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astro-ph.HE2023

Some statistical remarks on GRBs jointly detected by Fermi and Swift satellites

Sandor Pinter, Lajos G. Balazs, Zsolt Bagoly +3

We made statistical analysis of the Fermi GBM and Swift BAT observational material, accumulated over 15 years. We studied how GRB parameters (T duration, fluence, peak flux)…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 17 cited

The NANOGrav 12.5-year data set: A computationally efficient eccentric binary search pipeline and constraints on an eccentric supermassive binary candidate in 3C 66B

Gabriella Agazie, Zaven Arzoumanian, Paul T. Baker +85

The radio galaxy 3C 66B has been hypothesized to host a supermassive black hole binary (SMBHB) at its center based on electromagnetic observations. Its apparent 1.05-year period an…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 25 cited

Ground-based and JWST Observations of SN 2022pul: II. Evidence from Nebular Spectroscopy for a Violent Merger in a Peculiar Type-Ia Supernova

Lindsey A. Kwok, Matthew R. Siebert, Joel Johansson +78

We present an analysis of ground-based and JWST observations of SN~2022pul, a peculiar "03fg-like" (or "super-Chandrasekhar") Type Ia supernova (SN Ia), in the nebular phase at 338…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

Signatures of a spinning supermassive black hole binary on the mas-scale jet of the quasar S5 1928+738 based on 25 years of VLBI data

E. Kun, S. Britzen, S. Frey +2

In a previous work, we have identified the spin of the dominant black hole of a binary from its jet properties. Analysing Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations of the quasar…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 380 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational Wave Background

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +111

The NANOGrav 15-year data set shows evidence for the presence of a low-frequency gravitational-wave background (GWB). While many physical processes can source such low-frequency gr…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 93 cited

From Discovery to the First Month of the Type II Supernova 2023ixf: High and Variable Mass Loss in the Final Year before Explosion

Daichi Hiramatsu, Daichi Tsuna, Edo Berger +22

We present the discovery of the Type II supernova SN 2023ixf in M101 and follow-up photometric and spectroscopic observations, respectively, in the first month and week of its evol…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 159 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +96

Evidence for a low-frequency stochastic gravitational wave background has recently been reported based on analyses of pulsar timing array data. The most likely source of such a bac…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 801 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics

Adeela Afzal, Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi +120

The 15-year pulsar timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav) shows positive evidence for the presence of a low-freque…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 154 cited

The NANOGrav 15-Year Data Set: Detector Characterization and Noise Budget

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +88

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) are galactic-scale gravitational wave detectors. Each individual arm, composed of a millisecond pulsar, a radio telescope, and a kiloparsecs-long path,…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 376 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Observations and Timing of 68 Millisecond Pulsars

Gabriella Agazie, Md Faisal Alam, Akash Anumarlapudi +97

We present observations and timing analyses of 68 millisecond pulsars (MSPs) comprising the 15-year data set of the North American Nanohertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NA…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1.5k cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-Wave Background

Gabriella Agazie, Akash Anumarlapudi, Anne M. Archibald +111

We report multiple lines of evidence for a stochastic signal that is correlated among 67 pulsars from the 15-year pulsar-timing data set collected by the North American Nanohertz O…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 41 cited

The NANOGrav 15-year Gravitational-Wave Background Methods

Aaron D. Johnson, Patrick M. Meyers, Paul T. Baker +93

Pulsar timing arrays (PTAs) use an array of millisecond pulsars to search for gravitational waves in the nanohertz regime in pulse time of arrival data. This paper presents rigorou…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 90 cited

Early Spectroscopy and Dense Circumstellar Medium Interaction in SN 2023ixf

K. Azalee Bostroem, Jeniveve Pearson, Manisha Shrestha +53

We present the optical spectroscopic evolution of SN~2023ixf seen in sub-night cadence spectra from 1.18 to 14 days after explosion. We identify high-ionization emission features,…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 80 cited

Shock Cooling and Possible Precursor Emission in the Early Light Curve of the Type II SN 2023ixf

Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Joseph Farah, Manisha Shrestha +28

We present the densely sampled early light curve of the Type II supernova (SN) 2023ixf, first observed within hours of explosion in the nearby Pinwheel Galaxy (Messier 101; 6.7 Mpc…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 2 cited

Radio and mid-infrared properties of the blazar J14190838

Krisztina Perger, Sándor Frey, Krisztina Éva Gabányi

The radio quasar NVSS J141922083830 (J14190838) was initially classified as an uncategorised blazar-type object, following its detection in the -ray band with the Fermi sp…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 23 cited

The peak-flux of GRB 221009A measured with GRBAlpha

Jakub Ripa, Hiromitsu Takahashi, Yasushi Fukazawa +42

The brightest gamma-ray burst ever observed, long-duration GRB 221009A, was detected by GRBAlpha nano-satellite without saturation. We present light curves of the prompt emission i…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 26 cited

Limit on Supernova Emission in the Brightest Gamma-ray Burst, GRB 221009A

Manisha Shrestha, David J. Sand, Kate D. Alexander +30

We present photometric and spectroscopic observations of the extraordinary gamma-ray burst (GRB) 221009A in search of an associated supernova. Some past GRBs have shown bumps in th…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 57 cited

What neutron stars tell about the hadron-quark phase transition: a Bayesian study

János Takátsy, Péter Kovács, György Wolf +1

The existence of quark matter inside the heaviest neutron stars has been the topic of numerous recent studies, many of them suggesting that a phase transition to strongly interacti…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Comparison of different Tidal Disruption Event light curve models with TiDE, a new modular open source code

Zsófia V. Kovács-Stermeczky, József Vinkó

A tidal disruption event (TDE) occurs when a supermassive black hole disrupts a nearby passing star by tidal forces. The subsequent fallback accretion of the stellar debris results…