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Spectral and timing evolution of the bright failed outburst of the transient black hole Swift J174510.8-262411
M. Del Santo, T. M. Belloni, J. A. Tomsick +13
We studied time variability and spectral evolution of the Galactic black hole transient Swift J174510.8-262411 during the first phase of its outburst. INTEGRAL and Swift observatio…
Multiwavelength Study of Quiescent States of Mrk 421 with Unprecedented Hard X-Ray Coverage Provided by NuSTAR in 2013
M. Baloković, D. Paneque, G. Madejski +305
We present coordinated multiwavelength observations of the bright, nearby BL Lac object Mrk 421 taken in 2013 January-March, involving GASP-WEBT, Swift, NuSTAR, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, V…
The NuSTAR view of the non-thermal emission from PSR J0437-4715
Sebastien Guillot, Victoria M. Kaspi, Robert F. Archibald +11
We present a hard X-ray NuSTAR observation of PSR J0437-4715, the nearest millisecond pulsar. The known pulsations at the apparent pulse period ~5.76 ms are detected at energies up…
Investigation of Primordial Black Hole Bursts using Interplanetary Network Gamma-ray Bursts
T. N. Ukwatta, K. Hurley, J. H MacGibbon +22
The detection of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) in the solar neighborhood would have very important implications for GRB phenomenology. The leading theories for cosmological GRBs would no…
Chandra Observations of Eight Sources Discovered by INTEGRAL
John A. Tomsick, Roman Krivonos, Qinan Wang +5
We report on 0.3-10 keV observations with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of eight hard X-ray sources discovered within 8 degrees of the Galactic plane by the INTEGRAL satellite. The…
The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: Initial Results and Catalog from the Extended Chandra Deep Field South
J. R. Mullaney, A. Del-Moro, J. Aird +33
We present initial results and the source catalog from the NuSTAR survey of the Extended Chandra Deep Field South (hereafter, ECDFS) - currently the deepest contiguous component of…
The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: Overview and Catalog from the COSMOS Field
F. Civano, R. C. Hickox, S. Puccetti +28
To provide the census of the sources contributing to the X-ray background peak above 10 keV, NuSTAR is performing extragalactic surveys using a three-tier "wedding cake" approach.…
The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: First Direct Measurements of the >10 keV X-Ray Luminosity Function for Active Galactic Nuclei at z>0.1
J. Aird, D. M. Alexander, D. R. Ballantyne +34
We present the first direct measurements of the rest-frame 10-40 keV X-ray luminosity function (XLF) of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) based on a sample of 94 sources at 0.1 < z <3,…
The NuSTAR view of reflection and absorption in NGC 7582
E. Rivers, M. Baloković, P. Arévalo +14
NGC 7582 is a well-studied X-ray bright Seyfert 2 with moderately heavy (~cm), highly variable absorption and strong reflection spectral fea…
The NuSTAR Extragalactic Surveys: The Number Counts of Active Galactic Nuclei and the Resolved Fraction of the Cosmic X-ray Background
F. A. Harrison, J. Aird, F. Civano +41
We present the 3-8 keV and 8-24 keV number counts of active galactic nuclei (AGN) identified in the NuSTAR extragalactic surveys. NuSTAR has now resolved 33-39% of the X-ray backgr…
NuSTAR and XMM-Newton Observations of the Hard X-Ray Spectrum of Centaurus A
F. Fuerst, C. Mueller, K. K. Madsen +28
We present simultaneous XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations spanning 3-78 keV of the nearest radio galaxy, Centaurus A (Cen A). The accretion geometry around the central engine in C…
NuSTAR Hard X-ray Survey of the Galactic Center Region I: Hard X-ray Morphology and Spectroscopy of the Diffuse Emission
Kaya Mori, Charles J. Hailey, Roman Krivonos +35
We present the first sub-arcminute images of the Galactic Center above 10 keV, obtained with NuSTAR. NuSTAR resolves the hard X-ray source IGR J17456-2901 into non-thermal X-ray fi…
The hard X-ray emission of the luminous infrared galaxy NGC 6240 as observed by NuSTAR
S. Puccetti, A. Comastri, F. E. Bauer +23
We present a broad-band (~0.3-70 keV) spectral and temporal analysis of NuSTAR observations of the luminous infrared galaxy NGC 6240, combined with archival Chandra, XMM-Newton and…
Extremes of the jet-accretion power relation of blazars, as explored by NuSTAR
T. Sbarrato, G. Ghisellini, G. Tagliaferri +9
Hard X-ray observations are crucial to study the non-thermal jet emission from high-redshift, powerful blazars. We observed two bright z>2 flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) in ha…
First NuSTAR Observations of Mrk 501 within a Radio to TeV Multi-Instrument Campaign
A. Furniss, K. Noda, S. Boggs +273
We report on simultaneous broadband observations of the TeV-emitting blazar Markarian 501 between 1 April and 10 August 2013, including the first detailed characterization of the s…
NuSTAR Observations of the Compton-thick Active Galactic Nucleus and Ultraluminous X-ray Source Candidate in NGC 5643
A. Annuar, P. Gandhi, D. M. Alexander +22
We present two NuSTAR observations of the local Seyfert 2 active galactic nucleus (AGN) and an ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) candidate in NGC 5643. Together with archival data f…
A Soft X-Ray Spectral Episode for the Clocked Burster, GS 1826-24 as Measured by Swift and NuSTAR
J. Chenevez, D. K. Galloway, J. J. M. in 't Zand +12
We report on NuSTAR and Swift observations of a soft state of the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary GS 1826-24, commonly known as the "clocked" burster. The transition to the soft…
Optical and Near-Infrared Spectroscopy of the Black Hole Swift J1753.5-0127
Farid Rahoui, John A. Tomsick, Mickael Coriat +7
We report on a multiwavelength observational campaign of the black hole X-ray binary Swift J1753.5-0127 that consists of an ESO/X-shooter spectrum supported by contemporaneous Swif…
Multi-wavelength Observations of the Binary System PSR B1259-63/LS~2883 around the 2014 Periastron Passage
M. Chernyakova, A. Neronov, B. van Soelen +16
We report on the results of the extensive multi-wavelength campaign from optical to GeV gamma-rays of the 2014 periastron passage of PSR B1259-63, which is a unique high-mass gamma…
Hard X-ray Morphological and Spectral Studies of The Galactic Center Molecular Cloud Sgr B2: Constraining Past Sgr A* Flaring Activity
Shuo Zhang, Charles J. Hailey, Kaya Mori +15
Galactic Center (GC) molecular cloud Sgr B2 is the best manifestation of an X-ray reflection nebula (XRN) reprocessing a past giant outburst from the supermassive black hole Sgr A*…
Characterizing X-ray and Radio emission in the Black Hole X-Ray Binary V404 Cygni during Quiescence
Vikram Rana, Alan Loh, Stephane Corbel +17
We present results from multi-wavelength simultaneous X-ray and radio observations of the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cyg in quiescence. Our coverage with NuSTAR provides the very…
NuSTAR observations of the powerful radio-galaxy Cygnus A
Christopher S. Reynolds, Anne M. Lohfink, Patrick M. Ogle +17
We present NuSTAR observations of the powerful radio galaxy Cygnus A, focusing on the central absorbed active galactic nucleus (AGN). Cygnus A is embedded in a cool-core galaxy clu…
The Accreting Black Hole Swift J1753.5-0127 from Radio to Hard X-Ray
John A. Tomsick, Farid Rahoui, Mari Kolehmainen +19
(abridged) We report on multi-wavelength measurements of Swift J1753.5-0127 in the hard state at L=2.7e36 erg/s (assuming d=3 kpc) in 2014. The radio emission is optically thick sy…
NuSTAR Reveals Extreme Absorption in z < 0.5 Type 2 Quasars
G. B. Lansbury, P. Gandhi, D. M. Alexander +27
The intrinsic column density (NH) distribution of quasars is poorly known. At the high obscuration end of the quasar population and for redshifts z<1, the X-ray spectra can only be…