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astro-ph.HE2014★ 25 cited

Internal shocks driven by accretion flow variability in the compact jet of the black hole binary GX 339-4

S. Drappeau, J. Malzac, J. Belmont +2

In recent years, compact jets have been playing a growing role in the understanding of accreting black hole engines. In the case of X-ray binary systems, compact jets are usually a…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 15 cited

The - relation and the internal shock model

R. Mochkovitch, L. Nava

The validity of the - correlation in gamma-ray bursts and the possibility of explaining the prompt emission with internal shocks are highly debated questi…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 30 cited

H.E.S.S. detection of TeV emission from the interaction region between the supernova remnant G349.7+0.2 and a molecular cloud

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +224

G349.7+0.2 is a young Galactic supernova remnant (SNR) located at the distance of 11.5 kpc and observed across the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio to high energy (HE) Ga…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 8 cited

HI study of the environment around ESO 243-49, the host galaxy of an intermediate mass black hole

A. Musaeva, B. S. Koribalski, S. A. Farrell +9

The lenticular galaxy ESO 243-49 hosts the ultraluminous X-ray source HLX-1, the best candidate intermediate mass black hole (IMBH) currently known. The environments of IMBHs remai…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 18 cited

A Suzaku view of IGR J16393-4643

Nazma Islam, Chandreyee Maitra, Pragati Pradhan +1

The pulsar IGR J16393-4643 belongs to a class of highly absorbed supergiant HMXBs, characterised by very high column density of absorbing matter. We present the results of the simu…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 5 cited

Source identification in the IGR J17448-3232 field: discovery of the Scorpius galaxy cluster

Nicolas M. Barrière, John A. Tomsick, Daniel R. Wik +2

We use a 43-ks XMM-Newton observation to investigate the nature of sources first distinguished by a follow-up Chandra observation of the field surrounding INTEGRAL source IGR J1744…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 42 cited

On the radio properties of the intermediate-mass black hole candidate ESO 243-49 HLX-1

D. Cseh, N. A. Webb, O. Godet +8

We present follow-up radio observations of ESO 243-49 HLX-1 from 2012 using the Australia Telescope Compact Array (ATCA) and the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA). We report th…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 27 cited

Discovery of the VHE gamma-ray source HESS J1832-093 in the vicinity of SNR G22.7-0.2

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +218

The region around the supernova remnant (SNR) W41 contains several TeV sources and has prompted the H.E.S.S. Collaboration to perform deep observations of this field of view. This…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 262 cited

A hadronic origin for ultra-high-frequency-peaked BL Lac objects

M. Cerruti, A. Zech, C. Boisson +1

Current Cherenkov telescopes have identified a population of ultra-high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects (UHBLs), also known as extreme blazars, that exhibit exceptionally hard TeV…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 137 cited

Consistent neutron star models with magnetic field dependent equations of state

Debarati Chatterjee, Thomas Elghozi, Jerome Novak +1

We present a self-consistent model for the study of the structure of a neutron star in strong magnetic fields. Starting from a microscopic Lagrangian, this model includes the effec…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 33 cited

The high-energy -ray emission of AP Librae

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, Fermi-LAT collaborations

The -ray spectrum of the low-frequency-peaked BL Lac (LBL) object AP Librae is studied, following the discovery of very-high-energy (VHE; ) -ray emission up…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 91 cited

Comparing the spectral lag of short and long gamma-ray bursts and its relation with the luminosity

M. G. Bernardini, G. Ghirlanda, S. Campana +14

We investigated the rest frame spectral lags of two complete samples of bright long (50) and short (6) gamma-ray bursts (GRB) detected by Swift. We analysed the Swift/BAT data thro…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 112 cited

Search for dark matter annihilation signatures in H.E.S.S. observations of Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxies

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +229

Dwarf spheroidal galaxies of the Local Group are close satellites of the Milky Way characterized by a large mass-to-light ratio and are not expected to be the site of non-thermal h…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 35 cited

Equilibrium solutions of relativistic rotating stars with mixed poloidal and toroidal magnetic fields

Koji Uryu, Eric Gourgoulhon, Charalampos Markakis +3

Stationary and axisymmetric solutions of relativistic rotating stars with strong mixed poloidal and toroidal magnetic fields are obtained numerically. Because of the mixed componen…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 24 cited

Discovery of X-ray Pulsations from the INTEGRAL Source IGR J11014-6103

J. P. Halpern, J. A. Tomsick, E. V. Gotthelf +6

We report the discovery of PSR J1101-6101, a 62.8 ms pulsar in IGR J11014-6103, a hard X-ray source with a jet and a cometary tail that strongly suggests it is moving away from the…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 105 cited

Circular polarization in the optical afterglow of GRB 121024A

K. Wiersema, S. Covino, K. Toma +37

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are most probably powered by collimated relativistic outflows (jets) from accreting black holes at cosmological distances. Bright afterglows are produced wh…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 71 cited

High-energy gamma-ray and neutrino backgrounds from clusters of galaxies and radio constraints

Fabio Zandanel, Irene Tamborra, Stefano Gabici +1

Cosmic-ray protons accumulate for cosmological times in clusters of galaxies as their typical radiative and diffusive escape times are longer than the Hubble time. Their hadronic i…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 53 cited

On the Fe K absorption - accretion state connection in the Galactic center neutron star X-ray binary AX J1745.6-2901

G. Ponti, S. Bianchi, T. Munoz-Darias +17

AX J1745.6-2901 is a high-inclination (eclipsing) neutron star Low Mass X-ray Binary (LMXB) located less than ~1.5 arcmin from Sgr A*. Ongoing monitoring campaigns have targeted Sg…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 5 cited

Using optical lines to study particle acceleration at supernova remnants

Giovanni Morlino

The shocks of several young supernova remnants (SNR) are often associated with very thin optical filaments dominated by Balmer emission resulting from charge-exchange and collision…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 26 cited

A quiescent galaxy at the position of the long GRB 050219A

A. Rossi, S. Piranomonte, S. Savaglio +25

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) are produced by the collapse of very massive stars. Due to the short lifetime of their progenitors, LGRBs pinpoint star-forming galaxies. We…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 10 cited

Constraining the neutrino emission of gravitationally lensed Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars with ANTARES data

S. Adrián-Martínez, A. Albert, M. André +134

This paper proposes to exploit gravitational lensing effects to improve the sensitivity of neutrino telescopes to the intrinsic neutrino emission of distant blazar populations. Thi…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 55 cited

Unveiling the redback nature of the low-mass X-ray binary XSSJ1227.0-4859 through optical observations

D. de Martino, J. Casares, E. Mason +6

The peculiar low mass X-ray binary XSSJ12270-4859, associated with the Fermi/LAT source 2FGLJ1227.7-4853, was in a X-ray, gamma-ray and optical low-luminosity persistent state for…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 89 cited

GRB 140206A: the most distant polarized Gamma-Ray Burst

D. Gotz, P. Laurent, S. Antier +4

The nature of the prompt gamma-ray emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is still far from being completely elucidated. The measure of linear polarization is a powerful tool that can…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 47 cited

Discovery of the hard spectrum VHE gamma-ray source HESS J1641-463

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +230

This letter reports the discovery of a remarkably hard spectrum source, HESS J1641-463, by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) in the very-high energy (VHE) domain. HESS…