Coincidence of a high-fluence blazar outburst with a PeV-energy neutrino event

Autor: Kadler, M., Krauß, F., Mannheim, K., Ojha, R., Müller, C., Schulz, R., Anton, G., Baumgartner, W., Beuchert, T., Buson, S., Carpenter, B., Eberl, T., Edwards, P. G., Glawion, D. Eisenacher, Elsässer, D., Gehrels, N., Gräfe, C., Hase, H., Horiuchi, S., James, C. W., Kappes, A., Katz, U., Kreikenbohm, A., Kreter, M., Kreykenbohm, I., Langejahn, M., Leiter, K., Litzinger, E., Longo, F., Lovell, J. E. J., McEnery, J., Phillips, C., Plötz, C., Quick, J., Ros, E., Stecker, F. W., Steinbring, T., Stevens, J., Thompson, D. J., Trüstedt, J., Tzioumis, A. K., Wilms, J., Zensus, J. A.

The discovery of extraterrestrial very-high-energy neutrinos by the IceCube collaboration has launched a quest for the identification of their astrophysical sources. Gamma-ray blazars have been predicted to yield a cumulative neutrino signal exceedin

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1602.02012

The LOFAR Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS) I. Survey description and first results

Autor: Heald, G. H., Pizzo, R. F., Orrú, E., Breton, R. P., Carbone, D., Ferrari, C., Hardcastle, M. J., Jurusik, W., Macario, G., Mulcahy, D., Rafferty, D., Asgekar, A., Brentjens, M., Fallows, R. A., Frieswijk, W., Toribio, M. C., Adebahr, B., Arts, M., Bell, M. R., Bonafede, A., Bray, J., Broderick, J., Cantwell, T., Carroll, P., Cendes, Y., Clarke, A. O., Croston, J., Daiboo, S., de Gasperin, F., Gregson, J., Harwood, J., Hassall, T., Heesen, V., Horneffer, A., van der Horst, A. J., Iacobelli, M., Jelić, V., Jones, D., Kant, D., Kokotanekov, G., Martin, P., McKean, J. P., Morabito, L. K., Nikiel-Wroczyński, B., Offringa, A., Pandey, V. N., Pandey-Pommier, M., Pietka, M., Pratley, L., Riseley, C., Rowlinson, A., Sabater, J., Scaife, A. M. M., Scheers, L. H. A., Sendlinger, K., Shulevski, A., Sipior, M., Sobey, C., Stewart, A. J., Stroe, A., Swinbank, J., Tasse, C., Trüstedt, J., Varenius, E., van Velzen, S., Vilchez, N., van Weeren, R. J., Wijnholds, S., Williams, W. L., de Bruyn, A. G., Nijboer, R., Wise, M., Alexov, A., Anderson, J., Avruch, I. M., Beck, R., Bell, M. E., van Bemmel, I., Bentum, M. J., Bernardi, G., Best, P., Breitling, F., Brouw, W. N., Brüggen, M., Butcher, H. R., Ciardi, B., Conway, J. E., de Geus, E., de Jong, A., de Vos, M., Deller, A., Dettmar, R. J., Duscha, S., Eislöffel, J., Engels, D., Falcke, H., Fender, R., Garrett, M. A., Grießmeier, J., Gunst, A. W., Hamaker, J. P., Hessels, J. W. T., Hoeft, M., Hörandel, J., Holties, H. A., Intema, H., Jackson, N. J., Jütte, E., Karastergiou, A., Klijn, W. F. A., Kondratiev, V. I., Koopmans, L. V. E., Kuniyoshi, M., Kuper, G., Law, C., van Leeuwen, J., Loose, M., Maat, P., Markoff, S., McFadden, R., McKay-Bukowski, D., Mevius, M., Miller-Jones, J. C. A., Morganti, R., Munk, H., Nelles, A., Noordam, J. E., Norden, M. J., Paas, H., Polatidis, A. G., Reich, W., Renting, A., Röttgering, H., Schoenmakers, A., Schwarz, D., Sluman, J., Smirnov, O., Stappers, B. W., Steinmetz, M., Tagger, M., Tang, Y., ter Veen, S., Thoudam, S., Vermeulen, R., Vocks, C., Vogt, C., Wijers, R. A. M. J., Wucknitz, O., Yatawatta, S., Zarka, P.

We present the Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS), the first northern-sky LOFAR imaging survey. In this introductory paper, we first describe in detail the motivation and design of the survey. Compared to previous radio surveys, MSSS is except

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1509.01257

ANTARES Constrains a Blazar Origin of Two IceCube PeV Neutrino Events

Autor: ANTARES Collaboration, Adrián-Martínez, S., Albert, A., André, M., Anton, G., Ardid, M., Aubert, J. -J., Baret, B., Barrios, J., Basa, S., Bertin, V., Biagi, S., Bogazzi, C., Bormuth, R., Bou-Cabo, M., Bouwhuis, M. C., Bruijn, R., Brunner, J., Busto, J., Capone, A., Caramete, L., Carr, J., Chiarusi, T., Circella, M., Coniglione, R., Costantini, H., Coyle, P., Creusot, A., De Rosa, G., Dekeyser, I., Deschamps, A., De Bonis, G., Distefano, C., Donzaud, C., Dornic, D., Dorosti, Q., Drouhin, D., Dumas, A., Eberl, T., Enzenhöfer, A., Escoffier, S., Fehn, K., Felis, I., Fermani, P., Folger, F., Fusco, L. A., Galatà, S., Gay, P., Geißelsöder, S., Geyer, K., Giordano, V., Gleixner, A., Gómez-González, J. P., Gracia-Ruiz, R., Graf, K., Guillard, G., van Haren, H., Heijboer, A. J., Hello, Y., Hernández-Rey, J. J., Herrero, A., Hößl, J., Hofestädt, J., Hugon, C., James, C. W, de Jong, M., Kalekin, O., Katz, U., Kießling, D., Kooijman, P., Kouchner, A., Kulikovskiy, V., Lahmann, R., Lefèvre, D., Leonora, E., Loehner, H., Loucatos, S., Mangano, S., Marcelin, M., Margiotta, A., Martínez-Mora, J. A., Martini, S., Mathieu, A., Michael, T., Migliozzi, P., Neff, M., Nezri, E., Palioselitis, D., Păvălaş, G. E., Pellegrino, C., Perrina, C., Piattelli, P., Popa, V., Pradier, T., Racca, C., Riccobene, G., Richter, R., Roensch, K., Rostovtsev, A., Saldaña, M., Samtleben, D. F. E., Sánchez-Losa, A., Sanguineti, M., Sapienza, P., Schmid, J., Schnabel, J., Schulte, S., Schüssler, F., Seitz, T., Sieger, C., Spies, A., Spurio, M., Steijger, J. J. M., Stolarczyk, Th., Taiuti, M., Tamburini, C., Tayalati, Y., Trovato, A., Tselengidou, M., Tönnis, C., Vallage, B., Vallée, C., Van Elewyck, V., Visser, E., Vivolo, D., Wagner, S., de Wolf, E., Yepes, H., Zornoza, J. D., Zúñiga, J., Collaboration, TANAMI, Krauß, F., Kadler, M., Mannheim, K., Schulz, R., Trüstedt, J., Wilms, J., Ojha, R., Ros, E., Baumgartner, W., Beuchert, T., Blanchard, J., Bürkel, C., Carpenter, B., Edwards, P. G., Glawion, D. Eisenacher, Elsässer, D., Fritsch, U., Gehrels, N., Gräfe, C., Großberger, C., Hase, H., Horiuchi, S., Kappes, A., Kreikenbohm, A., Kreykenbohm, I., Langejahn, M., Leiter, K., Litzinger, E., Lovell, J. E. J., Müller, C., Phillips, C., Plötz, C., Quick, J., Steinbring, T., Stevens, J., Thompson, D. J., Tzioumis, A. K.

Publikováno v: A&A 576, L8 (2015)

The source(s) of the neutrino excess reported by the IceCube Collaboration is unknown. The TANAMI Collaboration recently reported on the multiwavelength emission of six bright, variable blazars which are positionally coincident with two of the most e

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1501.07843

Future mmVLBI Research with ALMA: A European vision

Autor: Tilanus, R. P. J., Krichbaum, T. P., Zensus, J. A., Baudry, A., Bremer, M., Falcke, H., Giovannini, G., Laing, R., van Langevelde, H. J., Vlemmings, W., Abraham, Z., Afonso, J., Agudo, I., Alberdi, A., Alcolea, J., Altamirano, D., Asadi, S., Assaf, K., Augusto, P., Baczko, A-K., Boeck, M., Boller, T., Bondi, M., Boone, F., Bourda, G., Brajsa, R., Brand, J., Britzen, S., Bujarrabal, V., Cales, S., Casadio, C., Casasola, V., Castangia, P., Cernicharo, J., Charlot, P., Chemin, L., Clenet, Y., Colomer, F., Combes, F., Cordes, J., Coriat, M., Cross, N., D'Ammando, F., Dallacasa, D., Desmurs, J-F., Eatough, R., Eckart, A., Eisenacher, D., Etoka, S., Felix, M., Fender, R., Ferreira, M., Freeland, E., Frey, S., Fromm, C., Fuhrmann, L., Gabanyi, K., Galvan-Madrid, R., Giroletti, M., Goddi, C., Gomez, J., Gourgoulhon, E., Gray, M., di Gregorio, I., Greimel, R., Grosso, N., Guirado, J., Hada, K., Hanslmeier, A., Henkel, C., Herpin, F., Hess, P., Hodgson, J., Horns, D., Humphreys, E., Kramer, B. Hutawarakorn, Ilyushin, V., Impellizzeri, V., Ivanov, V., Julião, M., Kadler, M., Kerins, E., Klaassen, P., Klooster, K. van 't, Kording, E., Kozlov, M., Kramer, M., Kreikenbohm, A., Kurtanidze, O., Lazio, J., Leite, A., Leitzinger, M., Lepine, J., Levshakov, S., Lico, R., Lindqvist, M., Liuzzo, E., Lobanov, A., Lucas, P., Mannheim, K., Marcaide, J., Markoff, S., Martí-Vidal, I., Martins, C., Masetti, N., Massardi, M., Menten, K., Messias, H., Migliari, S., Mignano, A., Miller-Jones, J., Minniti, D., Molaro, P., Molina, S., Monteiro, A., Moscadelli, L., Mueller, C., Müller, A., Muller, S., Niederhofer, F., Odert, P., Olofsson, H., Orienti, M., Paladino, R., Panessa, F., Paragi, Z., Paumard, T., Pedrosa, P., Pérez-Torres, M., Perrin, G., Perucho, M., Porquet, D., Prandoni, I., Ransom, S., Reimers, D., Rejkuba, M., Rezzolla, L., Richards, A., Ros, E., Roy, A., Rushton, A., Savolainen, T., Schulz, R., Silva, M., Sivakoff, G., Soria-Ruiz, R., Soria, R., Spaans, M., Spencer, R., Stappers, B., Surcis, G., Tarchi, A., Temmer, M., Thompson, M., Torrelles, J., Truestedt, J., Tudose, V., Venturi, T., Verbiest, J., Vieira, J., Vielzeuf, P., Vincent, F., Wex, N., Wiik, K., Wiklind, T., Wilms, J., Zackrisson, E., Zechlin, H.

Very long baseline interferometry at millimetre/submillimetre wavelengths (mmVLBI) offers the highest achievable spatial resolution at any wavelength in astronomy. The anticipated inclusion of ALMA as a phased array into a global VLBI network will br

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.4650

The unusual multiwavelength properties of the gamma-ray source PMNJ1603-4904

Autor: Müller, Cornelia, Kadler, M., Ojha, R., Böck, M., Krauß, F., Taylor, G. B., Wilms, J., Blanchard, J., Carpenter, B., Dauser, T., Dutka, M., Edwards, P. G., Gehrels, N., Großberger, C., Hase, H., Horiuchi, S., Kreikenbohm, A., Lovell, J. E. J., McConville, W., Phillips, C., Plötz, C., Pursimo, T., Quick, J., Ros, E., Schulz, R., Stevens, J., Tingay, S. J., Trüstedt, J., Tzioumis, A. K., Zensus, J. A.

We investigate the nature and classification of PMNJ1603-4904, a bright radio source close to the Galactic plane, which is associated with one of the brightest hard-spectrum gamma-ray sources detected by Fermi/LAT. It has previously been classified a

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/1312.4827