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most citedDetection of molecular clouds in the PeVatron candidate source LHAASO J03415258 by the Nobeyama 45-m radio telescope

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astro-ph.HE2026

XMM-Newton Resolves Parsec-scale X-ray Jets in the PeVatron Microquasar V4641 Sgr

Naomi Tsuji, Caterina Tresoldi, Kaya Mori +34

The microquasar V4641 Sagittarii (V4641 Sgr) has recently been established as one of the most powerful Galactic PeV cosmic-ray accelerators (PeVatrons) through the detection of deg…

astro-ph.HE2026

Candidate X-ray Counterparts of Ultra-High-Energy Emission of the Galactic Microquasar V4641 Sgr Revealed by Einstein Probe

Yi-Heng Chi, Shao-Qiang Xi, Ping Zhou +20

Microquasars have emerged as promising PeVatron candidates capable of accelerating particles to PeV energies, with recent observations revealing ultra-high-energy (UHE) -ray emi…

astro-ph.EP2026

Parameter estimation from the transit light curve including gravitational lensing effects

Shinta Kasuya, Akihiko Fukui, Ayana Suzuki +1

We study transit light curves of exoplanets, incorporating gravitational lensing effects, and explore the possibility of estimating planetary masses using only the transit light cu…

astro-ph.HE2026

The Western Jet of SS 433/W50: Hard X-ray Emission, Spectral Evolution, and Comparison to the Eastern Jet

Brydyn Mac Intyre, Samar Safi-Harb, Dmitry Khangulyan +5

The W50 nebula powered by the microquasar SS 433 is a unique laboratory for exploring several fundamental astrophysical phenomena. This study presents observations from NuSTAR and…

astro-ph.HE2026

Multiwavelength Probes of Cosmic Ray Transport in Molecular Cloud Structures

Hayden P. H. Ng, Ellis R. Owen, Naomi Tsuji +1

We investigate how cosmic ray (CR) transport in molecular clouds and their substructures can be probed using multi-wavelength observations. The detailed microphysics regulating the…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

The Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (AXIS) Community Science Book

Michael Koss, Nafisa Aftab, Steven W. Allen +395

The AXIS Community Science Book represents the collective effort of 592 scientists worldwide to define the transformative science enabled by the Advanced X-ray Imaging Satellite (A…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

The first proper motion measurement of the acceleration regions in the large-scale jets of SS 433 powering the W50 nebula

Naomi Tsuji, Yoshiyuki Inoue, Dmitry Khangulyan +10

We report on new Chandra ACIS-I observations of the X-ray knots located in the western and eastern lobes of W50 associated with the parsec-scale jets of the Galactic microquasar SS…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

XRISM reveals a variable, multi-phase outflow-inflow structure during the X-ray obscured 2024 outburst of the black hole transient V4641 Sgr

Maxime Parra, Megumi Shidatsu, Ryota Tomaru +23

We report the results of a simultaneous X-ray and optical spectroscopy campaign on the Galactic black hole X-ray binary V4641 Sgr, carried out with XRISM and the Seimei telescope d…

astro-ph.HE2025

X-ray Study on Propagation of Non-thermal Particles in Microquasar SS 433/W 50 Extended Jets

Kazuho Kayama, Takaaki Tanaka, Hiroyuki Uchida +5

SS 433, located at the center of the W 50 radio nebula, is a binary system that ejects jets oriented east-west with precessional motion. X-ray lobes, containing compact "knots" lab…

astro-ph.HE2025

Multiwavelength observation of a candidate pulsar halo LHAASO J0621+3755 and the first X-ray detection of PSR J0622+3749

C. B. Adams, A. Archer, P. Bangale +71

Pulsar halos are regions around middle-aged pulsars extending out to tens of parsecs. The large extent of the halos and well-defined central cosmic-ray accelerators make this new c…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

Detection of molecular clouds in the PeVatron candidate source LHAASO J03415258 by the Nobeyama 45-m radio telescope

Naomi Tsuji, Shunya Takekawa, Kaya Mori +8

We report a new CO observation survey of LHAASO J03415258 using the Nobeyama Radio Observatory (NRO) 45-m telescope. LHAASO J03415258 is one of the unidentified ultra-high-en…

astro-ph.HE2025

Discovery of a Pulsar Wind Nebula Candidate Associated with the Galactic PeVatron 1LHAASO J0343+5254u

Stephen DiKerby, Shuo Zhang, Tulun Ergin +6

The astronomical origin of the most energetic galactic cosmic rays and gamma rays is still uncertain. X-ray followup of candidate "PeVatrons", systems producing cosmic rays with en…

astro-ph.HE2024

Detection of extended X-ray emission around the PeVatron microquasar V4641 Sgr with XRISM

Hiromasa Suzuki, Naomi Tsuji, Yoshiaki Kanemaru +26

A recent report on the detection of very-high-energy gamma rays from V4641 Sagittarii (V4641 Sgr) up to ~0.8 peta-electronvolt has made it the second confirmed "PeVatron" microquas…

astro-ph.HE2024

Spectrum and location of ongoing extreme particle acceleration in Cassiopeia A

Jooyun Woo, Kaya Mori, Charles J. Hailey +8

Young supernova remnants (SNRs) are believed to be the origin of energetic cosmic rays (CRs) below the "knee" of their spectrum at petaelectronvolt (PeV, eV). Nev…