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20122026
most citedObservation of a Large-scale Anisotropy in the Arrival Directions of Cosmic Rays above eV

409 citations · 3.8k across the 77 of their papers we have counts for

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83 papers

cs.AI2026

Design Space Exploration of Reinforcement Learning Configurations for Post-Legalization Placement

Foteini Oikonomou, Maria Pantazi-Kypraiou, George Goudroumanis +5

Graph Neural Networks (GNNs) and Reinforcement Learning (RL) have recently been explored for VLSI placement optimization, but their effectiveness for post-legalization placement re…

cs.AI2026

GPlaceRL: An Open-Source Graph Reinforcement Learning Framework for Detailed Placement

Pavlos Stoikos, Foteini Oikonomou, Christos Poulos +5

Reinforcement learning (RL) has emerged as a promising approach for placement optimization, particularly when combined with graph neural networks (GNNs) that capture circuit connec…

astro-ph.HE2026

Anisotropy-driven constraints on the transition from Galactic to extragalactic cosmic-ray sources

Teresa Bister, Foteini Oikonomou, Damiano F. G. Fiorillo

The spatial distribution of the cosmic-ray (CR) flux above exhibits a significant dipole in agreement with expectations from extragalactic sources following the l…

astro-ph.HE2026

Testing the Association of Supermassive Black Hole Infrared Flares and High-energy Neutrinos

Megan Wang, Christos Panagiotou, Kishalay De +3

The physical origin of the observed cosmic neutrinos remains an open question and the subject of active research. While matter accretion onto supermassive black holes is long thoug…

cs.AR2026

Multi-Partner Project: COIN-3D -- Collaborative Innovation in 3D VLSI Reliability

George Rafael Gourdoumanis, Fotoini Oikonomou, Maria Pantazi-Kypraiou +10

As semiconductor manufacturing advances from the 3-nm process toward the sub-nanometer regime and transitions from FinFETs to gate-all-around field-effect transistors (GAAFETs), th…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 2 cited

Leptonic and hadronic models of high-energy nebula around V4641 Sgr

Maksim Kleimenov, Andrii Neronov, Foteini Oikonomou +1

A prominent, 200-pc-scale high-energy nebula surrounding the microquasar V4641 Sgr is the brightest known gamma-ray source in the Southern sky at . In this p…

astro-ph.HE2025

Search for neutrino emission from blazar -ray flares accounting for possible neutrino time delays

Egor Podlesnyi, Foteini Oikonomou

We report the results of the search for the high-energy neutrino emission associated with blazar flares, accounting for a possible lag of neutrinos with respect to the electromagne…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

Towards the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND): the GRANDProto300 and GRAND@Auger prototypes

GRAND Collaboration, Jaime Álvarez-Muniz, Rafael Alves Batista +118

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is a proposed multi-messenger observatory of Ultra-High-Energy (UHE) particles of cosmic origin. Its main goal is to find the l…

astro-ph.IM2025

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) Collaboration -- Contributions to the 39th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2025)

Jaime Álvarez-Muñiz, Rafael Alves Batista, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy +133

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is an envisioned observatory of ultra-high-energy particles of cosmic origin, with energies in excess of 100 PeV. GRAND uses la…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 10 cited

Constraining the contribution of Seyfert galaxies to the diffuse neutrino flux in light of point source observations

Lena Saurenhaus, Francesca Capel, Foteini Oikonomou +1

Recently, the IceCube Collaboration reported evidence for TeV neutrino emission from several nearby Seyfert galaxies, with the highest significance found for NGC 1068. Assuming sto…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 7 cited

Beyond first light: Global monitoring for high-energy neutrino astronomy

Lisa Johanna Schumacher, Mauricio Bustamante, Matteo Agostini +2

Decades of progress have culminated in first light for high-energy neutrino astronomy: the identification of the first astrophysical sources of TeV-PeV neutrinos by the IceCube neu…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 4 cited

KM3-230213A: An Ultra-High Energy Neutrino from a Year-Long Astrophysical Transient

Andrii Neronov, Foteini Oikonomou, Dmitri Semikoz

The Km3NET collaboration has recently reported the detection of a neutrino event with energy in excess of 100 PeV. This detection is in 2.5-3 tension with the upper limit on the…

astro-ph.IM2025

Ideas and Requirements for the Global Cosmic-Ray Observatory (GCOS)

Markus Ahlers, Ingo Allekotte, Jaime Alvarez-Muniz +136

After a successful kick-off meeting in 2021. two workshops in 2022 and 2023 on the future Global Cosmic-Ray Observatory (GCOS) focused mainly on a straw man design of the detector…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 5 cited

Insights from leptohadronic modelling of the brightest blazar flare

Egor Podlesnyi, Foteini Oikonomou

The blazar 3C 454.3 experienced a major flare in November 2010, making it the brightest -ray source in the sky of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). We obtain seven daily con…

astro-ph.HE2024

A Comprehensive Hadronic Code Comparison for Active Galactic Nuclei

Matteo Cerruti, Annika Rudolph, Maria Petropoulou +14

We perform the first dedicated comparison of five hadronic codes (AM, ATHEA, B13, LeHa-Paris, and LeHaMoC) that have been extensively used in modeling of the spectral energy…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 9 cited

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays from ultra-fast outflows of active galactic nuclei

Domenik Ehlert, Foteini Oikonomou, Enrico Peretti

We investigate ultra-fast outflows (UFOs) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) as potential sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). We focus on cosmic-ray nuclei, an aspect n…

astro-ph.HE2024

Multi-messenger signature of cosmic rays from the microquasar V4641 Sgr propagating along a Galactic Magnetic Field line

Andrii Neronov, Foteini Oikonomou, Dmitri Semikoz

The recently detected extended, very-high-energy gamma-ray emission from the microquasar V4641 Sgr reveals a puzzling 200-parsec-long jet-like structure significantly misaligned wi…

astro-ph.IM2024

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) Collaboration -- Contributions to the 10th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino Detection Activities (ARENA 2024)

Rafael Alves Batista, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy, Teresa Bister +121

This is an index of the contributions by the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) Collaboration to the 10th International Workshop on Acoustic and Radio EeV Neutrino De…

astro-ph.IM2024★ 6 cited

GRANDlib: A simulation pipeline for the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND)

GRAND Collaboration, Rafael Alves Batista, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy +112

The operation of upcoming ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray, gamma-ray, and neutrino radio-detection experiments, like the Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND), poses signif…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 16 cited

The Spectra of IceCube Neutrino (SIN) candidate sources -- V. Modeling and interpretation of multiwavelength and neutrino data

Xavier Rodrigues, Martina Karl, Paolo Padovani +5

A correlation has been reported between the arrival directions of high-energy IceCube events and gamma-ray blazars classified as intermediate- and high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lacs.…

astro-ph.HE2023

Neutrino Imaging of the Galactic Centre and Millisecond Pulsar Population

Paul C. W. Lai, Matteo Agostini, Foteini Oikonomou +3

In this work, we consider the possible presence of a large population of millisecond pulsars in the Galactic Centre. Their direct detection would be challenging due to severe pulse…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Prospects for the detection of transient neutrino sources with PLEnuM

Lisa Johanna Schumacher, Foteini Oikonomou

The discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range by IceCube marked the start of neutrino astronomy, and the search for their sources continues. Two promisi…

hep-ex2023★ 1 cited

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) Collaboration -- Contributions to the 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2023)

GRAND Collaboration, Rafael Alves Batista, Aurélien Benoit-Lévy +96

The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND) is an envisioned observatory of ultra-high-energy particles of cosmic origin, with energies in excess of 100 PeV. GRAND uses la…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 16 cited

Constraints on the proton fraction of cosmic rays at the highest energies and the consequences for cosmogenic neutrinos and photons

Domenik Ehlert, Arjen van Vliet, Foteini Oikonomou +1

Over the last decade, observations have shown that the mean mass of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) increases progressively toward the highest energies. However, the precise…