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View article: GRB 250702B: discovery of a gamma-ray burst from a black hole falling into a star
GRB 250702B: discovery of a gamma-ray burst from a black hole falling into a star Open
Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous electromagnetic events in the Universe. Their prompt gamma-ray emission has typical durations between a fraction of a second and several minutes. A rare subset of these events have durations in excess…
View article: GRB 250702B: Discovery of a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Black Hole Falling into a Star
GRB 250702B: Discovery of a Gamma-Ray Burst from a Black Hole Falling into a Star Open
Gamma-ray bursts are the most luminous electromagnetic events in the universe. Their prompt gamma-ray emission has typical durations between a fraction of a second and several minutes. A rare subset of these events have durations in excess…
View article: Unveiling the origin of the optical and UV emission during the 2017 giant outburst of the Galactic ULX pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 (Corrigendum)
Unveiling the origin of the optical and UV emission during the 2017 giant outburst of the Galactic ULX pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 (Corrigendum) Open
An error was detected in the code of one of the components considered to model the optical/UV emission of the Galactic ULX pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 during its 2017 giant outburst. This led to an overestimation of the contribution from the…
View article: The STROBE-X wide field monitor instrument
The STROBE-X wide field monitor instrument Open
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View article: Sharp Periodic Flares and Long-term Variability in the High-mass X-Ray Binary XTE J1829−098 from RXTE PCA, Swift BAT, and MAXI Observations
Sharp Periodic Flares and Long-term Variability in the High-mass X-Ray Binary XTE J1829−098 from RXTE PCA, Swift BAT, and MAXI Observations Open
XTE J1829−098 is a transient X-ray pulsar with a period of ∼7.8 s. It is a candidate Be star system, although the evidence for this is not yet definitive. We investigated the twenty-year-long X-ray light curve using the Rossi X-ray Timing …
View article: The STROBE-X Wide Field Monitor Instrument
The STROBE-X Wide Field Monitor Instrument Open
The Wide Field Monitor (WFM) is one of the three instruments on the Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X) mission, which was proposed in response to the NASA 2023 call for a probe class mission. Th…
View article: Front-End ASIC for the STROBE-X HEMA and WFM Detectors: Concept and Design
Front-End ASIC for the STROBE-X HEMA and WFM Detectors: Concept and Design Open
This paper presents the NSX front-end ASIC, being developed to read charge signals from the HEMA and WFM X-ray detectors for the STROBE-X mission. The ASIC reads out signals from up to 64 anodes of linear Silicon Drift Detectors (SDDs). Wh…
View article: STROBE-X Mission Overview
STROBE-X Mission Overview Open
We give an overview of the science objectives and mission design of the Spectroscopic Time-Resolving Observatory for Broadband Energy X-rays (STROBE-X) observatory, which has been proposed as a NASA probe-class (~$1.5B) mission in response…
View article: Time-Domain And MultiMessenger Astrophysics Communications Science Analysis Group Report
Time-Domain And MultiMessenger Astrophysics Communications Science Analysis Group Report Open
The Time-Domain And MultiMessenger (TDAMM) Communications Science Analysis Group (TDAMMCommSAG) was formulated to describe the unique technical challenges of communicating rapidly to and from NASA astrophysics missions studying the most va…
View article: Fermi-GBM Team Analysis on The Ravasio Line
Fermi-GBM Team Analysis on The Ravasio Line Open
The prompt spectra of gamma-ray bursts are known to follow broadband continuum behavior over decades in energy. GRB 221009A, given the moniker the brightest of all time (BOAT), is the brightest gamma-ray burst identified in half a century …
View article: Studying geometry of the ultraluminous X-ray pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 using X-ray and optical polarimetry
Studying geometry of the ultraluminous X-ray pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 using X-ray and optical polarimetry Open
Discovery of pulsations from a number of ultra-luminous X-ray (ULX) sources proved that accretion onto neutron stars can produce luminosities exceeding the Eddington limit by several orders of magnitude. The conditions necessary to achieve…
View article: Constraining Possible γ-Ray Burst Emission from GW230529 Using Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM
Constraining Possible γ-Ray Burst Emission from GW230529 Using Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM Open
GW230529 is the first compact binary coalescence detected by the LIGO–Virgo–KAGRA collaboration with at least one component mass confidently in the lower mass gap, corresponding to the range 3–5 M ⊙ . If interpreted as a neutron star–black…
View article: Constraining possible $γ$-ray burst emission from GW230529 using Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM
Constraining possible $γ$-ray burst emission from GW230529 using Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM Open
GW230529 is the first compact binary coalescence detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration with at least one component mass confidently in the lower mass-gap, corresponding to the range 3-5$M_{\odot}$. If interpreted as a neutron star…
View article: Studying geometry of the ultraluminous X-ray pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 using X-ray and optical polarimetry
Studying geometry of the ultraluminous X-ray pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 using X-ray and optical polarimetry Open
Discovery of pulsations from a number of ULXs proved that accretion onto neutron stars can produce luminosities exceeding the Eddington limit by several orders of magnitude. The conditions necessary to achieve such high luminosities as wel…
View article: Future Perspectives for Gamma-ray Burst Detection from Space
Future Perspectives for Gamma-ray Burst Detection from Space Open
Since their first discovery in the late 1960s, gamma-ray bursts have attracted an exponentially growing interest from the international community due to their central role in the most highly debated open questions of the modern research of…
View article: Future Perspectives for Gamma-ray Burst Detection from Space
Future Perspectives for Gamma-ray Burst Detection from Space Open
Since their first discovery in the late 1960s, Gamma-ray bursts have attracted an exponentially growing interest from the international community due to their central role in the most highly debated open questions of the modern research of…
View article: Modelling the optical/UV emission of Swift J0243.6+6124 during its 2017–2018 giant outburst
Modelling the optical/UV emission of Swift J0243.6+6124 during its 2017–2018 giant outburst Open
The Be X-ray binary Swift J0243.6+6124 underwent a super-Eddington giant outburst that lasted from September 2017 to February 2018. The reached luminosity was so high, that it became the first Ultraluminous X-ray pulsar (ULXP) in the Galax…
View article: A Joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT Analysis of Gravitational-wave Candidates from the Third Gravitational-wave Observing Run
A Joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT Analysis of Gravitational-wave Candidates from the Third Gravitational-wave Observing Run Open
We present Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) and Swift Burst Alert Telescope (Swift-BAT) searches for gamma-ray/X-ray counterparts to gravitational-wave (GW) candidate events identified during the third observing run of the Advance…
View article: Unveiling the origin of the optical and UV emission during the 2017 giant outburst of the Galactic ULX pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124
Unveiling the origin of the optical and UV emission during the 2017 giant outburst of the Galactic ULX pulsar Swift J0243.6+6124 Open
Context. From late September 2017 to January 2018, the Be X-ray binary (BeXB) Swift J0243.6+6124 underwent a giant outburst that was unprecedently bright. The reported X-ray luminosities were so high that the system was classified as an ul…
View article: Unveiling the origin of the optical/UV emission from the Galactic ULX Swift J0243.6+6124 during its 2017-2018 giant outburst
Unveiling the origin of the optical/UV emission from the Galactic ULX Swift J0243.6+6124 during its 2017-2018 giant outburst Open
From late September 2017 to February 2018, the Be X-ray binary (BeXB) Swift J0243.6+6124 underwent an unprecedently bright giant outburst. The reported X-ray luminosities were so high that the system was classified as an Ultraluminous X-ra…
View article: Discovery of spin-phase-dependent QPOs in the supercritical accretion regime from the X-ray pulsar RX J0440.9+4431
Discovery of spin-phase-dependent QPOs in the supercritical accretion regime from the X-ray pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 Open
RX J0440.9+4431 is an accreting X-ray pulsar (XRP) that remained relatively unexplored until recently, when major X-ray outburst activity enabled more in-depth studies. Here, we report on the discovery of ~0.2 Hz quasi-periodic oscillation…
View article: Discovery of spin-phase dependent QPOs in the super-critical accretion regime from the X-ray pulsar RX J0440.9+4431
Discovery of spin-phase dependent QPOs in the super-critical accretion regime from the X-ray pulsar RX J0440.9+4431 Open
RX J0440.9+4431 is an accreting X-ray pulsar (XRP) that remained relatively unexplored until recently, when major X-ray outburst activity enabled more in-depth studies. Here, we report on the discovery of ${\sim}0.2$ Hz quasi-periodic osci…
View article: Extreme Variability in a Long-duration Gamma-Ray Burst Associated with a Kilonova
Extreme Variability in a Long-duration Gamma-Ray Burst Associated with a Kilonova Open
The recent discovery of a kilonova from the long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) GRB 211211A challenges classification schemes based on temporal information alone. Gamma-ray properties of GRB 211211A reveal an extreme event, which stands ou…
View article: Fermi-GBM Discovery of GRB 221009A: An Extraordinarily Bright GRB from Onset to Afterglow
Fermi-GBM Discovery of GRB 221009A: An Extraordinarily Bright GRB from Onset to Afterglow Open
We report the discovery of GRB 221009A, the highest flux gamma-ray burst (GRB) ever observed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM). This GRB has continuous prompt emission lasting more than 600 s, which smoothly transitions to a…
View article: Moon Burst Energetics All-sky Monitor: A Beyond Earth-orbit Gamma-ray Burst Observatory
Moon Burst Energetics All-sky Monitor: A Beyond Earth-orbit Gamma-ray Burst Observatory Open
Moon Burst Energetics All-sky Monitor (MoonBEAM) is a gamma-ray mission concept to observe the entire sky instantaneously for relativistic astrophysical explosions from a cislunar orbit. It is designed to explore the behavior of matter and…
View article: GRB 221009A: The BOAT
GRB 221009A: The BOAT Open
GRB 221009A has been referred to as the brightest of all time (BOAT). We investigate the veracity of this statement by comparing it with a half century of prompt gamma-ray burst observations. This burst is the brightest ever detected by th…
View article: GRB 221009A, The BOAT
GRB 221009A, The BOAT Open
GRB 221009A has been referred to as the Brightest Of All Time (the BOAT). We investigate the veracity of this statement by comparing it with a half century of prompt gamma-ray burst observations. This burst is the brightest ever detected b…