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astro-ph.HE2016★ 20 cited

Dark jets in the soft X-ray state of black hole binaries?

S. Drappeau, J. Malzac, M. Coriat +10

X-ray binary observations led to the interpretation that powerful compact jets, produced in the hard state, are quenched when the source transitions to its soft state. The aim of t…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 66 cited

The NuSTAR Serendipitous Survey: The 40 month Catalog and the Properties of the Distant High Energy X-ray Source Population

G. B. Lansbury, D. Stern, J. Aird +35

We present the first full catalog and science results for the NuSTAR serendipitous survey. The catalog incorporates data taken during the first 40 months of NuSTAR operation, which…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 32 cited

A targeted search for point sources of EeV photons with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +397

Simultaneous measurements of air showers with the fluorescence and surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory allow a sensitive search for EeV photon point sources. Several…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 11 cited

First limits on the very-high energy gamma-ray afterglow emission of a fast radio burst: H.E.S.S. observations of FRB 150418

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +265

Aims: Following the detection of the fast radio burst FRB150418 by the SUPERB project at the Parkes radio telescope, we aim to search for very-high energy gamma-ray afterglow emiss…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 88 cited

The Structure of the Local Hot Bubble

W. Liu, M. Chiao, M. R. Collier +14

DXL (Diffuse X-rays from the Local Galaxy) is a sounding rocket mission designed to quantify and characterize the contribution of Solar Wind Charge eXchange (SWCX) to the Diffuse X…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 12 cited

Fe K and ejecta emission in SNR G15.9+0.2 with XMM-Newton

Pierre Maggi, Fabio Acero

Aims: We present a study of the Galactic supernova remnant SNR G15.9+0.2 with archival XMM-Newton observations. Methods: EPIC data are used to investigate the morphological and spe…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 11 cited

The Highest-Energy Cosmic Rays Cannot be Dominantly Protons from Steady Sources

Ke Fang, Kumiko Kotera

The bulk of observed ultrahigh energy cosmic rays could be light or heavier elements, and originate from an either steady or transient population of sources. This leaves us with fo…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 9 cited

Constraining the geometry of PSR J0855-4644: A nearby Pulsar Wind Nebula with Double Torus/Jet Morphology

Chandreyee Maitra, Fabio Acero, Christo Venter

Aims: PSR J0855-4644 is a fast-spinning, energetic pulsar discovered at radio wavelengths near the south-eastern rim of the supernova remnant RX J0852.0-4622. A follow-up observati…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 18 cited

Multi-wavelength observations of IGR J17544-2619 from quiescence to outburst

E. Bozzo, V. Bhalerao, P. Pradhan +12

In this paper we report on a long multi-wavelength observational campaign of the supergiant fast X-ray transient prototype IGR J17544-2619. A 150 ks-long observation was carried ou…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 50 cited

Characterizing the gamma-ray long-term variability of PKS 2155-304 with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +244

Studying the temporal variability of BL Lac objects at the highest energies provides unique insights into the extreme physical processes occurring in relativistic jets and in the v…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 57 cited

X-rays from the location of the Bactrian Transient ASASSN-15lh

R. Margutti, B. D. Metzger, R. Chornock +13

We present the detection of persistent soft X-ray radiation with L_x ~ 10^41-10^42 erg/s at the location of the extremely luminous, double-humped transient ASASSN-15lh as revealed…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 29 cited

Search for ultrarelativistic magnetic monopoles with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +411

We present a search for ultra-relativistic magnetic monopoles with the Pierre Auger Observatory. Such particles, possibly a relic of phase transitions in the early universe, would…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 7 cited

Can we reconcile the TA excess and hotspot with Auger observations?

Noemie Globus, Denis Allard, Etienne Parizot +2

The Telescope Array (TA) shows a 20 hotspot as well as an excess of UHECRs above 50~EeV when compared with the Auger spectrum. We consider the possibility that both the T…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 37 cited

Magnetically elevated accretion disks in active galactic nuclei: broad emission line regions and associated star formation

Mitchell C. Begelman, Joseph Silk

We propose that the accretion disks fueling active galactic nuclei are supported vertically against gravity by a strong toroidal (direction) magnetic field that develops natura…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 57 cited

H.E.S.S. limits on line-like dark matter signatures in the 100 GeV to 2 TeV energy range close to the Galactic Centre

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +246

A search for dark matter line-like signals was performed in the vicinity of the Galactic Centre by the H.E.S.S. experiment on observational data taken in 2014. An unbinned likeliho…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 43 cited

On the black hole mass of the gamma-ray emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy 1H 0323+342

H. Landt, M. J. Ward, M. Balokovic +6

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies have been identified by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope as a rare class of gamma-ray emitting active galactic nuclei (AGN). The lowest-redshift c…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 18 cited

GRS 1739-278 observed at very low luminosity with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR

F. Fuerst, J. A. Tomsick, K. Yamaoka +19

We present a detailed spectral analysis of XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations of the accreting transient black hole GRS 1739-278 during a very faint low hard state at ~0.02% of the…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 15 cited

A numerical investigation of wind accretion in persistent Supergiant X-ray Binaries I - Structure of the flow at the orbital scale

I. El Mellah, F. Casse

Classical Supergiant X-ray Binaries host a neutron star orbiting a supergiant OB star and display persistent X-ray luminosities of 10 to 10 erg/s. The stellar wind fr…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 128 cited

Evidence for a mixed mass composition at the `ankle' in the cosmic-ray spectrum

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +423

We report a first measurement for ultra-high energy cosmic rays of the correlation between the depth of shower maximum and the signal in the water Cherenkov stations of air-showers…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 34 cited

Identifying Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Accelerators with Future Ultrahigh-Energy Neutrino Detectors

Ke Fang, Kumiko Kotera, M. Coleman Miller +2

The detection of ultrahigh-energy (UHE) neutrino sources would contribute significantly to solving the decades-old mystery of the origin of the highest-energy cosmic rays. We inves…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 11 cited

Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Monoceros Loop Supernova Remnant

H. Katagiri, S. Sugiyama, M. Ackermann +8

We present an analysis of the gamma-ray measurements by the Large Area Telescope onboard the \textit{Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope} in the region of the supernova remnant~(SNR) M…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 51 cited

Ultrahigh-energy neutrino follow-up of Gravitational Wave events GW150914 and GW151226 with the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +410

On September 14, 2015 the Advanced LIGO detectors observed their first gravitational-wave (GW) transient GW150914. This was followed by a second GW event observed on December 26, 2…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 314 cited

Search for dark matter annihilations towards the inner Galactic halo from 10 years of observations with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdallah +245

The inner region of the Milky Way halo harbors a large amount of dark matter (DM). Given its proximity, it is one of the most promising targets to look for DM. We report on a searc…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 196 cited

Upper limits on the rates of binary neutron star and neutron-star--black-hole mergers from Advanced LIGO's first observing run

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +958

We report here the non-detection of gravitational waves from the merger of binary neutron star systems and neutron-star--black-hole systems during the first observing run of Advanc…