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astro-ph.HE2016★ 11 cited

Implications from the upper limit of radio afterglow emission of FRB 131104/Swift J0644.5-5111

He Gao, Bing Zhang

A -ray transient, Swift J0644.5-5111, has been claimed to be associated with FRB 131104. The -ray energy output is estimated as \,erg at the nomin…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 14 cited

Transition from Fireball to Poynting-flux-dominated Outflow in Three-Episode GRB 160625B

B. -B. Zhang, B. Zhang, A. J. Castro-Tirado +51

The ejecta composition is an open question in gamma-ray bursts (GRB) physics. Some GRBs possess a quasi-thermal spectral component in the time-resolved spectral analysis, suggestin…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 7 cited

Burst and Outburst Characteristics of Magnetar 4U 0142+61

Ersin Gogus, Lin Lin, Oliver J. Roberts +10

We have compiled the most comprehensive burst sample from magnetar 4U 0142+61, comprising 27 bursts from its three burst-active episodes in 2011, 2012 and the latest one in 2015 ob…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 72 cited

X-ray counterpart of gravitational waves due to binary neutron star mergers: light curves, luminosity functions, and event rate densities

Hui Sun, Bing Zhang, He Gao

Zhang (2013) proposed a type of GRB-less X-ray transient associated with double neutron star (NS-NS) mergers under the conjecture of a rapidly-spinning magnetar merger product with…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 62 cited

Magnetar-like X-ray Bursts from a Rotation Powered Pulsar, PSR J1119-6127

Ersin Gogus, Lin Lin, Yuki Kaneko +8

Two energetic hard X-ray bursts have recently triggered the Fermi and Swift space observatories from the rotation powered pulsar, PSR J1119-6127. We have performed in depth spectra…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 1 cited

Sharp Chandra View of ROSAT All-Sky Survey Bright Sources: I. Improvement of Positional Accuracy

Shuang Gao, Song Wang, Jifeng Liu

The ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) represents one of the most complete and sensitive soft X-ray all-sky surveys to date. However, the deficient positional accuracy of the RASS Bright…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 82 cited

Searching for magnetar powered merger-novae from short GRBs

He Gao, Bing Zhang, Hou-Jun Lü +1

The merger of a double neutron star (NS-NS) binary may result in a rapidly rotating massive NS with an extremely strong magnetic field (i.e., a millisecond magnetar). In this case,…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 105 cited

Internal X-ray plateau in short GRBs: Signature of supramassive fast-rotating quark stars?

Ang Li, Bing Zhang, Nai Bo Zhang +3

A supramassive, strongly-magnetized millisecond neutron star (NS) has been proposed to be the candidate central engine of at least some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs), based on the…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 57 cited

The wind nebula around magnetar Swift J1834.9-0846

G. Younes, C. Kouveliotou, O. Kargaltsev +12

We report on the analysis of two deep XMM-Newton observations of the magnetar Swift J1834.9-0846 and its surrounding extended emission taken in March 2014 and October 2014, 2.5 and…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 7 cited

Understanding the residual patterns of timing solutions of radio pulsars with a model of magnetic field oscillation

Xu-Dong Gao, Shuang-Nan Zhang, Shu-Xu Yi +2

We explain some phenomena existing generally in the timing residuals: amplitude and sign of the second derivative of a pulsar's spin-frequency (), some sophisticated residu…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 2 cited

Fast response electromagnetic follow-ups from low latency GW triggers

E. J. Howell, Q. Chu, A. Rowlinson +5

We investigate joint low-latency gravitational wave (GW) detection and prompt electromagnetic (EM) follow-up observations of coalescing binary neutron stars (BNSs). Assuming that B…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 39 cited

Limits on the Neutrino Velocity, Lorentz Invariance, and the Weak Equivalence Principle with TeV Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Bursts

Jun-Jie Wei, Xue-Feng Wu, He Gao +1

Five TeV neutrino events weakly correlated with five gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) were detected recently by IceCube. This work is an attempt to show that if the GRB identifications are…

astro-ph.HE2016

Intrinsic electromagnetic variability in celestial objects containing rapidly spinning black holes

Fan Zhang

Analytical studies have raised the concern that a mysterious expulsion of magnetic field lines by a rapidly-spinning black hole (dubbed the black hole Meissner effect) would shut d…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 99 cited

Optical Observations of the Type Ia Supernova 2011fe in M101 for Nearly 500 Days

Kaicheng Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, JuJia Zhang +17

We present well-sampled optical observations of the bright Type Ia supernova (SN~Ia) SN 2011fe in M101. Our data, starting from days before maximum light and extending to…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 83 cited

Constraints on the Photon Mass with Fast Radio Bursts

Xue-Feng Wu, Song-Bo Zhang, He Gao +6

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are radio bursts characterized by millisecond durations, high Galactic latitude positions, and high dispersion measures. Very recently, the cosmological or…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 54 cited

Testing Einstein's Weak Equivalence Principle With Gravitational Waves

Xue-Feng Wu, He Gao, Jun-Jie Wei +6

A conservative constraint on the Einstein Weak Equivalence Principle (WEP) can be obtained under the assumption that the observed time delay between correlated particles from astro…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 44 cited

Tests of the Einstein Equivalence Principle using TeV Blazars

Jun-Jie Wei, Jie-Shuang Wang, He Gao +1

The observed time delays between different energy bands from TeV blazars provide a new interesting way of testing the Einstein Equivalence Principle (EEP). If the whole time delay…