A white paper on keV sterile neutrino dark matter

R Adhikari, M Agostini, NA Ky, T Araki… - … of cosmology and …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive review of keV-scale sterile neutrino Dark Matter, collecting
views and insights from all disciplines involved—cosmology, astrophysics, nuclear, and …

Cosmic X-ray surveys of distant active galaxies: The demographics, physics, and ecology of growing supermassive black holes

WN Brandt, DM Alexander - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2015 - Springer
We review results from cosmic X-ray surveys of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) over the past
≈ 15≈ 15 years that have dramatically improved our understanding of growing …

Linking the spin evolution of massive black holes to galaxy kinematics

A Sesana, E Barausse, M Dotti… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the results of a semianalytical model that evolves the masses and spins of
massive black holes together with the properties of their host galaxies across the cosmic …

Hitomi (ASTRO-H) X-ray astronomy satellite

T Takahashi, M Kokubun, K Mitsuda… - Journal of …, 2018 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The Hitomi (ASTRO-H) mission is the sixth Japanese x-ray astronomy satellite developed by
a large international collaboration, including Japan, USA, Canada, and Europe. The mission …

The nature of the diffuse gamma-ray background

M Fornasa, MA Sánchez-Conde - Physics Reports, 2015 - Elsevier
We review the current understanding of the Diffuse Gamma-Ray Background (DGRB). The
DGRB is what remains of the total measured gamma-ray emission after the subtraction of the …

Ultrafast outflows in radio-loud active galactic nuclei

F Tombesi, F Tazaki, RF Mushotzky… - Monthly Notices of …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Recent X-ray observations show absorbing winds with velocities up to mildly relativistic
values of the order of∼ 0.1 c in a limited sample of six broad-line radio galaxies. They are …

The soft state of Cygnus X-1 observed with NuSTAR: a variable corona and a stable inner disk

DJ Walton, JA Tomsick, KK Madsen… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a multi-epoch hard X-ray analysis of Cygnus X-1 in its soft state based on four
observations with the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR). Despite the basic …

Fermi-LAT gamma-ray detections of classical Novae V1369 Centauri 2013 and V5668 Sagittarii 2015

CC Cheung, P Jean, SN Shore… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) detections of high-energy (>
100 MeV) γ-ray emission from two recent optically bright classical novae, V1369 Centauri …

GRay: A massively parallel GPU-based code for ray tracing in relativistic spacetimes

C Chan, D Psaltis, F Özel - The Astrophysical Journal, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We introduce GRay, a massively parallel integrator designed to trace the trajectories of
billions of photons in a curved spacetime. This graphics-processing-unit (GPU)-based …

Broadband X-ray spectra of the ultraluminous x-ray source Holmberg IX X-1 observed with NuSTAR, XMM-Newton, and Suzaku

DJ Walton, FA Harrison, BW Grefenstette… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
We present results from the coordinated broadband X-ray observations of the extreme
ultraluminous X-ray source Holmberg IX X-1 performed by NuSTAR, XMM-Newton, and …