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astro-ph.HE2022★ 4 cited

Bubble in the Whale: Identifying the Optical Counterparts and Extended Nebula for the Ultraluminous X-ray Sources in NGC 4631

Jing Guo, Jianfeng Wu, Hua Feng +9

We present a deep optical imaging campaign on the starburst galaxy NGC 4631 with CFHT/MegaCam. By supplementing the HST/ACS and Chandra/ACIS archival data, we search for the optica…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 4 cited

Distribution of fast radio burst dispersion measures in CHIME/FRB Catalog 1: implications on the origin of FRBs

Jianwei Zhang, Chengmin Zhang, Di Li +7

Recently, CHIME/FRB project published its first fast radio burst (FRB) catalog (hereafter, Catalog 1), which totally contains 536 unique bursts. With the help of the latest set of…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 8 cited

Photometric and Spectroscopic Observations of GRB 210104A: Bright Reverse shock Emission and Dense Circumburst Environment

Lu-Lu Zhang, Li-Ping Xin, Jing Wang +6

Early afterglow observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are valuable for exploring the properties of their jets and ambient medium. We report our photometric and spectroscopic obse…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 22 cited

Systematic Broad-band X-ray Study of super-Eddington Accretion onto Supermassive Black Holes. I. X-ray Continuum

Alessia Tortosa, Claudio Ricci, Luis C. Ho +6

We present the first systematic broad-band X-ray study of super-Eddington accretion onto SMBHs with simultaneous {\it NuSTAR} and {\it XMM-Newton} or {\it Swift}/XRT observations o…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 31 cited

Circular Polarization in two Active Repeating Fast Radio Bursts

Yi Feng, Yong-Kun Zhang, Di Li +5

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright millisecond radio bursts at cosmological distances. Only a small fraction of FRBs apparently repeat. Polarization, a fundamental property of ele…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 11 cited

Exploring the single-pulse behaviours of PSR J0628+0909 with FAST

J. A. Hsu, J. C. Jiang, H. Xu +2

More than 100 rotating radio transients (RRATs) have been discovered since 2006. However, it is unclear whether RRATs radiate in the nulling states. PSR J0628+0909 has been classif…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 18 cited

Evolution of Spin Period and Magnetic Field of the Crab Pulsar: Decay of the Braking Index by the Particle Wind Flow Torque

Cheng-Min Zhang, Xiang-Han Cui, Di Li +8

The evolutions of a neutron star's rotation and magnetic field (B-field) have remained unsolved puzzles for over half a century. We ascribe the rotational braking torques of pulsar…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 6 cited

Using X-ray continuum-fitting to estimate the spin of MAXI J1305-704

Ye Feng, James F. Steiner, Santiago Ubach Ramirez +1

MAXI J1305-704 is a transient X-ray binary with a black hole primary. It was discovered on April 9, 2012, during its only known outburst. MAXI J1305-704 is also a high inclination…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 8 cited

A theoretical study of the time-lags due to Comptonization and the constraints on the X-ray corona in AGN

W. Zhang, I. E. Papadakis, M. Dovčiak +2

We study the Fourier time-lags due to the Comptonization of disc-emitted photons in a spherical, uniform, and stationary X-ray corona, which located on the rotational axis of the b…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 13 cited

Precession of magnetars: dynamical evolutions and modulations on polarized electromagnetic waves

Yong Gao, Lijing Shao, Gregory Desvignes +3

Magnetars are conjectured to be highly magnetized neutron stars (NSs). Strong internal magnetic field and elasticity in the crust may deform the stars and lead to free precession.…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 30 cited

Scattering variability detected from the circumsource medium of FRB 20190520B

S. K. Ocker, J. M. Cordes, S. Chatterjee +5

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are millisecond-timescale radio transients, the origins of which are predominantly extragalactic and likely involve highly magnetized compact objects. FRBs…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 53 cited

First wide field-of-view X-ray observations by a lobster eye focusing telescope in orbit

C. Zhang, Z. X. Ling, X. J. Sun +75

As a novel X-ray focusing technology, lobster eye micro-pore optics (MPO) feature both a wide observing field of view and true imaging capability, promising sky monitoring with sig…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 19 cited

Prospects for Constraining the Yukawa Gravity with Pulsars around Sagittarius A*

Yiming Dong, Lijing Shao, Zexin Hu +2

The discovery of radio pulsars (PSRs) around the supermassive black hole (SMBH) in our Galactic Center (GC), Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), will have significant implications for tests o…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 14 cited

The Interaction of Supernova 2018evt with a Substantial Amount of Circumstellar Matter -- An SN1997cy-like Event

Yi Yang, Dietrich Baade, Peter Hoeflich +29

A rare class of supernovae (SNe) is characterized by strong interaction between the ejecta and several solar masses of circumstellar matter (CSM) as evidenced by strong Balmer-line…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 10 cited

A MeerKAT look at the polarization of 47 Tucanae pulsars: magnetic field implications

F. Abbate, A. Possenti, A. Ridolfi +17

We present the polarization profiles of 22 pulsars in the globular cluster 47 Tucanae using observations from the MeerKAT radio telescope at UHF-band (544-1088 MHz) and report prec…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 5 cited

The radio structure of the -ray narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxy SDSS J211852.96073227.5

Xi Shao, Minfeng Gu, Yongjun Chen +4

The -ray narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies can be considered to be the third class of -ray active galactic nuclei possessing relativistic jets. In this paper, we present…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 4 cited

Magneto hydrodynamic simulations of the supernova remnant G1.9+0.3

Shaobo Zhang, Wenwu Tian, Mengfei Zhang +2

The youngest Galactic supernova remnant G1.9+0.3 shows a discrete feature between its radio and X-ray morphologies. The observed radio morphology features a single maximum in the n…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 16 cited

Constraining the origin of stellar binary black hole mergers by detections of their lensed host galaxies and gravitational wave signals

Zhiwei Chen, Youjun Lu, Yuetong Zhao

A significant number of stellar binary black hole (sBBH) mergers may be lensed and detected by the third generation gravitational wave (GW) detectors. Their lensed host galaxies ma…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 20 cited

Discovery of one neutron star candidate from radial velocity monitoring

Hailong Yuan, Song Wang, Zhongrui Bai +8

We report the discovery of one possible neutron star binary ( 0.8666 day) by using the LAMOST low-resolution spectroscopic data. The visible companion is a late A-ty…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 13 cited

On Detecting Nearby Nano-Hertz Gravitational Wave Sources via Pulsar Timing Arrays

Xiao Guo, Youjun Lu, Qingjuan Yu

Massive binary black holes (MBBHs) in nearby galactic centers, if any, may be nano-Hertz gravitational wave (GW) sources for pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) to detect. Normally the obj…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 30 cited

Polarisation of magnetospheric curvature radiation in repeating fast radio bursts

Wei-Yang Wang, Jin-Chen Jiang, Kejia Lee +2

Fast radio busts (FRBs) can exhibit a wide variety of polarisation properties, not only between sources but also from burst to burst for a same one. In this work, we revisit the po…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 82 cited

FAST observations of an extremely active episode of FRB 20201124A: II. Energy Distribution

Yong-Kun Zhang, Pei Wang, Yi Feng +17

We report the properties of more than 800 bursts detected from the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20201124A with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio Telesc…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 56 cited

FAST observations of an extremely active episode of FRB 20201124A: IV. Spin Period Search

Jia-Rui Niu, Wei-Wei Zhu, Bing Zhang +20

We report the properties of more than 800 bursts detected from the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20201124A with the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical radio telesc…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 58 cited

FAST observations of an extremely active episode of FRB 20201124A: III. Polarimetry

Jin-Chen Jiang, Wei-Yang Wang, Heng Xu +26

As the third paper in the multiple-part series, we report the statistical properties of radio bursts detected from the repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20201124A with th…