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astro-ph.HE2021★ 5 cited

X-ray spectral-timing variability of 1A 0535+262 during the 2020 giant outburst

P. Reig, R. C. Ma, L. Tao +3

The Be/X-ray binary 1A 0535+262 underwent a giant X-ray outburst in November 2020, peaking at erg s (1--100 keV, 1.8 kpc), the brightest outburst recor…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 12 cited

The extended atmosphere and circumstellar environment of the cool evolved star VX Sagittarii as seen by MATISSE

A. Chiavassa, K. Kravchenko, M. Montargès +50

Context. VX Sgr is a cool, evolved, and luminous red star whose stellar parameters are difficult to determine, which affects its classification. Aims. We aim to spatially resolve t…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 3 cited

Effects of boosting on extragalactic components: methods and statistical studies

William R. Coulton, Sydney Feldman, Karime Maamari +3

In this work we examine the impact of our motion with respect to the CMB rest frame on statistics of CMB maps by examining the one-, two-, three- and four- point statistics of simu…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 13 cited

The morphology of the ejecta of SN 1987A at 31 years from 1150 to 10000 Å

Tuomas Kangas, Claes Fransson, Josefin Larsson +7

We present spectroscopy of the ejecta of SN 1987A in 2017 and 2018 from the Hubble Space Telescope and the Very Large Telescope, covering the wavelength range between and $1…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 32 cited

The DESI -body Simulation Project I: Testing the Robustness of Simulations for the DESI Dark Time Survey

Cameron Grove, Chia-Hsun Chuang, Ningombam Chandrachani Devi +19

Analysis of large galaxy surveys requires confidence in the robustness of numerical simulation methods. The simulations are used to construct mock galaxy catalogs to validate data…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 15 cited

Origin of postmaximum bump in luminous type Ic SN 2019stc

Nikolai N. Chugai, Victor P. Utrobin

We address the issue of the postmaximum bump observed in the light curve of some superluminous supernovae. We rule out the popular mechanism of a circumstellar interaction suggeste…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 35 cited

Deep Images of the Galactic Center with GRAVITY

GRAVITY Collaboration, R. Abuter, N. Aimar +65

Stellar orbits at the Galactic Center provide a very clean probe of the gravitational potential of the supermassive black hole. They can be studied with unique precision, beyond th…

astro-ph.HE2021

Impact of Massive Binary Star and Cosmic Evolution on Gravitational Wave Observations II: Double Compact Object Rates and Properties

Floor S. Broekgaarden, Edo Berger, Simon Stevenson +9

Making the most of the rapidly increasing population of gravitational-wave detections of black hole (BH) and neutron star (NS) mergers requires comparing observations with populati…

physics.plasm-ph2021★ 8 cited

A new technique for tokamak edge density measurement based on microwave interferometer

Mariia Usoltceva, Stéphane Heuraux, Ildar Khabibullin +1

Novel approach for density measurements at the edge of a hot plasma device is presented - Microwave Interferometer in the Limiter Shadow (MILS). The diagnostic technique is based o…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 24 cited

The supernova of the MAGIC GRB190114C

A. Melandri, L. Izzo, E. Pian +42

We observed GRB190114C (redshift z = 0.4245), the first GRB ever detected at TeV energies, at optical and near-infrared wavelengths with several ground-based telescopes and the Hub…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 88 cited

Detailed models of interacting short-period massive binary stars

K. Sen, N. Langer, P. Marchant +10

About a quarter of massive binary stars undergo mass transfer while both stars burn hydrogen at their cores, first on the thermal and then on the nuclear timescale. The nuclear tim…

astro-ph.GA2021

Detecting low-mass haloes with strong gravitational lensing I: the effect of data quality and lensing configuration

Giulia Despali, Simona Vegetti, Simon D. M. White +5

This paper aims to quantify how the lowest halo mass that can be detected with galaxy-galaxy strong gravitational lensing depends on the quality of the observations and the charact…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 9 cited

X-ray observations of historical classical nova counterparts with eROSITA telescope aboard SRG orbital observatory during the all-sky survey

I. Galiullin, M. Gilfanov

X-ray emission from counterparts of historical classical novae (CNe) in our Galaxy is studied. To this end, we use data from three SRG/eROSITA sky surveys in the hemisphere analyze…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 44 cited

A systematic study of the escape of LyC and Ly photons from star-forming, magnetized turbulent clouds

Taysun Kimm, Rebekka Bieri, Sam Geen +4

Understanding the escape of Lyman continuum (LyC) and Lyman (Ly) photons from giant molecular clouds (GMCs) is crucial if we are to study the reionization of the Universe an…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 133 cited

New constraint on Early Dark Energy from Planck and BOSS data using the profile likelihood

Laura Herold, Elisa G. M. Ferreira, Eiichiro Komatsu

A dark energy-like component in the early universe, known as early dark energy (EDE), is a proposed solution to the Hubble tension. Currently, there is no consensus in the literatu…

stat.ML2021★ 10 cited

Information Field Theory and Artificial Intelligence

Torsten Enßlin

Information field theory (IFT), the information theory for fields, is a mathematical framework for signal reconstruction and non-parametric inverse problems. Artificial intelligenc…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 55 cited

Pulsational pair-instability supernovae: gravitational collapse, black-hole formation, and beyond

Ninoy Rahman, Hans-Thomas Janka, Georg Stockinger +1

We investigate the final collapse of rotating and non-rotating pulsational pair-instability supernova progenitors with zero-age-main-sequence masses of 60, 80, and 115$\mathrm{M}_\…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 12 cited

Properties and applications of a predicted population of runaway He-sdO/B stars ejected from single degenerate He-donor SNe

P. Neunteufel, H. Preece, M. Kruckow +4

This study builds on previous works, producing the most extensive prediction of the properties of such a hypothetical population to date, taking into account both Chandrasekhar and…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 33 cited

A MeerKAT-meets-LOFAR Study of MS 1455.0+2232: A 590 kiloparsec 'Mini'-Halo in a Sloshing Cool-Core Cluster

C. J. Riseley, K. Rajpurohit, F. Loi +13

Radio mini-haloes are poorly-understood, moderately-extended diffuse radio sources that trace the presence of magnetic fields and relativistic electrons on scales of hundreds of ki…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 3 cited

Exploring the MeV Sky with a Combined Coded Mask and Compton Telescope: The Galactic Explorer with a Coded Aperture Mask Compton Telescope (GECCO)

Elena Orlando, Eugenio Bottacini, Alexander Moiseev +33

The sky at MeV energies is currently poorly explored. Here we present an innovative mission concept that builds on and improves past and currently proposed missions at such energie…

astro-ph.CO2021★ 22 cited

Field-level inference of galaxy intrinsic alignment from the SDSS-III BOSS survey

Eleni Tsaprazi, Nhat-Minh Nguyen, Jens Jasche +2

As a large-scale overdensity collapses, it affects the orientation and shape of galaxies that form, by exerting tidal shear along their axes. Therefore, the shapes of elliptical ga…

astro-ph.GA2021

The galaxy starburst/main-sequence bimodality over five decades in stellar mass at z ~ 3-6.5

Pierluigi Rinaldi, Karina I. Caputi, Sophie E. van Mierlo +3

We study the relation between stellar mass (M*) and star formation rate (SFR) for star-forming galaxies over approximately five decades in stellar mass (5.5 <~ log10(M*/Msun) <~ 10…

astro-ph.CO2021

Combining Planck and SPT cluster catalogs: cosmological analysis and impact on Planck scaling relation calibration

L. Salvati, A. Saro, S. Bocquet +41

We provide the first combined cosmological analysis of South Pole Telescope (SPT) and Planck cluster catalogs. The aim is to provide an independent calibration for Planck scaling r…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 41 cited

Signatures of the Many Supermassive Black Hole Mergers in a Cosmologically Forming Massive Early-Type Galaxy

Matias Mannerkoski, Peter H. Johansson, Antti Rantala +3

We model here the merger histories of the supermassive black hole (SMBH) population in the late stages of a cosmological simulation of a galaxy grou…