output
19972026
most citedThe Swift X-ray Telescope

2.7k citations

Showing 2021Show all

23 papers · 1 filter

astro-ph.IM2021★ 9 cited

The Fluorescence Telescope on board EUSO-SPB2 for the detection of Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays

G. Osteria, J. Adams, M. Battisti +37

The Fluorescence Telescope is one of the two telescopes on board the Extreme Universe Space Observatory on a Super Pressure Balloon II (EUSO-SPB2). EUSO-SPB2 is an ultra-long-durat…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 17 cited

Expected Performance of the EUSO-SPB2 Fluorescence Telescope

G. Filippatos, M. Battisti, M. Bertaina +6

The Extreme Universe Space Observatory Supper Pressure Balloon 2 (EUSO-SPB2) is under development, and will prototype instrumentation for future satellite-based missions, including…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 15 cited

MeerKAT discovery of radio emission from the Vela X-1 bow shock

J. van den Eijnden, I. Heywood, R. Fender +7

Vela X-1 is a runaway X-ray binary system hosting a massive donor star, whose strong stellar wind creates a bow shock as it interacts with the interstellar medium. This bow shock h…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 14 cited

Simultaneous X-ray and radio observations of the transitional millisecond pulsar candidate CXOU J110926.4-650224. The discovery of a variable radio counterpart

F. Coti Zelati, B. Hugo, D. F. Torres +15

We present the results of simultaneous observations of the transitional millisecond pulsar (tMSP) candidate CXOU J110926.4-650224 with the XMM-Newton satellite and the MeerKAT tele…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 114 cited

The energy spectrum of cosmic rays beyond the turn-down around eV as measured with the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +374

We present a measurement of the cosmic-ray spectrum above 100\,PeV using the part of the surface detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory that has a spacing of 750~m. An inflection…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 3 cited

Effective pointing of the ASTRI-Horn telescope using the Cherenkov camera with the Variance method

Simone Iovenitti, Giorgia Sironi, Alberto Segreto +2

Cherenkov telescope cameras are not suitable to perform astrometrical pointing calibration since they are not designed to produce images of the sky, but rather to detect nanosecond…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 54 cited

X-ray spectra, light-curves and SEDs of blazars frequently observed by Swift

P. Giommi, M. Perri, M. Capalbi +19

Blazars research is one of the hot topics of contemporary extra-galactic astrophysics. That is because these sources are the most abundant type of extra-galactic gamma-ray sources…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 17 cited

The evolving radio jet from the neutron star X-ray binary 4U 182030

T. D. Russell, N. Degenaar, J. van den Eijnden +6

The persistently bright ultra-compact neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U 182030 displays a 170 d accretion cycle, evolving between phases of high and low X-ray modes, w…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 56 cited

The Varying Kinematics of Multiple Ejecta from the Black Hole X-ray Binary MAXI J1820+070

C. M. Wood, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, J. Homan +14

During a 2018 outburst, the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 was comprehensively monitored at multiple wavelengths as it underwent a hard to soft state transition. During thi…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 6 cited

A deep observation of the X-Persei-like binary system CXOU J225355.1+624336

N. La Palombara, L. Sidoli, P. Esposito +2

We report on the follow-up observation of the persistent X-ray pulsar CXOU J225355.1+624336, discovered with the CATS@BAR project on archival data. The sourc…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 29 cited

The hybrid radio/X-ray correlation of the black hole transient MAXI J1348-630

F. Carotenuto, S. Corbel, E. Tremou +8

Black hole low mass X-ray binaries in their hard spectral state are found to display two different correlations between the radio emission from the compact jets and the X-ray emiss…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 32 cited

The INTEGRAL view on Black Hole X-ray Binaries

S. E. Motta, J. Rodriguez, E. Jourdain +11

INTEGRAL is an ESA mission in fundamental astrophysics that was launched in October 2002. It has been in orbit for over 18 years, during which it has been observing the high-energy…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 102 cited

The peculiar short-duration GRB 200826A and its supernova

A. Rossi, B. Rothberg, E. Palazzi +31

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are classified as long and short events. Long GRBs (LGRBs) are associated with the end states of very massive stars, while short GRBs (SGRBs) are linked to…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 4 cited

Strong low-frequency radio flaring from Cygnus X-3 observed with LOFAR

J. W. Broderick, T. D. Russell, R. P. Fender +12

We present Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) 143.5-MHz radio observations of flaring activity during 2019 May from the X-ray binary Cygnus X-3. Similar to radio observations of previous…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 9 cited

UVscope and its application aboard the ASTRI-Horn telescope

M. C. Maccarone, G. La Rosa, O. Catalano +9

UVscope is an instrument, based on a multi-pixel photon detector, developed to support experimental activities for high-energy astrophysics and cosmic ray research. The instrument,…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 69 cited

Measuring fundamental jet properties with multi-wavelength fast timing of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070

A. J. Tetarenko, P. Casella, J. C. A. Miller-Jones +9

We present multi-wavelength fast timing observations of the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 (ASASSN-18ey), taken with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), Atacama Larg…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 80 cited

The black hole transient MAXI J1348-630: evolution of the compact and transient jets during its 2019/2020 outburst

F. Carotenuto, S. Corbel, E. Tremou +14

We present the radio and X-ray monitoring campaign of the 2019/2020 outburst of MAXI J1348-630, a new black hole X-ray binary (XRB) discovered in 2019 January. We observed MAXI J13…

hep-ex2021★ 27 cited

Extraction of the Muon Signals Recorded with the Surface Detector of the Pierre Auger Observatory Using Recurrent Neural Networks

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +370

The Pierre Auger Observatory, at present the largest cosmic-ray observatory ever built, is instrumented with a ground array of 1600 water-Cherenkov detectors, known as the Surface…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 6 cited

Multi-band observations of Swift J0840.7-3516: a new transient ultra-compact X-ray binary candidate

F. Coti Zelati, A. de Ugarte Postigo, T. D. Russell +5

We report on multi-band observations of the transient source Swift J0840.7-3516, which was detected in outburst in 2020 February by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The outburst…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 2 cited

The Payload Data Handling Unit (PDHU) on-board the HERMES-TP and HERMES-SP CubeSat Missions

A. Guzman, S. Pliego, J. Bayer +14

The High Energy Rapid Modular Ensemble of Satellites (HERMES) Technological and Scientific pathfinder is a space borne mission based on a constellation of LEO nanosatellites. The p…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 7 cited

Design and implementation of the AMIGA embedded system for data acquisition

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +383

The Auger Muon Infill Ground Array (AMIGA) is part of the AugerPrime upgrade of the Pierre Auger Observatory. It consists of particle counters buried 2.3 m underground next to the…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 4 cited

The FRAM robotic telescope for atmospheric monitoring at the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +377

FRAM (F/Photometric Robotic Atmospheric Monitor) is a robotic telescope operated at the Pierre Auger Observatory in Argentina for the purposes of atmospheric monitoring using stell…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 30 cited

Deep-Learning based Reconstruction of the Shower Maximum using the Water-Cherenkov Detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +370

The atmospheric depth of the air shower maximum is an observable commonly used for the determination of the nuclear mass composition of ultra-high energy cosmic…