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Optical Super-orbital Modulation of SMC X-1: Disk Precession and a Revised Pulsar Mass
Masafumi Niwano, Nobuyuki Kawai, Michael Fausnaugh
The observational determination of the lower limit of neutron star masses is crucial for the physics of core-collapse supernovae. In this light, SMC X-1 is an important object beca…
Evolution of Accretion Disk Structure of the Black Hole X-ray Binary MAXI J1820070 during the Rebrightening Phase
Tomohiro Yoshitake, Megumi Shidatsu, Yoshihiro Ueda +18
To understand the evolution of global accretion disk structure in the ``rebrightening'' phase of MAXI J1820070, we perform a comprehensive analysis of its near infrared/optical/…
Possible anti-correlations between pulsation amplitudes and the disk growth of Be stars in giant-outbursting Be X-ray binaries
Masafumi Niwano, Michael M. Fausnaugh, Ryan M. Lau +15
The mechanism of X-ray outbursts in Be X-ray binaries remains a mystery, and understanding their circumstellar disks is crucial for a solution of the mass-transfer problem. In part…
Kojima-1Lb Is a Mildly Cold Neptune around the Brightest Microlensing Host Star
A. Fukui, D. Suzuki, N. Koshimoto +56
We report the analysis of additional multiband photometry and spectroscopy and new adaptive optics (AO) imaging of the nearby planetary microlensing event TCP J05074264+2447555 (Ko…
Temperature Structure in the Perseus Cluster Core Observed with Hitomi
Hitomi Collaboration, Felix Aharonian, Hiroki Akamatsu +192
The present paper investigates the temperature structure of the X-ray emitting plasma in the core of the Perseus cluster using the 1.8--20.0 keV data obtained with the Soft X-ray S…
MITSuME observation of V404 Cygni in the 2015 outburst: Two optical variable components with different variability
Y. Tachibana, T. Yoshii, H. Hanayama +1
The black hole binary V404 Cygni (= GS 2023+338) had an outburst on June 15, 2015 after 26 years of quiescence. We report the multi-color optical observation (g', Rc, and Ic) of th…
ASTRO-H White Paper - Stellar-Mass Black Holes
J. M. Miller, S. Mineshige, A. Kubota +10
Thanks to extensive observations with X-ray missions and facilities working in other wavelengths, as well as rapidly--advancing numerical simulations of accretion flows, our knowle…
GRB 130427A: a Nearby Ordinary Monster
A. Maselli, A. Melandri, L. Nava +63
Long-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are an extremely rare outcome of the collapse of massive stars, and are typically found in the distant Universe. Because of its intrinsic lumi…
Accretion disk and ionized absorber of the 9.7-hour dipping black hole binary MAXI J1305-704
Megumi Shidatsu, Yoshihiro Ueda, Satoshi Nakahira +14
We report the results from X-ray studies of the newly discovered black hole candidate MAXI J1305-704 based on Suzaku and Swift observations in the low/hard and high/soft states, re…
The ASTRO-H X-ray Observatory
Tadayuki Takahashi, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Richard Kelley +220
The joint JAXA/NASA ASTRO-H mission is the sixth in a series of highly successful X-ray missions initiated by the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science (ISAS). ASTRO-H will…
IceCube: Neutrino Messages from GRBs
A. Kappes
The mystery of where and how Nature accelerates the cosmic rays is still unresolved a century after their discovery. Gamma ray bursts (GRBs) have been proposed as one of the more p…
Fermi LAT observations of the Geminga pulsar
LAT Collaboration, A. A. Abdo
We report on the \textit{Fermi}-LAT observations of the Geminga pulsar, the second brightest non-variable GeV source in the -ray sky and the first example of a radio-quiet -r…
"Dark" GRB 080325 in a Dusty Massive Galaxy at z ~ 2
T. Hashimoto, K. Ohta, K. Aoki +30
We present optical and near infrared observations of GRB 080325 classified as a "Dark GRB". Near-infrared observations with Subaru/MOIRCS provided a clear detection of afterglow in…
Spectral Lag Relations in GRB Pulses Detected with HETE-2
M. Arimoto, N. Kawai, K. Asano +36
Using a pulse-fit method, we investigate the spectral lags between the traditional gamma-ray band (50-400 keV) and the X-ray band (6-25 keV) for 8 GRBs with known redshifts (GRB 01…
The Spectral Energy Distribution of Fermi bright blazars
A. A. Abdo, M. Ackermann, M. Ajello +107
(Abridged) We have conducted a detailed investigation of the broad-band spectral properties of the γ-ray selected blazars of the Fermi LAT Bright AGN Sample (LBAS). By combining ou…
Fermi Observations of the Very Hard Gamma-ray Blazar PG 1553+113
LAT Collaboration
We report the observations of PG 1553+113 during the first ~200 days of Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope science operations, from 4 August 2008 to 22 February 2009 (MJD 54682.7-5488…
Gamma-ray and Radio Properties of Six Pulsars Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope
The Fermi LAT collaboration, the Fermi Pulsar Timing Consortium
We report the detection of pulsed gamma-rays for PSRs J0631+1036, J0659+1414, J0742-2822, J1420-6048, J1509-5850 and J1718-3825 using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fe…
Multiwavelength observations of 3C 454.3 II. The AGILE 2007 December campaign
I. Donnarumma, G. Pucella, V. Vittorini +75
We report on the second AGILE multiwavelength campaign of the blazar 3C 454.3 during the first half of December 2007. This campaign involved AGILE, Spitzer, Swift,Suzaku,the WEBT c…
Simultaneous MITSuME gRI monitoring of S5 0716+714
C. S. Stalin, K. S. Kawabata, M. Uemura +7
We present results of our intra-night optical flux monitoring observations of S5 0716+714 done simultaneously in gRI filters. The observations were done using Multicolor Imaging Te…
Discovery of Pulsed Gamma Rays from the Young Radio Pulsar PSR J1028-5819 with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
LAT Collaboration
Radio pulsar PSR J1028-5819 was recently discovered in a high-frequency search (at 3.1 GHz)in the error circle of the EGRET source 3EG J1027-5817. The spin-down power of this young…
GRB 080913 at redshift 6.7
J. Greiner, T. Kruehler, J. P. U. Fynbo +44
We report on the detection by Swift of GRB 080913, and subsequent optical/near-infrared follow-up observations by GROND which led to the discovery of its optical/NIR afterglow and…
MITSuME--Multicolor Imaging Telescopes for Survey and Monstrous Explosions
T. Kotani, N. Kawai, K. Yanagisawa +25
Development of MITSuME is reported. Two 50-cm optical telescopes have been built at Akeno in Yamanashi prefecture and at Okayama Astrophysical Observatory (OAO) in Okayama prefectu…
Search for the host galaxy of GRB 050904 at z=6.3
K. Aoki, H. Furusawa, K. Ohta +2
We present the results of deep imaging of the field of GRB 050904 with Suprime-Cam on the Subaru 8.2m telescope. We have obtained a narrow-band (130 A) image centered at 9200 A (NB…
XMM-Newton observations of the eastern jet of SS433
W. Brinkmann, G. W. Pratt, S. Rohr +2
The radio supernova remnant W50 hosts at its center the peculiar galactic X-ray binary SS 433. It shows a central spherical structure with two `ears' which are supposed to be forme…