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astro-ph.HE2026

Classification of IGR J20084+3221 as an Intermediate Polar using X-ray and Optical Observations

Julian Gerber, Jeremy Hare, John A. Tomsick +2

IGR J20084+3221 is a previously unclassified Galactic source first detected by INTEGRAL. Chandra observations led to possible classifications of either a magnetic Cataclysmic Varia…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 2 cited

Constraining black hole spin in PG 1535+547 amidst complex multi-layered absorption

A. Madathil-Pottayil, D. J. Walton, Jiachen Jiang +7

We present a spectroscopic analysis of XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations of the 'complex' NLS1 PG 1535+547 at redshift . These observations span three epochs: 2002 and 20…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Source identification for the Swift-BAT 150-month hard X-ray catalog using soft X-ray observations

K. Imam, N. Torres-Alba, S. Marchesi +10

We present a comprehensive catalog of 251 potential counterparts for 250 unassociated hard X-ray sources detected in the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) 150-month hard X-ray surv…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

A comprehensive search for high-velocity X-ray sources: New compact object binary candidates in the Gaia era

Yue Zhao, Poshak Gandhi, Christian Knigge +6

We perform a comprehensive search for high-velocity X-ray sources with large X-ray/optical flux ratios (), identifying candidates for interacting black h…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Revealing the accelerating wind in the inner region of the colliding-wind binary WR 112

John D. Monnier, Yinuo Han, Michael F. Corcoran +17

Colliding winds in massive binaries generate X-ray-bright shocks, synchrotron radio emission, and sometimes even dusty "pinwheel" spirals. We report the first X-ray detections of t…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Unveiling the nature of the Einstein Probe transient EP 241021a

J. Quirola-Vásquez, P. G. Jonker, A. J. Levan +23

We present a multi-wavelength analysis of the fast X-ray transient EP 241021a, discovered by the Wide-field X-ray Telescope aboard the \emph{Einstein Probe} satellite on 2024 Octob…

astro-ph.HE2025

Spectroscopic Classification of Extragalactic Transients from CRTS

A. J. Drake, S. G. Djorgovski, M. J. Graham +5

The Catalina Real-time Transient Survey (CRTS) carried out a public survey for optical transients between 2007 and 2019, discovering more than 16,000 transient candidates. Here we…

astro-ph.HE2025

Infrared Synchrotron Emission in the Soft State of GX 339-4 and the Mid-Infrared/X-ray Luminosity Plane of Black Hole X-ray Binaries

P. Gandhi, D. M. Russell, M. C. Baglio +33

Progress in understanding the growth of accreting black holes remains hampered by a lack of sensitive coordinated multiwavelength observations. In particular, the mid-infrared (MIR…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Sensitivity of BEACON to Ultra-High Energy Diffuse and Transient Neutrinos

Andrew Zeolla, Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz, Sergio Cabana-Freire +16

Ultra-high energy neutrinos ( eV) can provide insight into the most powerful accelerators in the universe, however their flux is extremely low. The Beamforming Elevated…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Rapid Construction of Joint Pulsar Timing Array Datasets: The Lite Method

Bjorn Larsen, Chiara M. F. Mingarelli, Paul T. Baker +41

The International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA)'s second data release (IPTA DR2) combines decades of observations of 65 millisecond pulsars from 7 radio telescopes. IPTA datasets shou…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 46 cited

Black hole jets on the scale of the Cosmic Web

Martijn S. S. L. Oei, Martin J. Hardcastle, Roland Timmerman +10

Jets launched by supermassive black holes transport relativistic leptons, magnetic fields, and atomic nuclei from the centres of galaxies to their outskirts and beyond. These outfl…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 4 cited

Inference on inner galaxy structure via gravitational waves from supermassive binaries

Yifan Chen, Matthias Daniel, Daniel J. D'Orazio +107

The detection of a stochastic gravitational wave background by pulsar-timing arrays indicates the presence of a population of supermassive black hole binaries. Although the observe…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 4 cited

Rotation Measure study of FRB 20180916B with the uGMRT

S. Bethapudi, L. G. Spitler, D. Z. Li +4

Context. Fast Radio Burst 20180916B is a repeating FRB whose activity window has a 16.34 day periodicity that also shifts and varies in duration with the observing frequency. Recen…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 47 cited

Emission lines due to ionizing radiation from a compact object in the remnant of Supernova 1987A

C. Fransson, M. J. Barlow, P. J. Kavanagh +31

The nearby Supernova 1987A was accompanied by a burst of neutrino emission, which indicates that a compact object (a neutron star or black hole) was formed in the explosion. There…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): Studying Extreme Accretion with Ultraluminous X-ray Sources

Matteo Bachetti, Matthew J. Middleton, Ciro Pinto +25

Ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs) represent an extreme class of accreting compact objects: from the identification of some of the accretors as neutron stars to the detection of po…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 3 cited

The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): The Future of Hard X-ray Dual AGN Science

Ryan W. Pfeifle, Peter G. Boorman, Kimberly A. Weaver +15

A fundamental goal of modern-day astrophysics is to understand the connection between supermassive black hole (SMBH) growth and galaxy evolution. Merging galaxies offer one of the…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 17 cited

The NANOGrav 12.5-year data set: A computationally efficient eccentric binary search pipeline and constraints on an eccentric supermassive binary candidate in 3C 66B

Gabriella Agazie, Zaven Arzoumanian, Paul T. Baker +85

The radio galaxy 3C 66B has been hypothesized to host a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) at its center based on electromagnetic observations. Its apparent 1.05-year period an…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 14 cited

BASS-XL: X-ray variability properties of unobscured Active Galactic Nuclei

Alessia Tortosa, Claudio Ricci, Patricia Arévalo +15

We investigate the X-ray variability properties of Seyfert1 Galaxies belonging to the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS). The sample includes 151 unobscured (N c…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 380 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational Wave Background

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +111

The NANOGrav 15-year data set shows evidence for the presence of a low-frequency gravitational-wave background (GWB). While many physical processes can source such low-frequency gr…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

Rotation measure variations in Galactic Centre pulsars

F. Abbate, A. Noutsos, G. Desvignes +8

We report the results of an observational campaign using the Effelsberg 100-m telescope of the pulsars J17462849, J17462850, J17462856 and J17452912 located in the Cent…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 159 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +96

Evidence for a low-frequency stochastic gravitational wave background has recently been reported based on analyses of pulsar timing array data. The most likely source of such a bac…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 801 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics

Adeela Afzal, Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi +120

The 15-year pulsar timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) shows positive evidence for the presence of a low-freque…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 154 cited

The NANOGrav 15-Year Data Set: Detector Characterization and Noise Budget

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +88

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are galactic-scale gravitational wave detectors. Each individual arm, composed of a millisecond pulsar, a radio telescope, and a kiloparsecs-long path,…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 376 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Observations and Timing of 68 Millisecond Pulsars

Gabriella Agazie, Md Faisal Alam, Akash Anumarlapudi +97

We present observations and timing analyses of 68 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) comprising the 15-year data set of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NA…