Broadband observations of the naked-eye y-ray burst GRB 080319B (2008)
Racusin, Judith L., Karpov, S. V., Sokolowski, M., Granot, Jonathan, Wu, Xiao Feng, Pal'shin, V., ...
Long-duration y-ray bursts (GRBs) release copious amounts of energy across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, and so provide a window into the process of black hole formation from the collapse of...
Broadband observations of the naked-eye y-ray burst GRB 080319B (2008)
Racusin, Judith L., Karpov, S. V., Sokolowski, M., Granot, Jonathan, Wu, Xiao Feng, Pal'shin, V., ...
Long-duration y-ray bursts (GRBs) release copious amounts of energy across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, and so provide a window into the process of black hole formation from the collapse of...
Achromatic breaks for Swift GRBs: Any evidence? (2007)
Covino, Stefano, Malesani, Daniele, Tagliaferri, Gianpiero, Vergani, Susanna D., Chincarini, Guido, Kann, D.A., ...
The availability of multi-wavelength high-quality data of gamma-ray burst afterglows in the Swift era, contrary to the expectations, did not allow us to fully confirm yet one of the most fundamental...
Discovery of the optical afterglow of XRF 040812: VLT and Chandra observations (2007)
D'Avanzo, Paolo, Malesani, Daniele, Campana, Sergio, Covino, Stefano, Moretti, Alberto, Tagliaferri, Gianpiero, ...
We present Chandra and VLT observations of the X-Ray Flash XRF 040812. The X-ray analysis reveals with high precision the position of a hard, fading source. A careful analysis of our I-band VLT...
X-ray flare in XRF 050406: evidence for prolonged engine activity (2007)
Romano, Patrizia, Moretti, Alberto, Banat, P.L., Burrows, David N., Campana, Sergio, Chincarini, Guido, ...
We present observations of XRF 050406, the first burst detected by Swift showing a flare in its X-ray light curve. During this flare, which peaks at t_peak ~210s after the BAT trigger, a flux...
Swift and XMM-Newton observations of the dark GRB 050326 (2007)
Moretti, Alberto, De Luca, A., Malesani, Daniele, Campana, Sergio, Tiengo, Andrea
We present Swift and XMM observations of GRB 050326, detected by Swift-BAT. The fluence was 7.7x10^-6 erg cm^-2 (20-150 keV), and its spectrum was hard, with a power law photon index 1.25. The...
Gamma Ray Bursts Flares detected and observed by the Swift Satellite (2006)
Chincarini, Guido, Moretti, Alberto, Romano, Patrizia, Campana, Sergio, Covino, Stefano, Tagliaferri, Gianpiero, ...
The detection of flares with the Swift satellite triggered a lot of bservational and theoretical interest in these phenomena. As a consequence a large analysis effort started within the community to...
GRB Radiative Efficiencies Derived from the Swift Data: GRBs vs. XRFs, Long vs. Short (2006)
Zhang, Bing, Liang, Enwei, Page, Kim L., Grupe, Dirk, Zhang, Bin-Bin, Barthelmy, Scott D., ...
We systematically analyze the prompt emission and the early afterglow data of a sample of 31 GRBs detected by {\em Swift} before September 2005, and estimate the GRB radiative efficiency. BAT's...
The early X-ray emissions from GRBs (2006)
O'Brien, Paul T., Willingale, R., Osborne, Julian P., Goad, Michael R., Page, Kim L., Vaughan, Simon, ...
The definitive version of this paper, with enhancements, is available from http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/issues/ApJ/v647n2/64315/64315.html
The Swift X-ray flaring afterglow of GRB 050607 (2006)
Pagani, Claudio, Morris, David C., Kobayashi, Shiho, Sakamoto, Takanori, Falcone, Abraham D., Moretti, Alberto, ...
The definitive version of this paper is available at http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/ApJ/journal/issues/ApJ/v645n2/64323/64323.html
Swift XRT Observations of the Afterglow of XRF 050416A (2006)
Mangano, Vanessa, La Parola, Valentina, Cusumano, Giancarlo, Mineo, Teresa, Malesani, Daniele, Dyks, Jaroslaw, ...
Swift discovered XRF 050416A with the BAT and began observing it with its narrow field instruments only 64.5 s after the burst onset. Its very soft spectrum classifies this event as an X-ray flash....
The Swift X-ray flaring afterglow of GRB 050607 (2006)
Pagani, Claudio, Morris, David C., Kobayashi, Shiho, Sakamoto, Takanori, Falcone, Abraham D., Moretti, Alberto, ...
The unique capability of the Swift satellite to perform a prompt and autonomous slew to a newly detected Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) has yielded the discovery of interesting new properties of GRB X-ray...
The shock break-out of GRB060218/SN2006aj (2006)
Campana, Sergio, Mangano, V., Blustin, A.J., Brown, P., Burrows, David N., Chincarini, Guido, ...
This is a preprint, as archived in arXiv.org, of the paper subsequently published as Nature, 2006, 442, pp.1008-1010 and available from...
Evidence for intrinsic absorption in the Swift X-ray afterglows (2006)
Campana, Sergio, Romano, Patrizia, Covino, S., Lazzati, D., De Luca, A., Chincarini, Guido, ...
The definitive version of this paper is available from www.edpsciences.org/aa
Swift observations of the prompt X-ray emission and afterglow from GRB050126 and GRB050219A (2006)
Goad, Michael R., Tagliaferri, Gianpiero, Page, Kim L., Moretti, Alberto, Osborne, Julian P., Kobayashi, Shiho, ...
The definitive version of this paper is available from www.edpsciences.org/aa.
Swift and XMM-Newton observations of the dark GRB 050326 (2006)
Moretti, Alberto, De Luca, A., Malesani, D., Campana, Sergio, Tiengo, A., Cucchiara, A., ...
The definitive version of this paper is available from www.edpsciences.org/aa
A refined position catalogue of the Swift XRT afterglows (2006)
Moretti, Alberto, Perri, M., Capalbi, M., Angelini, Lorella, Hill, Joanne E., Campana, Sergio, ...
The definitive version of this paper is available from www.edpsciences.org/aa. Table 1 for this paper is available from www.edpsciences.org/aa.
Panchromatic study of GRB 060124: from precursor to afterglow (2006)
Romano, Patrizia, Campana, Sergio, Chincarini, Guido, Cummings, J.R., Cusumano, Giancarlo, Holland, S.T., ...
The definitive version of this paper is available from www.edpsciences.org/aa
The X-ray afterglow of the short gamma ray burst 050724 (2006)
Campana, Sergio, Tagliaferri, Gianpiero, Lazzati, D., Chincarini, Guido, Covino, S., Page, Kim L., ...
The definitive version of this paper is available from www.edpsciences.org/aa
X-ray flare in XRF 050406: evidence for prolonged engine activity (2006)
Romano, Patrizia, Moretti, Alberto, Banat, P.L., Burrows, David N., Campana, Sergio, Chincarini, Guido, ...
The definitive version of this paper is available from www.edpsciences.org/aa
X-ray flares in the early Swift observations of the possible naked gamma-ray burst 050421 (2006)
Godet, Olivier, Page, Kim L., Osborne, Julian P., O'Brien, Paul T., Burrows, David N., Hill, Joanne E., ...
The definitive version of this paper is available from www.edpsciences.org/aa
The early X-ray emission from GRBs (2006)
O'Brien, Paul T., Willingale, R., Osborne, Julian P., Goad, Michael R., Page, Kim L., Vaughan, Simon A., ...
Swift XRT and VLT Observations of the Afterglow of GRB 041223 (2005)
Burrows, David N., Hill, Joanne E., Chincarini, Guido, Tagliaferri, Gianpiero, Campana, Sergio, Moretti, Alberto, ...
The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Explorer, launched on 2004 November 20, is a multiwavelength, autonomous, rapid-slewing observatory for gamma-ray burst (GRB) astronomy. On 2004 December 23, during the...
Swift XRT observations of the breaking X-ray afterglow of GRB 050318 (2005)
Perri, M., Giommi, Paolo, Capalbi, M., Amati, L., Frontera, F., Chincarini, Guido, ...
The definitive version of this paper is available from www.edpsciences.org/aa
In-flight calibration of the Swift XRT point spread function (2005)
Moretti, Alberto, Campana, Sergio, Mineo, T., Romano, Patrizia, Abbey, A. F., Angelini, L., ...
An unexpectedly rapid decline in the X-ray afterglow emission of long gamma-ray bursts (2005)
Tagliaferri, Gianpiero, Goad, Michael R., Chincarini, Guido, Moretti, Alberto, Campana, Sergio, Burrows, David N., ...
A short gamma-ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift 0.225 (2005)
Gehrels, Neil, Sarazin, C.L., O'Brien, Paul T., Zhang, B., Barbier, L., Barthelmy, Scott D., ...
The BMW X-ray Cluster Survey (2001)
Moretti, Alberto, Guzzo, Luigi, Campana, Sergio, Covino, Stefano, Lazzati, Davide, Longhetti, Marcella, ...
We describe the main features of the BMW survey of serendipitous X-ray clusters, based on the still unexploited ROSAT-HRI archival observations. The sky coverage, surface density and first deep...
The Composite Luminosity Function of A496 (1998)
Molinari, Emilio, Chincarini, Guido, Moretti, Alberto, De Grandi, Sabrina
Deep photometric observations in three colours of the cluster A 496 show that the luminosity function is bimodal with a deep gap at g about 19.0. That is there is a net separation between E/SO...