A new method for short-duration transient detection in radio images: searching for transient sources in MeerKAT data of NGC 5068

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Oxford University Press (OUP) 528:4 (2024) 6985-6996

Authors:

S Fijma, A Rowlinson, RAMJ Wijers, I de Ruiter, WJG de Blok, S Chastain, AJ van der Horst, ZS Meyers, K van der Meulen, R Fender, PA Woudt, A Andersson, A Zijlstra, J Healy, FM Maccagni

The Thousand-Pulsar-Array programme on MeerKAT -- XII. Discovery of long-term pulse profile evolution in 7 young pulsars

(2024)

Authors:

A Basu, P Weltevrede, MJ Keith, S Johnston, A Karastergiou, LS Oswald, B Posselt, X Song, AD Cameron

Filling the radio transients gap (or: The case for a dedicated radio transients monitoring array in the southern hemisphere)

(2024)

Authors:

Rob Fender, Assaf Horesh, Phil Charles, Patrick Woudt, James Miller-Jones, Joe Bright

Acceleration and transport of relativistic electrons in the jets of the microquasar SS 433

Science American Association for the Advancement of Science 383:6681 (2024) 402-406

Abstract:

SS 433 is a microquasar, a stellar binary system that launches collimated relativistic jets. We observed SS 433 in gamma rays using the High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) and found an energy-dependent shift in the apparent position of the gamma-ray emission from the parsec-scale jets. These observations trace the energetic electron population and indicate that inverse Compton scattering is the emission mechanism of the gamma rays. Our modeling of the energy-dependent gamma-ray morphology constrains the location of particle acceleration and requires an abrupt deceleration of the jet flow. We infer the presence of shocks on either side of the binary system, at distances of 25 to 30 parsecs, and that self-collimation of the precessing jets forms the shocks, which then efficiently accelerate electrons.

Optical spectroscopy of blazars for the Cherenkov Telescope Array -- III

(2024)

Authors:

F D'Ammando, P Goldoni, W Max-Moerbeck, J Becerra Gonzalez, E Kasai, DA Williams, N Alvarez-Crespo, M Backes, U Barres de Almeida, C Boisson, G Cotter, V Fallah Ramazani, O Hervet, E Lindfors, D Mukhi-Nilo, S Pita, M Splettstoesser, B van Soelen