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Alan P. Smale
Researcher at Goddard Space Flight Center
Publications - 142
Citations - 7924
Alan P. Smale is an academic researcher from Goddard Space Flight Center. The author has contributed to research in topics: Orbital period & Light curve. The author has an hindex of 33, co-authored 138 publications receiving 7430 citations. Previous affiliations of Alan P. Smale include NASA Headquarters & Universities Space Research Association.
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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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A short γ-ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z = 0.225
Neil Gehrels,Craig L. Sarazin,P. T. O'Brien,Bing Zhang,L. M. Barbier,Scott Barthelmy,A. J. Blustin,David N. Burrows,J. K. Cannizzo,J. K. Cannizzo,Jay Cummings,Jay Cummings,Michael R. Goad,Stephen T. Holland,Stephen T. Holland,Cheryl Hurkett,J. A. Kennea,Andrew J. Levan,C. B. Markwardt,C. B. Markwardt,Keith O. Mason,Peter Mészáros,M. J. Page,David Palmer,Evert Rol,T. Sakamoto,T. Sakamoto,Richard Willingale,Lorella Angelini,Lorella Angelini,Andrew P. Beardmore,Patricia T. Boyd,Patricia T. Boyd,A. A. Breeveld,Sergio Campana,M. M. Chester,Guido Chincarini,Guido Chincarini,L. R. Cominsky,Giancarlo Cusumano,M. de Pasquale,Edward E. Fenimore,Paolo Giommi,Caryl Gronwall,Dirk Grupe,Joanne E. Hill,D. Hinshaw,Jens Hjorth,D. Hullinger,D. Hullinger,Kevin Hurley,Sylvio Klose,Shiho Kobayashi,Chryssa Kouveliotou,Hans A. Krimm,Hans A. Krimm,Vanessa Mangano,F. E. Marshall,Katherine E. McGowan,A. Moretti,Richard Mushotzky,Kazuhiro Nakazawa,Jay P. Norris,John A. Nousek,J. P. Osborne,K. L. Page,A. M. Parsons,Sandeep K. Patel,M. Perri,T. S. Poole,P. Romano,P. W. A. Roming,Stuart Rosen,G. Sato,Patricia Schady,Alan P. Smale,Jesper Sollerman,R. L. C. Starling,Martin Still,Martin Still,Masaya Suzuki,Gianpiero Tagliaferri,Tadayuki Takahashi,Makoto Tashiro,Jack Tueller,Alan A. Wells,Nicholas E. White,Ralph A. M. J. Wijers +87 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported the detection of the X-ray afterglow from the short burst GRB 050509B and its location on the sky is near a luminous, non-star-forming elliptical galaxy at a redshift of 0.225.
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Millisecond X-Ray Variability from an Accreting Neutron Star System
Tod E. Strohmayer,William W. Zhang,Jean H. Swank,Alan P. Smale,Lev Titarchuk,Lev Titarchuk,Charles Day,Umin Lee +7 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported the detection with the Proportional Counter Array (PCA) on board the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) of millisecond variability in the X-ray emission from the low-mass Xray binary 4U 1728-34.
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XIPE: the x-ray imaging polarimetry explorer
P. Soffitta,R. Bellazzini,Enrico Bozzo,Vadim Burwitz,A. J. Castro-Tirado,Enrico Costa,T. J. L. Courvoisier,Hua Feng,Szymon Gburek,Rene W. Goosmann,Vladimir Karas,Giorgio Matt,Fabio Muleri,K. Nandra,Mark Pearce,Juri Poutanen,Victor Reglero,D. Sabau Maria,Andrea Santangelo,G. Tagliaferri,C. Tenzer,Jacco Vink,Martin C. Weisskopf,Silvia Zane,Ivan Agudo,Angelo Antonelli,Primo Attina,Luca Baldini,A. M. Bykov,Rita Carpentiero,E. Cavazzuti,E. M. Churazov,E. Del Monte,D. de Martino,I. Donnarumma,Victor Doroshenko,Y. Evangelista,Ivo Ferreira,Elena Gallo,Nicolas Grosso,P. Kaaret,E. Kuulkers,J. Laranaga,Luca Latronico,David H. Lumb,J. Macian,Julien Malzac,F. Marin,Enrico Massaro,M. Minuti,Carole Mundell,Jan-Uwe Ness,T. Oosterbroek,S. Paltani,G. Pareschi,Rosalba Perna,P.-O. Petrucci,H. B. Pinazo,M. Pinchera,J. P. Rodriguez,M. Roncadelli,A. Santovincenzo,S. Sazonov,Carmelo Sgrò,Daniele Spiga,J. Svoboda,Craig Theobald,T. Theodorou,Roberto Turolla,E. Wilhelmi De Ona,Berend Winter,A. M. Akbar,H. Allan,Roberto Aloisio,Diego Altamirano,Lorenzo Amati,Elena Amato,Emmanouil Angelakis,J. Arezu,J. L. Atteia,Magnus Axelsson,Matteo Bachetti,Lucía Ballo,Solen Balman,Rino Bandiera,Xavier Barcons,S. Basso,Altan Baykal,Werner Becker,Ehud Behar,Banafsheh Beheshtipour,R. Belmont,Edo Berger,Federico Bernardini,Stefano Bianchi,G. Bisnovatyi-Kogan,P. Blasi,Pere Blay,Arash Bodaghee,M. Boer,Markus Boettcher,Slavko Bogdanov,Ignazio Bombaci,R. Bonino,João Braga,W. N. Brandt,A. Brez,Niccolò Bucciantini,Luciano Burderi,Ilaria Caiazzo,Riccardo Campana,Sergio Campana,Fiamma Capitanio,M. Cappi,M. Cardillo,Piergiorgio Casella,O. Catmabacak,Bradley Cenko,Pablo Cerdá-Durán,C. Cerruti,Sylvain Chaty,Maxime Chauvin,Yi Chen,Jérôme Chenevez,Masha Chernyakova,C. C. Cheung Teddy,D. Christodoulou,P. H. Connell,R. Corbet,F. Coti Zelati,Stefano Covino,Wei Cui,Giancarlo Cusumano,Antonino D'Ai,F. D'Ammando,M. Dadina,Zhendong Dai,A. de Rosa,L. de Ruvo,Nathalie Degenaar,M. Del Santo,L. Del Zanna,Gulab C. Dewangan,S. Di Cosimo,N. Di Lalla,G. Di Persio,T. Di Salvo,T.H.V.T. Dias,Chris Done,Michal Dovciak,Gerardine Doyle,Lorenzo Ducci,Lorenzo Ducci,R. F. Elsner,Teruaki Enoto,J. Escada,Paolo Esposito,C. J. Eyles,Sergio Fabiani,M. Falanga,Serena Falocco,Yi-Zhong Fan,Rob Fender,M. Feroci,Carlo Ferrigno,William R. Forman,Luigi Foschini,C. Fragile,F. Fuerst,Y. Fujita,J. L. Gasent-Blesa,Joseph D. Gelfand,Bruce Gendre,G. Ghirlanda,G. Ghisellini,Marcello Giroletti,D. Goetz,Ersin Gogus,José L. Gómez,D. Gonzalez,Rosario Gonzalez-Riestra,Eric V. Gotthelf,L. Gou,Paola Grandi,Victoria Grinberg,Fabien Grisé,C. Guidorzi,N. Gurlebeck,Tolga Guver,Daryl Haggard,Martin J. Hardcastle,Dieter H. Hartmann,Carole A. Haswell,Alexander Heger,M. Hernanz,Jeremy S. Heyl,L. Ho,J. K. Hoormann,J. Horak,Juhani Huovelin,D. Huppenkothen,R. Iaria,C. Inam Sitki,Adam Ingram,G. L. Israel,Luca Izzo,Michael Burgess,M. Jackson,L. Ji,J. Jiang,Tim Johannsen,C. Jones,S. G. Jorstad,Jari J. E. Kajava,M. Kalamkar,Emrah Kalemci,T. R. Kallman,Atish Kamble,Fabian Kislat,Mózsi Kiss,D. Klochkov,Elmar Koerding,Mari Kolehmainen,Karri I. I. Koljonen,S. Komossa,A. Kong,S. Korpela,Miroslaw Kowalinski,Henric Krawczynski,I. Kreykenbohm,M. Kuss,Dong Lai,M. Lan,Josefin Larsson,Silas Laycock,Davide Lazzati,Denis Leahy,Haizhou Li,J. Li,L. X Li,Tenglin Li,Z. S. Li,Manuel Linares,Matthew L. Lister,H. Liu,Giuseppe Lodato,Anne M. Lohfink,Francesco Longo,G. J. M. Luna,A. A. Lutovinov,S. Mahmoodifar,J.M. Maia,Vincenzo Mainieri,Chandreyee Maitra,Dipankar Maitra,Agnieszka Majczyna,S. Maldera,D. Malyshev,Alberto Manfreda,Antonios Manousakis,R. Manuel,Raffaella Margutti,Andrea Marinucci,Sera Markoff,Alan P. Marscher,Herman L. Marshall,Francesco Massaro,Maura McLaughlin,G. Medina-Tanco,Missagh Mehdipour,Matthew J. Middleton,Roberto Mignani,Petar Mimica,Teresa Mineo,Beatriz Mingo,Giovanni Miniutti,S. M. Mirac,G. Morlino,Armin Vahdat Motlagh,Sara Motta,Alexander A. Mushtukov,Shigehiro Nagataki,F. Nardini,Joonas Nättilä,G. J. Navarro,Barbara Negri,M. Negro,S. Nenonen,Vitaly Neustroev,Fabrizio Nicastro,Andrew Norton,A. A. Nucita,P. T. O'Brien,Steve O'Dell,H. Odaka,Barbara Olmi,Nicola Omodei,M. Orienti,Mauro Orlandini,J. P. Osborne,L. Pacciani,Vaidehi S. Paliya,I. E. Papadakis,A. Papitto,Z. Paragi,P. Pascal,Biswajit Paul,Lucia Pavan,A. Pellizzoni,Emanuele Perinati,Melissa Pesce-Rollins,Enrico Piconcelli,A. G. Pili,M. Pilia,M. Pohl,Gabriele Ponti,D. Porquet,A. Possenti,Konstantin Postnov,Isabella Prandoni,N. Produit,G. Puehlhofer,B. Ramsey,M. Razzano,Nanda Rea,Pablo Reig,K. Reinsch,Thomas H. Reiprich,M. T. Reynolds,Guido Risaliti,Timothy P.L. Roberts,Jerome Rodriguez,M. E. Rossi,Stephan Rosswog,Agata Różańska,A. Rubini,B. Rudak,D. M. Russell,Felix Ryde,S. Sabatini,Gloria Sala,M. Salvati,Manami Sasaki,Tuomas Savolainen,R. D. Saxton,Simone Scaringi,Kevin Schawinski,Norbert S. Schulz,Axel Schwope,Paola Severgnini,M. Sharon,Aarran W. Shaw,Andrew Shearer,X. Shesheng,I. C Shih,Kevin M. Silva,Rui M. Curado da Silva,Eric H. Silver,Alan P. Smale,F. Spada,G. Spandre,A. Stamerra,Benjamin Stappers,Sumner Starrfield,Lukasz Stawarz,Nikolaos Stergioulas,Abigail L. Stevens,H. Stiele,V. F. Suleimanov,R. A. Sunyaev,Agnieszka Slowikowska,Francesco Tamborra,Fabrizio Tavecchio,Roberto Taverna,Andrea Tiengo,Laura Tolos,Francesco Tombesi,John A. Tomsick,H. Tong,Gabriel Török,Diego F. Torres,A. Tortosa,Andrea Tramacere,V. Trimble,Ginevra Trinchieri,Sergey S. Tsygankov,M. Tuerler,S. Turriziani,Francesco Ursini,Phil Uttley,Peggy Varniere,F. H. Vincent,Eda Vurgun,Chunhua Wang,Zhenhua Wang,Anna L. Watts,John C Wheeler,K. Wiersema,Rudy Wijnands,Jörn Wilms,Anna Wolter,K. S. Wood,K. Wu,X. Wu,W. Xiangyu,F. Xie,Rong Xu,S. P Yan,J. Yang,W. Yu,Feng Yuan,Anna Zajczyk,D. Zanetti,R. Zanin,C. Zanni,Luca Zappacosta,Andrzej A. Zdziarski,A. Zech,Haocheng Zhang,S. Zhang,W. Zhang,Abderahmen Zoghbi +421 more
TL;DR: The X-ray Imaging Polarimetry Explorer (XIPE) as discussed by the authors is a mission dedicated to Xray Astronomy which is in a competitive phase A as fourth medium size mission of ESA (M4).
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Multiepoch Multiwavelength Spectra and Models for Blazar 3C 279
R. C. Hartman,Markus Böttcher,Greg Aldering,Hugh D. Aller,Margo F. Aller,Dana E. Backman,Thomas J. Balonek,D. L. Bertsch,Steven D. Bloom,H. Bock,P. Boltwood,Michael T. Carini,Werner Collmar,G. de Francesco,E. C. Ferrara,Wolfram Freudling,Walter Kieran Gear,Patrick B. Hall,Jochen Heidt,Philip A. Hughes,Stanley D. Hunter,Shardha Jogee,W. N. Johnson,Gottfried Kanbach,S. Katajainen,Mark R. Kidger,Tsuneo Kii,M. Koskimies,Alex Kraus,Hidetoshi Kubo,Omar M. Kurtanidze,L. Lanteri,Anthony Lawson,Yiing Lin,Ute Lisenfeld,Grzegorz Madejski,F. Makino,L. Maraschi,Alan P. Marscher,John McFarland,I. M. McHardy,H. R. Miller,M. G. Nikolashvili,K. Nilsson,J. C. Noble,Giuliano Nucciarelli,L. Ostorero,Elena Pian,T. Pursimo,C. M. Raiteri,Wolfgang Reich,R. Rekola,G. M. Richter,E. I. Robson,A. C. Sadun,Tuomas Savolainen,A. Sillanpää,Alan P. Smale,G. Sobrito,P. Sreekumar,Jamie Stevens,Leo O. Takalo,Fabrizio Tavecchio,Harri Teräsranta,D. J. Thompson,Merja Tornikoski,G. Tosti,H. Ungerechts,C. M. Urry,Esko Valtaoja,M. Villata,Stefan Wagner,Ann E. Wehrle,J. W. Wilson +73 more
TL;DR: In this article, a leptonic jet was used to model the spectra of 3C 279, with combined synchrotron self-Compton plus external Compton γ-ray production.