Shaken, Not Stirred: NASA’s StarBurst Aces Extreme Temperature Tests
Shaken, Not Stirred: NASA’s StarBurst Aces Extreme Temperature Tests
🎉 A new paper with Einstein@Home gamma-ray pulsar discoveries 🔭
The new publication “Einstein@Home Searches for Gamma-ray Pulsars in the Inner Galaxy” was accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal and is posted on the arXiv preprint server today.
📄 https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.21307
The international science team reports the discovery of four previously unknown gamma-ray pulsars towards the direction of the Galactic Center. Most likely the four discoveries are foreground sources from the Galactic disk.
🙏 We thank our volunteers, without the support of whom this research could not have happened.
All of our publications and PhD theses related to the project at https://einsteinathome.org/science/publications.
The “Eye of Sauron” spotted in deep space
👁️ Okay, so the plasma jet in the blazar PKS 1424+240 isn't on a tower in Mordor, and it's not the fire-rimmed eye of a powerful tyrant. But if you don't think of Sauron's eye when you see the image released today, throw the first ring.
📡 Behind this deep image of the jet at unparalleled resolution are 15 years of ultra-precise radio observations with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) and an international research team.
Curious? Please take a look at our latest press release:
👉 https://www.mpifr-bonn.mpg.de/pressreleases/2025/5
#blazar #radioastronomy #universe #vlba #gammarays #neutrinos
Credits: Y.Y. Kovalev et al.
So I discovered TODAY, courtesy of my then advisor, that I had "my" first paper published on the ONLY day I did not pay attention to the arXiv bot on Mastodon. Summary of my life
https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_astrophHE_bot/114737895202010038
#astrophysics #GammaRays #blazars #MachineLearning #arxiv #proceedings
Towards a TeV blazar sequence and its physical interpretation I. Viale, E. Prandini, C. Righi, F. Bovolon, N. Sahakyan https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.18500 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2506.18500 https://arxiv.org/html/2506.18500 arXiv:2506.18500v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Blazars, a highly energetic subclass of jetted active galactic nuclei, show a broad band spectral energy distribution (SED) with two bumps, resulting from non-thermal jet emission. In 1998, an anticorrelation between the SED luminosity and the peaks frequency was found, later confirmed in 2017, called the blazar sequence. Its origin is still unclear. This work is part of a broader effort aiming at giving a physical interpretation to the blazar sequence, by modeling the sources emission in a Synchrotron Self Compton framework, concentrating only on TeV-detected blazars of BL Lac type. Unlike the original sequence, sources were binned by synchrotron peak frequency. The SED of one representative source is modeled for each bin, using data from average activity state to ensure consistency. Here, we focus on the study of one of the selected representative sources, PKS 2155-304, a high-energy-peaked BL Lac, showing the performed data selection and preliminary modeling results. toXiv_bot_toot