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Using data from the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT), we report the first clear gamma-ray measurement of a delay between flares from the gravitationally lensed images of a blazar. The delay was detected in B0218+357, a known double-image…

In the past decade, several rapidly-evolving transients have been discovered whose timescales and luminosities are not easily explained by traditional supernovae (SN) models. The sample size of these objects has remained small due, at least…

Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients are a class of Galactic High Mass X-ray Binaries with supergiant companions. Their extreme transient X-ray flaring activity was unveiled thanks to INTEGRAL/IBIS observations. The SFXTs dynamic range, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-01 Lara Sidoli

On April 23, 2014, the Swift satellite responded to a hard X-ray transient detected by its Burst Alert Telescope, which turned out to be a stellar flare from a nearby, young M dwarf binary DG~CVn. We utilize observations at X-ray, UV,…

We present the results of a 5 GHz survey with the Very Large Array, designed to search for short-lived (<1 day) transients and to characterize the variability of radio sources at milli-Jansky levels. A total sky area of 2.66 deg^2, spread…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 E. O. Ofek , D. A. Frail , B. Breslauer , S. R. Kulkarni , P. Chandra , A. Gal-Yam , M. M. Kasliwal , N. Gehrels

We report the discovery of fast (~ 100 sec) 2.2 micron flares from the microquasar GRS 1915+105, which are superimposed on longer (~ 30 min), brighter flares corresponding to episodes of jet formation. The number and strength of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 David M. Rothstein , Stephen S. Eikenberry

A new generation of radio telescopes with excellent sensitivity, instantaneous {\it uv} coverage, and large fields of view, are providing unprecedented opportunities for performing commensal transient searches. Here we present such a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-18 S. I. Chastain , A. J. van der Horst , A. Rowlinson , L. Rhodes , A. Andersson , R. Diretse , R. P. Fender , P. A. Woudt

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a mysterious flash phenomenon detected in radio wavelengths with a duration of only a few milliseconds, and they may also have prompt gamma-ray flashes. Here we carry out a blind search for msec-duration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-07 Shotaro Yamasaki , Tomonori Totani , Norita Kawanaka

The AT 2018cow-like fast blue optical transient AT2022tsd showed a large number of few-minute-duration, high-luminosity (~10^43 erg/s) flares. We present an intensive search for such flares from another 18cow-like event, AT2024wpp. We have…

Pulsars are rotating neutron stars that emit periodic electromagnetic radiation. While pulsars generally slow down as they lose energy, some also experience glitches: spontaneous increases of their rotational frequency. According to several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-18 Joan Moragues , Luana M. Modafferi , Rodrigo Tenorio , David Keitel

The observation of Very High Energy gamma rays (VHE, E > 100 GeV) led us to the identification of extremely energetic processes and particle acceleration sites both within our Galaxy and beyond. We expect that VHE facilities, like CTA, will…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-08 G. La Mura , G. Chiaro , R. Conceiçao , A. De Angelis , M. Pimenta , B. Tomé

INTEGRAL monitoring of the Galactic Plane in the last 5 years revealed a new subclass of High Mass X-ray Binaries (HMXBs), the Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients (SFXTs). They display flares lasting from minutes to hours, with peak luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-04-30 L. Ducci , L. Sidoli , A. Paizis , S. Mereghetti

We report on the detection of a remarkable new fast high-energy transient found in the Chandra Deep Field-South, robustly associated with a faint ($m_{\rm R}=27.5$ mag, $z_{\rm ph}$$\sim$2.2) host in the CANDELS survey. The X-ray event is…

The almost unexplored frequency window from submillimeter to mid-infrared (mid-IR) may bring new clues about the particle acceleration and transport processes and the atmospheric thermal response during solar flares. Because of its…

As the time-domain survey telescope of the highest survey power in the northern hemisphere currently, Wide Field Survey Telescope (WFST) is scheduled to hourly/daily/semi-weekly scan northern sky up to ~23 mag in four optical (ugri) bands.…

Gamma-ray Bursts (GRB) were discovered by satellite-based detectors as powerful sources of transient $\gamma$-ray emission. The Fermi satellite detected an increasing number of these events with its dedicated Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM),…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-09-29 G. La Mura , U. Barres de Almeida , R. Conceição , A. De Angelis , F. Longo , M. Pimenta , E. Prandini , E. Ruiz-Velasco , B. Tomé

Recent works have discovered two fast ($\approx 10$ ks) extragalactic X-ray transients in the Chandra Deep Field-South (CDF-S XT1 and XT2). These findings suggest that a large population of similar extragalactic transients might exist in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-19 Guang Yang , W. N. Brandt , S. F. Zhu , F. E. Bauer , B. Luo , Y. Q. Xue , X. C. Zheng

Monitoring with the Ryle Telescope at 15 GHz of the Galactic X-ray transient source GRS 1915+105 has revealed a remarkable range of rapid and extended flares which appear to be related to the X-ray emission as recorded by the RXTE all-sky…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. G. Pooley , R. P. Fender

In the optical sky, minutes-duration transients from cosmological distances are rare. Known objects that give rise to such transients include gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), the most luminous explosions in the universe that have been detected at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-15 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

Observations of the Sun's off-limb white-light (WL) flares offer rare opportunities to study the energy release and transport mechanisms in flare loops. One of the best such events was SOL2017-09-10, an X8.2 flare that occurred near the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2021-11-17 Junwei Zhao , Wei Liu , Jean-Claude Vial