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astro-ph.HE2014★ 16 cited

Multi-frequency properties of synthetic blazar radio light curves within the shock-in-jet scenario

C. M. Fromm, L. Fuhrmann, M. Perucho

Blazars are among the most powerful extragalactic objects, as a sub-class of active galactic nuclei. They launch relativistic jets and their emitted radiation shows strong variabil…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 184 cited

Black hole lightning due to particle acceleration at subhorizon scales

MAGIC Collaboration, J. Aleksić, S. Ansoldi +151

Supermassive black holes with masses of millions to billions of solar masses are commonly found in the centers of galaxies. Astronomers seek to image jet formation using radio inte…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 9 cited

Detection of a large Be circumstellar disk during X-ray quiescence of XTE J1946+274

M. Ozbey Arabaci, A. Camero-Arranz, J. Gutierrez-Soto +6

We present a multiwavelength study of the Be/X-ray binary system XTE J1946+274 with the main goal of better characterizing its behavior during X-ray quiescence. We aim to shed ligh…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 43 cited

Long-term variability of high-mass X-ray binaries. I.Photometry

P. Reig, J. Fabregat

We present photometric observations of the field around the optical counterparts of high-mass X-ray binaries. Our aim is to study the long-term photometric variability in correlati…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 50 cited

Orbital evolution of colliding star and pulsar winds in 2D and 3D; effects of: dimensionality, EoS, resolution, and grid size

V. Bosch-Ramon, M. V. Barkov, M. Perucho

(abridged)The structure formed by the shocked winds of a massive star and a non-accreting pulsar in a binary suffers periodic and random variations of orbital and non-linear dynami…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 24 cited

Simulations of an inhomogeneous stellar wind interacting with a pulsar wind in a binary system

Xavier Paredes-Fortuny, Valentí Bosch-Ramon, Manel Perucho +1

Binary systems containing a massive star and a non-accreting pulsar present strong interaction between the stellar and the pulsar winds. The properties of this interaction, which l…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 103 cited

MOJAVE XII: Acceleration and Collimation of Blazar Jets on Parsec Scales

D. C. Homan, M. L. Lister, Y. Y. Kovalev +5

We report on the acceleration properties of 329 features in 95 blazar jets from the MOJAVE VLBA program. Nearly half the features and three-quarters of the jets show significant ch…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 41 cited

Large-scale jets from active galactic nuclei as a source of ICM heating: cavities and shocks

Manel Perucho, José María Martí, Vicent Quilis +1

The evolution of powerful extragalactic jets is not only interesting by itself, but also for its impact on the evolution of the host galaxy and its surroundings. We have performed…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 63 cited

Spectral and morphological analysis of the remnant of Supernova 1987A with ALMA & ATCA

Giovanna Zanardo, Lister Staveley-Smith, Remy Indebetouw +18

We present a comprehensive spectral and morphological analysis of the remnant of Supernova (SN) 1987A with the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and the Atacama Large Millim…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 139 cited

Are LGRBs biased tracers of star formation? Clues from the host galaxies of the Swift/BAT6 complete sample of LGRBs. I: Stellar mass at z<1

S. D. Vergani, R. Salvaterra, J. Japelj +20

LGRBs are associated with massive stars and are therefore linked to star formation. The conditions necessary to produce LGRBs can affect the relation between the LGRB rate and star…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 10 cited

Constraining the neutrino emission of gravitationally lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars with ANTARES data

S. Adrián-Martínez, A. Albert, M. André +134

This paper proposes to exploit gravitational lensing effects to improve the sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to the intrinsic neutrino emission of distant blazar populations. Thi…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 24 cited

Numerical models of blackbody-dominated gamma-ray bursts -- II. Emission properties

Carlos F. Cuesta-Martínez, Miguel-Ángel Aloy, Petar Mimica +2

Blackbody-dominated (BBD) gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are events characterized by long durations and the presence of a significant thermal component following the prompt emission, as w…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 19 cited

Numerical models of blackbody-dominated gamma-ray bursts -- I. Hydrodynamics and the origin of the thermal emission

Carlos F. Cuesta-Martínez, Miguel-Ángel Aloy, Petar Mimica

GRB 101225A is a prototype of the class of blackbody-dominated (BBD) gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). It has been suggested that BBD-GRBs result from the merger of a binary system formed b…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 27 cited

Modulating the magnetosphere of magnetars by internal magneto-elastic oscillations

Michael Gabler, Pablo Cerdá-Durán, Nikolaos Stergioulas +2

We couple internal torsional, magneto-elastic oscillations of highly magnetized neutron stars (magnetars) to their magnetospheres. The corresponding axisymmetric perturbations of t…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 85 cited

TANAMI monitoring of Centaurus A: The complex dynamics in the inner parsec of an extragalactic jet

C. Müller, M. Kadler, R. Ojha +24

Centaurus A is the closest radio-loud active galaxy. Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) enables us to study the jet-counterjet system on milliarcsecond (mas) scales, providin…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 64 cited

TANAMI Blazars in the IceCube PeV Neutrino Fields

F. Krauß, M. Kadler, K. Mannheim +39

The IceCube Collaboration has announced the discovery of a neutrino flux in excess of the atmospheric background. Due to the steeply falling atmospheric background spectrum, events…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 23 cited

A Targeted Search for Point Sources of EeV Neutrons

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +482

A flux of neutrons from an astrophysical source in the Galaxy can be detected in the Pierre Auger Observatory as an excess of cosmic-ray air showers arriving from the direction of…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 37 cited

A search for point sources of EeV photons

Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +483

Measurements of air showers made using the hybrid technique developed with the fluorescence and surface detectors of the Pierre Auger Observatory allow a sensitive search for point…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 94 cited

On the deceleration of FRI jets: mass loading by stellar-winds

Manel Perucho, José María Martí, Robert A. Laing +1

Jets in low-luminosity radio galaxies are known to decelerate from relativistic speeds on parsec scales to mildly or sub-relativistic speeds on kiloparsec scales. Several mechanism…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 100 cited

On the flavor composition of the high-energy neutrino events in IceCube

Olga Mena, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Aaron C. Vincent

The IceCube experiment has recently reported the observation of 28 high-energy (> 30 TeV) neutrino events, separated into 21 showers and 7 muon tracks, consistent with an extraterr…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 45 cited

Multifrequency Studies of the Peculiar Quasar 4C +21.35 During the 2010 Flaring Activity

M. Ackermann, M. Ajello, A. Allafort +288

The discovery of rapidly variable Very High Energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from 4C +21.35 (PKS 1222+216) by MAGIC on 2010 June 17, triggered by the high activity dete…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 132 cited

Probing the radio emission from air showers with polarization measurements

Pierre Auger Collaboration

The emission of radio waves from air showers has been attributed to the so-called geomagnetic emission process. At frequencies around 50 MHz this process leads to coherent radiatio…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 3 cited

A Search for Time Dependent Neutrino Emission from Microquasars with the ANTARES Telescope

S. Adrián-Martínez, A. Albert, M. André +143

Results are presented on a search for neutrino emission from a sample of six microquasars, based on the data collected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope between 2007 and 2010. By m…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 13 cited

Searches for clustering in the time integrated skymap of the ANTARES neutrino telescope

S. Adrián-Martínez, A. Albert, M. André +133

This paper reports a search for spatial clustering of the arrival directions of high energy muon neutrinos detected by the ANTARES neutrino telescope. An improved two-point correla…