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astro-ph.HE2019★ 69 cited

NICER X-ray Observations of Seven Nearby Rotation-Powered Millisecond Pulsars

S. Guillot, M. Kerr, P. S. Ray +18

NICER observed several rotation-powered millisecond pulsars to search for or confirm the presence of X-ray pulsations. When broad and sine-like, these pulsations may indicate therm…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 168 cited

Constraining the Neutron Star Mass-Radius Relation and Dense Matter Equation of State with NICER. II. Emission from Hot Spots on a Rapidly Rotating Neutron Star

Slavko Bogdanov, Frederick K. Lamb, Simin Mahmoodifar +10

We describe the model of surface emission from a rapidly rotating neutron star that is applied to Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer X-ray data of millisecond pulsars in or…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 174 cited

Constraining the Neutron Star Mass-Radius Relation and Dense Matter Equation of State with NICER. I. The Millisecond Pulsar X-ray Data Set

Slavko Bogdanov, Sebastien Guillot, Paul S. Ray +27

We present the set of deep Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) X-ray timing observations of the nearby rotation-powered millisecond pulsars PSRs J0437-4715, J0030+04…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 1.8k cited

PSR J0030+0451 Mass and Radius from NICER Data and Implications for the Properties of Neutron Star Matter

M. C. Miller, F. K. Lamb, A. J. Dittmann +18

Neutron stars are not only of astrophysical interest, but are also of great interest to nuclear physicists, because their attributes can be used to determine the properties of the…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 146 cited

A NICER view of PSR J0030+0451: evidence for a global-scale multipolar magnetic field

Anna V. Bilous, Anna L. Watts, Alice K. Harding +8

Recent modeling of NICER observations of thermal X-ray pulsations from the surface of the isolated millisecond pulsar PSR J0030+0451 suggests that the hot emitting regions on the p…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 272 cited

A NICER view of PSR J0030+0451: Implications for the dense matter equation of state

G. Raaijmakers, T. E. Riley, A. L. Watts +14

Both the mass and radius of the millisecond pulsar PSR J0030+0451 have been inferred via pulse-profile modeling of X-ray data obtained by NASA's NICER mission. In this Letter we st…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 1.7k cited

A NICER View of PSR J0030+0451: Millisecond Pulsar Parameter Estimation

Thomas E. Riley, Anna L. Watts, Slavko Bogdanov +13

We report on Bayesian parameter estimation of the mass and equatorial radius of the millisecond pulsar PSR J00300451, conditional on pulse-profile modeling of Neutron Star Inter…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 8 cited

Probing the Properties of the Pulsar Wind in the Gamma-Ray Binary HESS J0632+057 with NuSTAR and VERITAS Observations

A. Archer, W. Benbow, R. Bird +60

HESS J0632+057 is a gamma-ray binary composed of a compact object orbiting a Be star with a period of about days. Extensive X-ray and TeV gamma-ray observations have revealed…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 48 cited

The NANOGrav 11-Year Data Set: Limits on Gravitational Wave Memory

K. Aggarwal, Z. Arzoumanian, P. T. Baker +58

The mergers of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) promise to be incredible sources of gravitational waves (GWs). While the oscillatory part of the merger gravitational wavef…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 37 cited

Evolution of the accretion disk-corona during bright hard-to-soft state transition: A reflection spectroscopic study with GX 339-4

Navin Sridhar, Javier A. García, James F. Steiner +3

We present the analysis of several observations of the black hole binary GX 339--4 during its bright intermediate states from two different outbursts (2002 and 2004), as observed b…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 38 cited

Simulation of a Compact Object with Outflows Moving Through a Gaseous Background

Xinyu Li, Philip Chang, Yuri Levin +2

A compact object moving relative to surrounding gas accretes material and perturbs the density of gas in its vicinity. In the classical picture of Bondi-Hoyle-Lyttleton accretion,…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 5 cited

Constraining Black Hole Populations in Globular Clusters using Microlensing: Application to Omega Centauri

John Zaris, Doğa Veske, Johan Samsing +3

We estimate the rate of gravitational microlensing events of cluster stars due to black holes (BHs) in the globular cluster NGC 5139 (). Theory and observations both indicate…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 5 cited

Consequences of Energetic Magnetar-Like Outbursts of Nearby Neutron Stars: C Events and the Cosmic Electron Spectrum

F. Y. Wang, Xinyu Li, D. O. Chernyshov +3

Four significant events of rapid C increase have taken place within the past several thousand years. The physical origin of these rapid increases is still a mystery but must…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 41 cited

GW170817A as a Hierarchical Black Hole Merger

V. Gayathri, I. Bartos, Z. Haiman +4

Despite the rapidly growing number of stellar-mass binary black hole mergers discovered through gravitational waves, the origin of these binaries is still not known. In galactic ce…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 97 cited

Constraints on the Engines of Fast Radio Bursts

Ben Margalit, Brian D. Metzger, Lorenzo Sironi

We model the sample of fast radio bursts (FRB), including the newly discovered CHIME repeaters, using the synchrotron blast wave model of Metzger, Margalit & Sironi (2019). This mo…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 88 cited

Multi-Epoch Modeling of TXS 0506+056 and Implications for Long-Term High-Energy Neutrino Emission

Maria Petropoulou, Kohta Murase, Marcos Santander +11

The IceCube report of a excess of neutrino events in the direction of the blazar TXS 05056+056 in 2014-2015 and the 2017 detection of a high-energy neutrino, I…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 17 cited

NuSTAR and Chandra observations of new X-ray transients in the central parsec of the Galaxy

Kaya Mori, Charles J. Hailey, Shifra Mandel +14

We report NuSTAR and Chandra observations of two X-ray transients, SWIFT J174540.7290015 (T15) and SWIFT J174540.2290037 (T37), which were discovered by the Neil Gehrels Swif…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 10 cited

NuSTAR observations of the unidentified INTEGRAL sources: constraints on the Galactic population of HMXBs

Maïca Clavel, John A. Tomsick, Jeremy Hare +3

The NuSTAR Legacy program 'Unidentified INTEGRAL sources' targeted faint hard X-ray sources revealed by INTEGRAL in the Galactic plane in order to provide conclusive identification…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 8 cited

Nuclear Ignition of White Dwarf Stars by Relativistic Encounters with Rotating Intermediate Mass Black Holes

Peter Anninos, Robert D. Hoffman, Manvir Grewal +2

We present results from general relativistic calculations of nuclear ignition in white dwarf stars triggered by near encounters with rotating intermediate mass black holes with dif…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 9 cited

Kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations from neutron star spreading layers

Pavel Abolmasov, Joonas Nättilä, Juri Poutanen

When the accretion disc around a weakly magnetised neutron star (NS) meets the stellar surface, it should brake down to match the rotation of the NS, forming a boundary layer. As t…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 27 cited

High-energy neutrinos from fallback accretion of binary neutron star merger remnants

Valentin Decoene, Claire Guépin, Ke Fang +2

Following the coalescence of binary neutron stars, debris from the merger which remains marginally bound to the central compact remnant will fallback at late times, feeding a susta…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 55 cited

Spikey: Self-Lensing Flares from Eccentric SMBH Binaries

Betty X. Hu, Daniel J. D'Orazio, Zoltan Haiman +4

We examine the light curves of two quasars, motivated by recent suggestions that a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) can exhibit sharp lensing spikes. We model the variability…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 35 cited

The SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts IV: Discovery and polarimetry of a 12.1-second radio pulsar

V. Morello, E. F. Keane, T. Enoto +19

We report the discovery of PSR~J22513711, a radio pulsar with a spin period of 12.1 seconds, the second longest currently known. Its timing parameters imply a characteristic age…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 472 cited

Kilonovae

Brian D. Metzger

The coalescence of double neutron star (NS-NS) and black hole (BH)-NS binaries are prime sources of gravitational waves (GW) for Advanced LIGO/Virgo and future ground-based detecto…