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astro-ph.HE2026

VERITAS Limits on Dark Matter Annihilation in the Galactic Center Halo

A. Archer, P. Bangale, J. T. Bartkoske +58

Well-motivated models of particle dark matter predict its self-annihilation into Standard Model end states, which may be detected by particle detectors or telescopes. We conduct an…

astro-ph.HE2026

Harmonic brightness oscillations point to magnetar giant flares in rare short gamma-ray bursts

Run-Chao Chen, Ore Gottlieb, Bin-Bin Zhang +5

Kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) have been observed in a few rare gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), but their physical origin remains uncertain. We reanalyze the two short GRBs…

astro-ph.HE2026

A Suppressed Volumetric Rate of High-Luminosity Mid-Infrared Selected Tidal Disruption Events

Prajna Nair, Christos Panagiotou, Megan Masterson +4

Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) serve as direct probes of the population of supermassive black holes in the center of galaxies and are nowadays regularly detected in optical wide-fi…

astro-ph.HE2026

X-ray luminous late-type giants: an overlooked population contributing to the Galactic ridge iron line emission

Tong Bao, Gabriele Ponti, Xiao-jie Xu +8

The origin of the highly ionized iron emission (Fe XXV at ) characterizing the Galactic ridge X-ray emission (GRXE) remains a fundamental puzzle in high-energy a…

astro-ph.HE2026

Las Cumbres Observatory Gravitational-Wave Follow-up in the Third and Fourth Observing Runs: Strengths and Weaknesses of a Rapid Response Galaxy Targeted Strategy

Ido Keinan, Iair Arcavi, D. Andrew Howell +34

We present a summary of gravitational-wave (GW) follow-up using the Las Cumbres Observatory global network of telescopes during the third (O3) and fourth (O4) observing runs of the…

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★ 1 cited

VERITAS Observations Contemporaneous with the LHAASO Detection of NGC 4278

The VERITAS Collaboration, A. Archer, P. Bangale +66

Significant gamma-ray emission between 1 TeV and 20 TeV from a point source, 1LHAASO J1219+2915, consistent with the location of the LINER/LLAGN galaxy NGC 4278 was recently report…

astro-ph.HE2026

Quantifying the impact of relativistic precession on tidal disruption event light curves

Diego Calderón, Ondřej Pejcha, Brian D. Metzger +2

The tidal field of a black hole can turn a star into a gas stream whose orbit can precess, especially if the a black hole is rapidly spinning. In this work, we investigate the impa…

astro-ph.HE2026

Gravitational Wave Measurement of the - Intrinsic Scatter at High Redshift

Cayenne Matt, Kayhan Gültekin, Gabriella Agazie +109

The observed GWB spectrum is higher in amplitude than model predictions by a factor of 2-3. Using a semi-analytic model, we evaluate the effect of a high-scatter supermassive black…

astro-ph.HE2026

Inefficiency of chiral dynamos in protoneutron stars and the early universe

Valentin A. Skoutnev, Andrei M. Beloborodov

The chiral plasma instability (CPI) has been invoked as a possible mechanism for generating primordial magnetic fields in the universe and ultrastrong fields in neutron stars. We i…

astro-ph.HE2026

Modeling isolated magnetar spin-down evolution and implications for long-period radio transients

Jon Kwong, Kaya Mori

Long-period radio transients (LPTs) are a new class of radio sources characterized by long spin periods ( s) and highly variable radio emission. While known m…

astro-ph.HE2026

Global Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Monster Shocks in Neutron Star Magnetospheres

Michael P. Grehan, Bart Ripperda, Andrei M. Beloborodov +2

Waves launched from the neutron star surface or inner magnetosphere propagate through the magnetosphere as small perturbations, but can grow relative to the background magnetic fie…

astro-ph.HE2026

Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations of Giant Magnetar Bursts

Koushik Chatterjee, Alexander Philippov, Andrei M. Beloborodov +3

Gradual crustal deformation can generate strongly twisted magnetic fields around magnetars, potentially triggering giant flares with total energies exceeding $10^{44}\,\mathrm{erg}…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 6 cited

High-energy Emission from Turbulent Electron-ion Coronae of Accreting Black Holes

Daniel Groselj, Alexander Philippov, Andrei M. Beloborodov +1

We develop a model of particle energization and emission from strongly turbulent black-hole coronae. Our local model is based on a set of 2D radiative particle-in-cell simulations…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Wind-mediated Eddington-limited emission in a Black Hole Tidal Disruption Event

Paola Martire, Elena Maria Rossi, Nicholas Chamberlain Stone +3

Observations of tidal disruption events (TDEs) have already produced tens of strong candidate flares, and their number will greatly increase with upcoming wide field surveys. Never…

astro-ph.HE2025

Constraints on the Population of Common Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos with IceCube During the Third Observing Run of the LIGO and Virgo Detectors

Doğa Veske, Zsuzsa Márka, Albert Zhang

The discovery of joint sources of high-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves has been a primary target for the LIGO, Virgo, KAGRA, and IceCube observatories. The joint detection…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 8 cited

The Radius of PSR J0437-4715 from NICER Data

M. C. Miller, A. J. Dittmann, I. M. Holt +12

Neutron star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) data have been used to estimate the masses and radii of the rotation-powered millisecond pulsars PSR J00300451, PSR J074066…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

Multiple outflows and delayed ejections revealed by early imaging of novae

Elias Aydi, John D. Monnier, Antoine Mérand +39

Novae are thermonuclear eruptions on accreting white dwarfs in interacting binaries. Although most of the accreted envelope is expelled, the mechanism -- impulsive ejection, multip…

astro-ph.HE2025

Superluminal Wave Activation at Relativistic Magnetized Shocks

Jens F. Mahlmann, Logan Eskildsen, Arno Vanthieghem +2

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extremely energetic radio transients, some are generated in magnetar magnetospheres and winds. Despite a growing number of observations, their emission…

astro-ph.HE2025

New and updated timing models for seven young energetic X-ray pulsars, including the Big Glitcher PSR J0537-6910

Wynn C. G. Ho, Lucien Kuiper, Cristobal M. Espinoza +6

We present new timing models and update our previous ones for the rotational evolution of seven young energetic pulsars, including four of the top five in spin-down luminosity Edot…

astro-ph.HE2025

Self-confinement of relativistic pair beams in magnetized interstellar plasmas: the case of pulsar X-ray filaments

Luca Orusa, Lorenzo Sironi

The observation of filamentary X-ray structures near bow-shock pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) -- such as the Guitar, Lighthouse, and PSR J20304415 nebulae -- and of slow-diffusion r…

astro-ph.HE2025

Deep Learning Analysis of Ions Accelerated at Shocks

Paxson Swierc, Damiano Caprioli, Luca Orusa +1

We study the application of deep learning techniques to the analysis and classification of ions accelerated at collisionless shocks in hybrid (kinetic ions--fluid electrons) simula…

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★ 2 cited

Acceleration of Heavy Ions at Non-Relativistic Collisionless Shocks

Damiano Caprioli, Luca Orusa, Miha Cernetic +2

We investigate the process of Diffusive Shock Acceleration (DSA) of particles with mass number to charge number ratios , e.g., partially-ionized heavy ions. To this end, w…