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astro-ph.HE2020★ 19 cited

ANTARES search for point-sources of neutrinos using astrophysical catalogs: a likelihood stacking analysis

A. Albert, M. André, M. Anghinolfi +136

A search for astrophysical point-like neutrino sources using the data collected by the ANTARES detector between January 29, 2007 and December 31, 2017 is presented. A likelihood st…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 49 cited

Pulsating ULXs: large pulsed fraction excludes strong beaming

Alexander A. Mushtukov, Simon Portegies Zwart, Sergey S. Tsygankov +2

The recent discovery of pulsating ultra-luminous X-ray sources (ULXs) shows that the apparent luminosity of accreting neutron stars (NSs) can exceed the Eddington luminosity by a f…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 23 cited

Diffuse Radio Emission from Galaxy Clusters in the LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Deep Fields

E. Osinga, R. J. van Weeren, J. Boxelaar +15

Low-frequency radio observations are revealing an increasing number of diffuse synchrotron sources from galaxy clusters, dominantly in the form of radio halos or radio relics. The…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 13 cited

LOFAR Detection of a Low-Power Radio Halo in the Galaxy Cluster Abell 990

N. D. Hoang, T. W. Shimwell, E. Osinga +10

Radio halos are extended (), steep-spectrum sources found in the central region of dynamically disturbed clusters of galaxies. Only a handful of radio halos have bee…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 7 cited

Radio counterparts of gamma-ray sources in the Cygnus region

Paula Benaglia, C. H. Ishwara-Chandra, Josep M. Paredes +3

The view of the gamma-ray universe is being continuously expanded by space high energy (HE) and ground based very-high energy (VHE) observatories. Yet, the angular resolution limit…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 8 cited

A low-frequency radio halo survey of the South Pole Telescope SZ-selected clusters with the GMRT

Ramij Raja, Majidul Rahaman, Abhirup Datta +3

The presence of non-thermal electrons and large scale magnetic fields in the intra-cluster medium (ICM) is known through the detection of mega-parsec (Mpc) scale diffuse radio sync…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 12 cited

ANTARES upper limits on the multi-TeV neutrino emission from the GRBs detected by IACTs

ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André +135

The first gamma-ray burst detections by Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes have been recently announced: GRB 190114C, detected by MAGIC, GRB 180720B and GRB 190829A, observed…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 12 cited

Substructures in the core of Abell 2319

Y. Ichinohe, A. Simionescu, N. Werner +2

We analysed the deep archival Chandra observations of the high-temperature galaxy cluster Abell 2319 to investigate the prominent cold front in its core. The main sharp arc of the…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 74 cited

A Family Tree of Optical Transients from Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies

Sara Frederick, Suvi Gezari, Matthew J. Graham +17

The Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) has discovered five new events belonging to an emerging class of AGN undergoing smooth flares with large amplitudes and rapid rise times. This s…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 36 cited

Monte Carlo simulations for the ANTARES underwater neutrino telescope

The ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André +133

Monte Carlo simulations are a unique tool to check the response of a detector and to monitor its performance. For a deep-sea neutrino telescope, the variability of the environmenta…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 39 cited

Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift During the LIGO-Virgo Run O3a

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1250

We search for gravitational-wave transients associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by the Fermi and Swift satellites during the first part of the third observing run of Advanced…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 67 cited

Monitoring the Morphology of M87* in 2009-2017 with the Event Horizon Telescope

Maciek Wielgus, Kazunori Akiyama, Lindy Blackburn +26

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) has recently delivered the first resolved images of M87*, the supermassive black hole in the center of the M87 galaxy. These images were produced…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 9 cited

ClG 0217+70: A massive merging galaxy cluster with a large radio halo and relics

X. Zhang, A. Simionescu, J. S. Kaastra +7

We present an analysis of archival Chandra data of the merging galaxy cluster ClG 0217+70. The Fe XXV He X-ray emission line is clearly visible in the 25 ks observation, allowin…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 71 cited

Dynamically important magnetic fields near the event horizon of Sgr A*

GRAVITY Collaboration, A. Jiménez-Rosales, J. Dexter +53

We study the time-variable linear polarisation of Sgr A* during a bright NIR flare observed with the GRAVITY instrument on July 28, 2018. Motivated by the time evolution of both th…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 39 cited

The Chandra Deep Wide-Field Survey: A New Chandra Legacy Survey in the Boötes Field I. X-ray Point Source Catalog, Number Counts and Multi-Wavelength Counterparts

A. Masini, R. C. Hickox, C. M. Carroll +30

We present a new, ambitious survey performed with the Chandra X-ray Observatory of the 9.3 deg Boötes field of the NOAO Deep Wide-Field Survey. The wide field probes a statisti…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 30 cited

A hard look at local, optically-selected, obscured Seyfert galaxies

E. S. Kammoun, J. M. Miller, M. Koss +11

We study the X-ray spectra of a sample of 19 obscured, optically-selected Seyfert galaxies (Sy 1.8, 1.9 and 2) in the local universe (~Mpc), drawn from the CfA Seyfert…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 9 cited

Reaching thermal noise at ultra-low radio frequencies: the Toothbrush radio relic downstream of the shock front

F. de Gasperin, G. Brunetti, M. Bruggen +14

Ultra-low frequency observations (<100 MHz) are particularly challenging because they are usually performed in a low signal-to-noise ratio regime due to the high sky temperature an…

astro-ph.HE2020

Radiative Emission Mechanisms of Tidal Disruption Events

Nathaniel Roth, Elena M. Rossi, Julian H. Krolik +3

We describe how the various outcomes of stellar tidal disruption give rise to observable radiation. We separately consider the cases where gas circularizes rapidly into an accretio…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 23 cited

Forward Modeling Populations of Flares from Tidal Disruptions of Stars by Super-massive Black Holes

Nathaniel Roth, Sjoert van Velzen, S. Bradley Cenko +1

Detections of the tidal disruption flares (TDFs) of stars by supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are rapidly accumulating as optical surveys improve. These detections may provide cons…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 36 cited

Constraining the contribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts to the high-energy diffuse neutrino flux with 10 years of ANTARES data

ANTARES Collaboration, A. Albert, M. André +133

Addressing the origin of the astrophysical neutrino flux observed by IceCube is of paramount importance. Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the few astrophysical sources capable of…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 18 cited

Fundamental physics using the temporal gravitational wave background

Suvodip Mukherjee, Joseph Silk

We propose a novel probe of fundamental physics that involves the exploration of temporal correlations between the multi-frequency electromagnetic (EM) signal and the sub-threshold…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 11 cited

X-ray study of the merging galaxy cluster Abell 3411-3412 with XMM-Newton and Suzaku

X. Zhang, A. Simionescu, H. Akamatsu +3

Context: Chandra observations of the Abell 3411-3412 merging system have revealed an outbound bullet-like sub-cluster in the northern part and many surface brightness (SB) edges at…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 23 cited

The gravitational wave background signal from tidal disruption events

Martina Toscani, Elena M. Rossi, Giuseppe Lodato

In this paper we derive the gravitational wave stochastic background from tidal disruption events (TDEs). We focus on both the signal emitted by main sequence stars disrupted by su…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 28 cited

X-ray spectra of the Fe-L complex II: atomic data constraints from EBIT experiment and X-ray grating observations of Capella

Liyi Gu, Chintan Shah, Junjie Mao +14

The Hitomi results for the Perseus cluster have shown that accurate atomic models are essential to the success of X-ray spectroscopic missions, and just as important as knowledge o…