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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…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1.5k cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-Wave Background

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

We report multiple lines of evidence for a stochastic signal that is correlated among 67 pulsars from the 15-year pulsar-timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz O…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 41 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Gravitational-Wave Background Methods

Aaron D. Johnson, Patrick M. Meyers, Paul T. Baker +93

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) use an array of millisecond pulsars to search for gravitational waves in the nanohertz regime in pulse time of arrival data. This paper presents rigorou…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 7 cited

Posterior predictive checking for gravitational-wave detection with pulsar timing arrays: II. Posterior predictive distributions and pseudo Bayes factors

Patrick M. Meyers, Katerina Chatziioannou, Michele Vallisneri +1

The detection of nanoHertz gravitational waves through pulsar timing arrays hinges on identifying a common stochastic process affecting all pulsars in a correlated way across the s…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 14 cited

Posterior predictive checking for gravitational-wave detection with pulsar timing arrays: I. The optimal statistic

Michele Vallisneri, Patrick M. Meyers, Katerina Chatziioannou +1

A gravitational-wave background can be detected in pulsar-timing-array data as Hellings--Downs correlations among the timing residuals measured for different pulsars. The optimal s…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

Measuring the Cosmic X-ray Background in 3-20keV with Straylight from NuSTAR

Steven Rossland, Daniel Wik, Brian Grefenstette +13

By characterizing the contribution of stray light to large datasets from the NuSTAR X-ray observatory collected over 2012--2017, we report a measurement of the cosmic X-ray backgro…

astro-ph.HE2023

Measurements of the Crab Pulsar's Giant Radio Pulse Amplitude Power-Law Index Using Low-Frequency Arecibo and Green Bank Telescope Observations

F. Crawford, T. J. W. Lazio, A. McEwen +4

We report two low-frequency measurements of the power-law index for the amplitudes of giant radio pulses from the Crab pulsar. The two observations were taken with the Arecibo and…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 18 cited

A High Fraction of Heavily X-ray Obscured Active Galactic Nuclei

Christopher M. Carroll, Tonima T. Ananna, Ryan C. Hickox +5

We present new estimates on the fraction of heavily X-ray obscured, Compton-thick (CT) active galactic nuclei (AGNs) out to a redshift of 0.8. From a sample of 540 AGNs se…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

Scary Barbie: An Extremely Energetic, Long-Duration Tidal Disruption Event Candidate Without a Detected Host Galaxy at z = 0.995

Bhagya M. Subrayan, Dan Milisavljevic, Ryan Chornock +19

We report multi-wavelength observations and characterization of the ultraluminous transient AT 2021lwx (ZTF20abrbeie; aka ``Barbie'') identified in the alert stream of the Zwicky T…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 45 cited

A sub-arcsec localised fast radio burst with a significant host galaxy dispersion measure contribution

M. Caleb, L. N. Driessen, A. C. Gordon +29

We present the discovery of FRB 20210410D, with the MeerKAT radio interferometer in South Africa, as part of the MeerTRAP commensal project. FRB 20210410D has a dispersion measure…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 34 cited

JWST NIRSpec observations of Supernova 1987A -- from the inner ejecta to the reverse shock

J. Larsson, C. Fransson, B. Sargent +23

We present initial results from JWST NIRSpec integral field unit observations of the nearby Supernova (SN) 1987A. The observations provide the first spatially-resolved spectroscopy…