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most citedMeasurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 High-Redshift Supernovae

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astro-ph2008★ 33 cited

Simultaneous H.E.S.S. and Chandra observations of Sagittarius A* during an X-ray flare

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian

The rapidly varying (~10 minute timescale) non-thermal X-ray emission observed from Sgr A* implies that particle acceleration is occuring close to the event horizon of the supermas…

astro-ph2008★ 62 cited

Very high energy gamma-ray observations of the galaxy clusters Abell 496 and Abell 85 with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian

Aims: The nearby galaxy clusters Abell 496 and Abell 85 are studied in the very high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) band to investigate VHE cosmic rays (CRs) in this class of objects wh…

astro-ph2008★ 638 cited

The energy spectrum of cosmic-ray electrons at TeV energies

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian

The very large collection area of ground-based gamma-ray telescopes gives them a substantial advantage over balloon/satellite based instruments in the detection of very-high-energy…

astro-ph2008★ 44 cited

Energy ejection in the collapse of a cold spherical self-gravitating cloud

M. Joyce, B. Marcos, F. Sylos Labini

When an open system of classical point particles interacting by Newtonian gravity collapses and relaxes violently, an arbitrary amount of energy may in principle be carried away by…

astro-ph2008★ 113 cited

Limits on an Energy Dependence of the Speed of Light from a Flare of the Active Galaxy PKS 2155-304

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, F. Aharonian

In the past few decades, several models have predicted an energy-dependence of the speed of light in the context of quantum gravity. For cosmological sources such as active galaxie…

astro-ph2008★ 112 cited

Discovery of gamma-ray emission from the shell-type supernova remnant RCW 86 with H.E.S.S

HESS Collaboration, F. Aharonian

The shell-type supernova remnant (SNR) RCW 86, possibly associated with the historical supernova SN 185, with its relatively large size (about 40' in diameter) and the presence of…

astro-ph2008★ 248 cited

Constraints on WIMP Dark Matter from the High Energy PAMELA data

F. Donato, D. Maurin, P. Brun +2

A new calculation of the ratio in cosmic rays is compared to the recent PAMELA data. The good match up to 100 GeV allows to set constraints on exotic contributions from…

astro-ph2008★ 1 cited

Dark energy constraints and correlations with systematics from CFHTLS weak lensing, SNLS supernovae Ia and WMAP5

M. Kilbinger, K. Benabed, J. Guy +15

We combine measurements of weak gravitational lensing from the CFHTLS-Wide survey, supernovae Ia from CFHT SNLS and CMB anisotropies from WMAP5 to obtain joint constraints on cosmo…

astro-ph2008★ 16 cited

PHotometry Assisted Spectral Extraction (PHASE) and identification of SNLS supernovae

S. Baumont, C. Balland, P. Astier +7

Aim: We present new extraction and identification techniques for supernova (SN) spectra developed within the Supernova Legacy Survey (SNLS) collaboration. Method: The new spectral…

astro-ph2008★ 45 cited

A search for a dark matter annihilation signal towards the Canis Major overdensity with H.E.S.S

HESS Collaboration, F. Aharonian

A search for a dark matter (DM) annihilation signal into -rays toward the direction of the Canis Major (CMa) overdensity is presented. The nature of CMa is still controversial a…

astro-ph2008★ 34 cited

H.E.S.S. Observations of the Prompt and Afterglow Phases of GRB 060602B

HESS Collaboration, F. Aharonian

We report on the first completely simultaneous observation of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) using an array of Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes which is sensitive to photons in th…

astro-ph2008★ 62 cited

A Markov Chain Monte Carlo for Galactic Cosmic Ray physics: I. Method and results for the Leaky Box Model

A. Putze, L. Derome, D. Maurin +2

Propagation of charged cosmic-rays in the Galaxy depends on the transport parameters, whose number can be large depending on the propagation model under scrutiny. A standard approa…

astro-ph2008★ 48 cited

Looking Beyond Lambda with the Union Supernova Compilation

D. Rubin, E. V. Linder, M. Kowalski +21

The recent robust and homogeneous analysis of the world's supernova distance-redshift data, together with cosmic microwave background and baryon acoustic oscillation data, provides…

astro-ph2008★ 30 cited

Search for Gamma-rays from Dark Matter annihilations around Intermediate Mass Black Holes with the H.E.S.S. experiment

HESS Collaboration, F Aharonian, G. Bertone

The H.E.S.S. array of Cherenkov telescopes has performed, from 2004 to 2007, a survey of the inner Galactic plane at photon energies above 100 GeV. About 400 hours of data have bee…

astro-ph2008★ 635 cited

Observation of the suppression of the flux of cosmic rays above 4x10^19eV

The Pierre Auger Collaboration

The energy spectrum of cosmic rays above 2.5x10^18eV, derived from 20,000 events recorded at the Pierre Auger Observatory, is described. The spectral index gamma of the flux, J ~ E…

astro-ph2008★ 33 cited

H.E.S.S. upper limits for Kepler's supernova remnant

HESS Collaboration, F. Aharonian

Observations of Kepler's supernova remnant (G4.5+6.8) with the H.E.S.S. telescope array in 2004 and 2005 with a total live time of 13 h are presented. Stereoscopic imaging of Chere…

astro-ph2008★ 17 cited

Prospects and pitfalls of gravitational lensing in large supernova surveys

Jakob Jonsson, Taia Kronborg, Edvard Mortsell +1

To investigate the effect of gravitational lensing of supernovae in large ongoing surveys, we simulate the effect of gravitational lensing magnification on individual supernovae us…

astro-ph2008★ 33 cited

Influence of Population III stars on cosmic chemical evolution

E. Rollinde, E. Vangioni, D. Maurin +4

New observations from the Hubble ultra deep field suggest that the star formation rate at z>7 drops off faster than previously thought. Using a newly determined star formation rate…

astro-ph2008★ 26 cited

UHE tau neutrino flux regeneration while skimming the Earth

Oscar Blanch Bigas, Olivier Deligny, Kévin Payet +1

The detection of Earth-skimming tau neutrinos has turned into a very promising strategy for the observation of ultra-high energy cosmic neutrinos. The sensitivity of this channel c…

astro-ph2008★ 8 cited

Clustering of supernova Ia host galaxies

R. G. Carlberg, M. Sullivan, D. Le Borgne +16

For the first time the cross-correlation between type Ia supernova host galaxies and surrounding field galaxies is measured using the Supernova Legacy Survey sample. Over the z=0.2…

astro-ph2008★ 3.5k cited

LSST: from Science Drivers to Reference Design and Anticipated Data Products

Željko Ivezić, Steven M. Kahn, J. Anthony Tyson +310

(Abridged) We describe here the most ambitious survey currently planned in the optical, the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope (LSST). A vast array of science will be enabled by a sin…

astro-ph2008★ 1.6k cited

Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old and Combined Supernova Datasets

M. Kowalski, D. Rubin, G. Aldering +67

We present a new compilation of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia), a new dataset of low-redshift nearby-Hubble-flow SNe and new analysis procedures to work with these heterogeneous compi…

astro-ph2008★ 2 cited

Estimating a cosmic ray detector exposure sky map under the hypothesis of seasonal and diurnal effects factorization

E. M. Santos, C. Bonifazi, A. Letessier-Selvon

The measurement of large scale patterns or anisotropies in the arrival direction of high energy cosmic rays is an important step towards the understanding of their origin. Such mea…

astro-ph2008★ 80 cited

Exploring a SNR/Molecular Cloud Association Within HESS J1745-303

HESS Collaboration, F. Aharonian

HESS J1745-303 is an extended, unidentified VHE (very high energy) gamma-ray source discovered using HESS in the Galactic Plane Survey. Since no obvious counterpart has previously…