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A. Short
Researcher at University of Leicester
Publications - 40
Citations - 14971
A. Short is an academic researcher from University of Leicester. The author has contributed to research in topics: X-ray telescope & Gamma-ray burst. The author has an hindex of 23, co-authored 40 publications receiving 13187 citations. Previous affiliations of A. Short include European Space Research and Technology Centre.
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The Gaia mission
T. Prusti,J. H. J. de Bruijne,Anthony G. A. Brown,Antonella Vallenari,C. Babusiaux,C. A. L. Bailer-Jones,Ulrich Bastian,M. Biermann,D. W. Evans,L. Eyer,F. A. Jansen,Carme Jordi,Sergei A. Klioner,Uwe Lammers,Lennart Lindegren,Xavier Luri,Francois Mignard,D. J. Milligan,C. Panem,V. Poinsignon,Dimitri Pourbaix,Sofia Randich,G. Sarri,P. Sartoretti,H. I. Siddiqui,Caroline Soubiran,V. Valette,F. van Leeuwen,N. A. Walton,Conny Aerts,Frédéric Arenou,Mark Cropper,R. Drimmel,Erik Høg,D. Katz,Mario G. Lattanzi,W. O'Mullane,Eva K. Grebel,Andrew D. Holland,C. Huc,X. Passot,L. Bramante,Carla Cacciari,J. Castañeda,L. Chaoul,N. Cheek,F. De Angeli,C. Fabricius,Raphael Guerra,Jose M Hernandez,A. Jean-Antoine-Piccolo,Eduard Masana,R. Messineo,Nami Mowlavi,Krzysztof Nienartowicz,D. Ordóñez-Blanco,Pasquale Panuzzo,Jordi Portell,P. J. Richards,M. Riello,George M. Seabroke,Paolo Tanga,F. Thévenin,J. Torra,Sebastian Els,G. Gracia-Abril,G. Comoretto,M. Garcia-Reinaldos,T. Lock,E. Mercier,Martin Altmann,Rene Andrae,Tri L. Astraatmadja,I. Bellas-Velidis,Kevin Benson,Jérôme Berthier,R. Blomme,G. Busso,Benoit Carry,Alberto Cellino,Gisella Clementini,S. Cowell,O. L. Creevey,J. Cuypers,Michael Davidson,J. De Ridder,A. de Torres,Ludovic Delchambre,Aldo Dell'Oro,C. Ducourant,Yves Fremat,Miguel García-Torres,Eric Gosset,J. L. Halbwachs,Nigel Hambly,D. L. Harrison,M. Hauser,Daniel Hestroffer,Simon Hodgkin,H. E. Huckle,A. Hutton,Gérard Jasniewicz,Stefan Jordan,M. Kontizas,Andreas Korn,A. C. Lanzafame,Minia Manteiga,André Moitinho,Karri Muinonen,J. Osinde,Elena Pancino,T. Pauwels,J. M. Petit,Alejandra Recio-Blanco,Annie C. Robin,L. M. Sarro,Christos Siopis,M. J. S. Smith,K. W. Smith,Alessandro Sozzetti,William Thuillot,W. van Reeven,Y. Viala,Ummi Abbas,A. Abreu Aramburu,S. Accart,J. J. Aguado,P. M. Allan,Walter Allasia,G. Altavilla,M. A. Álvarez,João Alves,Richard I. Anderson,Alexandre Humberto Andrei,E. Anglada Varela,E. Antiche,Teresa Antoja,Sonia Anton,Bernardino Arcay,A. Atzei,L. Ayache,N. Bach,S. G. Baker,L. Balaguer-Núñez,Christophe Barache,C. Barata,Antoine Barbier,F. Barblan,M. Baroni,D. Barrado y Navascués,M. Barros,Martin A. Barstow,Ugo Becciani,Michele Bellazzini,G. Bellei,A. Bello García,Vasily Belokurov,Philippe Bendjoya,A. Berihuete,Luciana Bianchi,Olivier Bienaymé,F. Billebaud,Nadejda Blagorodnova,S. Blanco-Cuaresma,T. Boch,Alex Bombrun,R. Borrachero,S. Bouquillon,G. Bourda,Hervé Bouy,Angela Bragaglia,Maarten A. Breddels,N. Brouillet,T. Brüsemeister,Beatrice Bucciarelli,F. Budnik,P. Burgess,R. Burgon,A. Burlacu,Deborah Busonero,R. Buzzi,Elisabetta Caffau,J. Cambras,Heather Campbell,Rossella Cancelliere,Tristan Cantat-Gaudin,T. Carlucci,J. M. Carrasco,Marco Castellani,P. Charlot,J. Charnas,P. Charvet,F. Chassat,Andrea Chiavassa,M. Clotet,G. Cocozza,Ross Collins,P. Collins,G. Costigan,F. Crifo,Nicholas Cross,Mariateresa Crosta,C. Crowley,Carlos Dafonte,Yassine Damerdji,A. Dapergolas,P. David,M. David,P. De Cat,F. de Felice,P. de Laverny,F. De Luise,R. De March,D. de Martino,R. E. de Souza,Jonas Debosscher,E. del Pozo,Marco Delbo,A. Delgado,H. E. Delgado,F. di Marco,P. Di Matteo,S. Diakite,Elisa Distefano,C. Dolding,S. dos Anjos,P. Drazinos,J. Durán,Y. Dzigan,E. Ecale,Bengt Edvardsson,Harry Enke,M. Erdmann,D. Escolar,M. Espina,Nick Evans,G. Eynard Bontemps,C. Fabre,M. Fabrizio,Simchon Faigler,A. J. Falcão,M. Farràs Casas,F. Faye,Luciana Federici,Grigori Fedorets,J. Fernández-Hernández,Pierre Fernique,Agnes Fienga,Francesca Figueras,F. Filippi,K. Findeisen,A. Fonti,Morgan Fouesneau,E. Fraile,Morgan Fraser,J. Fuchs,R. Furnell,Mario Gai,S. Galleti,Laurent Galluccio,D. Garabato,F. García-Sedano,P. Gare,A. Garofalo,N. Garralda,P. Gavras,J. Gerssen,R. Geyer,Gerry Gilmore,S. Girona,G. Giuffrida,M. Gomes,Ana González-Marcos,J. González-Núñez,J. J. González-Vidal,Mikael Granvik,A. Guerrier,Patrick Guillout,J. Guiraud,A. Gúrpide,R. Gutiérrez-Sánchez,Leanne P. Guy,R. Haigron,Despina Hatzidimitriou,Misha Haywood,Ulrike Heiter,Amina Helmi,David Hobbs,W. Hofmann,B. Holl,G. Holland,Julie Ann Hunt,A. Hypki,V. Icardi,Mike Irwin,G. Jevardat de Fombelle,Paula Jofre,Peter G. Jonker,Alain Jorissen,F. Julbe,A. Karampelas,A. Kochoska,R. Kohley,Katrien Kolenberg,E. Kontizas,Sergey E. Koposov,Georges Kordopatis,P. Koubsky,A. Kowalczyk,Alberto Krone-Martins,M. Kudryashova,I. Kull,R. K. Bachchan,F. Lacoste-Seris,Antonino F. Lanza,J.-B. Lavigne,C. Le Poncin-Lafitte,Yveline Lebreton,T. Lebzelter,Silvio Leccia,N. Leclerc,Isabelle Lecoeur-Taïbi,Vincent Lemaitre,H. Lenhardt,F. Leroux,Shilong Liao,E. Licata,H. E. P. Lindstrøm,T. A. Lister,E. Livanou,Alex Lobel,W. Löffler,M. López,A. Lopez-Lozano,D. Lorenz,T. Loureiro,I. MacDonald,T. Magalhães Fernandes,S. Managau,Robert G. Mann,G. Mantelet,O. Marchal,Jon Marchant,Marcella Marconi,J. Marie,S. Marinoni,P. M. Marrese,G. Marschalkó,D. J. Marshall,J. M. Martín-Fleitas,M. Martino,Nicolas Mary,Gal Matijevic,Tsevi Mazeh,Paul J. McMillan,S. Messina,A. Mestre,Daniel Michalik,N. R. Millar,B. M. H. Miranda,D. Molina,Roberto Molinaro,Marco Molinaro,László Molnár,M. Moniez,Paolo Montegriffo,D. Monteiro,R. Mor,A. Mora,Roberto Morbidelli,Thierry Morel,Stephan Morgenthaler,T. Morley,Derek W. Morris,A. F. Mulone,Tatiana Muraveva,Ilaria Musella,J. Narbonne,Gijs Nelemans,Luciano Nicastro,L. Noval,C. Ordenovic,Joaquín Ordieres-Meré,P. Osborne,C. Pagani,Isabella Pagano,F. Pailler,H. Palacin,L. Palaversa,P. Parsons,T. Paulsen,M. Pecoraro,R. Pedrosa,H. Pentikäinen,J. Pereira,B. Pichon,A. M. Piersimoni,F. X. Pineau,Emese Plachy,G. Plum,E. Poujoulet,Andrej Prsa,L. Pulone,S. Ragaini,S. Rago,Nicolas Rambaux,M. Ramos-Lerate,Piero Ranalli,Grégor Rauw,A. M. Read,S. Regibo,F. Renk,Céline Reylé,Rita A. Ribeiro,Lorenzo Rimoldini,Vincenzo Ripepi,Alberto Riva,Guy Rixon,Maroussia Roelens,M. Romero-Gómez,Nicholas Rowell,Frédéric Royer,Anja Rudolph,L. Ruiz-Dern,G. Sadowski,T. Sagristà Sellés,Johannes Sahlmann,Jesus Salgado,E. Salguero,M. Sarasso,H. Savietto,A. Schnorhk,M. Schultheis,Eva Sciacca,M. Segol,J. C. Segovia,Damien Ségransan,E. Serpell,I.-C. Shih,Riccardo Smareglia,Richard L. Smart,Caleb Smith,Enrique Solano,F. Solitro,Rosanna Sordo,Sonia Nieto,J. Souchay,Alessandro Spagna,Federica Spoto,U. Stampa,Iain A. Steele,H. Steidelmüller,C.A. Stephenson,H. Stoev,F. F. Suess,Maria Süveges,Jean Surdej,László Szabados,E. Szegedi-Elek,D. Tapiador,F. Taris,G. Tauran,Mark Taylor,Ramachrisna Teixeira,D. Terrett,Brandon Tingley,Scott Trager,C. Turon,Ana Ulla,E. Utrilla,Gaetano Valentini,A. van Elteren,E. Van Hemelryck,M. van Leeuwen,M. Varadi,Alberto Vecchiato,Jovan Veljanoski,T. Via,D. Vicente,Steven S. Vogt,Holger Voss,Viktor Votruba,S. Voutsinas,G. Walmsley,M. Weiler,K. Weingrill,D. Werner,Thomas Wevers,G. Whitehead,Łukasz Wyrzykowski,A. Yoldas,M. Žerjal,Shay Zucker,C. Zurbach,Tomaz Zwitter,A. Alecu,M. Allen,C. Allende Prieto,António Amorim,Guillem Anglada-Escudé,V. Arsenijevic,S. Azaz,P. Balm,M. Beck,H.-H. Bernstein,Lionel Bigot,Albert Bijaoui,C. Blasco,M. Bonfigli,Giuseppe Bono,Steve Boudreault,Alessandro Bressan,S. Brown,P.-M. Brunet,P. S. Bunclark,R. Buonanno,A. G. Butkevich,C. Carret,C. Carrion,Laurent Chemin,F. Chéreau,Leonardo Corcione,E. Darmigny,K. S. de Boer,P. de Teodoro,P. T. de Zeeuw,C. Delle Luche,Catherine Dominguès,Pierre Dubath,F. Fodor,B. Frézouls,A. Fries,Diego Fustes,D. Fyfe,E. Gallardo,J. Gallegos,Daniele Gardiol,M. Gebran,A. Gomboc,A. E. Gomez,E. Grux,A. Gueguen,A. Heyrovsky,J. Hoar,G. Iannicola,Y. Isasi Parache,A.-M. Janotto,E. Joliet,A. Jonckheere,R. Keil,Dae-Won Kim,Peter Klagyivik,Joakim Klar,J. Knude,Oleg Kochukhov,I. Kolka,Janez Kos,A. Kutka,Valéry Lainey,D. LeBouquin,Chao Liu,Davide Loreggia,Valeri V. Makarov,M. Marseille,Christophe Martayan,O. Martinez-Rubi,B. Massart,F. Meynadier,Shan Mignot,Ulisse Munari,A.-T. Nguyen,Thomas Nordlander,P. Ocvirk,K. S. O'Flaherty,A. Olias Sanz,P. Ortiz,J. Osorio,Dagmara Oszkiewicz,A. Ouzounis,M. Palmer,P. Park,Ester Pasquato,C. Peltzer,J. Peralta,F. Péturaud,T. Pieniluoma,E. Pigozzi,J. Poels,G. Prat,Thibaut Prod'homme,F. Raison,José Manuel Rebordão,D. Risquez,Brigitte Rocca-Volmerange,Simon Rosen,M. I. Ruiz-Fuertes,Federico Russo,Steven Sembay,I. Serraller Vizcaino,A. Short,A. Siebert,H. Silva,D. Sinachopoulos,Eric Slezak,Michael Soffel,Danuta Sosnowska,V. Straižys,M. ter Linden,Dirk Terrell,Stephan Theil,C. Tiede,L. Troisi,P. Tsalmantza,D. Tur,Mattia Vaccari,Frédéric Vachier,P. Valles,W. Van Hamme,L. Veltz,Jenni Virtanen,J.-M. Wallut,R. Wichmann,Mark I. Wilkinson,H. Ziaeepour,Sven Zschocke +624 more
TL;DR: Gaia as discussed by the authors is a cornerstone mission in the science programme of the European Space Agency (ESA). The spacecraft construction was approved in 2006, following a study in which the original interferometric concept was changed to a direct-imaging approach.
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The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
Neil Gehrels,G. Chincarini,G. Chincarini,Paolo Giommi,Keith O. Mason,John A. Nousek,Alan A. Wells,Nicholas E. White,S. D. Barthelmy,David N. Burrows,L. R. Cominsky,Kevin Hurley,F. E. Marshall,Peter Mészáros,Peter W. A. Roming,Lorella Angelini,Lorella Angelini,L. M. Barbier,Tomaso Belloni,Sergio Campana,P. A. Caraveo,M. M. Chester,O. Citterio,T. L. Cline,Mark Cropper,Jay Cummings,Jay Cummings,A. J. Dean,Eric D. Feigelson,E. E. Fenimore,Dale A. Frail,A. S. Fruchter,Gordon P. Garmire,Keith C. Gendreau,Gabriele Ghisellini,Jochen Greiner,Joanne E. Hill,S. D. Hunsberger,Hans A. Krimm,Hans A. Krimm,Shrinivas R. Kulkarni,Pawan Kumar,F. Lebrun,Nicole M. Lloyd-Ronning,Craig B. Markwardt,Craig B. Markwardt,Barbara J. Mattson,Barbara J. Mattson,Richard Mushotzky,Jay P. Norris,J. P. Osborne,Bohdan Paczynski,David Palmer,H.-S. Park,A. M. Parsons,J. A. Paul,Martin J. Rees,Christopher S. Reynolds,James E. Rhoads,T. P. Sasseen,Bradley E. Schaefer,A. Short,Alan P. Smale,Alan P. Smale,Ian Smith,Luigi Stella,Gianpiero Tagliaferri,Tadayuki Takahashi,Makoto Tashiro,Leisa K. Townsley,Jack Tueller,Martin J. L. Turner,M. Vietri,Wolfgang Voges,Martin Ward,Richard Willingale,F. M. Zerbi,W. W. Zhang +77 more
TL;DR: The Swift mission as discussed by the authors is a multi-wavelength observatory for gamma-ray burst (GRB) astronomy, which is a first-of-its-kind autonomous rapid-slewing satellite for transient astronomy and pioneers the way for future rapid-reaction and multiwavelength missions.
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The Swift X-ray telescope
David N. Burrows,Joanne E. Hill,John A. Nousek,J. A. Kennea,Alan A. Wells,J. P. Osborne,A. F. Abbey,A. P. Beardmore,K. Mukerjee,A. Short,Guido Chincarini,Sergio Campana,Oberto Citterio,Alberto Moretti,C. Pagani,Gianpiero Tagliaferri,Paolo Giommi,M. Capalbi,F. Tamburelli,Lorella Angelini,Giancarlo Cusumano,Heinrich Bräuninger,Wolfgang Burkert,Gisela Hartner +23 more
TL;DR: The Swift Gamma-Ray Explorer (XRT) as mentioned in this paper uses a mirror set built for JET-X and an XMM-Newton/EPIC MOS CCD detector to provide a sensitive broad-band (0.2-10 keV) X-ray imager with effective area of > 120 cm2 at 1.5 keV, field of view of 23.6 × 23. 6 arcminutes, and angular resolution of 18 arcseconds.
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The Swift X-ray Telescope
David N. Burrows,Joanne E. Hill,John A. Nousek,J. A. Kennea,Alan A. Wells,J. P. Osborne,A. F. Abbey,A. P. Beardmore,K. Mukerjee,A. Short,Guido Chincarini,Sergio Campana,Oberto Citterio,A. Moretti,C. Pagani,Gianpiero Tagliaferri,Paolo Giommi,M. Capalbi,F. Tamburelli,Lorella Angelini,G. Cusumano,Heinrich W. Braeuninger,Wolfgang Burkert,Gisela Hartner +23 more
TL;DR: The Swift Gamma-Ray Explorer (XRT) as mentioned in this paper uses a mirror set built for JET-X and an XMM/EPIC MOS CCD detector to provide a sensitive broad-band (0.2-10 keV) X-ray imager with effective area of > 120 cm^2 at 1.5 keV, field of view of 23.6 x23.6 arcminutes, and angular resolution of 18 arcseconds (HPD).
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Readout Modes and Automated Operation of the Swift X-Ray Telescope
Joanne E. Hill,David N. Burrows,John A. Nousek,A. F. Abbey,Richard M. Ambrosi,Heinrich Bräuninger,Wolfgang Burkert,Sergio Campana,Chaitanya Cheruvu,Giancarlo Cusumano,Michael Freyberg,Gisela Hartner,Robert Klar,C. Mangels,Alberto Moretti,Koji Mori,D. C. Morris,A. Short,Gianpiero Tagliaferri,Darach Watson,Paul Wood,Alan A. Wells +21 more
TL;DR: The Swift X-ray Telescope (XRT) as mentioned in this paper is designed to make astrometric, spectroscopic, and photometric observations of Xray emission from Gamma-ray Bursts and their afterglows in the energy band 0.2-10 keV.