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The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi gamma-ray Space Telescope provides unprecedented sensitivity for all-sky monitoring of gamma-ray activity. It has detected a few Galactic sources, including 2 gamma-ray binaries and a microquasar. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Sylvain Chaty

We perform a high-cadence transient survey with Subaru Hyper Suprime-Cam (HSC), which we call the Subaru HSC survey Optimized for Optical Transients (SHOOT). We conduct HSC imaging observations with time intervals of about one hour on two…

The Galactic center has some of the highest stellar densities in the Galaxy and a range of interstellar scattering properties that may aid in the detection of new radio-selected transient events. Here we describe a search for radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-14 Anirudh Chiti , Shami Chatterjee , Robert Wharton , James Cordes , T. Joseph W. Lazio , David L. Kaplan , Geoffrey C. Bower , Steve Croft

The low luminosity, X-ray flaring activity, of the sub-class of high mass X-ray binaries called Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients, has been investigated using XMM-Newton public observations, taking advantage of the products made publicly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-15 L. Sidoli , K. A. Postnov , A. Belfiore , M. Marelli , D. Salvetti , R. Salvaterra , A. De Luca , P. Esposito

High redshift blazars are among the most powerful non-explosive sources in the Universe and play a crucial role in understanding the evolution of relativistic jets. To understand these bright objects, we performed a detailed investigation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 N. Sahakyan , G. Harutyunyan , S. Gasparyan , D. Israyelyan

In the last 15 years, 6 dedicated observation programs were carried out to monitor ~20 deg around the galactic center for transient activity above a few keV. Transient activity from low-mass X-ray binaries shows a strong preference for this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Jean in 't Zand

Blazars can be detected from very large distances due to their high luminosity. However, the detection of $\gamma$-ray emission of blazars beyond $z=3$ has only been confirmed for a small number of sources. Such observations probe the…

Fast X-ray Transients (FXTs) are X-ray flares with a duration ranging from a few hundred seconds to a few hours. Possible origins include the tidal disruption of a white dwarf by an intermediate-mass black hole, a supernova shock breakout,…

We report high-resolution observations at mid-infrared wavelengths of a minor solar flare, SOL2014-09-24T17T17:50 (C7.0), using Quantum Well Infrared Photodetector (QWIP) cameras at an auxiliary of the McMath-Pierce telescope. The flare…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-03-23 M Penn , S Krucker , H Hudson , M Jhabvala , D Jennings , A Lunsford , P Kaufmann

Recent anomalies exhibited by satellites and rocket bodies have highlighted that a population of faint debris exists at geosynchronous (GEO) altitudes, where there are no natural removal mechanisms. Despite previous optical surveys probing…

In Jiang et al. (2020), we reported a possible bright flash (hereafter GN-z11-flash) from a galaxy GN-z11 at z ~ 11. Recently, Steinhardt et al. (2021; arXiv:2101.12738) found 27 images with transient signals in Keck MOSFIRE archival data…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-03 Linhua Jiang , Shu Wang , Bing Zhang , Nobunari Kashikawa , Luis C. Ho , Zheng Cai , Eiichi Egami , Gregory Walth , Yi-Si Yang , Bin-Bin Zhang , Hai-Bin Zhao

Solar white-light flares (WLFs) are those accompanied by brightenings in the optical continuum or integrated light. The White-light Solar Telescope (WST), as an instrument of the Lyman-alpha Solar Telescope (LST) on the Advanced Space-based…

High-redshift blazars are among the most powerful objects in the Universe. The spectral and temporal properties of thirty-three distant blazars ($z>2.5$) detected in the high energy $\gamma$-ray band are investigated by analyzing the {\it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-25 N. Sahakyan , D. Israyelyan , G. Harutyunyan , M. Khachatryan , S. Gasparyan

We report the experimental setup and overall results of the AARTFAAC wide-field radio survey, which consists of observing the sky within 50$^\circ$ of Zenith, with a bandwidth of 3.2$\,$MHz, at a cadence of 1$\,$s, for 545$\,$h. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-25 Mark Kuiack , Ralph A. M. J. Wijers , Aleksandar Shulevski , Antonia Rowlinson , Folkert Huizinga , Gijs Molenaar , Peeyush Prasad

We present a search for intraday transient gamma-ray signals using 15.4 years of the Fermi Large Area Telescope data. The search is based on a recently developed variable-size sliding-time-window (VSSTW) analysis and aimed at studying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-30 D. A. Prokhorov , A. Moraghan

We report the discovery of bright, fast, radio flashes lasting tens of seconds with the AARTFAAC high-cadence all-sky survey at 60 MHz. The vast majority of these coincide with known, bright radio sources that brighten by factors of up to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-04-29 Mark J. Kuiack , Ralph A. M. J. Wijers , Aleksandar Shulevski , Antonia Rowlinson

The high-frequency radio sky is bursting with synchrotron transients from massive stellar explosions and accretion events, but the low-frequency radio sky has so far been quiet beyond the Galactic pulsar population and the long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-12 N. Hurley-Walker , X. Zhang , A. Bahramian , S. J. McSweeney , T. N. O'Doherty , P. J. Hancock , J. S. Morgan , G. E. Anderson , G. H. Heald , T. J. Galvin

Two X-ray sources were recently discovered by Irwin et al. in compact companions to elliptical galaxies to show ultra-luminous flares with fast rise (~ minute) and decay (~ hour), and with a peak luminosity ~10^{40-41} erg/s. Together with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-05 Rong-Feng Shen

We report a one-second-cadence wide-field survey for M-dwarf flares using the Tomo-e Gozen camera mounted on the Kiso Schmidt telescope. We detect 22 flares from M3-M5 dwarfs with rise times and amplitudes ranging from $5\, \mathrm{sec}…