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astro-ph.HE2014★ 30 cited

Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of Type IIb Supernovae: Diversity and the Impact of Circumstellar Material

Sagi Ben-Ami, Stephan Hachinger, Avishay Gal-Yam +9

We present new Hubble Space Telescope (HST) multi-epoch ultraviolet (UV) spectra of the bright Type IIb SN 2013df, and undertake a comprehensive anal- ysis of the set of four Type…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 29 cited

5.9 keV Mn K-shell X-ray luminosity from the decay of 55Fe in Type Ia supernova models

I. R. Seitenzahl, A. Summa, F. Krauss +12

We show that the X-ray line flux of the Mn Kalpha line at 5.9 keV from the decay of 55Fe is a promising diagnostic to distinguish between Type Ia supernova (SN Ia) explosion models…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 5 cited

Oxygen emission in remnants of thermonuclear supernovae as a probe for their progenitor system

D. Kosenko, W. Hillebrandt, M. Kromer +3

Recent progress in numerical simulations of thermonuclear supernova explosions brings up a unique opportunity in studying the progenitors of Type Ia supernovae. Coupling state-of-t…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 8 cited

Optical Synchrotron Precursors of Radio Hypernovae

Daisuke Nakauchi, Kazumi Kashiyama, Hiroki Nagakura +2

We examine the bright radio synchrotron counterparts of low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts (llGRBs) and relativistic supernovae (SNe) and find that they can be powered by spherical hy…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 20 cited

Searching for coherent pulsations in ultraluminous X-ray sources

V. Doroshenko, A. Santangelo, L. Ducci

Luminosities of ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) are uncomfortably large if compared to the Eddington limit for isotropic accretion onto stellar-mass object. Most often either su…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 340 cited

Turbulent Heating in Galaxy Clusters Brightest in X-rays

I. Zhuravleva, E. Churazov, A. A. Schekochihin +9

The hot, X-ray-emitting intracluster medium (ICM) is the dominant baryonic constituent of clusters of galaxies. In the cores of many clusters, radiative energy losses from the ICM…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 55 cited

Type Ia Supernova Spectral Features in the Context of Their Host Galaxy Properties

Y. -C. Pan, M. Sullivan, K. Maguire +5

We analyse spectroscopic measurements of 122 type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) with z<0.09 discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory, focusing on the properties of the Si II 6355 and C…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 54 cited

Shaping the X-ray spectrum of galaxy clusters with AGN feedback and turbulence

M. Gaspari

The hot plasma filling galaxy clusters emits copious X-ray radiation. The classic unheated and unperturbed cooling flow model predicts dramatic cooling rates and an isobaric X-ray…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 75 cited

The Denoised, Deconvolved, and Decomposed Fermi -ray sky - An application of the DPO algorithm

Marco Selig, Valentina Vacca, Niels Oppermann +1

We analyze the 6.5yr all-sky data from the Fermi LAT restricted to gamma-ray photons with energies between 0.6-307.2GeV. Raw count maps show a superposition of diffuse and point-li…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 33 cited

Probing Rotation of Core-collapse Supernova with Concurrent Analysis of Gravitational Waves and Neutrinos

Takaaki Yokozawa, Mitsuhiro Asano, Tsubasa Kayano +4

The next time a core-collapse supernova (SN) explodes in our galaxy, vari- ous detectors will be ready and waiting to detect its emissions of gravitational waves (GWs) and neutrino…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 55 cited

Neutrino viscosity and drag: impact on the magnetorotational instability in protoneutron stars

Jerome Guilet, Ewald Mueller, Hans-Thomas Janka

The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is a promising mechanism to amplify the magnetic field in fast rotating protoneutron stars. The diffusion of neutrinos trapped in the PNS in…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 20 cited

Hard X-ray emission of Sco X-1

Mikhail G. Revnivtsev, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Eugene M. Churazov +1

We study hard X-ray emission of the brightest accreting neutron star Sco X-1 with INTEGRAL observatory. Up to now INTEGRAL have collected ~4 Msec of deadtime corrected exposure on…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 176 cited

On the nuclear robustness of the r process in neutron-star mergers

Joel de Jesús Mendoza-Temis, Meng-Ru Wu, Karlheinz Langanke +3

We have performed r-process calculations for matter ejected dynamically in neutron star mergers based on a complete set of trajectories from a three-dimensional relativistic smooth…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 14 cited

The Vela Pulsar With an Active Fallback Disk

Gökçe Özsükan, K. Yavuz Ekşi, Valeri Hambaryan +4

Fallback disks are expected to form around young neutron stars. The presence of these disks can be revealed by their blackbody spectrum in the infrared, optical and UV bands. We pr…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 95 cited

SN2014J gamma-rays from the 56Ni decay chain

Roland Diehl, Thomas Siegert, Wolfgang Hillebrandt +7

The measurement of gamma-ray lines from the decay chain of 56Ni provides unique information about the explosion in supernovae. The 56Ni freshly-produced in the supernova powers the…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 270 cited

Three-Dimensional Simulations of Core-Collapse Supernovae: From Shock Revival to Shock Breakout

Annop Wongwathanarat, Ewald Mueller, H. -Thomas Janka

We present 3D simulations of core-collapse supernovae from blast-wave initiation by the neutrino-driven mechanism to shock breakout from the stellar surface, considering two 15 Msu…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 129 cited

The ejected mass distribution of type Ia supernovae: A significant rate of non-Chandrasekhar-mass progenitors

R. A. Scalzo, A. J. Ruiter, S. A. Sim

The ejected mass distribution of type Ia supernovae directly probes progenitor evolutionary history and explosion mechanisms, with implications for their use as cosmological probes…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 89 cited

The Broad-Lined Type Ic SN 2012ap and the Nature of Relativistic Supernovae Lacking a Gamma-ray Burst Detection

D. Milisavljevic, R. Margutti, J. T. Parrent +20

We present ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared observations of SN 2012ap, a broad-lined Type Ic supernova in the galaxy NGC 1729 that produced a relativistic and rapidly decele…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 103 cited

Exploring the spectral diversity of low-redshift Type Ia supernovae using the Palomar Transient Factory

Kate Maguire, Mark Sullivan, Yen-Chen Pan +15

We present an investigation of the optical spectra of 264 low-redshift (z < 0.2) Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) discovered by the Palomar Transient Factory, an untargeted transient su…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 132 cited

Non-Detection of X-Ray Emission From Sterile Neutrinos in Stacked Galaxy Spectra

Michael E. Anderson, Eugene Churazov, Joel N. Bregman

We conduct a comprehensive search for X-ray emission lines from sterile neutrino dark matter, motivated by recent claims of unidentified emission lines in the stacked X-ray spectra…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 40 cited

How Much Can Ni Be Synthesized by Magnetar Model for Long Gamma-ray Bursts and Hypernovae?

Yudai Suwa, Nozomu Tominaga

A rapidly rotating neutron star with strong magnetic fields, called magnetar, is a possible candidate for the central engine of long gamma-ray bursts and hypernovae (HNe). We solve…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 165 cited

Late-time spectral line formation in Type IIb supernovae, with application to SN 1993J, SN 2008ax, and SN 2011dh

A. Jerkstrand, M. Ergon, S. J. Smartt +5

We investigate line formation processes in Type IIb supernovae (SNe) from 100 to 500 days post-explosion using spectral synthesis calculations. The modeling identifies the nuclear…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 27 cited

Modulating the magnetosphere of magnetars by internal magneto-elastic oscillations

Michael Gabler, Pablo Cerdá-Durán, Nikolaos Stergioulas +2

We couple internal torsional, magneto-elastic oscillations of highly magnetized neutron stars (magnetars) to their magnetospheres. The corresponding axisymmetric perturbations of t…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 43 cited

Stellar tidal disruption candidates found by cross-correlating the ROSAT Bright Source Catalogue and XMM-Newton observations

Ildar Khabibullin, Sergey Sazonov

We performed a systematic search for stellar tidal disruption events (TDE) by looking for X-ray sources that were detected during the ROSAT All Sky Survey and faded by more than an…