High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Authors and titles for January 2018

[1] arXiv:1801.00015 [pdf, other]

Title: Short-Lived Circumstellar Interaction in the Low-Luminosity Type IIP SN 2016bkv

Griffin Hosseinzadeh, Stefano Valenti, Curtis McCully, D. Andrew Howell, Iair Arcavi, Anders Jerkstrand, David Guevel, Leonardo Tartaglia, Liming Rui, Jun Mo, Xiaofeng Wang, Fang Huang, Hao Song, Tianmeng Zhang, Koichi Itagaki

Comments: Updated to match published version in ApJ. Photometry table and SYN++ input file available at right

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal, 861:63 (10pp), 2018 July 1

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[2] arXiv:1801.00040 [pdf, other]

Title: On Cooling of Neutron Stars With Stiff Equation of State Including Hyperons

Hovik Grigorian, Evgeni E. Kolomeitsev, Konstantin A. Maslov, Dmitry N. Voskresensky

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted to Universe journal by MDPI

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)

[3] arXiv:1801.00041 [pdf, other]

Title: Rapid neutrino cooling in the neutron star MXB 1659-29

Edward F. Brown (1), Andrew Cumming (2), Farrukh J. Fattoyev (3), C. J. Horowitz (3), Dany Page (4), Sanjay Reddy (5) ((1) Michigan State University, (2) McGill University, (3) Indiana University, (4) Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, (5) Institute for Nuclear Theory, University of Washington)

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. Lett. 120, 182701 (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[4] arXiv:1801.00228 [pdf, other]

Title: Do SN 2002cx-like and SN Ia-CSM objects share the same origin?

X. Meng, Ph. Podsiadlowski

Comments: 15 pages, 5 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[5] arXiv:1801.00244 [pdf, other]

Title: Effect of non-stationary accretion on spectral state transitions: An example of a persistent neutron star LMXB 4U 1636-536

H. Zhang., W.-F. Yu

Comments: 9 pages, 4 figures, accepted by Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[6] arXiv:1801.00330 [pdf, other]

Title: What drives the Quasar Main Sequence?

Swayamtrupta Panda, Bożena Czerny, Conor Wildy, Marzena Śniegowska

Comments: 4 pages, 4 figures, to be published in the proceedings of the 3rd Cosmology School (Polish Astronomical Society), 10-23 July 2017, Kraków, Poland

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[7] arXiv:1801.00397 [pdf, other]

Title: The Redshift Dependence of the Radio Flux of Gamma-Ray Bursts and Their Host Galaxies

Z. B. Zhang, P. Chandra, Y. F. Huang, D. Li

Comments: 40 pages, 11 figures and 3 tables, accepted for publication in the ApJ

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[8] arXiv:1801.00498 [pdf, other]

Title: Application of a new method to study the spin equilibrium of Aql X-1: the possibility of gravitational radiation

Sudip Bhattacharyya (TIFR, India)

Comments: 11 pages, 4 figures, published in The Astrophysical Journal

Journal-ref: ApJ, 847, 2, 2017

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[9] arXiv:1801.00619 [pdf, other]

Title: Universality of electron distributions in extensive air showers

Andrzej Smialkowski, Maria Giller

Comments: accepted to ApJ

Journal-ref: 2018 ApJ 854 48

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[10] arXiv:1801.00640 [pdf, other]

Title: Fast radio bursts: superpulsars, magnetars, or something else?

S.B. Popov (1), K.A. Postnov (1), M.S. Pshirkov (1) (1 - Sternberg Astronomical Instititute)

Comments: 8 pages, Proceedings of HEPRO6, to be published in IJMPD

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[11] arXiv:1801.00667 [pdf, other]

Title: A simulation-based analytic model of radio galaxies

M. J. Hardcastle

Comments: 19 pages, 14 colour figures. Accepted by MNRAS

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[12] arXiv:1801.00685 [pdf, other]

Title: Broadband Spectral Fitting of Blazars using XSPEC

S. Sahayanathan, A. Sinha, R. Misra

Comments: Accepted for publication in Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (20 pages)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[13] arXiv:1801.00789 [pdf, other]

Title: Evidence for Sub-Chandrasekhar Mass Type Ia Supernovae from an Extensive Survey of Radiative Transfer Models

Daniel A. Goldstein, Daniel Kasen

Comments: Accepted to ApJL

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[14] arXiv:1801.00796 [pdf, other]

Title: Formation constraints indicate a black-hole accretor in 47 Tuc X9

Ross P. Church, Jay Strader, Melvyn B. Davies, Alexey Bobrick

Comments: 6 pages, 3 figures, published in ApJL

Journal-ref: ApJL 851 (2017) 4

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[15] arXiv:1801.00817 [pdf, other]

Title: Multi-Epoch VLBA Imaging of Twenty New TeV Blazars: Apparent Jet Speeds

B. Glenn Piner, Philip G. Edwards

Comments: Astrophysical Journal, in press, reference added

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[16] arXiv:1801.00937 [pdf, other]

Title: X-Ray Observations of Magnetar SGR 0501+4516 from Outburst to Quiescence

Y.-L.Mong, C.-Y.Ng

Comments: Accepted for publication by the ApJ; 11 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[17] arXiv:1801.00997 [pdf, other]

Title: Expectations of the Cosmic Antideuteron Flux

Su-Jie Lin, Xiao-Jun Bi, Peng-Fei Yin

Comments: 22 pages, 9 figures

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[18] arXiv:1801.01018 [pdf, other]

Title: Pierre Auger Observatory and Telescope Array: Joint Contributions to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017)

The Telescope Array Collaboration, The Pierre Auger Collaboration

Comments: compendium of three proceedings for the ICRC 2017

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[19] arXiv:1801.01141 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutron Star Mergers as sites of r-process Nucleosynthesis and Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

Kenta Hotokezaka, Paz Beniamini, Tsvi Piran

Comments: 27 pages, 7 figures

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[20] arXiv:1801.01168 [pdf, other]

Title: Accreting, highly magnetized neutron stars at the Eddington limit: A study of the 2016 outburst of SMC X-3

Filippos Koliopanos, Georgios Vasilopoulos

Comments: 16 pages, 16 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A. Added final, minor proof corrections

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[21] arXiv:1801.01248 [pdf, other]

Title: The Spin-down State Change and Mode Change Associated with Glitch Activity of PSR B2035+36

F. F. Kou, J. P. Yuan, N. Wang, W. M. Yan, S. J. Dang

Comments: Five pages, 4 figures, and 3 tables, Accepted, MNRAS Letter

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[22] arXiv:1801.01257 [pdf, other]

Title: Testing Weak Equivalence Principle with Strongly Lensed Cosmic Transients

H. Yu, F. Y. Wang (NJU)

Comments: 5 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in Eur. Phys. J. C

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[23] arXiv:1801.01293 [pdf, other]

Title: A full general relativistic neutrino radiation-hydrodynamics simulation of a collapsing very massive star and the formation of a black hole

Takami Kuroda, Kei Kotake, Tomoya Takiwaki, Friedrich-Karl Thielemann

Comments: 5 pages, 4 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS letter

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[24] arXiv:1801.01319 [pdf, other]

Title: X-ray Light Curve and Spectra of Shock Breakout in a Wind

Yukari Ohtani, Akihiro Suzuki, Toshikazu Shigeyama, Masaomi Tanaka

Comments: 11 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[25] arXiv:1801.01349 [pdf, other]

Title: Changes in the cyclotron line energy on short and long timescales in V 0332+53

Vadim Vybornov, Viktor Doroshenko, Rürdiger Staubert, Andrea Santangelo

Comments: 7 pages, 7 figures; ; accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 610, A88 (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[26] arXiv:1801.01410 [pdf, other]

Title: The Origin of the Prompt Emission for Short GRB 170817A: Photosphere Emission or Synchrotron Emission?

Yan-Zhi Meng, Jin-Jun Geng, Bin-Bin Zhang, Jun-Jie Wei, Di Xiao, Liang-Duan Liu, He Gao, Xue-Feng Wu, En-Wei Liang, Yong-Feng Huang, Zi-Gao Dai, Bing Zhang

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 860, Issue 1, article id. 72, 11 pp. (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[27] arXiv:1801.01413 [pdf, other]

Title: Modelling pulsar glitches: the hydrodynamics of superfluid vortex avalanches in neutron stars

Vadym Khomenko, Brynmor Haskell

Comments: Revised version, published in PASA

Journal-ref: Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Volume 35, id.e020 (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[28] arXiv:1801.01424 [pdf, other]

Title: A mixed helium-oxygen shell in some core-collapse supernova progenitors

Roni Anna Gofman, Avishai Gilkis, Noam Soker

Comments: will be submitted in a few days to allow comments by readers. new version after comments by the referee

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[29] arXiv:1801.01437 [pdf, other]

Title: Results from the first one and a half years of the HAWC GRB program

Joshua Wood

Comments: Presented at the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2017), Bexco, Busan, Korea. See arXiv:1708.02572 for all HAWC contributions

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[30] arXiv:1801.01510 [pdf, other]

Title: Diffusive Shock Re-Acceleration

Damiano Caprioli, Horace Zhang, Anatoly Spitkovsky

Comments: 28 pages, 13 figures, Accepted for publication in JPP

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR); Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph); Space Physics (physics.space-ph)

[31] arXiv:1801.01517 [pdf, other]

Title: Probing the nature of AX J0043-737: Not an 87 ms pulsar in the SMC

C. Maitra, J. Ballet, P. Esposito, F. Haberl, A. Tiengo, M.D. Filipovic, F. Acero

Comments: 5 pages, 3 figures, Accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 612, A87 (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[32] arXiv:1801.01532 [pdf, other]

Title: SN2013fs and SN2013fr: Exploring the circumstellar-material diversity in Type II supernovae

Christopher Bullivant, Nathan Smith, G. Grant Williams, Jon C. Mauerhan, Jennifer E. Andrews, Wen-Fai Fong, Christopher Bilinski, Charles D. Kilpatrick, Peter A. Milne, Ori D. Fox, S. Bradley Cenko, Alexei V. Filippenko, WeiKang Zheng, Patrick L. Kelly, Kelsey I. Clubb

Comments: MNRAS accepted. 28 pages, 23 figures, 8 tables

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[33] arXiv:1801.01550 [pdf, other]

Title: An All-Sky Search for Bursts of Very High Energy Gamma Rays with HAWC

Joshua Wood

Comments: Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Physics, University of Maryland, College Park, USA

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[34] arXiv:1801.01551 [pdf, other]

Title: Neutrino Astronomy 2017

Thomas K. Gaisser

Comments: 8 pages, 2 figures for 13th Rencontres du Vietnam "Neutrinos" 2017 proceedings

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[35] arXiv:1801.01576 [pdf, other]

Title: Near-horizon structure of escape zones of electrically charged particles around weakly magnetized rotating black hole

Ondřej Kopáček, Vladimír Karas

Comments: 12 pages, 10 figures; published in ApJ; revised version with typographical and language corrections

Journal-ref: 2018 ApJ 853 53

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[36] arXiv:1801.01611 [pdf, other]

Title: Imaging and variability studies of CTA~102 during the 2016 January $γ$-ray flare

Xiaofeng Li, P. Mohan, T. An, Xiaoyu Hong, Xiaopeng Cheng, Jun Yang, Yingkang Zhang, Zhongli Zhang, Wei Zhao

Comments: 20 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables; accepted for publication in ApJ

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[37] arXiv:1801.01614 [pdf, other]

Title: The Transition from Young to Middle-aged Supernova Remnants: Thermal and Nonthermal Aspects of SNR N132D

Aya Bamba (1, 2), Yutaka Ohira (3), Ryo Yamazaki (3), Makoto Sawada (3, 4, 5), Yukikatsu Terada (6), Katsuji Koyama (7, 8), Eric D. Miller (9), Hiroya Yamaguchi (10, 11), Satoru Katsuda (12, 6), Masayoshi Nobukawa (13), Kumiko K. Nobukawa (14) ((1) U. Tokyo, (2) RESCEU U. Tokyo, (3) Aoyama Gakuin U., (4) NASA/GSFC, (5) U. Maryland, (6) Saitama U., (7) Kyoto U., (8) Osaka U., (9) MIT, (10) NASA/GSFC, (11) U. Maryland, (12) Chuo U., (13) Nara U. of Education, (14) Nara Women's U.)

Comments: 11 pages, 13 figures, ApJ, in press

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[38] arXiv:1801.01616 [pdf, other]

Title: Thermal wind from hot accretion flows at large radii

De-Fu Bu, Xiao-Hong Yang

Comments: 9 pages, 6 figures, accepted by MNRAS

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)

[39] arXiv:1801.01621 [pdf, other]

Title: The Effect of Accretion Environment at Large Radius on Hot Accretion Flows

Xiao-Hong Yang (1), De-Fu Bu (2) ((1) CQU, (2) SHAO)

Comments: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 7 pages, 4 figures

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[40] arXiv:1801.01645 [pdf, other]

Title: Is the gamma-ray emission around the Coma galaxy cluster a dark matter origin?

Yun-Feng Liang, Zi-Qing Xia, Shao-Qiang Xi, Shang Li, Zhao-Qiang Shen, Yi-Zhong Fan

Comments: 8 pages, 4 figures, comments are welcome

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[41] arXiv:1801.01646 [pdf, other]

Title: Searching for spectral oscillations due to photon-axionlike particle conversion using the Fermi-LAT observations of bright supernova remnants

Zi-Qing Xia, Cun Zhang, Yun-Feng Liang, Lei Feng, Qiang Yuan, Yi-Zhong Fan, Jian Wu

Journal-ref: Phys. Rev. D 97, 063003 (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)

[42] arXiv:1801.01664 [pdf, other]

Title: The Størmer problem for an aligned rotator

V. Epp, O. N. Pervukhina

Comments: This article has been accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Published by Oxford University Press

Journal-ref: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Volume 474, Issue 4, 11 March 2018

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)

[43] arXiv:1801.01702 [pdf, other]

Title: Investigating source confusion in PMN J1603$-$4904

F. Krauß, M. Kreter, C. Müller, A. Markowitz, M. Böck, T. Burnett, T. Dauser, M. Kadler, A. Kreikenbohm, R. Ojha, J. Wilms

Comments: 4 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 610, L8 (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[44] arXiv:1801.01832 [pdf, other]

Title: Magnetic-oscillation Mechanism for Understanding Timing Noise of Pulsar Observation

Zhaojun Wang, Guoliang Lü, Chunhua Zhu, Lin Li, Anzhong Wang

Comments: The manuscript is not accepted by any journal, and there are some mistakes in it

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[45] arXiv:1801.01834 [pdf, other]

Title: Understanding Type Ia supernovae through their U-band spectra

J. Nordin, G. Aldering, P. Antilogus, C. Aragon, S. Bailey, C. Baltay, K. Barbary, S. Bongard, K. Boone, V. Brinnel, C. Buton, M. Childress, N. Chotard, Y. Copin, S. Dixon, P. Fagrelius, U. Feindt, D. Fouchez, E. Gangler, B. Hayden, W. Hillebrandt, A. Kim, M. Kowalski, D. Kuesters, P.-F. Leget, S. Lombardo, Q. Lin, R. Pain, E. Pecontal, R. Pereira, S. Perlmutter, D. Rabinowitz, M. Rigault, K. Runge, D. Rubin, C. Saunders, G. Smadja, C. Sofiatti, N. Suzuki, S. Taubenberger, C. Tao, R. C. Thomas (The Nearby Supernova Factory)

Comments: 19 pages, 17 figures, accepted for publication in A&A

Journal-ref: A&A 614, A71 (2018)

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)

[46] arXiv:1801.01836 [pdf, other]

Title: Dynamical phase transition in neutron stars

R Prasad, Ritam Mallick

Comments: 10 figures, 25 pages

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)

[47] arXiv:1801.01837 [pdf, other]

Title: The NANOGrav 11-year Data Set: High-precision timing of 45 Millisecond Pulsars

Zaven Arzoumanian, Adam Brazier, Sarah Burke-Spolaor, Sydney Chamberlin, Shami Chatterjee, Brian Christy, James M. Cordes, Neil J. Cornish, Fronefield Crawford, H. Thankful Cromartie, Kathryn Crowter, Megan E. DeCesar, Paul B. Demorest, Timothy Dolch, Justin A. Ellis, Robert D. Ferdman, Elizabeth C. Ferrara, Emmanuel Fonseca, Nathan Garver-Daniels, Peter A. Gentile, Daniel Halmrast, Eliu Huerta, Fredrick A. Jenet, Cody Jessup, Glenn Jones, Megan L. Jones, David L. Kaplan, Michael T. Lam, T. Joseph W. Lazio, Lina Levin, Andrea Lommen, Duncan R. Lorimer, Jing Luo, Ryan S. Lynch, Dustin Madison, Allison M. Matthews, Maura A. McLaughlin, Sean T. McWilliams, Chiara Mingarelli, Cherry Ng, David J. Nice, Timothy T. Pennucci, Scott M. Ransom, Paul S. Ray, Xavier Siemens, Joseph Simon, Renee Spiewak, Ingrid H. Stairs, Daniel R. Stinebring, Kevin Stovall, Joseph K. Swiggum, Stephen R. Taylor, Michele Vallisneri, Rutger van Haasteren, Sarah J. Vigeland, Weiwei Zhu

Comments: Published in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Journal-ref: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 235:37 (41pp), 2018 April

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[48] arXiv:1801.01848 [pdf, other]

Title: Gamma-ray burst afterglow blast waves

Hendrik van Eerten

Comments: Invited review Int. J. Mod. Phys. D; Final accepted version

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)

[49] arXiv:1801.01854 [pdf, other]

Title: The IceCube Neutrino Observatory, the Pierre Auger Observatory and the Telescope Array: Joint Contribution to the 35th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2017)

The IceCube Collaboration, the Pierre Auger Collaboration, the Telescope Array Collaboration

Comments: proceeding for the ICRC 2017

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE); Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO); Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)

[50] arXiv:1801.01880 [pdf, other]

Title: Suzaku Observations of Heavily Obscured (Compton-thick) Active Galactic Nuclei selected by Swift/BAT Hard X-ray Survey

Atsushi Tanimoto, Yoshihiro Ueda, Taiki Kawamuro, Claudio Ricci, Hisamitsu Awaki, Yuichi Terashima

Comments: 32 pages, 11 figures, accepted to ApJS

Subjects: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)