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astro-ph.HE2011★ 55 cited

Twinkling pulsar wind nebulae in the synchrotron cut-off regime and the gamma-ray flares in the Crab Nebula

A. M. Bykov, G. G. Pavlov, A. V. Artemyev +1

Synchrotron radiation of ultra-relativistic particles accelerated in a pulsar wind nebula may dominate its spectrum up to gamma-ray energies. Because of the short cooling time of t…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 97 cited

Multi-year search for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the AMANDA-II and IceCube detectors

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +258

A search for an excess of muon-neutrinos from dark matter annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope using data collected in 812 days of live…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 15 cited

Particle Physics in Ice with IceCube DeepCore

T. DeYoung

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is the world's largest high energy neutrino telescope, using the Antarctic ice cap as a Cherenkov detector medium. DeepCore, the low energy extensi…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 15 cited

Multi-GeV Neutrino Emission from Magnetized Gamma Ray Bursts

Shan Gao, Peter Meszaros

We investigate the expected neutrino emissivity from nuclear collisions in magnetically dominated collisional models of gamma-ray bursts, motivated by recent observational and theo…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 13 cited

Swift follow-up observations of unclassified ASCA sources

N. Degenaar, R. L. C. Starling, P. A. Evans +11

We present Swift follow-up observations of a sample of 35 unclassified faint X-ray sources drawn from the ASCA Galactic centre and plane surveys. Our short pointed XRT observations…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 17 cited

Origin of the GeV Emission During the X-ray Flaring Activity in GRB 100728A

Hao-Ning He, Bin-Bin Zhang, Xiang-Yu Wang +2

Recently, Fermi-LAT detected GeV emission during the X-ray flaring activity in GRB 100728A. We study various scenarios for its origin. The hard spectrum of the GeV emission favors…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 56 cited

Searching for soft relativistic jets in Core-collapse Supernovae with the IceCube Optical Follow-up Program

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

Context. Transient neutrino sources such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and Supernovae (SNe) are hypothesized to emit bursts of high-energy neutrinos on a time-scale of \lesssim 100 s.…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 254 cited

Resonant Shattering of Neutron Star Crusts

David Tsang, Jocelyn S. Read, Tanja Hinderer +2

The resonant excitation of neutron star (NS) modes by tides is investigated as a source of short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) precursors. We find that the driving of a crust-core interfa…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 40 cited

Search for signatures of magnetically-induced alignment in the arrival directions measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, P. Abreu, M. Aglietta +496

We present the results of an analysis of data recorded at the Pierre Auger Observatory in which we search for groups of directionally-aligned events (or `multiplets') which exhibit…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 84 cited

The spectrum of the recycled PSR J0437-4715 and its white dwarf companion

M. Durant, O. Kargaltsev, G. G. Pavlov +4

We present extensive spectral and photometric observations of the recycled pulsar/white-dwarf binary containing PSR J0437-4715, which we analyzed together with archival X-ray and g…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 40 cited

Multiwavelength Observations of the Previously Unidentified Blazar RX J0648.7+1516

E. Aliu, T. Aune, M. Beilicke +84

We report on the VERITAS discovery of very-high-energy (VHE) gamma- ray emission above 200 GeV from the high-frequency-peaked BL Lac object RXJ0648.7+1516 (GBJ0648+1516), associate…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 1 cited

Properties of Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients as observed by Swift

P. Romano, S. Vercellone, H. A. Krimm +8

We present the most recent results from our investigation on Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients, a class of High-Mass X-ray Binaries, with a possible counterpart in the gamma-ray ene…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 52 cited

Unusual Central Engine Activity in the Double Burst GRB 110709B

Bin-Bin Zhang, David Burrows, Bing Zhang +11

The double burst, GRB 110709B, triggered Swift/BAT twice at 21:32:39 UT and 21:43:45 UT, respectively, on 9 July 2011. This is the first time we observed a GRB with two BAT trigger…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 49 cited

Panchromatic observations of the textbook GRB 110205A: constraining physical mechanisms of prompt emission and afterglow

W. Zheng, R. F. Shen, T. Sakamoto +56

We present a comprehensive analysis of a bright, long duration (T90 ~ 257 s) GRB 110205A at redshift z= 2.22. The optical prompt emission was detected by Swift/UVOT, ROTSE-IIIb and…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 40 cited

Combined Spectral and Timing Analysis of the Black Hole Candidate MAXI J1659-152 Discovered by MAXI and Swift

Kazutaka Yamaoka, Ryan Allured, Philip Kaaret +12

We report on X-ray spectral and timing results of the new black hole candidate (BHC) MAXI J1659-152 with the orbital period of 2.41 hours (shortest among BHCs) in the 2010 outburst…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 2 cited

The July 2010 outburst of the NLS1 PMN J0948+0022

L. Foschini, G. Ghisellini, L. Maraschi +23

We report about the multiwavelength campaign on the Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) Galaxy PMN J0948+0022 (z = 0.5846) performed in 2010 July-September and triggered by high activity…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 9 cited

XMM-Newton Observations of Two Candidate Supernova Remnants

O. Kargaltsev, B. M. Schmitt, G. G. Pavlov +1

Candidate supernova remnants G23.5+0.1 and G25.5+0.0 were observed by XMM-Newton in the course of a snap-shot survey of plerionic and composite SNRs in the Galactic plane. In the f…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 41 cited

Observation and Spectral Measurements of the Crab Nebula with Milagro

A. A. Abdo, B. T. Allen, T. Aune +32

The Crab Nebula was detected with the Milagro experiment at a statistical significance of 17 standard deviations over the lifetime of the experiment. The experiment was sensitive t…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 4 cited

Analysing the Suzaku Spectra of the Broad-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxy CBS 126

Chia-Ying Chiang, R. C. Reis, A. C. Fabian +2

We analysed new simultaneous \emph{Suzaku} and \emph{Swift} data of the Broad Line Seyfert 1 (BLS1) galaxy CBS 126. A clear Fe emission line and a strong soft excess are present in…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 170 cited

IceCube Sensitivity for Low-Energy Neutrinos from Nearby Supernovae

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

This paper describes the response of the IceCube neutrino telescope located at the geographic South Pole to outbursts of MeV neutrinos from the core collapse of nearby massive star…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 192 cited

A Combined Optical and X-ray Study of Unobscured Type 1 AGN. I. Optical Spectra and SED Modeling

C. Jin, M. Ward, C. Done +1

We present modeling and interpretation of the continuum and emission lines for a sample of 51 unobscured Type 1 active galactic nuclei (AGN). All of these AGNs have high quality sp…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 11 cited

Search for the optical counterpart to SGR 0418+5729

Martin Durant, Oleg Kargaltsev, George G. Pavlov

We report broad-band Hubble Space Telescope imaging of the field of soft gamma-ray repeater SGR 0418+5729 with ACS/WFC and WFC3/IR. Observing in two wide filters F606W and F110W, w…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 31 cited

Multiwavelength spectroscopy of PSR B0656+14

Martin Durant, Oleg Kargaltsev, George G. Pavlov

Using high-quality Hubble Space Telescope observations, we construct the near infra-red (NIR) to far ultra-violet (FUV) spectral energy distribution (SED) of PSR B0656+14. The SED…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 54 cited

VERITAS Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Swift

VERITAS Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, E. Aliu +84

We present the results of sixteen Swift-triggered GRB follow-up observations taken with the VERITAS telescope array from January, 2007 to June, 2009. The median energy threshold an…