Search Results - "Beardmore, A. P."

Calibration of X-ray absorption in our Galaxy by Willingale, R., Starling, R. L. C., Beardmore, A. P., Tanvir, N. R., O'Brien, P. T.

“…Prediction of the soft X-ray absorption along lines of sight through our Galaxy is crucial for understanding the spectra of extragalactic sources, but requires…”
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2SXPS: An Improved and Expanded Swift X-Ray Telescope Point-source Catalog by Evans, P. A., Page, Kim, Osborne, J. P., Beardmore, A. P., Willingale, R., Burrows, D. N., Kennea, J A, Perri, M., Capalbi, M., Tagliaferri, G., Cenko, S. B.

“…We present the 2SXPS (Swift-XRT Point Source) catalog, containing 206,335 point sources detected by the Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) in the 0.3–10 keV energy…”
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Methods and results of an automatic analysis of a complete sample of Swift-XRT observations of GRBs by Evans, P. A., Beardmore, A. P., Page, K. L., Osborne, J. P., O'Brien, P. T., Willingale, R., Starling, R. L. C., Burrows, D. N., Godet, O., Vetere, L., Racusin, J., Goad, M. R., Wiersema, K., Angelini, L., Capalbi, M., Chincarini, G., Gehrels, N., Kennea, J. A., Margutti, R., Morris, D. C., Mountford, C. J., Pagani, C., Perri, M., Romano, P., Tanvir, N.

“…We present a homogeneous X-ray analysis of all 318 gamma-ray bursts detected by the X-ray telescope (XRT) on the Swift satellite up to 2008 July 23; this…”
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Relativistic jet activity from the tidal disruption of a star by a massive black hole by Burrows, D. N., Kennea, J. A., Ghisellini, G., Mangano, V., Zhang, B., Page, K. L., Eracleous, M., Romano, P., Sakamoto, T., Falcone, A. D., Osborne, J. P., Campana, S., Beardmore, A. P., Breeveld, A. A., Chester, M. M., Corbet, R., Covino, S., Cummings, J. R., D'Avanzo, P., D'Elia, V., Esposito, P., Evans, P. A., Fugazza, D., Gelbord, J. M., Hiroi, K., Holland, S. T., Huang, K. Y., Im, M., Israel, G., Jeon, Y., Jeon, Y.-B., Jun, H. D., Kawai, N., Kim, J. H., Krimm, H. A., Marshall, F. E., P. Mészáros, Negoro, H., Omodei, N., Park, W.-K., Perkins, J. S., Sugizaki, M., Sung, H.-I., Tagliaferri, G., Troja, E., Ueda, Y., Urata, Y., Usui, R., Antonelli, L. A., Barthelmy, S. D., Cusumano, G., Giommi, P., Melandri, A., Perri, M., Racusin, J. L., Sbarufatti, B., Siegel, M. H., Gehrels, N.

“…Birth of a black-hole relativistic jet Two groups report observations of the X-ray source Swift J164449.3+573451, which was discovered when it triggered the…”
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Two New Outbursts and Transient Hard X-Rays from 1E 1048.1-5937 by Archibald, R. F., Scholz, P., Kaspi, V. M., Tendulkar, S. P., Beardmore, A. P.

“…Since its discovery, 1E 1048.1−5937 has been one of the most active magnetars, both in terms of radiative outbursts, and changes to its spin properties. Here…”
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The unusual X-ray emission of the short Swift GRB 090515: evidence for the formation of a magnetar? by Rowlinson, A., O'Brien, P. T., Tanvir, N. R., Zhang, B., Evans, P. A., Lyons, N., Levan, A. J., Willingale, R., Page, K. L., Onal, O., Burrows, D. N., Beardmore, A. P., Ukwatta, T. N., Berger, E., Hjorth, J., Fruchter, A. S., Tunnicliffe, R. L., Fox, D. B., Cucchiara, A.

“…The majority of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) are thought to originate from the merger of compact binary systems collapsing directly to form a black hole…”
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Swift-XRT follow-up of gravitational wave triggers during the third aLIGO/Virgo observing run by Page, K L, Evans, P A, Tohuvavohu, A, Kennea, J A, Klingler, N J, Cenko, S B, Oates, S R, Ambrosi, E, Barthelmy, S D, Beardmore, A P, Bernardini, M G, Breeveld, A A, Brown, P J, Burrows, D N, Campana, S, Caputo, R, Cusumano, G, D’Aì, A, D’Avanzo, P, D’Elia, V, De Pasquale, M, Emery, S W K, Giommi, P, Gronwall, C, Hartmann, D H, Krimm, H A, Kuin, N P M, Malesani, D B, Marshall, F E, Melandri, A, Nousek, J A, O’Brien, P T, Osborne, J P, Pagani, C, Page, M J, Palmer, D M, Perri, M, Racusin, J L, Sakamoto, T, Sbarufatti, B, Schlieder, J E, Siegel, M H, Tagliaferri, G, Troja, E

“…ABSTRACT The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory followed up 18 gravitational wave (GW) triggers from the LIGO/Virgo collaboration during the O3 observing run in…”
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Bright X-ray Flares in Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows by Burrows, D. N., Romano, P., Falcone, A., Kobayashi, S., Zhang, B., Moretti, A., O'Brien, P. T., Goad, M. R., Campana, S., Page, K. L., Angelini, L., Barthelmy, S., Beardmore, A. P., Capalbi, M., Chincarini, G., Cummings, J., Cusumano, G., Fox, D., Giommi, P., Hill, J. E., Kennea, J. A., Krimm, H., Mangano, V., Marshall, F., Mészáros, P., Morris, D. C., Nousek, J. A., Osborne, J. P., Pagani, C., Perri, M., Tagliaferri, G., Wells, A. A., Woosley, S., Gehrels, N.

“…Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows have provided important clues to the nature of these massive explosive events, providing direct information on the nearby…”
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Soft X-ray Focusing Telescope Aboard AstroSat: Design, Characteristics and Performance by Singh, K. P., Stewart, G. C., Westergaard, N. J., Bhattacharayya, S., Chandra, S., Chitnis, V. R., Dewangan, G. C., Kothare, A. T., Mirza, I. M., Mukerjee, K., Navalkar, V., Shah, H., Abbey, A. F., Beardmore, A. P., Kotak, S., Kamble, N., Vishwakarama, S., Pathare, D. P., Risbud, V. M., Koyande, J. P., Stevenson, T., Bicknell, C., Crawford, T., Hansford, G., Peters, G., Sykes, J., Agarwal, P., Sebastian, M., Rajarajan, A., Nagesh, G., Narendra, S., Ramesh, M., Rai, R., Navalgund, K. H., Sarma, K. S., Pandiyan, R., Subbarao, K., Gupta, T., Thakkar, N., Singh, A. K., Bajpai, A.

“…The Soft X-ray focusing Telescope (SXT), India’s first X-ray telescope based on the principle of grazing incidence, was launched aboard the AstroSat and made…”
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Evidence for a Canonical Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglow Light Curve in the Swift XRT Data by Nousek, J. A, Kouveliotou, C, Grupe, D, Page, K. L, Granot, J, Ramirez-Ruiz, E, Patel, S. K, Burrows, D. N, Mangano, V, Barthelmy, S, Beardmore, A. P, Campana, S, Capalbi, M, Chincarini, G, Cusumano, G, Falcone, A. D, Gehrels, N, Giommi, P, Goad, M. R, Godet, O, Hurkett, C. P, Kennea, J. A, Moretti, A, O’Brien, P. T, Osborne, J. P, Romano, P, Tagliaferri, G, Wells, A. A

“…We present new observations of the early X-ray afterglows of the first 27 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) well observed by the Swift X-Ray Telescope (XRT). The early…”
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Swift/UVOT Follow-Up of Gravitational Wave Alerts in the O3 Era by Oates, S R, Marshall, F E, Breeveld, A A, Kuin, N P M, Brown, P J, Pasquale, M De, Evans, P A, Fenney, A J, Gronwall, C, Kennea, J A, Klingler, N J, Page, M J, Siegel, M H, Tohuvavohu, A, Ambrosi, E, Barthelmy, Scott D, Beardmore, A P, Bernardini, M G, Campana, S, Caputo, R, Cenko, S B, Cusumano, G, D'Aì, A, D’Avanzo, P, D’Elia, V, Giommi, P, Hartmann, D H, Krimm, H A, Laha, S, Malesani, D B, Melandri, A, Nousek, J A, O’Brien, P T, Osborne, J P, Pagani, C, Racusin, J L, Schlieder, J E

“…In this paper, we report on the observational performance of the Swift Ultra-violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) in response to the gravitational wave (GW) alerts…”
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An extremely luminous X-ray outburst at the birth of a supernova by Soderberg, A. M, Berger, E, Page, K. L, Schady, P, Parrent, J, Pooley, D, Wang, X.-Y, Ofek, E. O, Cucchiara, A, Rau, A, Waxman, E, Simon, J. D, Bock, D. C.-J, Milne, P. A, Page, M. J, Barentine, J. C, Barthelmy, S. D, Beardmore, A. P, Bietenholz, M. F, Brown, P, Burrows, A, Burrows, D. N, Byrngelson, G, Cenko, S. B, Chandra, P, Cummings, J. R, Fox, D. B, Gal-Yam, A, Gehrels, N, Immler, S, Kasliwal, M, Kong, A. K. H, Krimm, H. A, Kulkarni, S. R, Maccarone, T. J, Mészáros, P, Nakar, E, O'Brien, P. T, Overzier, R. A, de Pasquale, M, Racusin, J, Rea, N, York, D. G

“…Massive stars end their short lives in spectacular explosions—supernovae—that synthesize new elements and drive galaxy evolution. Historically, supernovae were…”
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A search for thermal X-ray signatures in gamma-ray bursts - I. Swift bursts with optical supernovae by Starling, R. L. C., Page, K. L., Pe'er, A., Beardmore, A. P., Osborne, J. P.

“…Abstract The X-ray spectra of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) can generally be described by an absorbed power law. The landmark discovery of thermal X-ray emission in…”
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GRB 090618: detection of thermal X-ray emission from a bright gamma-ray burst by Page, K. L., Starling, R. L. C., Fitzpatrick, G., Pandey, S. B., Osborne, J. P., Schady, P., McBreen, S., Campana, S., Ukwatta, T. N., Pagani, C., Beardmore, A. P., Evans, P. A.

“…GRB 090618 was an extremely bright burst, detected across the electromagnetic spectrum. It has a redshift of 0.54 and a supernova (SN) was identified in…”
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SWIFT OBSERVATIONS OF TWO OUTBURSTS FROM THE MAGNETAR 4U 0142+61 by Archibald, R. F., Kaspi, V. M., Scholz, P., Beardmore, A. P., Gehrels, N., Kennea, J. A.

“…ABSTRACT 4U 0142+61 is one of a small class of persistently bright magnetars. Here, we report on a monitoring campaign of 4U 0142+61 from 2011 July 26 to 2016…”
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Lord of the Rings – Return of the King: Swift-XRT observations of dust scattering rings around V404 Cygni by Beardmore, A. P., Willingale, R., Kuulkers, E., Altamirano, D., Motta, S. E., Osborne, J. P., Page, K. L., Sivakoff, G. R.

“…On 2015 June 15, the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni went into outburst, exhibiting extreme X-ray variability which culminated in a final flare on June 26…”
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GRB 080913 at Redshift 6.7 by Greiner, J, Krühler, T, Fynbo, J. P. U, Rossi, A, Schwarz, R, Klose, S, Savaglio, S, Tanvir, N. R, McBreen, S, Totani, T, Zhang, B. B, Wu, X. F, Watson, D, Barthelmy, S. D, Beardmore, A. P, Ferrero, P, Gehrels, N, Kann, D. A, Kawai, N, Yoldaş, A. Küpcü, Mészáros, P, Milvang-Jensen, B, Oates, S. R, Pierini, D, Schady, P, Toma, K, Vreeswijk, P. M, Yoldaş, A, Zhang, B, Afonso, P, Aoki, K, Burrows, D. N, Clemens, C, Filgas, R, Haiman, Z, Hartmann, D. H, Hasinger, G, Hjorth, J, Jehin, E, Levan, A. J, Liang, E. W, Malesani, D, Pyo, T.-S, Schulze, S, Szokoly, G, Terada, K, Wiersema, K

“…We report on the detection by Swift of GRB 080913, and subsequent optical/near-infrared follow-up observations by GROND, which led to the discovery of its…”
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Multiwavelength observations of nova SMCN 2016-10a – one of the brightest novae ever observed by Aydi, E, Page, K L, Kuin, N P M, Darnley, M J, Walter, F M, Mróz, P, Buckley, D A H, Mohamed, S, Whitelock, P, Woudt, P, Williams, S C, Orio, M, Williams, R E, Beardmore, A P, Osborne, J P, Kniazev, A, Ribeiro, V A R M, Udalski, A, Strader, J, Chomiuk, L

“…Abstract We report on multiwavelength observations of nova Small Magellanic Cloud Nova 2016-10a. The present observational set is one of the most comprehensive…”
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The Giant X-Ray Flare of GRB 050502B: Evidence for Late-Time Internal Engine Activity by Falcone, A. D, Burrows, D. N, Lazzati, D, Campana, S, Kobayashi, S, Zhang, B, Mészáros, P, Page, K. L, Kennea, J. A, Romano, P, Pagani, C, Angelini, L, Beardmore, A. P, Capalbi, M, Chincarini, G, Cusumano, G, Giommi, P, Goad, M. R, Godet, O, Grupe, D, Hill, J. E, La Parola, V, Mangano, V, Moretti, A, Nousek, J. A, O’Brien, P. T, Osborne, J. P, Perri, M, Tagliaferri, G, Wells, A. A, Gehrels, N

“…Until recently, X-ray flares during the afterglow of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) were a rarely detected phenomenon; thus, their nature is unclear. During the…”
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PAN-CHROMATIC OBSERVATIONS OF THE RECURRENT NOVA LMC 2009a (LMC 1971b) by Bode, M. F., Darnley, M. J., Beardmore, A. P., Osborne, J. P., Page, K. L., Walter, F. M., Krautter, J., Melandri, A., Ness, J.-U., O'Brien, T. J., Orio, M., Schwarz, G. J., Shara, M. M., Starrfield, S.

“…ABSTRACT Nova LMC 2009a is confirmed as a recurrent nova (RN) from positional coincidence with nova LMC 1971b. The observational data set is one of the most…”
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