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The UV/Optical Telescope (UVOT) is one of three instruments flying aboard the Swift Gamma-ray Observatory. It is designed to capture the early (approximately 1 minute) UV and optical photons from the afterglow of gamma-ray bursts in the…

Since its early phases of operation, the AGILE satellite is observing Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) over an energy range potentially spanning six orders of magnitude. In the hard X-ray band the SuperAGILE imager provides localization of about one…

Gravitational lensing of a gamma ray burst (GRB) by a single point mass will produce a second, delayed signal. Several authors have discussed using microlensed GRBs to probe a possible cosmological population of compact objects. We analyse…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. S. B. Wyithe , E. L. Turner

We have reanalysed the 1996/1997 VLA monitoring data of the gravitational lens system JVAS B0218+357 to produce improved total flux density and polarization variability curves at 15, 8.4 and 5 GHz. This has been done using improved…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-03-21 A. D. Biggs , I. W. A. Browne

The empirical classification of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) is based on their distribution in the plane of burst duration and spectral hardness. Two distinct distributions, long-soft and short-hard bursts, are observed in this plane, forming…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-15 Sreelakshmi P Chakyar , Sarath Prabhavu J , Lekshmi Resmi

With the launch of Gaia satellite, detection of many different types of transient sources will be possible, one of them being optical afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Using the knowledge of the satellites dynamics and properties of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 J. Japelj , A. Gomboc

VERITAS is an array of four identical telescopes designed for detecting and measuring astrophysical gamma rays with energies in excess of 100 GeV. Each telescope uses a 12 m diameter reflector to collect Cherenkov light from air showers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 David Hanna

This paper presents accurate absolute positions from a 24 GHz Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) search for compact extragalactic sources in an area where the density of known calibrators with precise coordinates is low. The goals were to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 L. Petrov , Y. Y. Kovalev , E. B. Fomalont , D. Gordon

The heterogeneity of the small body population complicates the prediction of small body properties before the spacecraft's arrival. In the context of autonomous small body exploration, it is crucial to develop algorithms that estimate the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2024-06-19 Paolo Panicucci , Jérémy Lebreton , Roland Brochard , Emmanuel Zenou , Michel Delpech

Here we describe the observation and calibration procedure for a new G140L observing mode for the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph (COS) aboard the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). This mode, CENWAV = 800, is designed to move the far-UV band fully…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-09-21 Keith Redwine , Stephan R. McCandliss , Brian Fleming , Kevin France , Wei Zheng , Steven Osterman , J. Christopher Howk , Scott F. Anderson , Boris T. Gaensicke

Light carrying orbital angular momentum (OAM) has attractive applications in the fields of precise optical measurements and high capacity optical communications. We study the rotation of a light beam propagating in warm 87Rb atomic vapor…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-07-22 Shuai Shi , Dong-Sheng Ding , Zhi-Yuan Zhou , Yan Li , Wei Zhang , Bao-Sen Shi

The INTEGRAL satellite explored the gamma-ray sky since its launch on October 17, 2002, and until the end of its scientific operation on February 28, 2025. A large fraction of the available data is still largely untouched, due to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Tristan Bouchet , Philippe Laurent , Floriane Cangemi , Jérôme Rodriguez

Hard X-ray observations with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) reveal superorbital modulation in the wind-accreting supergiant high-mass X-ray binary (HMXB) 4U 1538-52 at a period of 14.9130 +/- 0.0026 days that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Robin H. D. Corbet , Joel B. Coley , Hans A. Krimm , Katja Pottschmidt , Paul Roche

All of the observations performed with the IBIS telescope onboard the INTEGRAL observatory during the first one and a half years of its in-orbit operation (from February 10, 2003, through July 2, 2004) have been analyzed to find X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 I. V. Chelovekov , S. A. Grebenev , R. A. Sunyaev

A puzzling variety of superorbital modulations have been discovered in several supergiant High-Mass X-ray binaries (sgHMXBs). To investigate the mechanisms driving these superorbital modulations, we have analyzed long-term Neil Gehrels…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 Nazma Islam , Robin H. D. Corbet , Joel B. Coley , Katja Pottschmidt , Felix Fuerst

Very high energy gamma-ray observations offer indirect methods for studying the highest energy cosmic rays in our Universe. The origin of cosmic rays at energies greater than $10^{18}$ eV remains a mystery, and many questions in particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-28 R. Mukherjee

We consider the propagation of slow light with an orbital angular momentum (OAM) in a moving atomic medium. We have derived a general equation of motion and applied it in analysing propagation of slow light with an OAM in a rotating medium,…

Other Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Ruseckas , G. Juzeliunas , P. Ohberg , S. M. Barnett

The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) is the first focusing high energy (3-79 keV) X-ray observatory operating for four years from low Earth orbit. The X-ray detector arrays are located on the spacecraft bus with the optics…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-08 Karl Forster , Kristin K. Madsen , Hiromasa Miyasaka , William W. Craig , Fiona A. Harrison , Vikram R. Rana , Craig B. Markwardt , Brian W. Grefenstette