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Antonino Cucchiara
Researcher at University of the Virgin Islands
Publications - 69
Citations - 5166
Antonino Cucchiara is an academic researcher from University of the Virgin Islands. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gamma-ray burst & Redshift. The author has an hindex of 32, co-authored 69 publications receiving 4703 citations. Previous affiliations of Antonino Cucchiara include Pennsylvania State University & University of California, Berkeley.
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Photometric calibration of the Swift ultraviolet/optical telescope
T. S. Poole,A. A. Breeveld,M. J. Page,Wayne B. Landsman,Stephen T. Holland,Stephen T. Holland,P. W. A. Roming,N. P. M. Kuin,Peter J. Brown,Caryl Gronwall,S. D. Hunsberger,S. Koch,Keith O. Mason,Keith O. Mason,Patricia Schady,D. E. Vanden Berk,A. J. Blustin,P. Boyd,Patrick S. Broos,M. Carter,M. M. Chester,Antonino Cucchiara,B. Hancock,H. Huckle,Stefan Immler,M. Ivanushkina,T. Kennedy,Frank Marshall,Adam N. Morgan,Shashi B. Pandey,M. de Pasquale,Philip J. Smith,M. Still +32 more
TL;DR: In this article, the photometric calibration of the Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) was performed with observations of standard stars and standard star fields that represent a wide range of spectral star types.
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A possible relativistic jetted outburst from a massive black hole fed by a tidally disrupted star.
Joshua S. Bloom,Dimitrios Giannios,Brian D. Metzger,S. Bradley Cenko,Daniel A. Perley,Nathaniel R. Butler,Nial R. Tanvir,Andrew J. Levan,Paul T. O' Brien,Linda E. Strubbe,Fabio De Colle,Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz,William H. Lee,Sergei Nayakshin,Eliot Quataert,Andrew J. King,Antonino Cucchiara,Antonino Cucchiara,James Guillochon,Geoffrey C. Bower,Andrew S. Fruchter,Adam N. Morgan,Alexander J. van der Horst +22 more
TL;DR: Observations suggest a sudden accretion event onto a central MBH of mass about 106 to 107 solar masses, which leads to a natural analogy of Sw 1644+57 to a temporary smaller-scale blazar.
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An Extremely Luminous Panchromatic Outburst from the Nucleus of a Distant Galaxy
Andrew J. Levan,Nial R. Tanvir,S. B. Cenko,Daniel A. Perley,Klaas Wiersema,Josh Bloom,A. S. Fruchter,A. de Ugarte Postigo,P. T. O'Brien,Nathaniel R. Butler,A. J. van der Horst,Giorgos Leloudas,Adam N. Morgan,Kuntal Misra,Geoffrey C. Bower,Jay Farihi,R. L. Tunnicliffe,Maryam Modjaz,J. M. Silverman,Jens Hjorth,Christina C. Thöne,Antonino Cucchiara,J. M. Castro Cerón,A. J. Castro-Tirado,Jacob A. Arnold,M. Bremer,Jean P. Brodie,T. Carroll,Michael C. Cooper,P. A. Curran,R. M. Cutri,J. Ehle,Duncan A. Forbes,Johan P. U. Fynbo,Javier Gorosabel,John D. Graham,John D. Graham,D. I. Hoffman,Sergei Guziy,Pall Jakobsson,Atish Kamble,T. Kerr,Mansi M. Kasliwal,Chryssa Kouveliotou,Daniel Kocevski,Nicholas M. Law,Peter Nugent,Peter Nugent,Eran O. Ofek,Dovi Poznanski,Dovi Poznanski,Robert M. Quimby,E. Rol,Aaron J. Romanowsky,R. Sanchez-Ramirez,Steve Schulze,N. Singh,N. Singh,L. van Spaandonk,L. van Spaandonk,R. L. C. Starling,Richard G. Strom,Richard G. Strom,J. C. Tello,Ovidiu Vaduvescu,Peter J. Wheatley,Ralph A. M. J. Wijers,J. M. Winters,D. Xu +68 more
TL;DR: Multiwavelength observations of a unique γ-ray–selected transient detected by the Swift satellite, accompanied by bright emission across the electromagnetic spectrum, and whose properties are unlike any previously observed source are presented.
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A new population of ultra-long duration gamma-ray bursts
Andrew J. Levan,Nial R. Tanvir,R. L. C. Starling,Klaas Wiersema,K. L. Page,Daniel A. Perley,Steve Schulze,Graham A. Wynn,Ryan Chornock,Jens Hjorth,S. B. Cenko,A. S. Fruchter,P. T. O'Brien,G. C. Brown,R. L. Tunnicliffe,D. Malesani,Pall Jakobsson,Darach Watson,Edo Berger,D. Bersier,B. E. Cobb,Stefano Covino,Antonino Cucchiara,A. de Ugarte Postigo,A. de Ugarte Postigo,D. B. Fox,Avishay Gal-Yam,P. Goldoni,J. Gorosabel,J. Gorosabel,J. Gorosabel,Lex Kaper,T. Krühler,R. Karjalainen,J. P. Osborne,Elena Pian,R. Sanchez-Ramirez,Brian P. Schmidt,I. Skillen,G. Tagliaferri,Christina C. Thöne,Ovidiu Vaduvescu,Ralph A. M. J. Wijers,B. A. Zauderer +43 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present multi-wavelength observations of three gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with durations of several thousand seconds and demonstrate that these events are extragalactic transients; in particular, they resolve the long-standing conundrum of the distance of GRB 101225A (the "Christmas-day burst"), finding it to have a redshift z = 0.847 and showing that two apparently similar events (GRB 111209A and GRB 121027A) lie at z =0.677 and z = 1
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The unusual X-ray emission of the short Swift GRB 090515: Evidence for the formation of a magnetar?
Antonia Rowlinson,P. T. O'Brien,Nial R. Tanvir,Bing Zhang,Phil Evans,N. Lyons,Andrew J. Levan,Richard Willingale,K. L. Page,O. Onal,David N. Burrows,A. P. Beardmore,T. N. Ukwatta,T. N. Ukwatta,Edo Berger,Jens Hjorth,A. S. Fruchter,R. L. Tunnicliffe,Derek B. Fox,Antonino Cucchiara +19 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the Swift observations of GRB 090515 and compare it to other gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the Swift sample, and suggest it might be energy injection from an unstable millisecond pulsar contributing to their emission.