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astro-ph.HE2026

Pulsar scintillation arcs formed from correlated volume scattering

Tobias Kramer

Radio waves propagating through the interstellar medium are influenced by variations in plasma density. For spatially localised plasma structures along the line of sight, time-dela…

astro-ph.HE2026

Observational distinguishability of the Kerr and Kerr-Hayward metrics to EHT

Nikola Bukowiecka, Angelo Ricarte, Prashant Kocherlakota +1

Astrophysical black holes appear well-represented by the Kerr metric, whose maximal analytic extension contains a ringlike curvature singularity. We study a phenomenological regula…

astro-ph.HE2026

Approximating the Fourier Transform of Ring-Like Images: the Focal Expansion

Filip Niewiński, Michael D. Johnson

We derive and showcase a novel approach to approximating Fourier transforms in higher dimensions, focusing specifically on the case of 2D radially concentrated ('ring-like') functi…

astro-ph.HE2026

Shaping the diffuse X-ray sky: Structure, Variability and Visibility

Philipp Girichidis, Erika Rea, Ralf S. Klessen +5

The Local Bubble (LB) is a hot, low-density cavity in the solar neighborhood, inside which the Solar System is currently located. The X-ray emission from such bubbles is strongly g…

astro-ph.HE2026

Polarization Signatures of Inspiraling Hotspots around Kerr Black Holes

Pablo Ruales, Delilah E. A. Gates, Alejandro Cárdenas-Avendaño

Polarimetric interferometry is a powerful tool for probing both black hole accretion physics and the background spacetime. Current models aimed at explaining the observed multiwave…

astro-ph.HE2025

Optimizing the potential of KM3NeT in detecting core-collapse supernovae

KM3NeT Collaboration, O. Adriani, A. Albert +285

Core-collapse supernovae mark the end of life of massive stars. However, despite their importance in astrophysics, their underlying mechanisms remain unclear. Neutrinos that emerge…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Search for GeV-scale Dark Matter from the Galactic Center with IceCube-DeepCore

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +431

Models describing dark matter as a novel particle often predict that its annihilation or decay into Standard Model particles could produce a detectable neutrino flux in regions of…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 11 cited

Improved measurements of the TeV-PeV extragalactic neutrino spectrum from joint analyses of IceCube tracks and cascades

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +424

The IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory has discovered the presence of a diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux at energies of TeV and beyond using neutrino induced muon tracks an…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 14 cited

Evidence for a Spectral Break or Curvature in the Spectrum of Astrophysical Neutrinos from 5 TeV--10 PeV

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +424

We report improved measurements of the all flavor astrophysical neutrino spectrum with IceCube by combining complementary neutrino samples in two independent analyses. Both analyse…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Constraints on the diffuse flux of multi-PeV astrophysical neutrinos obtained with the Baikal Gigaton Volume Detector

V. A. Allakhverdyan, A. D. Avrorin, A. V. Avrorin +69

Various theoretical models predict cosmic neutrinos with multi-PeV energies. The recent detection of a ~10^17 eV neutrino in the KM3NeT experiment suggests that these energetic par…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Seasonal Variations of the Atmospheric Muon Neutrino Spectrum measured with IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +425

This study presents an energy-dependent analysis of seasonal variations in the atmospheric muon neutrino spectrum, using 11.3 years of data from the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. B…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 37 cited

Search for Extremely-High-Energy Neutrinos and First Constraints on the Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Proton Fraction with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann +423

We present a search for the diffuse extremely-high-energy neutrino flux using years of IceCube data. The nonobservation of neutrinos with energies well above $10 \, \mathrm{…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Origin of spectral bands in the Crab pulsar radio emission

Mikhail V. Medvedev

The model explaining the spectral "zebra" pattern of the high-frequency interpulse (HFIP) of the Crab pulsar radio emission is proposed. The observed emission bands are diffraction…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 3 cited

Jet Archaeology and Forecasting: Image Variability and Magnetic Field Configuration

Yuh Tsunetoe, Ramesh Narayan, Angelo Ricarte

We investigate how magnetic field variations around accreting black holes on event horizon scales affect the morphology of magnetically-driven jet on larger scales. By performing r…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 13 cited

Bayesian Black Hole Photogrammetry

Dominic O. Chang, Michael D. Johnson, Paul Tiede +1

We propose a simple, analytic dual-cone accretion model for horizon scale images of the cores of Low-Luminosity Active Galactic Nuclei (LLAGN), including those observed by the Even…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 1 cited

Milli-to-Deci-Hertz Detection Prospects for Gravitational Waves from Core-Collapse Supernovae

Kiranjyot Gill

Gravitational wave (GW) astronomy truly began with the detection of merging compact binaries. The next breakthrough lies in detecting GWs from core-collapse supernovae (CCSNe), par…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 2 cited

Accretion Flares from Stellar Collisions in Galactic Nuclei

Betty X. Hu, Avi Loeb

The strong tidal force in a supermassive black hole's (SMBH) vicinity, coupled with a higher stellar density at the center of a galaxy, make it an ideal location to study the inter…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 65 cited

Characterization of the Astrophysical Diffuse Neutrino Flux using Starting Track Events in IceCube

R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams +415

A measurement of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino spectrum is presented using IceCube data collected from 2011-2022 (10.3 years). We developed novel detection techniques to searc…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 5 cited

Scattering model of scintillation arcs in pulsar secondary spectra

Tobias Kramer, Daniel Waltner, Eric J. Heller +1

The dynamic spectra of pulsars frequently exhibit diverse interference patterns, often associated with parabolic arcs in the Fourier-transformed (secondary) spectra. Our approach d…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 14 cited

Misaligned magnetized accretion flows onto spinning black holes: Magneto-spin alignment, outflow power, and intermittent jets

Koushik Chatterjee, Nicholas Kaaz, Matthew Liska +2

Magnetic fields regulate black hole (BH) accretion, governing both inflow and outflow dynamics. When a BH accumulates substantial vertical magnetic flux, it enters the magnetically…

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★ 18 cited

Black Holes Up Close

Ramesh Narayan, Eliot Quataert

Recent developments have ushered in a new era in the field of black hole astrophysics, providing our first direct view of the remarkable environment near black hole event horizons.…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 7 cited

A new limit on intergalactic magnetic fields on sub-kpc scales from fast radio bursts

Hamsa Padmanabhan, Abraham Loeb

We use the measured scattering timescales of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) from the CHIME catalog to derive an upper limit on the magnetic field on sub-kpc scales in the intergalactic m…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 29 cited

Using Machine Learning to Link Black Hole Accretion Flows with Spatially Resolved Polarimetric Observables

Richard Qiu, Angelo Ricarte, Ramesh Narayan +3

We introduce a new library of 535,194 model images of the supermassive black holes and Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) targets Sgr A* and M87*, computed by performing general relativ…