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astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

The bright black hole X-ray binary 4U 1543--47 during 2021 outburst: a thick accretion disk inflated by high luminosity

S. J. Zhao, L. Tao, P. P. Li +17

The black hole X-ray binary source 4U 1543--47 experienced a super-Eddington outburst in 2021, reaching a peak flux of up to …

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

Discovery and Timing of Millisecond Pulsars in the Globular Cluster M5 (NGC 5904) with FAST and Arecibo

Lei Zhang, Paulo C. C. Freire, Alessandro Ridolfi +29

We report on a comprehensive multi-wavelength study of the pulsars in the globular cluster (GC) M5, including the discovery of M5G, a new compact non-eclipsing "black widow" pulsar…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 10 cited

Probing the vector charge of Sagittarius A* with pulsar timing

Zexin Hu, Lijing Shao, Rui Xu +2

Timing a pulsar orbiting around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) can provide us with a unique opportunity of testing gravity theories. We investigate the detectability of a vector charge ca…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Prospects for probing small-scale dark matter models with pulsars around Sagittarius A*

Zexin Hu, Lijing Shao, Fupeng Zhang

Future observations with next-generation large-area radio telescopes are expected to discover radio pulsars (PSRs) closely orbiting around Sagittarius~A* (Sgr~A*), the supermassive…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Evidence for a dynamic corona in the short-term time lags of black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070

Niek Bollemeijer, Phil Uttley, Arkadip Basak +19

In X-ray observations of hard state black hole X-ray binaries, rapid variations in accretion disc and coronal power-law emission are correlated and show Fourier-frequency-dependent…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 19 cited

A discovery of Two Slow Pulsars with FAST: "Ronin" from the Globular Cluster M15

Dengke Zhou, Pei Wang, Di Li +26

Globular clusters harbor numerous millisecond pulsars, but long-period pulsars ( ms) are rarely found. In this study, we employed a fast folding algorithm to analyze…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 11 cited

Pulse profile variability associated with the glitch of PSR J10485832

P. Liu, J. -P. Yuan, M. -Y. Ge +10

PSR J10485832 (B104658) is a Vela-like pulsar that has exhibited multiple glitch events. In this study, we analyze the timing data spanning nearly 16 years, acquired from bot…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 14 cited

Light-Curve Structure and Halpha Line Formation in the Tidal Disruption Event AT 2019azh

Sara Faris, Iair Arcavi, Lydia Makrygianni +33

AT 2019azh is a H+He tidal disruption event (TDE) with one of the most extensive ultraviolet and optical data sets available to date. We present our photometric and spectroscopic o…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 93 cited

First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IX. Detection of Near-horizon Circular Polarization

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations have revealed a bright ring of emission around the supermassive black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy. EHT images in linear polariza…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 12 cited

Polarimetric Geometric Modeling for mm-VLBI Observations of Black Holes

Freek Roelofs, Michael D. Johnson, Andrew Chael +4

The Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) is a millimeter very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) array that has imaged the apparent shadows of the supermassive black holes M87* and Sagit…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 26 cited

Minutes-duration Optical Flares with Supernova Luminosities

Anna Y. Q. Ho, Daniel A. Perley, Ping Chen +74

In recent years, certain luminous extragalactic optical transients have been observed to last only a few days. Their short observed duration implies a different powering mechanism…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 681 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI: Testing the Black Hole Metric

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

Astrophysical black holes are expected to be described by the Kerr metric. This is the only stationary, vacuum, axisymmetric metric, without electromagnetic charge, that satisfies…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 450 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. III: Imaging of the Galactic Center Supermassive Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We present the first event-horizon-scale images and spatiotemporal analysis of Sgr A* taken with the Event Horizon Telescope in 2017 April at a wavelength of 1.3 mm. Imaging of Sgr…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 548 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Testing Astrophysical Models of the Galactic Center Black Hole

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

In this paper, we provide a first physical interpretation for the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT)'s 2017 observations of Sgr A*. Our main approach is to compare resolved EHT data at…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1.9k cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole in the Center of the Milky Way

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We present the first Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) observations of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A), the Galactic center source associated with a supermassive black hole. These observati…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 370 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Variability, Morphology, and Black Hole Mass

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

In this paper we quantify the temporal variability and image morphology of the horizon-scale emission from Sgr A*, as observed by the EHT in 2017 April at a wavelength of 1.3 mm. W…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 376 cited

First Sagittarius A* Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. EHT and Multi-wavelength Observations, Data Processing, and Calibration

The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration

We present Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) 1.3 mm measurements of the radio source located at the position of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), collected during th…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 73 cited

A Shock Flash Breaking Out of a Dusty Red Supergiant

Gaici Li, Maokai Hu, Wenxiong Li +41

Shock breakout emission is light that arises when a shockwave, generated by core-collapse explosion of a massive star, passes through its outer envelope. Hitherto, the earliest det…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 14 cited

Narrow spectra of repeating fast radio bursts: A magnetospheric origin

Wei-Yang Wang, Yuan-Pei Yang, Hong-Bo Li +2

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) can present a variety of polarization properties, and some of them have narrow spectra. We study spectral properties from perspectives of intrinsic radiati…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

New limits on the local Lorentz invariance violation of gravity in the Standard-Model Extension with pulsars

Yiming Dong, Ziming Wang, Lijing Shao

Lorentz Violation (LV) is posited as a possible relic effect of quantum gravity at low energy scales. The Standard-Model Extension provides an effective field-theoretic framework f…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 8 cited

The expansion of the GRB 221009A afterglow

S. Giarratana, O. S. Salafia, M. Giroletti +14

We observed -ray burst (GRB) 221009A using very long baseline interferomety (VLBI) with the European VLBI Network (EVN) and the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA), over a period sp…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 37 cited

Circumstellar Material Ejected Violently by A Massive Star Immediately before its Death

Jujia Zhang, Han Lin, Xiaofeng Wang +7

Type II supernovae represent the most common stellar explosions in the Universe, for which the final stage evolution of their hydrogen-rich massive progenitors towards core-collaps…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 7 cited

Quasi-periodic oscillations during magnetar giant flares in the strangeon star model

Hong-Bo Li, Yacheng Kang, Zexin Hu +3

Soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) are widely understood as slowly rotating isolated neutron stars. Their generally large spin-down rates, high magnetic fields, and strong outburst en…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

The spin measurement of MAXI J1348-630 using the Insight-HXMT data

Yujia Song, Nan Jia, Jun Yang +3

We report the results of fitting Insight-HXMT data to the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1348-430, which was discovered on January 26th, 2019, with the Gas Slit Camera (GSC) on-boar…