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most citedCharacterizing the continuous gravitational-wave signal from boson clouds around Galactic isolated black holes

107 citations · 498 across the 29 of their papers we have counts for

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33 papers

astro-ph.HE2026

Searching for core-collapse supernovae in binaries with ZTF

Sylvia J. Zhu, Jakob Nordin, Emma de Oña-Wilhelmi +1

Context. Stripped envelope supernovae occur in massive stars that have lost their outer layers before exploding, possibly from binary interactions. Recently, SN 2022jli was detecte…

astro-ph.IM2025

Multi-messenger and time-domain astronomy in the 2040s

Samaya Nissanke, Nikhil Sarin, Chris Copperwheat +31

Multi-messenger astronomy will be transformed in the 2040s by an unprecedented volume of detections from next-generation gravitational wave, high-energy, and ultra-high energy neut…

astro-ph.HE2024

The case of the missing VHE GRBs: A retrospective study of Swift gamma-ray bursts with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes

Halim Ashkar, Aurélie Sangaré, Stephen Fegan +3

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are particle acceleration sites that can emit photons in the very high-energy (VHE) domain through non-thermal processes. From 2004 until 2018, the current…

astro-ph.HE2023

Probing VHE gamma-ray emission from GW events with H.E.S.S

Halim Ashkar, Mathieu de Bony de Lavergne, Francois Brun +6

Gravitational wave (GW) events, particularly those connected to the merger of compact objects such as neutron stars, are believed to be the primary source of short gamma-ray bursts…

astro-ph.HE2023

Joint H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT analysis of the region around PSR J1813-1749

T. Wach, A. M. W. Mitchell, V. Joshi +1

HESS J1813-178 is one of the brightest sources detected during the first HESS Galactic Plane survey. The compact source, also detected by MAGIC, is believed to be a pulsar wind neb…

astro-ph.HE2023

Modelling of highly extended Gamma-ray emission around the Geminga Pulsar as detected with H.E.S.S

A. M. W. Mitchell, S. Caroff

Geminga is an enigmatic radio-quiet gamma-ray pulsar located at a mere 250 pc distance from Earth. Extended very-high-energy gamma-ray emission around the pulsar has been detected…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

The Multiwavelength Picture of GRB 221009A's Afterglow

Marc Klinger, Andrew M. Taylor, Tyler Parsotan +3

We present counts-level fits to the keV-GeV data of the early afterglow of the brightest gamma-ray burst detected to date, GRB 221009A. We discuss the complexity of the data reduct…

astro-ph.HE2023

Gamma-ray Transient Network Science Analysis Group Report

Eric Burns, Michael Coughlin, Kendall Ackley +34

The Interplanetary Network (IPN) is a detection, localization and alert system that utilizes the arrival time of transient signals in gamma-ray detectors on spacecraft separated by…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 7 cited

Probing the multiwavelength emission scenario of GRB 190114C

Marc Klinger, Donggeun Tak, Andrew M. Taylor +1

Multiwavelength observation of the gamma-ray burst, GRB 190114C, opens a new window for studying the emission mechanism of GRB afterglows. Its Very-High-Energy (VHE; …

hep-ex2021★ 1 cited

Combined dark matter searches towards dwarf spheroidal galaxies with Fermi-LAT, HAWC, H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS

Celine Armand, Eric Charles, Mattia di Mauro +13

Cosmological and astrophysical observations suggest that 85\% of the total matter of the Universe is made of Dark Matter (DM). However, its nature remains one of the most challengi…

astro-ph.IM2021★ 1 cited

The H.E.S.S. Gravitational Wave Rapid Follow-up Program during O2 and O3

Halim Ashkar, Francois Brun, Matthias Füßling +8

Since 2015, the direct detection of Gravitational Waves (GWs) became possible with ground-based interferometers like LIGO and Virgo. GWs became the center of attention of the astro…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 2 cited

The young massive stellar cluster Westerlund 1 in rays as seen with H.E.S.S

Lars Mohrmann, Andreas Specovius, Romed Rauth +2

Massive stellar clusters have recently been hypothesised as candidates for the acceleration of hadronic cosmic rays up to PeV energies. Previously, the H.E.S.S. Collaboration has r…

astro-ph.IM2021

Science verification of the new FlashCam-based camera in the 28m telescope of H.E.S.S

Gerd Pühlhofer, Konrad Bernlöhr, Baiyang Bi +13

In October 2019 the central 28m telescope of the H.E.S.S. experiment has been upgraded with a new camera. The camera is based on the FlashCam design which has been developed in vie…

astro-ph.IM2021

The upgraded Data Acquisition System of the H.E.S.S. telescope array

Sylvia J. Zhu, Tim Lukas Holch, Thomas Murach +6

The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) is an array of five Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes located in the Khomas Highland of Namibia. H.E.S.S. observes gamma rays…

astro-ph.HE2021

Detection of extended TeV emission around the Geminga pulsar with H.E.S.S

A. M. W. Mitchell, S. Caroff, J. Hinton +1

Highly extended gamma-ray emission around the Geminga pulsar was discovered by Milagro and verified by HAWC. Despite many observations with Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescopes…

astro-ph.HE2021

H.E.S.S. follow-up of BBH merger events

Halim Ashkar, Francois Brun, Clemens Hoischen +6

We present here, follow-up observations of four Binary black hole BBH events performed with the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) in the Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-ray d…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 3 cited

Detection of new Extreme BL Lac objects with H.E.S.S. and Swift XRT

Mathieu de Bony de Lavergne, Tomas Bylund, Manuel Meyer +2

Extreme high synchrotron peaked blazars (EHBLs) are amongst the most powerful accelerators found in nature. Usually the synchrotron peak frequency of an EHBL is above Hz…

astro-ph.IM2021

Astronomy outreach in Namibia: H.E.S.S. and beyond

Hannah Dalgleish, Heike Prokoph, Sylvia Zhu +6

Astronomy plays a major role in the scientific landscape of Namibia. Because of its excellent sky conditions, Namibia is home to ground-based observatories like the High Energy Spe…

astro-ph.HE2021

Making cosmic particle accelerators visible and audible

Stefan Ohm, Konrad Rappaport, Carsten Nicolai +5

In a collaboration between astroparticle physicists, animation artists from the award-winning Science Communication Lab, and musician Carsten Nicolai (a.k.a. Alva Noto), two cosmic…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 24 cited

Evidence of 100 TeV -ray emission from HESS J1702-420: A new PeVatron candidate

H. Abdalla, F. Aharonian, F. Ait Benkhali +232

The identification of PeVatrons, hadronic particle accelerators reaching the knee of the cosmic ray spectrum (few eV), is crucial to understand the origin of cosmic rays…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 35 cited

Search for Continuous Gravitational Waves from the Central Compact Objects in Supernova Remnants Cassiopeia A, Vela Jr. and G347.3-0.5

M. Alessandra Papa, Jing Ming, Eric V. Gotthelf +6

We perform a sub-threshold follow-up search for continuous nearly-monochromatic gravitational waves from the central compact objects associated with the supernova remnants Vela Jr.…

gr-qc2020★ 107 cited

Characterizing the continuous gravitational-wave signal from boson clouds around Galactic isolated black holes

Sylvia J. Zhu, Masha Baryakhtar, Maria Alessandra Papa +3

Ultralight bosons can form large clouds around stellar-mass black holes via the superradiance instability. Through processes such as annihilation, these bosons can source continuou…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 3 cited

Combined Dark Matter searches towards dwarf spheroidal galaxies with Fermi-LAT, HAWC, HESS, MAGIC and VERITAS

Louise Oakes, Celine Armand, Eric Charles +13

The search for Dark Matter (DM) has great potential to reveal physics beyond the Standard Model. As such, searches for evidence of DM particles are being carried out using a wide r…

hep-th2019

Superfluous Physics

Evan Berkowitz, William Donnelly, Sylvia Zhu

A superweapon of modern physics superscribes a wide superset of phenomena, ranging from supernumerary rainbows to superfluidity and even possible supermultiplets.