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astro-ph.HE2017★ 14 cited

Flux and Spectral Variation Characteristics of 3C 454.3 at the GeV Band

Hai-Ming Zhang, Jin Zhang, Rui-Jing Lu +3

We analyze the long-term lightcurve of 3C 454.3 observed with Fermi/LAT and investigate its relation to the flux in the radio, optical, and X-ray bands. By fitting the 1-day binned…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 2 cited

Proper motion of the radio pulsar B1727-47 and its association with the supernova remnant RCW 114

P. Shternin, M. Yu, A. Kirichenko +4

We report preliminary results of the analysis of the proper motion of the bright radio pulsar B172747. Using archival Parkes timing data, as well as original and archival ATCA i…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 12 cited

Interaction of the accretion flows in corona and disk near the black hole in AGN

E. Meyer-Hofmeister, B. F. Liu, E. Qiao

Accretion flows toward black holes can be of a quite different nature, described as an optically thick cool gas flow in a disk for high accretion rates or as a hot coronal opticall…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 27 cited

Broad-lined type Ic supernova iPTF16asu: A challenge to all popular models

L. J. Wang, X. F. Wang, Z. Cano +9

It is well-known that ordinary supernovae (SNe) are powered by 56Ni cascade decay. Broad-lined type Ic SNe (SNe Ic-BL) are a subclass of SNe that are not all exclusively powered by…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 71 cited

A Second Chromatic Timing Event of Interstellar Origin toward PSR J1713+0747

M. T. Lam, J. A. Ellis, G. Grillo +34

The frequency dependence of radio pulse arrival times provides a probe of structures in the intervening media. Demorest et al. 2013 was the first to show a short-term (~100-200 day…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 185 cited

Bunching Coherent Curvature Radiation in Three-Dimensional Magnetic Field Geometry: Application to Pulsars and Fast Radio Bursts

Yuan-Pei Yang, Bing Zhang

The extremely high brightness temperatures of pulsars and fast radio bursts (FRBs) require their radiation mechanisms to be coherent. Coherent curvature radiation by bunches has be…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 119 cited

The origin of the first neutron star -- neutron star merger

K. Belczynski, A. Askar, M. Arca-Sedda +8

The first neutron star-neutron star (NS-NS) merger was discovered on August 17, 2017 through gravitational waves (GW170817) and followed with electromagnetic observations. This mer…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 20 cited

Cosmic ray spectrum excess and peak feature observed by the DAMPE experiment from dark matter

Hong-Bo Jin, Bin Yue, Xin Zhang +1

The Chinese satellite Wukong, also known as the DArk Matter Particle Explorer (DAMPE), has released its observation data of the cosmic ray (CR) electrons and positrons. The data sh…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 3 cited

Long-term observations of pulsars in the globular clusters 47 Tucanae and M15

A. Ridolfi, P. C. C. Freire, M. Kramer +15

Multi-decade observing campaigns of the globular clusters 47 Tucanae and M15 have led to an outstanding number of discoveries. Here, we report on the latest results of the long-ter…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 37 cited

Multimessenger tests of the weak equivalence principle from GW170817 and its electromagnetic counterparts

Jun-Jie Wei, Bin-Bin Zhang, Xue-Feng Wu +6

The coincident detection of a gravitational-wave (GW) event GW170817 with electromagnetic (EM) signals (e.g., a short gamma-ray burst SGRB 170817A or a macronova) from a binary neu…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 2 cited

Chandra Observation of PWN G16.73+0.08 in SNR G16.7+0.1

H. -K. Chang, S. -F. Chung, C. -Y. Yang +1

We present X-ray observations of PWN G16.73+0.08/SNR G16.7+0.1 using archival data of {\it Chandra} ACIS. The X-ray emission peak location of this pulsar wind nebula is found to be…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 148 cited

Energetic eruptions leading to a peculiar hydrogen-rich explosion of a massive star

Iair Arcavi, D. Andrew Howell, Daniel Kasen +50

Every supernova hitherto observed has been considered to be the terminal explosion of a star. Moreover, all supernovae with absorption lines in their spectra show those lines decre…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 1 cited

Constraining External Reverse Shock Physics of GRBs from ROTSE-III Limits

Xiao-Hong Cui, Yuan-Chuan Zou, Jun-Jie Wei +2

Assuming that the early optical emission is dominated by the external reverse shock (RS) in the standard model of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), we intend to constrain RS models with the…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 8 cited

Correlations between the frequencies of twin kHz QPOs and spins of neutron stars in LMXBs

De-Hua Wang, Cheng-Min Zhang, Jin-Lu Qu +1

We investigate the correlation between the frequencies of the twin kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) and the neutron star (NS) spins in low mass X-ray binaries (LMXB…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 96 cited

Optical Observations of LIGO Source GW 170817 by the Antarctic Survey Telescopes at Dome A, Antarctica

Lei Hu, Xuefeng Wu, I. Andreoni +30

The LIGO detection of gravitational waves (GW) from merging black holes in 2015 marked the beginning of a new era in observational astronomy. The detection of an electromagnetic si…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 212 cited

Follow up of GW170817 and its electromagnetic counterpart by Australian-led observing programs

I. Andreoni, K. Ackley, J. Cooke +122

The discovery of the first electromagnetic counterpart to a gravitational wave signal has generated follow-up observations by over 50 facilities world-wide, ushering in the new era…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 7 cited

A unified model of supernova driven by magnetic monopoles

Qiu-He Peng, Jing-Jing Liu, Chih-Kang Chou

In this paper, we first discuss a series of important but puzzling physical mechanisms concerning the energy source, various kinds of core collapsed supernovae explosion mechanisms…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 194 cited

A peculiar low-luminosity short gamma-ray burst from a double neutron star merger progenitor

B. -B. Zhang, B. Zhang, H. Sun +15

Double neutron star (DNS) merger events are promosing candidates of short Gamma-ray Burst (sGRB) progenitors as well as high-frequecy gravitational wave (GW) emitters. On August 17…

astro-ph.HE2017

FRB 121102: a star quake-induced repeater?

Weiyang Wang, Rui Luo, Han Yue +3

Since its initial discovery, the Fast radio burst (FRB) FRB 121102 has been found to be repeating with millisecond-duration pulses. Very recently, 15 new bursts were detected by th…

astro-ph.HE2017

Calvera: A low-mass strangeon star torqued by debris disk?

Yunyang Li, Weiyang Wang, Mingyu Ge +3

Calvera is a isolated pulsar, being unique due to its non-detection in radio, optical and gamma-rays but the purely thermal emission in soft X-rays. It is suggest…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 16 cited

Centrally Concentrated X-ray Radiation from an Extended Accreting Corona in Active Galactic Nuclei

B. F. Liu, Ronald E. Taam, Erlin Qiao +1

The X-ray emission from bright active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is believed to originate in a hot corona lying above a cold, geometrically thin accretion disk. A highly concentrated c…

astro-ph.HE2017

Strangeon Matter in a Liquid Drop Model

Zheng Wang, Jiguang Lu, Renxin Xu

The liquid drop model of 2-flavored ( and ) nucleus is well known and successful, analogically, a similar drop model for 3-flavored (, and ) nucleus is developed. A…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 20 cited

Multiple Wavelength Variability and Quasi-Periodic Oscillation of PMN J0948+0022

Jin Zhang, Hai-Ming Zhang, Yong-Kai Zhu +4

We present a comprehensive analysis of multiple wavelength observational data of the first GeV-selected narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy PMN J0948+0022. We derive its lightcurves in th…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 90 cited

LOFAR discovery of the fastest-spinning millisecond pulsar in the Galactic field

C. G. Bassa, Z. Pleunis, J. W. T. Hessels +15

We report the discovery of PSR J09520607, a 707-Hz binary millisecond pulsar which is now the fastest-spinning neutron star known in the Galactic field (i.e., outside of a globu…