Irradiated accretion disc in XTE J1817-330 (2008)
Gierlinski, Marek, Done, Chris, Page, Kim
We reanalyze the broadband optical/UV/X-ray Swift spectra of the outburst of the black hole binary XTE J1817--330. We build a simple physical model of an X-ray irradiated disc, and use this to show...
Gierlinski, Marek, Done, Chris, Page, Kim
The key aspect of the very successful truncated disc model for the low/hard X-ray spectral state in black hole binaries is that the geometrically thin disc recedes back from the last stable orbit at...
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...
Gamma-ray bursts: Restarting the Engine (2005)
King, Andrew, O'Brien, Paul T., Goad, Michael R., Osborne, Julian, Olsson, Emma, Page, Kim
Recent gamma-ray burst observations have revealed late-time, highly energetic events which deviate from the simplest expectations of the standard fireball picture. Instead they may indicate that the...
An XMM-Newton observation of the luminous Seyfert 1 galaxy Markarian 509 (2001)
Pounds, Ken, Reeves, James, O'Brien, Paul, Page, Kim, Turner, Martin, Nayakshin, Sergei
We present the spectral analysis of an early XMM-Newton observation of the luminous Seyfert 1 galaxy Markarian 509. We find the hard (2-10 keV) continuum slope, including reflection, to be somewhat...