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astro-ph.HE2020★ 14 cited

Insight-HXMT observations of Swift J0243.6+6124: the evolution of RMS pulse fractions at super-Eddington luminosity

P. J. Wang, L. D. Kong, S. Zhang +116

Based on Insight-HXMT data, we report on the pulse fraction evolution during the 2017-2018 outburst of the newly discovered first Galactic ultraluminous X-ray source (ULX) Swift J0…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 38 cited

Improved deep learning techniques in gravitational-wave data analysis

Heming Xia, Lijing Shao, Junjie Zhao +1

In recent years, convolutional neural network (CNN) and other deep learning models have been gradually introduced into the area of gravitational-wave (GW) data processing. Compared…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 45 cited

X-ray flares from the stellar tidal disruption by a candidate supermassive black hole binary

Xinwen Shu, Wenjie Zhang, Shuo Li +8

Optical transient surveys have led to the discovery of dozens of stellar tidal disruption events (TDEs) by massive black hole in the centers of galaxies. Despite extensive searches…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 18 cited

Periodic and Phase-locked Modulation in PSR B1929+10 Observed with FAST

F. F. Kou, W. M. Yan, B. Peng +17

We present a detailed single-pulse analysis for PSR B1929+10 based on observations with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST). The main pulse and interpu…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 17 cited

A single pulse study of PSR J1022+1001

Yi Feng, George Hobbs, Di Li +11

Using the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telescope (FAST), we have recorded 10^5 single pulses from PSR J1022+1001. We studied the polarization properties, their energ…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 4 cited

Cosmic distributions of stellar tidal disruptions by massive black holes at galactic centers

Yunfeng Chen, Qingjuan Yu, Youjun Lu

Stars can be consumed (either tidally disrupted or swallowed whole) by massive black holes (MBHs) at galactic centers when they move into the vicinity of the MBHs. In this study, w…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 17 cited

Insight-HXMT observations of a possible fast transition from jet to wind dominated state during a huge flare of GRS~1915+105

L. D. Kong, S. Zhang, Y. P. Chen +92

We present the analysis of the brightest flare that was recorded in the \emph{Insight}-HMXT data set, in a broad energy range (2200 keV) from the microquasar GRS~1915+105 during…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 51 cited

Diving below the spin-down limit: Constraints on gravitational waves from the energetic young pulsar PSR J0537-6910

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, the KAGRA Collaboration +1589

We present a search for continuous gravitational-wave signals from the young, energetic X-ray pulsar PSR J0537-6910 using data from the second and third observing runs of LIGO and…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 36 cited

Physical origin of the nonphysical spin evolution of MAXI J1820+070

J. Guan, L. Tao, J. L. Qu +91

We report on the Insight-HXMT observations of the new black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070 during its 2018 outburst. Detailed spectral analysis via the continuum fitting method s…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 51 cited

Estimating the black hole spin for the X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070

Xueshan Zhao, Lijun Gou, Yanting Dong +6

MAXI J1820+070 is a newly-discovered black hole X-ray binary, whose dynamical parameters, namely the black hole mass, the inclination angle and the source distance, have been estim…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 6 cited

The Awakening Beast in the Seyfert 1 Galaxy KUG 1141+371 I

Jiachen Jiang, Huaqing Cheng, Luigi C. Gallo +10

KUG 1141+371 is a Seyfert 1 galaxy that shows a simultaneous flux increase in the optical and UV bands in the past decade. For instance, the latest Swift observation in 2019 shows…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 7 cited

Wideband Monitoring Observations of PSR J1803-3002A in the Globular Cluster NGC 6522

Lei Zhang, Richard N. Manchester, Andrew D. Cameron +10

We report the first wideband monitoring observations of PSR J1803-3002A, a relatively bright millisecond pulsar in the globular cluster NGC 6522 with a spin period of 7.1 ms and no…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 25 cited

Possible ~0.4 hour X-ray quasi-periodicity from an ultrasoft active galactic nucleus

J. R. Song, X. W. Shu, L. M. Sun +6

RX J1301.9+2747 is an ultrasoft active galactic nucleus (AGN) with unusual X-ray variability that is characterized by a long quiescent state and a short-lived flare state. The X-ra…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 3 cited

Precession of triaxially deformed neutron stars

Yong Gao, Lijing Shao

A deformed neutron star (NS) will precess if the instantaneous spin axis and the angular momentum are not aligned. Such a precession can produce continuous gravitational waves (GWs…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 29 cited

Fast radio bursts: do repeaters and non-repeaters originate in statistically similar ensembles

Xiang-Han Cui, Cheng-Min Zhang, Shuang-Qiang Wang +9

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are the short, strong radio pulses lasting several milliseconds. They are subsequently identified, for the most part, as emanating from unknown objects at…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 7 cited

Exploring the origin of stars on bound and unbound orbits causing tidal disruption events

Shiyan Zhong, Kimitake Hayasaki, Shuo Li +2

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) provide a clue to the properties of a central supermassive black hole (SMBH) and an accretion disk around it, and to the stellar density and velocity…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 16 cited

On the Circular Polarisation of Repeating Fast Radio Bursts

Shi Dai, Jiguang Lu, Chen Wang +9

Fast spinning (e.g., sub-second) neutron star with ultra-strong magnetic fields (or so-called magnetar) is one of the promising origins of repeating fast radio bursts (FRBs). Here…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 182 cited

Diverse polarization angle swings from a repeating fast radio burst source

R. Luo, B. J. Wang, Y. P. Men +34

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-duration radio transients of unknown origin. Two possible mechanisms that could generate extremely coherent emission from FRBs invoke neutr…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 5 cited

Repeating Fast Radio Bursts from Pulsar-Asteroid Belt Collisions: Frequency Drifting and Polarization

Ze-Nan Liu, Wei-Yang Wang, Yuan-Pei Yang +1

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are a new kind of extragalactic radio transients. Some of them show repeating behaviors. Recent observations indicate that a few repeating FRBs (e.g., FRB…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 9 cited

How are gamma-ray burst radio afterglows populated?

K. Zhang, Z. B. Zhang, Y. F. Huang +3

We systematically analyze three GRB samples named as radio-loud, radio-quiet and radio-none afterglows, respectively. It is shown that dichotomy of the radio-loud afterglows is not…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 23 cited

Formation and Evolution of Ultraluminous X-ray Pulsar Binaries to Pulsar-Neutron Star and Pulsar-White Dwarf Systems

Kunduz Abdusalam, Iminhaji Ablimit, P. Hashim +3

Recent observational and theoretical results have suggested that some of ultraluminous X-ray (ULX) sources may contain neutron star (NS) accretors. However, the formation channel a…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 70 cited

Discovery of a Gamma-ray Black Widow Pulsar by GPU-accelerated Einstein@Home

L. Nieder, C. J. Clark, D. Kandel +39

We report the discovery of 1.97 ms period gamma-ray pulsations from the 75 minute orbital-period binary pulsar now named PSR J1653-0158. The associated Fermi Large Area Telescope g…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 24 cited

Supernova 2018cuf: A Type IIP supernova with a slow fall from plateau

Yize Dong, S. Valenti, K. A. Bostroem +34

We present multi-band photometry and spectroscopy of SN 2018cuf, a Type IIP ("P" for plateau) supernova (SN) discovered by the Distance Less Than 40 Mpc survey (DLT40) within 24 ho…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 144 cited

The observation of the Crab Nebula with LHAASO-KM2A for the performance study

F. Aharonian, Q. An, Axikegu +246

As a sub-array of the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO), KM2A is mainly designed to cover a large fraction of the northern sky to hunt for gamma-ray sources at en…