The SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey-First X-ray catalogues and data release of the western Galactic hemisphere

A Merloni, G Lamer, T Liu, ME Ramos-Ceja… - Astronomy & …, 2024 - aanda.org
The eROSITA telescope array aboard the Spektrum Roentgen Gamma (SRG) satellite
began surveying the sky in December 2019, with the aim of producing all-sky X-ray source …

Heavy-element production in a compact object merger observed by JWST

AJ Levan, BP Gompertz, OS Salafia, M Bulla, E Burns… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
The mergers of binary compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes are of central
interest to several areas of astrophysics, including as the progenitors of gamma-ray bursts …

A long-period radio transient active for three decades

N Hurley-Walker, N Rea, SJ McSweeney, BW Meyers… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Several long-period radio transients have recently been discovered, with strongly polarized
coherent radio pulses appearing on timescales between tens to thousands of seconds,. In …

Revealing x-ray and gamma ray temporal and spectral similarities in the GRB 190829A afterglow

HESS collaboration, H Abdalla, F Aharonian… - Science, 2021 - science.org
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which are bright flashes of gamma rays from extragalactic
sources followed by fading afterglow emission, are associated with stellar core collapse …

The case for a minute-long merger-driven gamma-ray burst from fast-cooling synchrotron emission

BP Gompertz, ME Ravasio, M Nicholl, AJ Levan… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
For decades, gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been broadly divided into long-and short-
duration bursts, lasting more or less than 2 s, respectively. However, this dichotomy does not …

Supermassive black holes at high redshift are expected to be obscured by their massive host galaxies' interstellar medium

R Gilli, C Norman, F Calura, F Vito, R Decarli… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
We combine results from deep ALMA observations of massive (M*> 10 10 M⊙) galaxies at
different redshifts to show that the column density of their interstellar medium (ISM) rapidly …

The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey (eFEDS)-Catalog of galaxy clusters and groups

A Liu, E Bulbul, V Ghirardini, T Liu, M Klein… - Astronomy & …, 2022 - aanda.org
Aims. The eROSITA Final Equatorial-Depth Survey has been carried out during the
performance verification phase of the Spectrum-Roentgen-Gamma/eROSITA telescope and …

Probing cosmic isotropy with a new X-ray galaxy cluster sample through the LX–T scaling relation

K Migkas, G Schellenberger, TH Reiprich… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
The isotropy of the late Universe and consequently of the X-ray galaxy cluster scaling
relations is an assumption greatly used in astronomy. However, within the last decade, many …

A decade of short-duration gamma-ray burst broadband afterglows: energetics, circumburst densities, and jet opening angles

W Fong, E Berger, R Margutti… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a comprehensive catalog and analysis of broadband afterglow observations for
103 short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), comprised of all short GRBs from 2004 …

GRB 221009A: discovery of an exceptionally rare nearby and energetic gamma-ray burst

MA Williams, JA Kennea, S Dichiara… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the discovery of the unusually bright long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB), GRB
221009A, as observed by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (Swift), Monitor of All-sky X-ray …