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astro-ph.HE2019★ 18 cited

Simultaneous observations of the blazar PKS2155-304 from Ultra-Violet to TeV energies

H. E. S. S., Fermi, NuSTAR collaborations

The results of the first ever contemporaneous multi-wavelength observation campaign on the BL Lac object PKS2155-304 involving Swift, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. are reported. T…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 37 cited

Swift monitoring of M51: A 38-day super-orbital period for the pulsar ULX7 and a new transient ULX

Murray Brightman, Hannah Earnshaw, Felix Fürst +6

We present the results from a monitoring campaign made with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory of the M51 galaxies, which contain several variable ultraluminous X-ray sources (ULXs…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 48 cited

The NANOGrav 11-Year Data Set: Limits on Gravitational Wave Memory

K. Aggarwal, Z. Arzoumanian, P. T. Baker +58

The mergers of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) promise to be incredible sources of gravitational waves (GWs). While the oscillatory part of the merger gravitational wavef…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 21 cited

The BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey -- XVIII. Searching for Supermassive Black Hole Binaries in the X-rays

Tingting Liu, Michael Koss, Laura Blecha +15

Theory predicts that a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) could be observed as a luminous active galactic nucleus (AGN) that periodically varies on the order of its orbital tim…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 5 cited

The Broadband X-ray Spectrum of the X-ray Obscured Type 1 AGN 2MASX J193013.80+341049.5

Nikita Kamraj, Mislav Baloković, Murray Brightman +6

We present results from modeling the broadband X-ray spectrum of the Type 1 AGN 2MASX J193013.80+341049.5 using NuSTAR, Swift and archival XMM-Newton observations. We find this sou…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 20 cited

New Limits on the Low-frequency Radio Transient Sky Using 31 hr of All-sky Data with the OVRO-LWA

M. M. Anderson, G. Hallinan, M. W. Eastwood +11

We present the results of the first transient survey from the Owens Valley Radio Observatory Long Wavelength Array (OVRO-LWA) using 31 hr of data, in which we place the most constr…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 7 cited

The Mystery of Photometric Twins DES17X1boj and DES16E2bjy

M. Pursiainen, C. Gutierrez, P. Wiseman +80

We present an analysis of DES17X1boj and DES16E2bjy, two peculiar transients discovered by the Dark Energy Survey (DES). They exhibit nearly identical double-peaked light curves wh…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 52 cited

The Unusual Broadband X-ray Spectral Variability of NGC 1313 X-1 seen with XMMNewton, Chandra and NuSTAR

D. J. Walton, C. Pinto, M. Nowak +19

We present results from the major coordinated X-ray observing program on the ULX NGC 1313 X-1 performed in 2017, combining -, and , focusing on the e…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 11 cited

The nature of the broadband X-ray variability in the dwarf Seyfert galaxy NGC 4395

E. S. Kammoun, E. Nardini, A. Zoghbi +14

We present a flux-resolved X-ray analysis of the dwarf Seyfert 1.8 galaxy NGC 4395, based on three archival and one archival observations. The source is known…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 10 cited

NuSTAR observations of the unidentified INTEGRAL sources: constraints on the Galactic population of HMXBs

Maïca Clavel, John A. Tomsick, Jeremy Hare +3

The NuSTAR Legacy program 'Unidentified INTEGRAL sources' targeted faint hard X-ray sources revealed by INTEGRAL in the Galactic plane in order to provide conclusive identification…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 39 cited

A Search for Late-Time Radio Emission and Fast Radio Bursts from Superluminous Supernovae

C. J. Law, C. M. B. Omand, K. Kashiyama +10

We present results of a search for late-time radio emission and Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from a sample of type-I superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I). We used the Karl G. Jansky Very…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 43 cited

The NANOGrav 11-Year Data Set: Evolution of Gravitational Wave Background Statistics

J. S. Hazboun, J. Simon, S. R. Taylor +60

An ensemble of inspiraling supermassive black hole binaries should produce a stochastic background of very low frequency gravitational waves. This stochastic background is predicte…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 301 cited

The International Pulsar Timing Array: Second data release

B. B. P. Perera, M. E. DeCesar, P. B. Demorest +72

In this paper, we describe the International Pulsar Timing Array second data release, which includes recent pulsar timing data obtained by three regional consortia: the European Pu…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 3 cited

Discovery and Identification of MAXI J1621-501 as a Type I X-ray Burster with a Super-Orbital Period

Nicholas M. Gorgone, Chryssa Kouveliotou, Hitoshi Negoro +26

MAXI J1621-501 is the first Swift/XRT Deep Galactic Plane Survey transient that was followed up with a multitude of space missions (NuSTAR, Swift, Chandra, NICER, INTEGRAL, and MAX…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 131 cited

GROWTH on S190425z: Searching thousands of square degrees to identify an optical or infrared counterpart to a binary neutron star merger with the Zwicky Transient Facility and Palomar Gattini IR

Michael W. Coughlin, Tomás Ahumada, Shreya Anand +76

The third observing run by LVC has brought the discovery of many compact binary coalescences. Following the detection of the first binary neutron star merger in this run (LIGO/Virg…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 159 cited

Ram-pressure stripping of a kicked Hill sphere: Prompt electromagnetic emission from the merger of stellar mass black holes in an AGN accretion disk

B. McKernan, K. E. S. Ford, I. Bartos +7

Accretion disks around supermassive black holes (SMBH) are promising sites for stellar mass black hole (BH) mergers due to mass segregation and merger acceleration by disk gas torq…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 39 cited

BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey: XVI. General Physical Characteristics of BAT Blazars

Vaidehi S. Paliya, M. Koss, B. Trakhtenbrot +12

The recently released 105-month {\it Swift}-Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) all-sky hard X-ray survey catalog presents an opportunity to study astrophysical objects detected in the dee…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 1 cited

NICER Observations of the 2018 Outburst of XTE J1810-197

Tolga Guver, Ersin Gogus, Eda Vurgun +9

We present the earliest available soft X-ray observations of XTE J1810-187, the prototypical transient magnetar, obtained 75--84 days after its 2018 outburst with the Neutron Star…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 21 cited

A broadband look at the old and new ULXs of NGC 6946

Hannah P. Earnshaw, Brian W. Grefenstette, Murray Brightman +8

Two recent observations of the nearby galaxy NGC 6946 with NuSTAR, one simultaneous with an XMM-Newton observation, provide an opportunity to examine its population of bright accre…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 34 cited

Reflections On the Anomalous ANITA Events: The Antarctic Subsurface as a Possible Explanation

Ian M. Shoemaker, Alexander Kusenko, Peter Kuipers Munneke +3

The ANITA balloon experiment was designed to detect radio signals initiated by neutrinos and cosmic ray air showers. These signals are typically discriminated by the polarization a…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 10 cited

VLA Observations of Single Pulses from the Galactic Center Magnetar

R. S. Wharton, S. Chatterjee, J. M. Cordes +6

We present the results of a 7-12 GHz phased-array study of the Galactic center magnetar J1745-2900 with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). Using data from two 6.5 hour obse…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 17 cited

A hard look at NGC 5347: revealing a nearby Compton-thick AGN

E. S. Kammoun, J. M. Miller, A. Zoghbi +11

Current measurements show that the observed fraction of Compton-thick (CT) AGN is smaller than the expected values needed to explain the cosmic X-ray background. Prior fits to the…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 8 cited

SN 2016hil-- a Type II supernova in the remote outskirts of an elliptical host and its origin

Ido Irani, Steve Schulze, Avishay Gal-Yam +14

Type II supernovae (SNe) stem from the core collapse of massive () stars. Owing to their short lifespan, we expect a very low rate of such events in elliptical host…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 115 cited

A New Class of Changing-Look LINERs

Sara Frederick, Suvi Gezari, Matthew J. Graham +28

We report the discovery of six active galactic nuclei (AGN) caught "turning on" during the first nine months of the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) survey. The host galaxies were c…