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astro-ph.HE2026

The Western Jet of SS 433/W50: Hard X-ray Emission, Spectral Evolution, and Comparison to the Eastern Jet

Brydyn Mac Intyre, Samar Safi-Harb, Dmitry Khangulyan +5

The W50 nebula powered by the microquasar SS 433 is a unique laboratory for exploring several fundamental astrophysical phenomena. This study presents observations from NuSTAR and…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Accurate Determination of Chemical Abundances near a Supermassive Black Hole

The XRISM collaboration

The metal abundances in galactic nuclei carry key information on the history of star formation and mass transfer in central regions of galaxies. X-ray fluorescence analysis is a un…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 2 cited

High Spectral Resolution X-ray Observations of the Evolved Supermassive Stellar Binary System Carinae - Iron K Band Profile Revealed with XRISM

XRISM Collaboration, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki +138

The supermassive binary system, Carinae, is experiencing enormous wind-driven mass loss at a rate unparalleled in the rest of the Galaxy. Their wind-wind collision (WWC) contin…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 1 cited

Probing the Diversity of Type Ia Supernova Remnants in 3-D Hydrodynamic Simulations with X-ray Spectral Synthesis

Yusei Fujimaru, Shiu-Hang Lee, Gilles Ferrand +7

Type Ia supernovae (SNe), thermonuclear explosions of white dwarfs in binary systems, are widely used as standard candles owing to the empirical width-luminosity relation of their…

astro-ph.HE2025

Search for Axion-Like Particles from Nearby Pre-Supernova Stars

Saurabh Mittal, Thomas Siegert, Francesca Calore +7

Axion-like particles (ALPs) are hypothetical pseudoscalar bosons that arise in many extensions of the Standard Model and are well-motivated dark matter candidates. Nearby massive s…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Chlorine and Potassium Enrichment in the Cassiopeia A Supernova Remnant

XRISM collaboration

The elements in the universe are synthesized primarily in stars and supernovae, where nuclear fusion favors the production of even-Z elements. In contrast, odd-Z elements are less…

astro-ph.HE2025

Accuracy and Applicability of the Hartle-Thorne and Komatsu-Eriguchi-Hachisu Methods for Modeling Rotating Neutron Stars

Hyukjin Kwon, Kenta Yoshimura, Tsuyoshi Miyatsu +2

Neutron stars, which are composed of extremely dense nuclear matter, serve as natural laboratories to study nuclear interactions beyond the terrestrial experiments. Recent research…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Mapping the Perseus Galaxy Cluster with XRISM: Gas Kinematic Features and their Implications for Turbulence

Congyao Zhang, Irina Zhuravleva, Annie Heinrich +19

In this paper, we present extended gas kinematic maps of the Perseus cluster by combining five new XRISM/Resolve pointings observed in 2025 with four Performance Verification datas…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Imaging the positron annihilation line with 20 years of INTEGRAL/SPI observations

Hiroki Yoneda, Thomas Siegert, Saurabh Mittal

The e e annihilation line at 511 keV provides a unique probe for studying the distribution and origin of positrons in our Galaxy. The SPI spectrometer on INTEGRAL has obser…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 10 cited

Stratified wind from a super-Eddington X-ray binary is slower than expected

XRISM collaboration, Marc Audard, Hisamitsu Awaki +132

Accretion discs in strong gravity ubiquitously produce winds, seen as blueshifted absorption lines in the X-ray band of both stellar mass X-ray binaries (black holes and neutron st…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

First Detection of X-ray Polarization and Its Short-term Increase Pre- and Post-Eclipse in HMXB 4U 1700-377

Kaito Ninoyu, Keisuke Uchiyama, Shinya Yamada +9

We report the first statistically significant detection of X-ray polarization from the high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) 4U 1700-377, observed using the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explo…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 12 cited

Delving into the depths of NGC 3783 with XRISM II. Cross-calibration of X-ray instruments used in the large, multi-mission observational campaign

XRISM collaboration

Accurate X-ray spectroscopic measurements are fundamental for deriving basic physical parameters of the most abundant baryon components in the Universe. The plethora of X-ray obser…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Measuring the initial mass of 44Ti in SN 1987A through the 44Sc emission line

Roberta Giuffrida, Marco Miceli, Emanuele Greco +7

Context. Deriving the mass and large-scale asymmetries of radioactive isotopes offers valuable insights into the complex phases of a supernova explosion. Important examples are $^{…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 49 cited

Structured ionized winds shooting out from a quasar at relativistic speeds

XRISM collaboration

Evidence indicates that supermassive black holes exist at the centers of most galaxies. Their mass correlates with the galactic bulge mass, suggesting a co-evolution with their hos…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 43 cited

The bulk motion of gas in the core of the Centaurus galaxy cluster

XRISM collaboration

Galaxy clusters, the largest gravitationally bound structures in the Universe, contain vast amounts of dark matter, galaxies, and hot ionised gas known as the intracluster medium (…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 11 cited

NinjaSat monitoring of Type-I X-ray bursts from the clocked burster SRGA J144459.2604207

Tomoshi Takeda, Toru Tamagawa, Teruaki Enoto +25

The CubeSat X-ray observatory NinjaSat was launched on 2023 November 11 and has provided opportunities for agile and flexible monitoring of bright X-ray sources. On 2024 February 2…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 4 cited

Gamma-ray line emission from the Local Bubble

Thomas Siegert, Michael M. Schulreich, Niklas Bauer +3

Deep-sea archives that include intermediate-lived radioactive particles suggest the occurrence of several recent supernovae inside the present-day volume of the…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 7 cited

Indications of an offset merger in Abell 3667

Y. Omiya, K. Nakazawa, T. Tamura +13

Abell 3667 is a nearby merging cluster with a prominent cold front and a pair of two bright radio relics. Assuming a head-on merger, the origin of the cold front is often considere…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

Line profile of nuclear de-excitation gamma-ray emission from very hot plasma

Hiroki Yoneda, Felix Aharonian, Paolo Coppi +2

De-excitation gamma-ray lines, produced by nuclei colliding with protons, provide information about astrophysical environments where particles have kinetic energies of MeV…

astro-ph.HE2023

The origin of MeV gamma-ray diffuse emission from the inner Galactic region

Naomi Tsuji, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Hiroki Yoneda +2

The origin of the inner Galactic emission, measured by COMPTEL with a flux of MeV cm s sr in the 1-30 MeV range, has remained unsettled since…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

The Impacts of Neutron-Star Structure and Base Heating on Type I X-Ray Bursts and Code Comparison

Guoqing Zhen, Guoliang Lv, Helei Liu +6

Type I X-ray bursts are rapidly brightening phenomena triggered by thermonuclear burning on accreting layer of a neutron star (NS). The light curves represent the physical properti…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

Unveiling properties of the non-thermal X-ray production in the gamma-ray binary LS 5039 using the long-term pattern of its fast X-ray variability

Hiroki Yoneda, Valenti Bosch-Ramon, Teruaki Enoto +5

Gamma-ray binary systems, a subclass of high-mass X-ray binaries, show non-thermal emissions from radio to TeV. While efficient electron acceleration is considered to take place in…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 38 cited

A strong X-ray polarization signal from the magnetar 1RXS J170849.0-400910

Silvia Zane, Roberto Taverna, Denis Gonzalez Caniulef +99

Magnetars are the most strongly magnetized neutron stars, and one of the most promising targets for X-ray polarimetric measurements. We present here the first Imaging X-ray Polarim…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 7 cited

MeV Gamma-Ray Source Contribution to the Inner Galactic Diffuse Emission

Naomi Tsuji, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Hiroki Yoneda +2

The origin of the inner Galactic emission, measured by COMPTEL with a flux of in the 1-30 MeV energy range from the…