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D. E. Vanden Berk
Researcher at Pennsylvania State University
Publications - 27
Citations - 2438
D. E. Vanden Berk is an academic researcher from Pennsylvania State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gamma-ray burst & Afterglow. The author has an hindex of 14, co-authored 27 publications receiving 2233 citations. Previous affiliations of D. E. Vanden Berk include University of Chicago & University of Pittsburgh.
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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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Spectral Classification of Quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Eigenspectra, Redshift, and Luminosity Effects
Ching-Wa Yip,A. J. Connolly,D. E. Vanden Berk,Zhaoming Ma,Joshua A. Frieman,Mark SubbaRao,Mark SubbaRao,Alexander S. Szalay,Gordon T. Richards,Patrick B. Hall,Donald P. Schneider,Andrew M. Hopkins,Jonathan R. Trump,J. Brinkmann +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used the Karhunen-Loeve transform (KLT) to analyze 16,707 quasar spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) using the principal components analysis.
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Further calibration of the Swift ultraviolet/optical telescope
A. A. Breeveld,P. A. Curran,E. A. Hoversten,S. Koch,W. B. Landsman,F. E. Marshall,M. J. Page,T. S. Poole,P. W. A. Roming,Philip J. Smith,M. Still,M. Still,Vladimir Yershov,A. J. Blustin,A. J. Blustin,Peter J. Brown,Peter J. Brown,Caryl Gronwall,Stephen T. Holland,Stephen T. Holland,N. P. M. Kuin,Katherine E. McGowan,Katherine E. McGowan,Stuart Rosen,Stuart Rosen,P. T. Boyd,Patrick S. Broos,M. Carter,M. M. Chester,B. Hancock,H. E. Huckle,Stefan Immler,M. Ivanushkina,M. Ivanushkina,T. Kennedy,Keith O. Mason,Keith O. Mason,Adam N. Morgan,Adam N. Morgan,Samantha Oates,M. de Pasquale,Patricia Schady,Michael H. Siegel,D. E. Vanden Berk,D. E. Vanden Berk +44 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the photometric calibration of the UV/Optical Telescope (UVOT) has been described, and details on other aspects of the calibration including a measurement of the point spread function with an assessment of the orbital variation and the effect on photometry.
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A statistical study of gamma-ray burst afterglows measured by the Swift Ultraviolet Optical Telescope
Samantha Oates,M. J. Page,Patricia Schady,M. de Pasquale,T. S. Koch,A. A. Breeveld,Peter J. Brown,M. M. Chester,Stephen T. Holland,Stephen T. Holland,E. A. Hoversten,N. P. M. Kuin,F. E. Marshall,P. W. A. Roming,M. Still,D. E. Vanden Berk,Silvia Zane,J. A. Nousek +17 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present the first statistical analysis of 27 Ultraviolet Optical Telescope (UVOT) optical/ultraviolet light curves of gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows.
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The First Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope GRB Afterglow Catalog
P. W. A. Roming,T. S. Koch,S. R. Oates,B. L. Porterfield,D. E. Vanden Berk,P. T. Boyd,Stephen T. Holland,Stephen T. Holland,E. A. Hoversten,Stefan Immler,Stefan Immler,F. E. Marshall,M. J. Page,Judith Racusin,Donald P. Schneider,A. A. Breeveld,Peter J. Brown,M. M. Chester,A. Cucchiara,M. de Pasquale,Caryl Gronwall,S. D. Hunsberger,N. P. M. Kuin,W. B. Landsman,Patricia Schady,M. Still +25 more
TL;DR: The first Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglow catalog was presented in this article, which contains over 64,000 independent UVOT image observations of 229 GRBs first detected by Swift, the High Energy Transient Explorer 2 (HETE2), the International Gamma-Ray Astrophysics Laboratory (INTEGRAL), and the Interplanetary Network (IPN).