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astro-ph.HE2019★ 28 cited

Spritz: a new fully general-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic code

Federico Cipolletta, Jay Vijay Kalinani, Bruno Giacomazzo +1

The new era of multimessenger astrophysics requires the capability of studying different aspects of the evolution of compact objects. In particular, the merger of neutron star bina…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 15 cited

Modeling spectral lags in active galactic nucleus flares in the context of Lorentz invariance violation searches

Perennes Cédric, Sol Hélène, Bolmont Julien

High-energy photons emitted by flaring active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been used for many years to constrain modified dispersion relations in vacuum encountered in the context o…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 8 cited

Search for Astronomical Neutrinos from Blazar TXS0506+056 in Super-Kamiokande

K. Hagiwara, K. Abe, C. Bronner +169

We report a search for astronomical neutrinos in the energy region from several GeV to TeV in the direction of the blazar TXS0506+056 using the Super-Kamiokande detector following…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 69 cited

Constraints on Lorentz invariance violation from HAWC observations of gamma rays above 100 TeV

HAWC Collaboration, A. Albert, R. Alfaro +90

Due to the high energies and long distances to the sources, astrophysical observations provide a unique opportunity to test possible signatures of Lorentz invariance violation (LIV…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 58 cited

New hard-TeV extreme blazars detected with the MAGIC telescopes

MAGIC Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi +175

Extreme high-frequency peaked BL Lac objects (EHBLs) are blazars which exhibit extremely energetic synchrotron emission. They also feature non-thermal gamma-ray emission whose peak…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 10 cited

Bright gamma-ray flares observed in GRB131108A

Donggeun Tak, Z. Lucas Uhm, Bing Zhang

GRB 131108A is a bright long Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) detected by the Large Area Telescope and the Gamma-ray Burst Monitor on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Dedicated temp…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 37 cited

Constraining the Local Burst Rate Density of Primordial Black Holes with HAWC

A. Albert, R. Alfaro, C. Alvarez +84

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) may have been created by density fluctuations in the early Universe and could be as massive as solar masses or as small as the Planck mass. I…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 140 cited

Binary black holes in the pair-instability mass gap

Ugo N. Di Carlo, Michela Mapelli, Yann Bouffanais +5

Pair instability (PI) and pulsational PI prevent the formation of black holes (BHs) with mass M from single star evolution. Here, we investigate the possibili…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 4 cited

Statistics of VHE gamma-Rays in Temporal Association with Radio Giant Pulses from the Crab Pulsar

MAGIC Collaboration, M. L. Ahnen, S. Ansoldi +146

The aim of this study is to search for evidence of a common emission engine between radio giant pulses (GPs) and very-high-energy (VHE, E>100 GeV) gamma-rays from the Crab pulsar.…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 38 cited

Sensitivity of Super-Kamiokande with Gadolinium to Low Energy Anti-neutrinos from Pre-supernova Emission

C. Simpson, K. Abe, C. Bronner +186

Supernova detection is a major objective of the Super-Kamiokande (SK) experiment. In the next stage of SK (SK-Gd), gadolinium (Gd) sulfate will be added to the detector, which will…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 21 cited

Evidence of non-luminous matter in the center of M62

Federico Abbate, Andrea Possenti, Monica Colpi +1

Theoretical models suggest that intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) may form and reside in the centers of globular clusters. IMBHs are still elusive to observations, but the acce…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 1 cited

MAGIC as a high-energy detector: performance study to follow-up IceCube transient events

Manuela Mallamaci, Dariusz Gora, Elisa Bernardini

MAGIC is a system of two Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes located on the Canary Island of La Palma and dedicated to the study of very high energy gamma rays above 30 GeV. M…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 33 cited

Testing emission models on the extreme blazar 2WHSP J073326.7+515354 detected at very high energies with the MAGIC telescopes

MAGIC Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi +173

Extreme high-energy peaked BL Lac objects (EHBLs) are an emerging class of blazars. Their typical two-hump structured spectral energy distribution (SED) peaks at higher energies wi…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 69 cited

Fermi and Swift Observations of GRB 190114C: Tracing the Evolution of High-Energy Emission from Prompt to Afterglow

M. Ajello, M. Arimoto, M. Axelsson +147

We report on the observations of gamma-ray burst (GRB) 190114C by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. The early-time observations reveal mul…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 238 cited

Multiple Galactic Sources with Emission Above 56 TeV Detected by HAWC

HAWC Collaboration, A. U. Abeysekara, A. Albert +99

We present the first catalog of gamma-ray sources emitting above 56 and 100 TeV with data from the High Altitude Water Cherenkov (HAWC) Observatory, a wide field-of-view observator…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 110 cited

Revising natal kick prescriptions in population synthesis simulations

Nicola Giacobbo, Michela Mapelli

Natal kicks are matter of debate and significantly affect the merger rate density of compact objects. Here, we present a new simple formalism for natal kicks of neutron stars (NSs)…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 146 cited

Impact of the Rotation and Compactness of Progenitors on the Mass of Black Holes

Michela Mapelli, Mario Spera, Enrico Montanari +5

We investigate the impact of stellar rotation on the formation of black holes (BHs), by means of our population-synthesis code SEVN. Rotation affects the mass function of BHs in se…

astro-ph.HE2019

Testing blazar emission models on the extreme blazar PGC 2402248, newly discovered at very high energies with the MAGIC telescopes

L. Foffano, J. Becerra Gonzalez, M. Cerruti +5

Extreme high-energy peaked BL Lac objects (EHBLs) are a new emerging class of blazars. The typical two-hump structured spectral energy distribution (SED) is shifted to higher energ…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 119 cited

An Optically Targeted Search for Gravitational Waves emitted by Core-Collapse Supernovae during the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1195

We present the results from a search for gravitational-wave transients associated with core-collapse supernovae observed within a source distance of approximately 20 Mpc during the…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 114 cited

On the TeV Halo Fraction in gamma-ray bright Pulsar Wind Nebulae

G. Giacinti, A. M. W. Mitchell, R. López-Coto +3

The discovery of extended TeV emission around the Geminga and PSR B0656+14 pulsars, with properties consistent with free particle propagation in the interstellar medium (ISM), has…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 19 cited

Very high-energy constraints on the Infrared Extragalactic Background Light

A. Franceschini, L. Foffano, E. Prandini +1

Context. Measurements of the Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) are a fundamental source of information on the collective emission of cosmic sources. Aims. At infrared wavelength…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 127 cited

Search for Eccentric Binary Black Hole Mergers with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during their First and Second Observing Runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1183

When formed through dynamical interactions, stellar-mass binary black holes may retain eccentric orbits ( at 10 Hz) detectable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors.…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 42 cited

Search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1196

We present the results of targeted searches for gravitational-wave transients associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo,…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 255 cited

A decade of Gamma-Ray Bursts observed by -LAT: The 2 GRB catalog

M. Axelsson, E. Bissaldi, N. Omodei +1

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the spacecraft routinely observes high-energy emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Here we present the second catalog of LAT-detecte…