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Shortening the Baseline: Characterising Type Ia Supernovae Using

Joel M. Velasco, Paolo A. Mazzali, Christopher Ashall +8

An explorative study of Type Ia Supernovae (SNe Ia) light curves is presented. decline-rate metrics are used to evaluate alternative characterisations of light curve di…

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SN 2022erq: A Superluminous Thermonuclear Supernova with Escalating Preexplosion Mass Loss

Qian Zhai, Jujia Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang +51

We present a photometric and spectroscopic study of the superluminous Type Ia supernova SN 2022erq. Its early spectra, dominated by iron-group elements with weak intermediate-mass…

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Spectral and timing variability of the transient ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 4631 X-4

Sinan Allak, Wei Yu, Lorenzo Ducci +4

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are among the best laboratories for studying super-Eddington accretion onto compact objects. We present a detailed spectral and timing analysis o…

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Exploring the nature of Galactic unassociated sources detected by the Fermi-LAT

F. Acero, A. Acharyya, A. Adelfio +120

We investigate the nature of the unassociated sources detected by the Fermi-LAT close (|b|<10°) to the Galactic plane, representing 16% of all sources in the 4FGL-DR4 catalog. The…

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A candidate cyclotron line at 1.89 keV in the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 4861 X-2

Sinan Allak, Lorenzo Ducci, Valery F. Suleimanov +6

In this Letter, we report the detection of an absorption-like feature at ~1.89 keV in Chandra/ACIS spectra of the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 4861 X-2, based on the deepest obse…

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Nature of 4FGL J2249.4+6229: Evidence for a redback system with a cool companion and low X-ray and -ray luminosities

A. V. Karpova, D. A. Zyuzin, S. V. Zharikov +1

We report the identification of the likely X-ray and optical counterpart to the unassociated Fermi source 4FGL J2249.4+6229. To clarify its nature, we investigate the X-ray data fr…

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Long-term study of the gamma-ray emission of Cygnus X-3 with MAGIC and Fermi-LAT

K. Abe, S. Abe, J. Abhir +185

Cygnus X-3 is a microquasar composed of a compact object of unknown nature closely orbiting around a Wolf-Rayet star. The particularities of this source make it a unique case among…

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Neutron star atmospheres composed of fusion ashes

Valery F. Suleimanov, Juri Poutanen, Klaus Werner

Here we present models of hot neutron star (NS) atmospheres consisting of thermonuclear ashes of various chemical compositions. These models are essential for studying thermonuclea…

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Mapping the emission and spectral properties of the FRI radio galaxy 3C 449 with LOFAR and the VLA

Luca Ricci, Luisa Ostorero, Raffaella Morganti +3

The jets and lobes of nearby radio galaxies are ideal laboratories to explore the spectral and dynamical evolution of the radio-emitting plasma that emanates from active galactic n…

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Pulsar scintillation studies with LOFAR III. Annual variations in PSR~J08147429

Yanqing Cai, Ziwei Wu, Weiwei Zhu +27

The interstellar scintillation observed in radio pulsars arises from interference between electromagnetic waves scattered by electron density fluctuations in the turbulent interste…

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A Bayesian Method for Air-Shower Reconstruction using Information Field Theory

Karen Terveer, Sjoerd Bouma, Stijn Buitink +12

The radio detection of extensive air showers provides a powerful method for studying the origin of high-energy cosmic rays. The Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) offers unprecedentedly d…

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The major cluster merger in Abell 2034 as seen by XRISM: Strong turbulence and spectral anomalies?

Annie Heinrich, Irina Zhuravleva, Eugene Churazov +5

XRISM observations to date have shown that gas kinetic pressures in the intracluster medium (ICM) tend towards the low end of predictions from cosmological simulations. Here, we pr…

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Gravitational-Wave Signals for Supernova Explosions of Three-Dimensional Progenitors

Alessandro Lella, Giuseppe Lucente, Daniel Kresse +3

Core-collapse supernovae (SNe) are sources of gravitational waves (GWs) produced by hydrodynamical instabilities and highly time-dependent anisotropies of the neutrino radiation. I…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 2 cited

The average X-ray spectrum of the volume-complete M-, F-, G-, and K-type star sample within 10 pc of the Sun

Xueying Zheng, Gabriele Ponti, Nicola Locatelli +15

F, G, K and M type stars are the most abundant stellar population in the Milky Way and are expected to contribute to its diffuse X-ray emission. Yet their intrinsic average X-ray s…

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Where within the 3C 84 jet are -rays produced?

Georgios F. Paraschos, Ioannis Liodakis, Svetlana Jorstad +49

The location of -ray creation and emission within extra-galactic jets is a matter of active debate. One particularly well-suited source to pinpoint the location is the nearby, b…

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The twin-jet system in the FRII radio galaxy 3C 452: A sub-parsec scale VLBI study

Eftychia Madika, Bia Boccardi, Luca Ricci +5

We present a comprehensive multifrequency VLBI analysis of the FRII, high-excitation radio galaxy 3C 452, aiming to resolve and analyze for the first time its twin-jet structure on…

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Quantifying the impact of relativistic precession on tidal disruption event light curves

Diego Calderón, Ondřej Pejcha, Brian D. Metzger +2

The tidal field of a black hole can turn a star into a gas stream whose orbit can precess, especially if the a black hole is rapidly spinning. In this work, we investigate the impa…

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CubeSats Reach the Millisecond X-Ray Domain: Crab Pulsar Timing with SpIRIT/HERMES

Wladimiro Leone, R. Mearns, T. Di Salvo +70

The High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites (HERMES) instrument is a compact X/-ray spectrometer operating on board the 6U (11 kg) SpIRIT CubeSat. The payload is partic…

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Rapid jet ejection from PKS 0215+015 coincident with a high-energy neutrino event

F. Eppel, M. Kadler, E. Ros +19

Aims. We present a new neutrino-blazar multiwavelength flare coincidence observed in the blazar PKS 0215+015, which showed a strong multiwavelength outburst in coincidence with the…

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Inefficiency of chiral dynamos in protoneutron stars and the early universe

Valentin A. Skoutnev, Andrei M. Beloborodov

The chiral plasma instability (CPI) has been invoked as a possible mechanism for generating primordial magnetic fields in the universe and ultrastrong fields in neutron stars. We i…

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AT2024lhc and AT2024kmq in the landscape of featureless tidal disruption events

Yuhan Yao, Ryan Chornock, Andrew Mummery +39

We study AT2024kmq and AT2024lhc, two tidal disruption events (TDEs) with blue featureless spectra associated with high-mass black holes (). Both even…

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3D insights into SN 1987A: ALMA observations compared to hydrodynamical explosion simulations

R. Wesson, M. Gabler, M. Lyons +9

We obtain three-dimensional distributions of CO and SiO molecules from high spatial resolution (0.03--0.06") ALMA observations of SN 1987A at two different epochs. The evolution be…

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In-flight calibration of the INTEGRAL/IBIS Compton mode: Application to the Crab Nebula polarization

Tristan Bouchet, Philippe Laurent, Floriane Cangemi +1

The INTEGRAL satellite explored the gamma-ray sky since its launch on October 17, 2002, and until the end of its scientific operation on February 28, 2025. A large fraction of the…

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Global Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Monster Shocks in Neutron Star Magnetospheres

Michael P. Grehan, Bart Ripperda, Andrei M. Beloborodov +2

Waves launched from the neutron star surface or inner magnetosphere propagate through the magnetosphere as small perturbations, but can grow relative to the background magnetic fie…