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astro-ph.HE2020★ 5 cited

Modeling of 35-day superorbital cycle of and light curves of IMXB HZ Her/Her X-1

D. A. Kolesnikov, N. I. Shakura, K. A. Postnov +13

The X-ray binary Her X-1 consists of an accreting neutron star and the optical component HZ Her. The 35-day X-ray superorbital variability of this system is known since its discove…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 11 cited

The giant outburst of 4U 0115+634 in 2011 with Suzaku and RXTE

Matthias Bissinger né Kühnel, Ingo Kreykenbohm, Carlo Ferrigno +19

We present an analysis of X-ray spectra of the high mass X-ray binary 4U 0115+634 as observed with Suzaku and RXTE in 2011 July, during the fading phase of a giant X-ray outburst.…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 241 cited

Cyclotron lines in highly magnetized neutron stars

R. Staubert, J. Trümper, E. Kendziorra +10

Cyclotron lines, also called cyclotron resonant scattering features (CRSF) are spectral features, generally appearing in absorption, in the X-ray spectra of objects containing high…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 50 cited

The -ray spectrum of the core of Centaurus A as observed with H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +249

Centaurus A (Cen A) is the nearest radio galaxy discovered as a very-high-energy (VHE; 100 GeV-100 TeV) -ray source by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.). It is a fa…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 16 cited

Infrared and X-ray study of the Galactic SNR G15.9+0.2

Manami Sasaki, Minja M. Maäkelaä, Dmitry Klochkov +2

G15.9+0.2 is a Galactic shell-type supernova remnant (SNR), which was detected in radio and has been confirmed in X-rays based on Chandra observations. An X-ray point source CXOUJ1…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 33 cited

H.E.S.S. discovery of very high energy gamma-ray emission from PKS 0625-354

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +253

PKS 0625-354 (z=0.055) was observed with the four H.E.S.S. telescopes in 2012 during 5.5 hours. The source was detected above an energy threshold of 200 GeV at a significance level…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 69 cited

Population study of Galactic supernova remnants at very high -ray energies with H.E.S.S.

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +252

Shell-type supernova remnants (SNRs) are considered prime candidates for the acceleration of Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) up to the knee of the CR spectrum at $\mathrm{E} \approx \ma…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 14 cited

Detection of variable VHE gamma-ray emission from the extra-galactic gamma-ray binary LMC P3

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, H. Abdalla, A. Abramowski +253

Context. Recently, the high-energy (HE, 0.1-100 GeV) -ray emission from the object LMC P3 in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) has been discovered to be modulated with a 10.3-day…

astro-ph.HE2018★ 49 cited

A search for new supernova remnant shells in the Galactic plane with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +263

A search for new supernova remnants (SNRs) has been conducted using TeV gamma-ray data from the H.E.S.S. Galactic plane survey. As an identification criterion, shell morphologies t…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 64 cited

TeV gamma-ray observations of the binary neutron star merger GW170817 with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +250

We search for high-energy gamma-ray emission from the binary neutron star merger GW170817 with the H.E.S.S. Imaging Air Cherenkov Telescopes. The observations presented here have b…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 23 cited

Inversion of the decay of the cyclotron line energy in Her X-1

R. Staubert, D. Klochkov, F. Fürst +3

Recent observations of Her X-1 with NuSTAR and INTEGRAL in 2016 have provided evidence that the 20-year decay of the cyclotron line energy found between 1996 and 2015 has ended and…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 10 cited

Contributions of the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), Busan, Korea

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +256

Index of H.E.S.S. conference proceedings to the 35th ICRC, Busan, Korea

astro-ph.HE2017★ 15 cited

Evidence for different accretion regimes in GRO J1008-57

Matthias Kühnel, Felix Fürst, Katja Pottschmidt +6

We present a comprehensive spectral analysis of the BeXRB GRO J1008-57 over a luminosity range of three orders of magnitude using NuSTAR, Suzaku and RXTE data. We find significant…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 17 cited

XMM-Newton observations of the non-thermal supernova remnant HESS J1731-347 (G353.6-0.7)

V. Doroshenko, G. Pühlhofer, A. Bamba +4

We report on the analysis of XMM-Newton observations of the non-thermal shell-type supernova remnant HESS J1731-347 (G353.6-0.7). For the first time the complete remnant shell has…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 74 cited

Characterising the VHE diffuse emission in the central 200 parsecs of our Galaxy with H.E.S.S

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +256

The diffuse very high-energy (VHE, > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission observed in the central 200 pc of the Milky Way by H.E.S.S. was found to follow the dense matter distribution in th…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 82 cited

A polarized fast radio burst at low Galactic latitude

E. Petroff, S. Burke-Spolaor, E. F. Keane +35

We report on the discovery of a new fast radio burst, FRB 150215, with the Parkes radio telescope on 2015 February 15. The burst was detected in real time with a dispersion measure…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 18 cited

Systematic search for very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from bow shocks of runaway stars

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +260

Runaway stars form bow shocks by ploughing through the interstellar medium at supersonic speeds and are promising sources of non-thermal emission of photons. One of these objects h…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 163 cited

The population of TeV pulsar wind nebulae in the H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +255

The nine-year H.E.S.S. Galactic Plane Survey (HGPS) yielded the most uniform observation scan of the inner Milky Way in the TeV gamma-ray band to date. The sky maps and source cata…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 60 cited

Luminosity-dependent changes of the cyclotron line energy and spectral hardness in Cep X-4

V. Vybornov, D. Klochkov, M. Gornostaev +5

X-ray spectra of accreting pulsars are generally observed to vary with their X-ray luminosity. In particular, the hardness of the X-ray continuum is found to depend on luminosity.…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 49 cited

Cyclotron resonant scattering feature simulations. II. Description of the CRSF simulation process

F. -W. Schwarm, R. Ballhausen, S. Falkner +12

Cyclotron resonant scattering features (CRSFs) are formed by scattering of X-ray photons off quantized plasma electrons in the strong magnetic field (of the order 10^12 G) close to…

astro-ph.HE2017★ 20 cited

Probing the possibility of hotspots on the central neutron star in HESS J1731-347

V. F. Suleimanov, D. Klochkov, J. Poutanen +1

The X-ray spectra of the neutron stars located in the centers of supernova remnants Cas A and HESS J1731-347 are well fit with carbon atmosphere models. These fits yield plausible…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 5 cited

Gamma-ray blazar spectra with H.E.S.S. II mono analysis: the case of PKS 2155-304 and PG 1553+113

D. Zaborov, A. M. Taylor, D. A. Sanchez +2

The addition of a 28 m Cherenkov telescope (CT5) to the H.E.S.S. array extended the experiment's sensitivity to lower energies, providing new opportunities for studies of Active Ga…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 38 cited

Gamma-ray blazar spectra with H.E.S.S. II mono analysis: the case of PKS 2155-304 and PG 1553+113

H. E. S. S. Collaboration, :, H. Abdalla +332

The addition of a 28 m Cherenkov telescope (CT5) to the H.E.S.S. array extended the experiment's sensitivity to lower energies. The lowest energy threshold is obtained using monosc…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 6 cited

The TeV supernova remnant shell HESS J1731-347 and its surroundings

M. Capasso, B. Condon, M. Coffaro +7

HESS J1731-347 is a shell-type supernova remnant emitting both TeV gamma rays and non-thermal X-ray photons, spatially coincident with the radio SNR G353.6-0.7. Hadronic and lepton…