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astro-ph.HE2017★ 112 cited

On the Progenitor of Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1095

On 2017 August 17 the merger of two compact objects with masses consistent with two neutron stars was discovered through gravitational-wave (GW170817), gamma-ray (GRB 170817A), and…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 192 cited

The SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts II: New FRB discoveries and their follow-up

S. Bhandari, E. F. Keane, E. D. Barr +47

We report the discovery of four Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) in the ongoing SUrvey for Pulsars and Extragalactic Radio Bursts (SUPERB) at the Parkes Radio Telescope: FRBs 150610, 15120…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 60 cited

All-flavor search for a diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos with 9 years of ANTARES data

ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André +125

The ANTARES detector is at present the most sensitive neutrino telescope in the Northern Hemisphere. The highly significant cosmic neutrino excess observed by the Antarctic IceCube…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 1.3k cited

GW170608: Observation of a 19-solar-mass Binary Black Hole Coalescence

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1101

On June 8, 2017 at 02:01:16.49 UTC, a gravitational-wave signal from the merger of two stellar-mass black holes was observed by the two Advanced LIGO detectors with a network signa…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 193 cited

Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Binary Neutron Star Merger GW170817 with ANTARES, IceCube, and the Pierre Auger Observatory

A. Albert, M. Andre, M. Anghinolfi +1931

The Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo observatories recently discovered gravitational waves from a binary neutron star inspiral. A short gamma-ray burst (GRB) that followed the merg…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 3.6k cited

Gravitational Waves and Gamma-rays from a Binary Neutron Star Merger: GW170817 and GRB 170817A

LIGO Scientific Collaboration, Virgo Collaboration, Fermi Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor +1

On 2017 August 17, the gravitational-wave event GW170817 was observed by the Advanced LIGO and Virgo detectors, and the gamma-ray burst (GRB) GRB 170817A was observed independently…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 266 cited

Search for post-merger gravitational waves from the remnant of the binary neutron star merger GW170817

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1105

The first observation of a binary neutron star coalescence by the Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo gravitational-wave detectors offers an unprecedented opportunity to study matter…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 227 cited

Estimating the Contribution of Dynamical Ejecta in the Kilonova Associated with GW170817

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1100

The source of the gravitational-wave signal GW170817, very likely a binary neutron star merger, was also observed electromagnetically, providing the first multi-messenger observati…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 7 cited

The XMM deep survey in the CDF-S. X. X-ray variability of bright sources

S. Falocco, M. Paolillo, A. Comastri +6

We aim to study the variability properties of bright hard X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) with redshift between 0.3 and 1.6 detected in the Chandra Deep Field South (XM…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 409 cited

Observation of a Large-scale Anisotropy in the Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays above eV

The Pierre Auger Collaboration, A. Aab, P. Abreu +404

Cosmic rays are atomic nuclei arriving from outer space that reach the highest energies observed in nature. Clues to their origin come from studying the distribution of their arriv…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 12 cited

Exploratory X-ray Monitoring of Luminous Radio-Quiet Quasars at High Redshift: No Evidence for Evolution in X-ray Variability

Ohad Shemmer, W. N. Brandt, Maurizio Paolillo +4

We report on the second installment of an X-ray monitoring project of seven luminous radio-quiet quasars (RQQs). New {\sl Chandra} observations of four of these, at $4.10\leq z\leq…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 67 cited

Tracing the accretion history of supermassive Black Holes through X-ray variability: results from the Chandra Deep Field-South

M. Paolillo, I. Papadakis, W. N. Brandt +15

We study the X-ray variability properties of distant AGNs in the Chandra Deep Field-South region over 17 years, up to , and compare them with those predicted by models bas…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 11 cited

EAS age determination from the study of the lateral distribution of charged particles near the shower axis with the ARGO-YBJ experiment

YBJ Collaboration, B. Bartoli, P. Bernardini +69

The ARGO-YBJ experiment, a full coverage extensive air shower (EAS) detector located at high altitude (4300 m a.s.l.) in Tibet, China, has smoothly taken data, with very high stabi…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 82 cited

Upper Limits on Gravitational Waves from Scorpius X-1 from a Model-Based Cross-Correlation Search in Advanced LIGO Data

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1046

We present the results of a semicoherent search for continuous gravitational waves from the low-mass X-ray binary Scorpius X-1, using data from the first Advanced LIGO observing ru…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 96 cited

First all-flavour Neutrino Point-like Source Search with the ANTARES Neutrino Telescope

ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André +126

A search for cosmic neutrino sources using the data collected with the ANTARES neutrino telescope between early 2007 and the end of 2015 is performed. For the first time, all neutr…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 82 cited

A polarized fast radio burst at low Galactic latitude

E. Petroff, S. Burke-Spolaor, E. F. Keane +35

We report on the discovery of a new fast radio burst, FRB 150215, with the Parkes radio telescope on 2015 February 15. The burst was detected in real time with a dispersion measure…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 53 cited

New Constraints on all flavour Galactic diffuse neutrino emission with the ANTARES telescope

A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi +126

The flux of very high-energy neutrinos produced in our Galaxy by the interaction of accelerated cosmic rays with the interstellar medium is not yet determined. The characterization…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 23 cited

Prospects for CTA observations of the young SNR RX J1713.7-3946

The CTA Consortium, :, F. Acero +381

We perform simulations for future Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) observations of RX~J1713.73946, a young supernova remnant (SNR) and one of the brightest sources ever discovere…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 15 cited

Search for Gamma Ray Bursts with the ARGO-YBJ Detector in Shower Mode

B. Bartoli, P. Bernardini, X. J. Bi +69

The ARGO-YBJ detector, located at the Yangbajing Cosmic Ray Laboratory (4300 m a. s. l., Tibet, China), was a full coverage air shower array dedicated to gamma ray astronomy and co…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 52 cited

Search for High-energy Neutrinos from Gravitational Wave Event GW151226 and Candidate LVT151012 with ANTARES and IceCube

A. Albert, M. Andre, M. Anghinolfi +1410

The Advanced LIGO observatories detected gravitational waves from two binary black hole mergers during their first observation run (O1). We present a high-energy neutrino follow-up…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 19 cited

An algorithm for the reconstruction of high-energy neutrino-induced particle showers and its application to the ANTARES neutrino telescope

ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André +119

A novel algorithm to reconstruct neutrino-induced particle showers within the ANTARES neutrino telescope is presented. The method achieves a median angular resolution of …

astro-ph.HE2017★ 15 cited

Search for relativistic magnetic monopoles with five years of the ANTARES detector data

A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi +118

A search for magnetic monopoles using five years of data recorded with the ANTARES neutrino telescope from January 2008 to December 2012 with a total live time of 1121 days is pres…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 91 cited

A New, Faint Population of X-ray Transients

F. E. Bauer, E. Treister, K. Schawinski +22

We report on the detection of a remarkable new fast high-energy transient found in the Chandra Deep Field-South, robustly associated with a faint ( mag, $z_{\rm ph}…

astro-ph.HE2017

Secondary positrons and electrons measured by PAMELA experiment

V. V. Mikhailov, O. Adriani, G. Barbarino +55

We present a measurements of electron and positron fluxes below the geomagnetic cutoff rigidity in wide energy range from 50 MeV to several GeV by the PAMELA magnetic spectrometer.…