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most citedFermi-GBM Discovery of GRB 221009A: An Extraordinarily Bright GRB from Onset to Afterglow

143 citations · 571 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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31 papers

astro-ph.IM2026

Assessing the Impact of Instrumental Requirements on the Scientific Performance of the Einstein Telescope

Ulyana Dupletsa, Francesco Iacovelli, Mikhail Korobko +23

We investigate the relationship between instrumental requirements and the scientific performance of the Einstein Telescope (ET), a third-generation (3G) gravitational-wave (GW) obs…

astro-ph.HE2026

Exploring the nature of Galactic unassociated sources detected by the Fermi-LAT

F. Acero, A. Acharyya, A. Adelfio +120

We investigate the nature of the unassociated sources detected by the Fermi-LAT close (|b|<10°) to the Galactic plane, representing 16% of all sources in the 4FGL-DR4 catalog. The…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 2 cited

Gamma-ray signature of superluminous supernovae: Fermi-LAT GeV detection of SN 2017egm and evidence of a central engine

F. Acero, A. Acharyya, A. Adelfio +116

Superluminous supernovae (SLSNe) are a rare class of transients with peak luminosities 10-100 times greater than those of standard core-collapse supernovae (SNe). The mechanisms po…

astro-ph.HE2026

Label Propagation for Identifying Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors from Prompt Emission

Skye Strain, Nicoló Cibrario, Michela Negro +1

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most energetic bursts of light in our universe, and rapid progenitor association of these events can lead to targeted and optimized follow-up observ…

gr-qc2025

Parametrized model for gravitational waves from eccentric, precessing binary black holes: theory-agnostic tests of General Relativity with pTEOBResumS

Danilo Chiaramello, Nicolò Cibrario, Jacob Lange +4

Gravitational waves from binary black hole mergers allow us to test General Relativity in the strong-field, high-curvature regime. However, existing gravitational waves-based tests…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Embedding Reliability for Unsupervised Classification of Gamma Ray Burst progenitors from Prompt Gamma-ray Emission

Nicoló Cibrario, Michela Negro

We present a statistical method based on scDEED to assess the reliability of a 2D embedding showing a low-dimensional representation of the distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs)…

astro-ph.HE2025

Mapping Gamma-Ray Bursts: Distinguishing Progenitor Systems Through Machine Learning

Sharleen N. Espinoza, Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning, Michela Negro +2

We present an analysis of gamma-ray burst (GRB) progenitor classification, through their positions on a Uniform Manifold Approximation and Projection (UMAP) plot, constructed by Ne…

astro-ph.HE2025

X-ray Polarization Detection of the Pulsar Wind Nebula in G21.5-0.9 with IXPE

Niccolò Di Lalla, Nicola Omodei, Niccolò Bucciantini +98

We present the X-ray polarization observation of G21.5-0.9, a young Galactic supernova remnant (SNR), conducted with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) in October 2023,…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 3 cited

Mitigating Polarization Leakage in Gas Pixel Detectors through Hybrid Machine Learning and Analytic Event Reconstruction

Nicoló Cibrario, Michela Negro, Raffaella Bonino +18

Spatially resolved polarization measurements of extended X-ray sources are expanding our understanding of the emission mechanisms and magnetic field properties involved. Such measu…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Puzzling Variation of Gamma Rays from the Sun over the Solar Cycle Revealed with Fermi-LAT

A. Acharyya, A. Adelfio, M. Ajello +100

The steady-state gamma-ray emission from the Sun is thought to consist of two emission components due to interactions with Galactic cosmic rays: (1) a hadronic disk component, and…

astro-ph.HE2025

Fermi detection of gamma-ray Emission from the Hot Coronae of Radio-quiet Active Galactic Nuclei

Jun-Rong Liu, Jian-Min Wang, Fermi-LAT Collaboration

Relativistic jets around supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are well-known powerful -ray emitters. In absence of the jets in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGNs), how the SMB…

astro-ph.HE2025

Characterizing Candidate Blazar Counterparts of the Ultra-High-Energy Event KM3-230213A

KM3NeT Collaboration, MessMapp Group, LAT Collaboration +13

High-energy astrophysical neutrinos serve as crucial messengers for understanding hadronic acceleration processes and identifying the origins of cosmic rays, with blazars among the…

astro-ph.HE2024

Search for Extended GeV Sources in the Inner Galactic Plane

S. Abdollahi, F. Acero, A. Acharyya +108

The recent detection of extended -ray emission around middle-aged pulsars is interpreted as inverse-Compton scattering of ambient photons by electron-positron pairs escaping the…

astro-ph.HE2024

GRB 221009A: the B.O.A.T Burst that Shines in Gamma Rays

M. Axelsson, M. Ajello, M. Arimoto +151

We present a complete analysis of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data of GRB 221009A, the brightest Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) ever detected. The burst emission above 30 MeV detected…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 7 cited

Prompt GRB recognition through waterfalls and deep learning

Michela Negro, Nicoló Cibrario, Eric Burns +3

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) are one of the most energetic phenomena in the cosmos, whose study probes physics extremes beyond the reach of laboratories on Earth. Our quest to unravel t…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 33 cited

Detection of X-ray Polarization from the Blazar 1ES 1959+650 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

Manel Errando, Ioannis Liodakis, Alan P. Marscher +142

Observations of linear polarization in the 2-8 keV energy range with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) explore the magnetic field geometry and dynamics of the regions g…

astro-ph.HE2023

X-ray Polarization of the Eastern Lobe of SS 433

Philip Kaaret, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Stefano Silvestri +103

How astrophysical systems translate the kinetic energy of bulk motion into the acceleration of particles to very high energies is a pressing question. SS 433 is a microquasar that…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 43 cited

Magnetic Field Properties inside the Jet of Mrk 421: Multiwavelength Polarimetry Including the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer

Dawoon E. Kim, Laura Di Gesu, Ioannis Liodakis +133

We conducted a polarimetry campaign from radio to X-ray wavelengths of the high-synchrotron-peak (HSP) blazar Mrk 421, including Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) measureme…

astro-ph.HE2023

The Polarized Cosmic Hand: IXPE Observations of PSR B1509-58/MSH 15-52

Roger W. Romani, Josephine Wong, Niccolo Di Lalla +99

We describe IXPE polarization observations of the Pulsar Wind Nebula (PWN) MSH15-52, the `Cosmic Hand'. We find X-ray polarization across the PWN, with B field vectors generally al…

astro-ph.HE2023

Discovery of X-ray polarization angle rotation in active galaxy Mrk 421

Laura Di Gesu, Herman L. Marshall, Steven R. Ehlert +140

The magnetic field conditions in astrophysical relativistic jets can be probed by multiwavelength polarimetry, which has been recently extended to X-rays. For example, one can trac…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 45 cited

X-ray Polarization of BL Lacertae in Outburst

Abel L. Peirson, Michela Negro, Ioannis Liodakis +128

We report the first confidence detection of X-ray polarization in BL Lacertae. During a recent X-ray/-ray outburst, a 287 ksec observation (2022 November 27-30) was tak…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 6 cited

Joint machine learning and analytic track reconstruction for X-ray polarimetry with gas pixel detectors

Nicoló Cibrario, Michela Negro, Nikita Moriakov +9

We present our study on the reconstruction of photoelectron tracks in gas pixel detectors used for astrophysical X-ray polarimetry. Our work aims to maximize the performance of con…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 36 cited

X-ray Polarization of the Black Hole X-ray Binary 4U 1630-47 Challenges Standard Thin Accretion Disk Scenario

Ajay Ratheesh, Michal Dovčiak, Henric Krawczynski +112

Large energy-dependent X-ray polarization degree is detected by the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer ({IXPE}) in the high-soft emission state of the black hole X-ray binary 4U 16…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 143 cited

Fermi-GBM Discovery of GRB 221009A: An Extraordinarily Bright GRB from Onset to Afterglow

S. Lesage, P. Veres, M. S. Briggs +136

We report the discovery of GRB 221009A, the highest flux gamma-ray burst ever observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM). This GRB has continuous prompt emission lasting m…