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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★ 24 cited

The NANOGrav 12.5-Year Data Set: Monitoring Interstellar Scattering Delays

Jacob E. Turner, Maura A. McLaughlin, James M. Cordes +33

We extract interstellar scintillation parameters for pulsars observed by the NANOGrav radio pulsar timing program. Dynamic spectra for the observing epochs of each pulsar were used…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 20 cited

Photospheric Velocity Gradients and Ejecta Masses of Hydrogen-poor Superluminous Supernovae -- Proxies for Distinguishing between Fast and Slow Events

Réka Könyves-Tóth, József Vinkó

We present a study of 28 Type I superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) in the context of the ejecta mass and photospheric velocity. We combine photometry and spectroscopy to infer ejecta…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 75 cited

High Eccentricities and High Masses Characterize Gravitational-wave Captures in Galactic Nuclei as Seen by Earth-based Detectors

László Gondán, Bence Kocsis

The emission of gravitational waves (GWs) during single-single close encounters in galactic nuclei (GNs) leads to the formation and rapid merger of highly eccentric stellar-mass bl…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 4 cited

Detection of Tidal Disruption Events around Direct Collapse Black Holes at High Redshifts with the James Webb Space Telescope

E. Regos, J. Vinko, Z. Stermeczky

This is the third sequel in a series discussing the discovery of various types of extragalactic transients with the {\it James Webb Space Telescope} in a narrow-field ( d…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 2 cited

Kilonova rates from spherical and axisymmetrical models

József Kóbori, Zsolt Bagoly, Lajos G. Balázs

Detecting the thermal emission from double neutron star merger events is a challenging task because of the quick fading of the observed flux. In order to create an efficient observ…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 39 cited

Search for Gravitational Waves Associated with Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by Fermi and Swift During the LIGO-Virgo Run O3a

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1250

We search for gravitational-wave transients associated with gamma-ray bursts detected by the Fermi and Swift satellites during the first part of the third observing run of Advanced…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 121 cited

Astrophysics Milestones For Pulsar Timing Array Gravitational Wave Detection

Nihan S. Pol, Stephen R. Taylor, Luke Zoltan Kelley +49

The NANOGrav Collaboration reported strong Bayesian evidence for a common-spectrum stochastic process in its 12.5-yr pulsar timing array dataset, with median characteristic strain…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 29 cited

The clustering of gamma-ray bursts in the Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall: the largest structure in the Universe?

I. Horvath, D. Szécsi, J. Hakkila +5

The Hercules-Corona Borealis Great Wall is a statistically significant clustering of gamma-ray bursts around redshift 2. Motivated by recent theoretical results indicating that a m…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 18 cited

The Exotic Type Ic Broad-Lined Supernova SN 2018gep: Blurring the Line Between Supernovae and Fast Optical Transients

T. A. Pritchard, Katarzyna Bensch, Maryam Modjaz +28

In the last decade a number of rapidly evolving transients have been discovered that are not easily explained by traditional supernovae models. We present optical and UV data on on…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 69 cited

SN 2018zd: An Unusual Stellar Explosion as Part of the Diverse Type II Supernova Landscape

Jujia Zhang, Xiaofeng Wang, Jozsef Vinko +29

We present extensive observations of SN 2018zd covering the first \,d after the explosion. This SN shows a possible shock-breakout signal \,hr after the explosion…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 28 cited

X-ray spectra of the Fe-L complex II: atomic data constraints from EBIT experiment and X-ray grating observations of Capella

Liyi Gu, Chintan Shah, Junjie Mao +14

The Hitomi results for the Perseus cluster have shown that accurate atomic models are essential to the success of X-ray spectroscopic missions, and just as important as knowledge o…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 99 cited

Gravitational-wave constraints on the equatorial ellipticity of millisecond pulsars

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1333

We present a search for continuous gravitational waves from five radio pulsars, comprising three recycled pulsars (PSR J0437-4715, PSR J0711-6830, and PSR J0737-3039A) and two youn…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 39 cited

Comment on "Tidal Love numbers of neutron and self-bound quark stars"

János Takátsy, Péter Kovács

We comment on the paper of S. Postnikov et al. in Phys. Rev. D 82, 024016 (2010) and give a modified formula that needs to be taken into account when calculating the tidal Love num…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 70 cited

SN 2019ehk: A Double-Peaked Ca-rich Transient with Luminous X-ray Emission and Shock-Ionized Spectral Features

Wynn V. Jacobson-Galán, Raffaella Margutti, Charles D. Kilpatrick +64

We present panchromatic observations and modeling of the Calcium-rich supernova 2019ehk in the star-forming galaxy M100 (d16.2 Mpc) starting 10 hours after explosion and c…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 1.8k cited

GW190814: Gravitational Waves from the Coalescence of a 23 M Black Hole with a 2.6 M Compact Object

The LIGO Scientific Collaboration, the Virgo Collaboration, R. Abbott +1254

We report the observation of a compact binary coalescence involving a 22.2 - 24.3 black hole and a compact object with a mass of 2.50 - 2.67 (all measuremen…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 9 cited

A self-lensing supermassive binary black hole at radio frequencies: the story of Spikey continues

Emma Kun, Sándor Frey, Krisztina É. Gabányi

The quasar J1918+4937 was recently suggested to harbour a milliparsec-separation binary supermassive black hole (SMBH), based upon modeling the narrow spike in its high-cadence Kep…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 10 cited

Bayesian Reconstruction of Gravitational-wave Signals from Binary Black Holes with Nonzero Eccentricities

Gergely Dálya, Peter Raffai, Bence Bécsy

We present a comprehensive study on how well gravitational-wave signals of binary black holes with nonzero eccentricities can be recovered with state of the art model-independent w…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 13 cited

The Mergers in Abell 2256: Displaced Gas and its Connection to the Radio-emitting Plasma

J. P. Breuer, N. Werner, F. Mernier +5

We present the results of deep Chandra and XMM-Newton X-ray imaging and spatially-resolved spectroscopy of Abell 2256, a nearby (z=0.058) galaxy cluster experiencing multiple merge…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 114 cited

The NANOGrav 12.5-year Data Set: Wideband Timing of 47 Millisecond Pulsars

Md F. Alam, Zaven Arzoumanian, Paul T. Baker +67

We present a new analysis of the profile data from the 47 millisecond pulsars comprising the 12.5-year data set of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 161 cited

The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Observations and Narrowband Timing of 47 Millisecond Pulsars

Md F. Alam, Zaven Arzoumanian, Paul T. Baker +67

We present time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements and timing models of 47 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) observed from 2004 to 2017 at the Arecibo Observatory and the Green Bank Telescope…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 39 cited

Detecting Kozai-Lidov imprints on the gravitational waves of intermediate-mass black holes in galactic nuclei

Barnabás Deme, Bao-Minh Hoang, Smadar Naoz +1

A third object in the vicinity of a binary system causes variations in the eccentricity and the inclination of the binary through the Kozai-Lidov effect. We examine if such variati…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 86 cited

Orbital Migration of Interacting Stellar Mass Black Holes in Disks around Supermassive Black Holes II. Spins and Incoming Objects

Amy Secunda, Jillian Bellovary, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low +6

The masses, rates, and spins of merging stellar-mass binary black holes (BBHs) detected by aLIGO and Virgo provide challenges to traditional BBH formation and merger scenarios. An…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 129 cited

Spin Evolution of Stellar-mass Black Hole Binaries in Active Galactic Nuclei

Hiromichi Tagawa, Zoltan Haiman, Imre Bartos +1

The astrophysical origin of gravitational wave (GW) events is one of the most timely problems in the wake of the LIGO/Virgo discoveries. In active galactic nuclei (AGN), binaries f…