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most citedObservation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger

14.2k citations

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astro-ph.HE2018★ 46 cited

Accretion in Strong Field Gravity with eXTP

Alessandra De Rosa, Phil Uttley, Lijun Gou +99

In this paper we describe the potential of the enhanced X-ray Timing and Polarimetry (eXTP) mission for studies related to accretion flows in the strong field gravity regime around…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 173 cited

A -ray determination of the Universe's star-formation history

LAT Collaboration, M. Ajello, K. Helgason +4

The light emitted by all galaxies over the history of the Universe produces the extragalactic background light (EBL) at ultraviolet, optical, and infrared wavelengths. The EBL is a…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 80 cited

Searches for Continuous Gravitational Waves from Fifteen Supernova Remnants and Fomalhaut b with Advanced LIGO

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1129

We describe directed searches for continuous gravitational waves from sixteen well localized candidate neutron stars assuming none of the stars has a binary companion. The searches…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 37 cited

Unresolved Gamma-Ray Sky through its Angular Power Spectrum

M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, L. Baldini +107

The gamma-ray sky has been observed with unprecedented accuracy in the last decade by the Fermi large area telescope (LAT), allowing us to resolve and understand the high-energy Un…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 20 cited

AGILE detection of gamma-ray sources coincident with cosmic neutrino events

F. Lucarelli, M. Tavani, G. Piano +34

The origin of cosmic neutrinos is still largely unknown. Using data obtained by the gamma-ray imager on board of the AGILE satellite, we systematically searched for transient gamma…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 8 cited

AGILE, Fermi, Swift, and GASP-WEBT multi-wavelength observations of the high-redshift blazar 4C 71.07 in outburst

S. Vercellone, P. Romano, G. Piano +56

The flat-spectrum radio quasar 4C 71.07 is a high-redshift (), -loud blazar whose optical emission is dominated by the thermal radiation from accretion disc. 4C 7…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 901 cited

Binary Black Hole Population Properties Inferred from the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1138

We present results on the mass, spin, and redshift distributions with phenomenological population models using the ten binary black hole mergers detected in the first and second ob…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 3.5k cited

GWTC-1: A Gravitational-Wave Transient Catalog of Compact Binary Mergers Observed by LIGO and Virgo during the First and Second Observing Runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1148

We present the results from three gravitational-wave searches for coalescing compact binaries with component masses above 1 during the first and second observing…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 44 cited

A Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor Search for Electromagnetic Signals Coincident with Gravitational-Wave Candidates in Advanced LIGO's First Observing Run

ray Burst Monitor Team, The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration +1160

We present a search for prompt gamma-ray counterparts to compact binary coalescence gravitational wave (GW) candidates from Advanced LIGO's first observing run (O1). As demonstrate…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 49 cited

Constraining the p-mode--g-mode tidal instability with GW170817

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, The Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1136

We analyze the impact of a proposed tidal instability coupling -modes and -modes within neutron stars on GW170817. This non-resonant instability transfers energy from the orb…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 39 cited

VERITAS and Fermi-LAT observations of new HAWC sources

VERITAS Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, A. Archer +280

The HAWC (High Altitude Water Cherenkov) collaboration recently published their 2HWC catalog, listing 39 very high energy (VHE; >100~GeV) gamma-ray sources based on 507 days of obs…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 133 cited

Large-scale cosmic-ray anisotropies above 4 EeV measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +374

We present a detailed study of the large-scale anisotropies of cosmic rays with energies above 4 EeV measured using the Pierre Auger Observatory. For the energy bins [4,8] EeV and…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 19 cited

Search for GeV Gamma-ray Counterparts of Gravitational Wave Events by CALET

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +88

We present results on searches for gamma-ray counterparts of the LIGO/Virgo gravitational-wave events using CALorimetric Electron Telescope ({\sl CALET}) observations. The main ins…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 24 cited

Lithium and Beryllium isotopes with the PAMELA experiment

W. Menn, E. A. Bogomolov, M. Simon +56

The cosmic-ray lithium and beryllium (Li, Li, Be, Be, Be) isotopic composition has been measured with the satellite-borne experiment PAMELA, which wa…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 179 cited

Extended Measurement of the Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Spectrum from 11 GeV to 4.8 TeV with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope on the International Space Station

O. Adriani, Y. Akaike, K. Asano +88

Extended results on the cosmic-ray electron + positron spectrum from 11 GeV to 4.8 TeV are presented based on observations with the Calorimetric Electron Telescope (CALET) on the I…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 35 cited

Galactic Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy in the Northern hemisphere from the ARGO-YBJ Experiment during 2008-2012

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

This paper reports on the observation of the sidereal large-scale anisotropy of cosmic rays using data collected by the ARGO-YBJ experiment over 5 years (20082012). This analysi…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 176 cited

Search for Spatial Extension in High-Latitude Sources Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

LAT Collaboration, Jonathan Biteau

We present a search for spatial extension in high-latitude () sources in recent Fermi point source catalogs. The result is the Fermi High-Latitude Extended Sources Cat…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 53 cited

Einstein@Home discovers a radio-quiet gamma-ray millisecond pulsar

C. J. Clark, H. J. Pletsch, J. Wu +18

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) are old neutron stars that spin hundreds of times per second and appear to pulsate as their emission beams cross our line of sight. To date, radio pulsat…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 34 cited

Evidence of energy and charge sign dependence of the recovery time for the December 2006 Forbush event measured by the PAMELA experiment

R. Munini, M. Boezio, A. Bruno +55

New results on the short-term galactic cosmic ray (GCR) intensity variation (Forbush decrease) in December 2006 measured by the PAMELA instrument are presented. Forbush decreases a…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 258 cited

Indication of anisotropy in arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays through comparison to the flux pattern of extragalactic gamma-ray sources

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +390

A new analysis of the dataset from the Pierre Auger Observatory provides evidence for anisotropy in the arrival directions of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays on an intermediate angul…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 9 cited

Pinpointing astrophysical bursts of low-energy neutrinos embedded into the noise

C. Casentini, G. Pagliaroli, C. Vigorito +1

We propose a novel method to increase the probability of identifying impulsive astrophysical bursts of low-energy neutrinos. The proposed approach exploits the temporal structure d…