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astro-ph.HE2011★ 97 cited

Multi-year search for dark matter annihilations in the Sun with the AMANDA-II and IceCube detectors

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +258

A search for an excess of muon-neutrinos from dark matter annihilations in the Sun has been performed with the AMANDA-II neutrino telescope using data collected in 812 days of live…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 56 cited

Searching for soft relativistic jets in Core-collapse Supernovae with the IceCube Optical Follow-up Program

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

Context. Transient neutrino sources such as Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and Supernovae (SNe) are hypothesized to emit bursts of high-energy neutrinos on a time-scale of \lesssim 100 s.…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 2 cited

Cosmic ray transport in partially turbulent space plasmas with compressible magnetic turbulence

Sabrina Casanova, Reinhard Schlickeiser

Recently a new transport theory of cosmic rays in magnetized space plasmas extending the quasilinear approximation to the particle orbit has been developed for the case of an axisy…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 29 cited

Simultaneous multi-wavelength campaign on PKS 2005-489 in a high state

The H. E. S. S. Collaboration, the Fermi LAT Collaboration, : +345

The high-frequency peaked BL Lac object PKS 2005-489 was the target of a multi-wavelength campaign with simultaneous observations in the TeV gamma-ray (H.E.S.S.), GeV gamma-ray (Fe…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 44 cited

Cosmic Ray streaming from SNRs and gamma ray emission from nearby molecular clouds

Huirong Yan, A. Lazarian, R. Schlickeiser

High-energy gamma ray emission has been detected recently from supernovae remnants (SNRs) and their surroundings. The existence of molecular clouds near some of the SNRs suggests t…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 116 cited

Discovery of extended VHE γ-ray emission from the vicinity of the young massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1

HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +198

Results obtained in very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) γ-ray observations performed with the H.E.S.S. telescope array are used to investigate particle acceleration processes in th…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 31 cited

A new ordering parameter of spectral energy distributions from synchrotron-self-Compton emitting blazars

Michael Zacharias, Reinhard Schlickeiser

The broadband SEDs of blazars exhibit two broad spectral components, which in leptonic emission models are attributed to synchrotron radiation and synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) ra…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 170 cited

IceCube Sensitivity for Low-Energy Neutrinos from Nearby Supernovae

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

This paper describes the response of the IceCube neutrino telescope located at the geographic South Pole to outbursts of MeV neutrinos from the core collapse of nearby massive star…

astro-ph.HE2011

Signatures of middle aged, nearby pulsars in the cosmic ray lepton spectrum?

Ingo Büsching, Okker C. deJager

Recent data reported by the PAMELA and ATIC experiments, as well as cosmic ray lepton results from FERMI and H.E.S.S. collaborations sparked a series of papers explaining these res…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 12 cited

Chandra X-ray Observations of the redshift 1.53, radio-loud quasar: 3C 270.1

Belinda J. Wilkes, Dharam V. Lal, D. M. Worrall +14

Chandra X-ray observations of the high redshift (z =1.532) radio-loud quasar 3C270.1 in 2008 February show the nucleus to have a power-law spectrum, Gamma = 1.66 +/- 0.08, typical…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 41 cited

Discovery of the source HESS J1356-645 associated with the young and energetic PSR J1357-6429

HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +195

Several newly discovered very-high-energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray sources in the Galaxy are thought to be associated with energetic pulsars. Among them, middle-aged (> 1E+4 yr…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 13 cited

Searches for periodic neutrino emission from binary systems with 22 and 40 strings of IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +257

In this paper we present the results of searches for periodic neutrino emission from a catalog of binary systems. Such modulation, observed in the photon flux, would be caused by t…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 17 cited

Unveiling the nature of IGR J17177-3656 with X-ray, NIR and Radio observations

A. Paizis, M. A. Nowak, J. Wilms +6

We report on the first broad-band (1-200 keV) simultaneous Chandra-INTEGRAL observations of the recently discovered hard X-ray transient IGR J17177-3656 that took place on 2011, Ma…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 54 cited

Very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the direction of the Galactic globular cluster Terzan 5

HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +194

The H.E.S.S. very-high-energy (VHE, E > 0.1 TeV) gamma-ray telescope system has discovered a new source, HESS J1747-248. The measured integral flux is (1.2 +/- 0.3) \times 10^-12 c…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 17 cited

Neutrino analysis of the September 2010 Crab Nebula flare and time-integrated constraints on neutrino emission from the Crab using IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +266

We present the results for a search of high-energy muon neutrinos with the IceCube detector in coincidence with the Crab nebula flare reported on September 2010 by various experime…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 83 cited

A new SNR with TeV shell-type morphology: HESS J1731-347

HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +195

The recent discovery of the radio shell-type supernova remnant (SNR), G353.6-0.7, in spatial coincidence with the unidentified TeV source HESS J1731-347 has motivated further obser…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 138 cited

Observation of Anisotropy in the Arrival Directions of Galactic Cosmic Rays at Multiple Angular Scales with IceCube

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +266

Between May 2009 and May 2010, the IceCube neutrino detector at the South Pole recorded 32 billion muons generated in air showers produced by cosmic rays with a median energy of 20…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 47 cited

H.E.S.S. observations of the globular clusters NGC 6388 and M 15 and search for a Dark Matter signal

HESS Collaboration, A. Abramowski, F. Acero +195

Observations of the globular clusters NGC 6388 and M 15 were carried out by the H.E.S.S. array of Cherenkov telescopes for a live time of 27.2 and 15.2 hours respectively. No gamma…

astro-ph.HE2011

Molecular Clouds as Cosmic Ray Laboratories

Sabrina Casanova, Felix A. Aharonian, Yasuo Fukui +9

We will here discuss how the gamma-ray emission from molecular clouds can be used to probe the cosmic ray flux in distant regions of the Galaxy and to constrain the highly unknown…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 110 cited

A Search for a Diffuse Flux of Astrophysical Muon Neutrinos with the IceCube 40-String Detector

IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +261

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a 1 km detector currently taking data at the South Pole. One of the main strategies used to look for astrophysical neutrinos with IceCube…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 47 cited

Time-Dependent Searches for Point Sources of Neutrinos with the 40-String and 22-String Configurations of IceCube

The IceCube Collaboration, R. Abbasi, Y. Abdou +262

This paper presents searches for flaring sources of neutrinos using the IceCube neutrino telescope. For the first time, a search is performed over the entire parameter space of ene…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 270 cited

Search for a Dark Matter annihilation signal from the Galactic Center halo with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +193

A search for a very-high-energy (VHE; >= 100 GeV) gamma-ray signal from self-annihilating particle Dark Matter (DM) is performed towards a region of projected distance r ~ 45-150 p…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 39 cited

HESS J1943+213: a candidate extreme BL Lacertae object

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +200

We report on a newly detected point-like source, HESS J1943+213 located in the Galactic plane. This source coincides with an unidentified hard X-ray source IGR J19443+2117, which w…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 24 cited

Detection of very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the vicinity of PSR B1706-44 and G343.1-2.3 with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, A. Abramowski +198

The gamma-ray pulsar PSR B1706-44 and the adjacent supernova remnant (SNR) candidate G343.1-2.3 were observed by H.E.S.S. during a dedicated observation campaign in 2007. As a resu…