Search Results - "Willingale, R."

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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Luminosity–time and luminosity–luminosity correlations for GRB prompt and afterglow plateau emissions by Dainotti, M., Petrosian, V., Willingale, R., O'Brien, P., Ostrowski, M., Nagataki, S.

“…We present an analysis of 123 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with known redshifts possessing an afterglow plateau phase. We reveal that $L_{\rm a}\hbox{-}T^{*}_{\rm…”
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A Study of the Gamma-Ray Burst Fundamental Plane by Dainotti, M. G., Hernandez, X., Postnikov, S., Nagataki, S., O'brien, P., Willingale, R., Striegel, S.

“…Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with a plateau phase in their X-ray afterglows obey a 3D relation, between the rest-frame time at the end of the plateau, Ta, its…”
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Athena: ESA's X‐ray observatory for the late 2020s by Barcons, X., Barret, D., Decourchelle, A., Herder, J. W., Fabian, A. C., Matsumoto, H., Lumb, D., Nandra, K., Piro, L., Smith, R. K., Willingale, R.

“…Observations of the X‐ray sky after the next decade will most likely be dominated by Athena (Advanced Telescope for High ENergy Astrophysics), the second large…”
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Gamma-Ray Bursts and Fast Transients: Multi-wavelength Observations and Multi-messenger Signals by Willingale, R., Mészáros, P.

“…The current status of observations and theoretical models of gamma-ray bursts and some other related transients, including ultra-long bursts and tidal…”
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Towards a standard gamma-ray burst: tight correlations between the prompt and the afterglow plateau phase emission by Dainotti, M. G., Ostrowski, M., Willingale, R.

“…To find out the astrophysical processes responsible for gamma-ray burst (GRB), it is crucial to discover and understand the relations between their…”
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Can X-ray emission powered by a spinning-down magnetar explain some gamma-ray burst light-curve features? by Lyons, N., O'Brien, P. T., Zhang, B., Willingale, R., Troja, E., Starling, R. L. C.

“…Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are thought to be produced by the core-collapse of a rapidly rotating massive star. This event generates a highly…”
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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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Constraining cosmological parameters by gamma-ray burst X-ray afterglow light curves by Cardone, V. F., Dainotti, M. G., Capozziello, S., Willingale, R.

“…We present the Hubble diagram (HD) of 66 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) derived using only data from their X-ray afterglow light curve. To this end, we use the…”
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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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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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The pulse luminosity function of Swift gamma-ray bursts by Amaral-Rogers, A, Willingale, R, O'Brien, P T

“…The complete Swift Burst Alert Telescope and X-Ray Telescope light curves of 118 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with known redshifts were fitted using the physical…”
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THESEUS: A key space mission concept for Multi-Messenger Astrophysics by Stratta, G., Ciolfi, R., Amati, L., Bozzo, E., Ghirlanda, G., Maiorano, E., Nicastro, L., Rossi, A., Vinciguerra, S., Frontera, F., Götz, D., Guidorzi, C., O’Brien, P., Osborne, J.P., Tanvir, N., Branchesi, M., Brocato, E., Dainotti, M.G., De Pasquale, M., Grado, A., Greiner, J., Longo, F., Maio, U., Mereghetti, D., Mignani, R., Piranomonte, S., Rezzolla, L., Salvaterra, R., Starling, R., Willingale, R., Böer, M., Bulgarelli, A., Caruana, J., Colafrancesco, S., Colpi, M., Covino, S., D’Avanzo, P., D’Elia, V., Drago, A., Fuschino, F., Gendre, B., Hudec, R., Jonker, P., Labanti, C., Malesani, D., Mundell, C.G., Palazzi, E., Patricelli, B., Razzano, M., Campana, R., Rosati, P., Rodic, T., Szécsi, D., Stamerra, A., van Putten, M., Vergani, S., Zhang, B., Bernardini, M.

“…The recent discovery of the electromagnetic counterpart of the gravitational wave source GW170817, has demonstrated the huge informative power of…”
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X-ray absorption evolution in gamma-ray bursts: intergalactic medium or evolutionary signature of their host galaxies by Starling, R. L. C., Willingale, R., Tanvir, N. R., Scott, A. E., Wiersema, K., O'Brien, P. T., Levan, A. J., Stewart, G. C.

“…The intrinsic X-ray emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is often found to be absorbed over and above the column density through our own Galaxy. The extra…”
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Optimization of mirror spacing or pore width of lobster eye optics by Tichý, V., Willingale, R.

“…Equations for the analytical calculation of gain and effective collecting area (length) of lobster eye systems are presented. The effect of mirror spacing…”
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The spectral–temporal properties of the prompt pulses and rapid decay phase of gamma-ray bursts by Willingale, R., Genet, F., Granot, J., O'Brien, P. T.

“…The prompt emission from gamma-ray burst is the brightest electromagnetic emission known, yet its origin is not understood. The flux density of individual…”
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Testing the Standard Fireball Model of Gamma-Ray Bursts Using Late X-Ray Afterglows Measured by Swift by Willingale, R, O’Brien, P. T, Osborne, J. P, Godet, O, Page, K. L, Goad, M. R, Burrows, D. N, Zhang, B, Rol, E, Gehrels, N, Chincarini, G

“…We show that all X-ray decay curves of gamma -ray bursts (GRBs) measured by Swift can be fitted using one or two components, both of Which have exactly the…”
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GRB 130925A: an ultralong gamma ray burst with a dust-echo afterglow, and implications for the origin of the ultralong GRBs by Evans, P. A., Willingale, R., Osborne, J. P., O'Brien, P. T., Tanvir, N. R., Frederiks, D. D., Pal'shin, V. D., Svinkin, D. S., Lien, A., Cummings, J., Xiong, S., Zhang, B.-B., Götz, D., Savchenko, V., Negoro, H., Nakahira, S., Suzuki, K., Wiersema, K., Starling, R. L. C., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Beardmore, A. P., Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Gorosabel, J., Jeong, S., Kennea, J. A., Burrows, D. N., Gehrels, N.

“…GRB 130925A was an unusual gamma ray burst (GRB), consisting of three distinct episodes of high-energy emission spanning ∼20 ks, making it a member of the…”
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Evidence for chromatic X-ray light-curve breaks in Swift gamma-ray burst afterglows and their theoretical implications by Panaitescu, A., Mészáros, P., Burrows, D., Nousek, J., Gehrels, N., O'Brien, P., Willingale, R.

“…The power-law decay of the X-ray emission of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows 050319, 050401, 050607, 050713A, 050802 and 050922C exhibits a steepening at…”
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