Gamma-ray astronomy: publications

Long-term radio monitoring of the neutron star X-ray binary Swift J1858.6−0814

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 513:2 (2022) 2708-2718

Authors:

L Rhodes, RP Fender, S Motta, J van den Eijnden, DRA Williams, J Bright, GR Sivakoff

Jet-cocoon geometry in the optically dark, very high energy gamma-ray burst 201216C

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 513:2 (2022) 1895-1909

Authors:

L Rhodes, AJ van der Horst, R Fender, DR Aguilera-Dena, JS Bright, S Vergani, DRA Williams

How Do Magnetic Field Models Affect Astrophysical Limits on Light Axion-like Particles? An X-Ray Case 51�� with NGC 1275

The Astrophysical Journal American Astronomical Society 930:1 (2022) 90

Authors:

James H Matthews, Christopher S Reynolds, MC David Marsh, Júlia Sisk-Reynés, Payton E Rodman

Searching for pulsars associated with polarised point sources using LOFAR: Initial discoveries from the TULIPP project

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 661 (2022) a87

Authors:

C Sobey, CG Bassa, SP O’Sullivan, JR Callingham, CM Tan, JWT Hessels, VI Kondratiev, BW Stappers, C Tiburzi, G Heald, T Shimwell, RP Breton, M Kirwan, HK Vedantham, E Carretti, J-M Grießmeier, M Haverkorn, A Karastergiou

Evidence for γ-ray emission from the remnant of Kepler’s supernova based on deep H.E.S.S. observations

Astronomy & Astrophysics EDP Sciences 662 (2022) A65-A65

Authors:

F Aharonian, F Ait Benkhali, EO Angüner, H Ashkar, M Backes, V Barbosa Martins, R Batzofin, Y Becherini, D Berge, K Bernlöhr, M Böttcher, C Boisson, J Bolmont, M de Bony de Lavergne, M Breuhaus, R Brose, F Brun, T Bulik, T Bylund, F Cangemi, S Caroff, S Casanova, M Cerruti, T Chand, A Chen, G Cotter

Abstract:

Observations with imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes (IACTs) have enhanced our knowledge of nearby supernova (SN) remnants with ages younger than 500 yr by establishing Cassiopeia A and the remnant of Tycho’s SN as very-high-energy (VHE) γ -ray sources. The remnant of Kepler’s SN, which is the product of the most recent naked-eye SN in our Galaxy, is comparable in age to the other two, but is significantly more distant. If the γ -ray luminosities of the remnants of Tycho’s and Kepler’s SNe are similar, then the latter is expected to be one of the faintest γ -ray sources within reach of the current generation IACT arrays. Here we report evidence at a statistical level of 4.6 σ for a VHE signal from the remnant of Kepler’s SN based on deep observations by the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) with an exposure of 152 h. The measured integral flux above an energy of 226 GeV is ∼0.3% of the flux of the Crab Nebula. The spectral energy distribution (SED) reveals a γ -ray emitting component connecting the VHE emission observed with H.E.S.S. to the emission observed at GeV energies with Fermi -LAT. The overall SED is similar to that of the remnant of Tycho’s SN, possibly indicating the same nonthermal emission processes acting in both these young remnants of thermonuclear SNe.

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