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Discerning the Physical Origins of Cosmological Gamma-ray Bursts Based on Multiple Observational Criteria: The Cases of z = 6.7 GRB 080913, z = 8.2 GRB 090423, and Some Short/Hard GRBs by Zhang, Bing, Zhang, Bin-Bin, Virgili, Francisco J, Liang, En-Wei, Kann, D. Alexander, Wu, Xue-Feng, Proga, Daniel, Lv, Hou-Jun, Toma, Kenji, Mészáros, Peter, Burrows, David N, Roming, Peter W. A, Gehrels, Neil

“…The two high-redshift gamma-ray bursts, GRB 080913 at z = 6.7 and GRB 090423 at z = 8.2, recently detected by Swift appear as intrinsically short, hard GRBs…”
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The swift ultra-violet/optical telescope by ROMING, Peter W. A, KENNEDY, Thomas E, HUNSBERGER, S. D, KAWAKAMI, Hajime, KILLOUGH, Ronnie, KOCH, T. Scott, MCLELLAND, Michael K, SMITH, Kelly, SMITH, Philip J, SOTO, Juan Carlos, BOYD, Patricia T, BREEVELD, Alice A, MASON, Keith O, HOLLAND, Stephen T, IVANUSHKINA, Mariya, PRYZBY, Michael S, STILL, Martin D, STOCK, Joseph, NOUSEK, John A, AHR, Lindy, BINGHAM, Richard E, BROOS, Patrick S, CARTER, Mary J, HANCOCK, Barry K, HUCKLE, Howard E

“…The Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) is one of three instruments flying aboard the Swift Gamma-ray Observatory. It is designed to capture the early (1…”
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GROUPING NORMAL TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE BY UV TO OPTICAL COLOR DIFFERENCES by Milne, Peter A, Brown, Peter J, Roming, Peter W A, Bufano, Filomena, Gehrels, Neil

“…Observations of many Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) for multiple epochs per object with the Swift Ultraviolet Optical Telescope instrument have revealed that…”
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Using Quantitative Spectroscopic Analysis to Determine the Properties and Distances of Type II Plateau Supernovae: SN 2005cs and SN 2006bp by Dessart, Luc, Blondin, Stéphane, Brown, Peter J, Hicken, Malcolm, Hillier, D. John, Holland, Stephen T, Immler, Stefan, Kirshner, Robert P, Milne, Peter, Modjaz, Maryam, Roming, Peter W. A

“…We analyze the Type II plateau supernovae (SNe IIP) SN 2005cs and SN 2006bp with the non-LTE model atmosphere code CMFGEN. We fit 13 spectra in the first month…”
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CONSTRAINTS ON TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA PROGENITOR COMPANIONS FROM EARLY ULTRAVIOLET OBSERVATIONS WITH SWIFT by BROWN, Peter J, DAWSON, Kyle S, HARRIS, David W, OLMSTEAD, Matthew, MILNE, Peter, ROMING, Peter W. A

“…We compare early ultraviolet (UV) observations of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) with theoretical predictions for the brightness of the shock associated with the…”
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The Absolute Magnitudes of Type Ia Supernovae in the Ultraviolet by Brown, Peter J, Roming, Peter W. A, Milne, Peter, Bufano, Filomena, Ciardullo, Robin, Elias-Rosa, Nancy, Filippenko, Alexei V, Foley, Ryan J, Gehrels, Neil, Gronwall, Caryl, Hicken, Malcolm, Holland, Stephen T, Hoversten, Erik A, Immler, Stefan, Kirshner, Robert P, Li, Weidong, Mazzali, Paolo, Phillips, Mark M, Pritchard, Tyler, Still, Martin, Turatto, Massimo, Berk, Daniel Vanden

“…We examine the absolute magnitudes and light-curve shapes of 14 nearby (redshift z = 0.004-0.027) Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observed in the ultraviolet (UV)…”
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Supernova Shock Breakout/Emergence Detection Predictions for a Wide-field X-Ray Survey by Bayless, Amanda J., Fryer, Chris, Brown, Peter J., Young, Patrick A., Roming, Peter W. A., Davis, Michael, Lechner, Thomas, Slocum, Samuel, Echon, Janie D., Froning, Cynthia S.

“…There are currently many large-field surveys that are operational and are being planned including the powerful Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space…”
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THEORETICAL CLUES TO THE ULTRAVIOLET DIVERSITY OF TYPE Ia SUPERNOVAE by Brown, Peter J., Baron, E., Milne, Peter, Roming, Peter W. A., Wang, Lifan

“…ABSTRACT The effect of metallicity on the observed light of Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) could lead to systematic errors as the absolute magnitudes of local and…”
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Near-ultraviolet Properties of a Large Sample of Type Ia Supernovae as Observed with the Swift UVOT by Milne, Peter A, Brown, Peter J, Roming, Peter W. A, Holland, Stephen T, Immler, Stefan, Filippenko, Alexei V, Ganeshalingam, Mohan, Li, Weidong, Stritzinger, Maximilian, Phillips, Mark M, Hicken, Malcolm, Kirshner, Robert P, Challis, Peter J, Mazzali, Paolo, Schmidt, Brian P, Bufano, Filomena, Gehrels, Neil, Vanden Berk, Daniel

“…We present ultraviolet (UV) and optical photometry of 26 Type Ia supernovae (SNe Ia) observed from 2005 March to 2008 March with the NASA Swift Ultraviolet and…”
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GRB Radiative Efficiencies Derived from the Swift Data: GRBs versus XRFs, Long versus Short by Zhang, Bing, Liang, Enwei, Page, Kim L, Grupe, Dirk, Zhang, Bin-Bin, Barthelmy, Scott D, Burrows, David N, Campana, Sergio, Chincarini, Guido, Gehrels, Neil, Kobayashi, Shiho, Mészáros, Peter, Moretti, Alberto, Nousek, John A, O’Brien, Paul T, Osborne, Julian P, Roming, Peter W. A, Sakamoto, Takanori, Schady, Patricia, Willingale, Richard

“…We systematically analyze the prompt emission and the early afterglow data of a sample of 31 GRBs detected by Swift before 2005 September and estimate the GRB…”
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THE EFFECTS ON SUPERNOVA SHOCK BREAKOUT AND SWIFT LIGHT CURVES DUE TO THE MASS OF THE HYDROGEN-RICH ENVELOPE by Bayless, Amanda J., Even, Wesley, Frey, Lucille H., Fryer, Chris L., Roming, Peter W. A., Young, Patrick A.

“…ABSTRACT Mass loss remains one of the primary uncertainties in stellar evolution. In the most massive stars, mass loss dictates the circumstellar medium and…”
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SN 2008in—BRIDGING THE GAP BETWEEN NORMAL AND FAINT SUPERNOVAE OF TYPE IIP by Roy, Rupak, Kumar, Brijesh, Benetti, Stefano, Pastorello, Andrea, Yuan, Fang, Brown, Peter J., Immler, Stefan, Fatkhullin, Timur A., Moskvitin, Alexander S., Maund, Justyn, Akerlof, Carl W., Wheeler, J. Craig, Sokolov, Vladimir V., Quimby, Rorbert M., Bufano, Filomena, Kumar, Brajesh, Misra, Kuntal, Pandey, S. B., Elias-Rosa, Nancy, Roming, Peter W. A., Sagar, Ram

“…We present optical photometric and low-resolution spectroscopic observations of the Type II plateau supernova (SN) 2008in, which occurred in the outskirts of…”
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Computationally Efficient Image Correlation for De-blurring with Photon-Counting Instruments by Koets, Michael A., Roming, Peter W. A.

“…We present a new implementation of an image alignment and de-blurring algorithm for astronomical observations with photon-counting imagers. The algorithm…”
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The Supernovae Analysis Application (SNAP) by Bayless, Amanda J., Fryer, Chris L., Wollaeger, Ryan, Wiggins, Brandon, Even, Wesley, Rosa, Janie de la, Roming, Peter W. A., Frey, Lucy, Young, Patrick A., Thorpe, Rob, Powell, Luke, Landers, Rachel, Persson, Heather D., Hay, Rebecca

“…The SuperNovae Analysis aPplication (SNAP) is a new tool for the analysis of SN observations and validation of SN models. SNAP consists of a publicly available…”
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HIGH-VELOCITY LINE FORMING REGIONS IN THE TYPE Ia SUPERNOVA 2009ig by Marion, G H, VINKO, JOZSEF, Wheeler, J Craig, Foley, Ryan J, Hsiao, Eric Y, Brown, Peter J, Challis, Peter, Filippenko, Alexei V, Garnavich, Peter, Kirshner, Robert P

“…We report measurements and analysis of high-velocity (HVF) (>20,000 km s super(-1)) and photospheric absorption features in a series of spectra of the Type Ia…”
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Mass Production of Flexible Small Co-Registered EO/IR Space-based Instruments: SwRI's Pleiades Multi-Mission EO/IR Concept by Roming, Peter W. A., Rose, Randy, Diamond, Steve, Epperly, Michael E., Koets, Michael A.

“…Previous space-based assets have combined visible, near-infrared, shortwave-infrared, midwave-infrared, and longwave-infrared imagers into one "exquisite"…”
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Swift and XMM-Newton Observations of the Extraordinary Gamma-Ray Burst 060729: More than 125 Days of X-Ray Afterglow by Grupe, Dirk, Gronwall, Caryl, Wang, Xiang-Yu, Roming, Peter W. A, Cummings, Jay, Zhang, Bing, Mészáros, Peter, Trigo, Maria Diaz, O’Brien, Paul T, Page, Kim L, Beardmore, Andy, Godet, Olivier, vanden Berk, Daniel E, Brown, Peter J, Koch, Scott, Morris, David, Stroh, Michael, Burrows, David N, Nousek, John A, McMath Chester, Margaret, Immler, Stefan, Mangano, Vanessa, Romano, Patrizia, Chincarini, Guido, Osborne, Julian, Sakamoto, Takanori, Gehrels, Neil

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Discovery of a Very Bright, Nearby Gravitational Microlensing Event by Gaudi, B. Scott, Patterson, Joseph, Spiegel, David S, Krajci, Thomas, Koff, R, Pojmański, G, Dong, Subo, Gould, Andrew, Prieto, Jose L, Blake, Cullen H, Roming, Peter W. A, Bennett, David P, Bloom, Joshua S, Boyd, David, Eyler, Michael E, de Ponthière, Pierre, Mirabal, N, Morgan, Christopher W, Remillard, Ronald R, Vanmunster, T, Wagner, R. Mark, Watson, Linda C

“…We report the serendipitous detection of a very bright, very nearby microlensing event. In late 2006 October, an otherwise unremarkable A0 star at a distance…”
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The first ten years of Swift supernovae by Brown, Peter J., Roming, Peter W.A., Milne, Peter A.

“…The Swift Gamma Ray Burst Explorer has proven to be an incredible platform for studying the multiwavelength properties of supernova explosions. In its first…”
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Scaling Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KIDs) by Roming, Peter W. A., Epperly, Michael E., Bayless, Amanda

“…For the last few decades, micro-channel plates (MCPs), charged coupled devices (CCDs), and hybrid complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) detectors have…”
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