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astro-ph.HE2019★ 48 cited

The NANOGrav 11-Year Data Set: Limits on Gravitational Wave Memory

K. Aggarwal, Z. Arzoumanian, P. T. Baker +58

The mergers of supermassive black hole binaries (SMBHBs) promise to be incredible sources of gravitational waves (GWs). While the oscillatory part of the merger gravitational wavef…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 16 cited

How do atomic code uncertainties affect abundance measurements in the intracluster medium?

F. Mernier, N. Werner, K. Lakhchaura +6

Accurate chemical abundance measurements of X-ray emitting atmospheres pervading massive galaxies, galaxy groups, and clusters provide essential information on the star formation a…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 41 cited

GW170817A as a Hierarchical Black Hole Merger

V. Gayathri, I. Bartos, Z. Haiman +4

Despite the rapidly growing number of stellar-mass binary black hole mergers discovered through gravitational waves, the origin of these binaries is still not known. In galactic ce…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 67 cited

Spectral analysis of Fermi-LAT gamma-ray bursts with known redshift and their potential use as cosmological standard candles

F. Fana Dirirsa, S. Razzaque, F. Piron +6

Long duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) may serve as standard candles to constrain cosmological parameters by probing the Hubble diagram well beyond the range of redshift currently…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 43 cited

The NANOGrav 11-Year Data Set: Evolution of Gravitational Wave Background Statistics

J. S. Hazboun, J. Simon, S. R. Taylor +60

An ensemble of inspiraling supermassive black hole binaries should produce a stochastic background of very low frequency gravitational waves. This stochastic background is predicte…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 301 cited

The International Pulsar Timing Array: Second data release

B. B. P. Perera, M. E. DeCesar, P. B. Demorest +72

In this paper, we describe the International Pulsar Timing Array second data release, which includes recent pulsar timing data obtained by three regional consortia: the European Pu…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 3 cited

The Fermi GBM GRBs' multivariate statistics

Istvan I. Racz, Lajos G. Balázs, Zsolt Bagoly +2

Studying the GRBs' gamma-ray spectra may reveal some physical information of Gamma-ray Bursts. The Fermi satellite observed more than two thousand GRBs. The FERMIGBRST catalog cont…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 4 cited

Studying the variability of the X-ray spectral parameters of high-redshift GRBs' afterglows

Istvan I. Racz, Agnes J. Hortobagyi

The Swift satellite has observed more than a thousand GRBs with X-ray data. Almost a third of them have redshift measurement, too. Here we start to investigate the X-ray spectral f…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 8 cited

Estimation of the detected background by the future gamma-ray transient mission CAMELOT

J. Ripa, G. Galgóczi, N. Werner +18

This study presents a background estimation for the Cubesats Applied for MEasuring and LOcalising Transients (CAMELOT), which is a proposed fleet of nanosatellites for the all-sky…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 119 cited

An Optically Targeted Search for Gravitational Waves emitted by Core-Collapse Supernovae during the First and Second Observing Runs of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1195

We present the results from a search for gravitational-wave transients associated with core-collapse supernovae observed within a source distance of approximately 20 Mpc during the…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 10 cited

Electromagnetic transients and gravitational waves from white dwarf disruptions by stellar black holes in triple systems

Giacomo Fragione, Brian D. Metzger, Rosalba Perna +2

Mergers of binaries comprised of compact objects can give rise to explosive transient events, heralding the birth of exotic objects which cannot be formed through single star evolu…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 5 cited

The impact of improved plasma diagnostics on modeling the X-ray Universe

Junjie Mao, Francois Mernier, Jelle S. Kaastra +3

The high-resolution X-ray spectrum of the Perseus galaxy cluster observed with the Hitomi satellite challenges astrophysical collisional ionized plasma models that are widely used…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 37 cited

Observations of a Pre-Merger Shock in Colliding Clusters of Galaxies

Liyi Gu, Hiroki Akamatsu, Timothy W. Shimwell +10

Clusters of galaxies are the largest known gravitationally-bound structures in the Universe. When clusters collide, they create merger shocks on cosmological scales, which transfor…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 127 cited

Search for Eccentric Binary Black Hole Mergers with Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo during their First and Second Observing Runs

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, B. P. Abbott +1183

When formed through dynamical interactions, stellar-mass binary black holes may retain eccentric orbits ( at 10 Hz) detectable by ground-based gravitational-wave detectors.…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 42 cited

Search for gravitational-wave signals associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo

B. P. Abbott, R. Abbott, T. D. Abbott +1196

We present the results of targeted searches for gravitational-wave transients associated with gamma-ray bursts during the second observing run of Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo,…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 78 cited

Suppressed effective viscosity in the bulk intergalactic plasma

I. Zhuravleva, E. Churazov, A. A. Schekochihin +3

Transport properties, such as viscosity and thermal conduction, of the hot intergalactic plasma in clusters of galaxies, are largely unknown. While for laboratory plasmas these cha…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 283 cited

Hierarchical Black Hole Mergers in Active Galactic Nuclei

Yang Yang, Imre Bartos, V. Gayathri +8

The origins of the stellar-mass black hole mergers discovered by LIGO/Virgo are still unknown. Here we show that, if migration traps develop in the \add{accretion} disks of Active…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 12 cited

Multidimensional analysis of Fermi GBM gamma-ray bursts

I. Horvath, J. Hakkila, Z. Bagoly +4

The Fermi GBM catalog provides a large database with many measured variables that can be used to explore and verify gamma-ray burst classification results. We have used Principal C…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 44 cited

X-ray spectra of the Fe-L complex

Liyi Gu, A. J. J. Raassen, Junjie Mao +7

The Hitomi results on the Perseus cluster lead to improvements in our knowledge of atomic physics which are crucial for the precise diagnostic of hot astrophysical plasma observed…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 166 cited

AGN Disks Harden the Mass Distribution of Stellar-mass Binary Black Hole Mergers

Y. Yang, I. Bartos, Z. Haiman +4

The growing number of stellar-mass binary black hole mergers discovered by Advanced LIGO and Advanced Virgo are starting to constrain the binaries' origin and environment. However,…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 67 cited

Detecting Supermassive Black Hole-Induced Binary Eccentricity Oscillations with LISA

Bao-Minh Hoang, Smadar Naoz, Bence Kocsis +2

Stellar-mass black hole binaries (BHBs) near supermassive black holes (SMBH) in galactic nuclei undergo eccentricity oscillations due to gravitational perturbations from the SMBH.…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 2 cited

A statistical method to detect non-stationarities of gamma-ray burst jets

Andor Budai, Peter Raffai, Balint Borgulya +3

We propose a method to detect possible non-stationarities of gamma-ray burst jets. Assuming that the dominant source of variability in the prompt gamma light curve is the non-stati…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 1.6k cited

Relativistic Shapiro delay measurements of an extremely massive millisecond pulsar

H. Thankful Cromartie, Emmanuel Fonseca, Scott M. Ransom +24

Despite its importance to our understanding of physics at supranuclear densities, the equation of state (EoS) of matter deep within neutron stars remains poorly understood. Millise…

astro-ph.HE2019

Multimessenger science opportunities with mHz gravitational waves

John Baker, Zoltán Haiman, Elena Maria Rossi +32

LISA will open the mHz band of gravitational waves (GWs) to the astronomy community. The strong gravity which powers the variety of GW sources in this band is also crucial in a num…