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most citedGRB 091208B: First Detection of the Optical Polarization in Early Forward Shock Emission of a Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow

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astro-ph.HE2026

Deep Optical Follow-up Observations to IceCube Cosmic Neutrinos: a case for IC230724A with Subaru/HSC and prospects with Rubin/LSST

Shigeo S. Kimura, Masaomi Tanaka, Seiji Toshikage +8

IceCube has been detecting cosmic high-energy neutrinos for more than 10 years, but their major sources are still under debate. To identify them, IceCube is issuing neutrino alerts…

astro-ph.HE2025

J-GEM near-infrared follow-up observations of the gravitational wave event S240422ed

Ichiro Takahashi, Tomoki Morokuma, Masaomi Tanaka +9

We report our near-infrared (NIR) follow-up observations of the gravitational wave (GW) event S240422ed using the Subaru Telescope/MOIRCS. S240422ed was initially classified as a b…

astro-ph.HE2025

A Joint Search for the Electromagnetic Counterpart to the Gravitational-Wave Binary Black-Hole Merger Candidate S250328ae with the Dark Energy Camera and the Prime Focus Spectrograph

Haibin Zhang, Mitsuru Kokubo, Sean MacBride +20

The first detection of an optical counterpart to a gravitational wave signal revealed that collaborative efforts between instruments with different specializations provide a unique…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 62 cited

Multifrequency Photo-polarimetric WEBT Observation Campaign on the Blazar S5 0716+714: Source Microvariability and Search for Characteristic Timescales

G. Bhatta, Ł. Stawarz, M. Ostrowski +43

Here we report on the results of the WEBT photo-polarimetric campaign targeting the blazar S5~0716+71, organized in March 2014 to monitor the source simultaneously in BVRI and near…

astro-ph.HE2016★ 2 cited

Polarization angle swings in blazars: The case of 3C 279

S. Kiehlmann, T. Savolainen, S. G. Jorstad +61

Over the past few years, several occasions of large, continuous rotations of the electric vector position angle (EVPA) of linearly polarized optical emission from blazars have been…

astro-ph.HE2015★ 24 cited

Discovery of a Highly Polarized Optical Microflare in the Blazar S5 0716+714 During 2014 WEBT Campaign

Gopal Bhatta, Arti Goyal, Michal Ostrowski +42

The occurrence of low-amplitude flux variations in blazars on hourly timescales, commonly known as microvariability, is still a widely debated subject in high-energy astrophysics.…

astro-ph.HE2014★ 5 cited

Two active states of the narrow-line gamma-ray-loud AGN GB 1310+487

K. V. Sokolovsky, F. K. Schinzel, Y. T. Tanaka +49

Previously unremarkable, the extragalactic radio source GB 1310+487 showed a gamma-ray flare on 2009 November 18, reaching a daily flux of ~10^-6 photons/cm^2/s at energies E>100 M…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 64 cited

GRB 091208B: First Detection of the Optical Polarization in Early Forward Shock Emission of a Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow

T. Uehara, K. Toma, K. S. Kawabata +19

We report that the optical polarization in the afterglow of GRB 091208B is measured at t = 149 - 706 s after the burst trigger, and the polarization degree is P = 10.4% +/- 2.5%. T…

astro-ph.HE2011★ 2 cited

Prominent Polarized Flares of the Blazars AO 0235+164 and PKS 1510-089

Mahito Sasada, Makoto Uemura, Yasushi Fukazawa +9

We report on multi-band photometric and polarimetric observations of the blazars AO 0235+164 and PKS 1510-089. These two blazars were active in 2008 and 2009, respectively. In thes…