchia +2

The AGILE satellite detected transient high-energy gamma-ray emission from the X-ray binary V404 Cygni, during the June 2015 outburst observed in radio, optical, X-ray and soft gam…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 15 cited

Search for Gamma Ray Bursts with the ARGO-YBJ Detector in Shower Mode

B. Bartoli, P. Bernardini, X. J. Bi +69

The ARGO-YBJ detector, located at the Yangbajing Cosmic Ray Laboratory (4300 m a. s. l., Tibet, China), was a full coverage air shower array dedicated to gamma ray astronomy and co…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 59 cited

Search for Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Anisotropies with Seven Years of Fermi Large Area Telescope Data

LAT Collaboration

The Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has collected the largest ever sample of high-energy cosmic-ray electron and positron events since the beginni…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 52 cited

Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Gravitational Wave Event GW151226 and Candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube

A. Albert, M. Andre, M. Anghinolfi +1410

The Advanced LIGO observatories detected gravitational waves from two binary black hole mergers during their first observation run (O1). We present a high-energy neutrino follow-up…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 97 cited

Observations of M31 and M33 with the Fermi Large Area Telescope: a galactic center excess in Andromeda?

LAT Collaboration

The Fermi LAT has opened the way for comparative studies of cosmic rays (CRs) and high-energy objects in the Milky Way (MW) and in other, external, star-forming galaxies. Using 2 y…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 74 cited

Gamma-ray Blazars Within the First 2 Billion Years

Large Area Telescope Collaboration

The detection of high-redshift (3) blazars enables the study of the evolution of the most luminous relativistic jets over cosmic time. More importantly, high-redshift blazars t…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 359 cited

3FHL: The Third Catalog of Hard Fermi-LAT Sources

LAT Collaboration

We present a catalog of sources detected above 10 GeV by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) in the first 7 years of data using the Pass 8 event-level analysis. This is the Third…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 114 cited

Search for extended sources in the Galactic Plane using 6 years of Fermi-Large Area Telescope Pass 8 data above 10 GeV

The Fermi LAT Collaboration, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +117

The spatial extension of a gamma-ray source is an essential ingredient to determine its spectral properties as well as its potential multi-wavelength counterpart. The capability to…