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most citedSDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

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astro-ph.HE2009★ 36 cited

X-ray Radiation Mechanisms and Beaming Effect of Hot Spots and Knots in Active Galactic Nuclear Jets

Jin Zhang, J. M. Bai, Liang Chen +1

The observed radio-optical-X-ray spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 22 hot spots and 45 knots in the jets of 35 active galactic nuclei are complied from literature and modeled…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 6 cited

Mechanism of very high energy radiation in BL Lacertae object 3C 66A

Jianping Yang, Jiancheng Wang

Our goal is to understand the nature of blazars and the mechanisms for the generation of high-energy -rays, through the investigation of the blazar 3C 66A. We model the high ene…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 40 cited

The hard to soft spectral transition in LMXBs - affected by recondensation of gas into an inner disk

E. Meyer-Hofmeister, B. F. Liu, F. Meyer

Soft and hard spectral states of X-ray transient sources reflect two modes of accretion, accretion via a geometrically thin, optically thick disk or an advection-dominated accretio…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 36 cited

Application of the Disk Evaporation Model to AGNs

B. F. Liu, Ronald E. Taam

The disk corona evaporation model extensively developed for the interpretation of observational features of black hole X-ray binaries (BHXRBs) is applied to AGNs. Since the evapora…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 44 cited

GRB081028 and its late-time afterglow re-brightening

R. Margutti, F. Genet, J. Granot +19

Swift captured for the first time a smoothly rising X-ray re-brightening of clear non-flaring origin after the steep decay in a long gamma-ray burst (GRB): GRB081028. A rising phas…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 4 cited

GRB090111: extra soft steep decay emission and peculiar re-brightening

R. Margutti, T. Sakamoto, G. Chincarini +8

We present a detailed study of GRB090111, focusing on its extra soft power-law photon index Gamma>5 at the very steep decay phase emission (power-law index alpha=5.1, steeper than…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 65 cited

GRB 080916C and GRB 090510: the high energy emission and the afterglow

Wei-Hong Gao, Jirong Mao, Dong Xu +1

We constrain the physical composition of the outflows of GRBs 080916C and 090510 with the prompt emission data and find that the former is likely magnetic while the latter may be b…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 1 cited

The new model of fitting the spectral energy distributions of Mkn 421 and Mkn 501

Xiaoyan Gao, Jiancheng Wang, Jianping Yang

The spectral energy distribution (SED) of TeV blazars has a double-humped shape that is usually interpreted as Synchrotron Self Compton (SSC) model. The one zone SSC model is used…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 62 cited

Constraining spins of supermassive black holes from TeV variability. II. fully general relativistic calculations

Yan-Rong Li, Ye-Fei Yuan, Jian-Min Wang +2

The fast variability of energetic TeV photons from the center of M87 has been detected, offering a new clue to estimate spins of supermassive black holes (SMBHs). We extend the stu…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 61 cited

Rise and fall of the X-ray flash 080330: an off-axis jet?

C. Guidorzi, C. Clemens, S. Kobayashi +31

X-ray flashes (XRFs) are a class of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the peak energy of the time-integrated spectrum, Ep, below 30 keV, whereas classical GRBs have Ep of a few hundreds…

astro-ph.HE2009★ 44 cited

The Dependence of Spectral State Transition and Disk Truncation on Viscosity Parameter $α

Erlin Qiao, B. F. Liu

A wealth of Galactic accreting X-ray binaries have been observed both in low/hard state and high/soft state. The transition between these two states was often detected. Observation…