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Nial Tanvir
Researcher at University of Leicester
Publications - 36
Citations - 1891
Nial Tanvir is an academic researcher from University of Leicester. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gamma-ray burst & Galaxy. The author has an hindex of 22, co-authored 36 publications receiving 1766 citations.
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The THESEUS space mission concept: science case, design and expected performances
Lorenzo Amati,P. T. O'Brien,Diego Götz,Enrico Bozzo,C. Tenzer,F. Frontera,F. Frontera,Giancarlo Ghirlanda,Claudio Labanti,J. P. Osborne,G. Stratta,Nial Tanvir,Richard Willingale,Primo Attina,Riccardo Campana,A. J. Castro-Tirado,C. Contini,F. Fuschino,A. Gomboc,René Hudec,René Hudec,Piotr Orleanski,Etienne Renotte,Tomaz Rodic,Zsolt Bagoly,Andrew Blain,Paul J. Callanan,Stefano Covino,Andrea Ferrara,Andrea Ferrara,E. Le Floc'h,Martino Marisaldi,Sandro Mereghetti,Piero Rosati,A. Vacchi,P. D'Avanzo,Paolo Giommi,S. Piranomonte,Luigi Piro,Victor Reglero,Andrea Rossi,Andrea Santangelo,Ruben Salvaterra,G. Tagliaferri,S. D. Vergani,S. D. Vergani,Serena Vinciguerra,Michael S. Briggs,E. Campolongo,Riccardo Ciolfi,Valerie Connaughton,B. Cordier,B. Morelli,Mauro Orlandini,C. Adami,A. Argan,Jean-Luc Atteia,Natalia Auricchio,Lajos G. Balázs,Giuseppe Baldazzi,S. Basa,Rupal Basak,Rupal Basak,Pierluigi Bellutti,M. G. Bernardini,Giuseppe Bertuccio,João Braga,M. Branchesi,Søren Brandt,Enzo Brocato,Carl Budtz-Jørgensen,Andrea Bulgarelli,Luciano Burderi,Jordan Camp,Salvatore Capozziello,Joseph Caruana,Piergiorgio Casella,Bradley Cenko,Bradley Cenko,Pascal Chardonnet,Pascal Chardonnet,B. Ciardi,S. Colafrancesco,Maria Giovanna Dainotti,Maria Giovanna Dainotti,Maria Giovanna Dainotti,V. D'Elia,D. de Martino,M. de Pasquale,E. Del Monte,M. Della Valle,Alessandro Drago,Y. Evangelista,Marco Feroci,Fabio Finelli,M. Fiorini,Johan P. U. Fynbo,Avishay Gal-Yam,Bruce Gendre,Gabriele Ghisellini,Aniello Grado,C. Guidorzi,M. Hafizi,Lorraine Hanlon,Jens Hjorth,Luca Izzo,László L. Kiss,Pawan Kumar,Irfan Kuvvetli,Michèle Lavagna,T. Li,Francesco Longo,Maxim Lyutikov,Maxim Lyutikov,Umberto Maio,Elisabetta Maiorano,Piero Malcovati,D. Malesani,Raffaella Margutti,Antonio Martin-Carrillo,N. Masetti,Sheila McBreen,Roberto Mignani,Gianluca Morgante,Carole Mundell,H. U. Nargaard-Nielsen,Luciano Nicastro,Eliana Palazzi,S. Paltani,Francesca Panessa,G. Pareschi,Asaf Pe'er,A. V. Penacchioni,A. V. Penacchioni,Elena Pian,Ester Piedipalumbo,Tsvi Piran,Gregor Rauw,M. Razzano,A. M. Read,Luciano Rezzolla,P. Romano,Remo Ruffini,Sandra Savaglio,Vito Sguera,Patricia Schady,W. Skidmore,Li Song,Elizabeth R. Stanway,R. L. C. Starling,M. Topinka,Eleonora Troja,Eleonora Troja,M. H. P. M. van Putten,Eros Vanzella,S. Vercellone,Colleen A. Wilson-Hodge,Daisuke Yonetoku,G. Zampa,N. Zampa,Bing Zhang,B. B. Zhang,S. Zhang,S.-N. Zhang,A. Antonelli,Federica B. Bianco,S. Boci,M. Boer,M. T. Botticella,O. Boulade,C. Butler,Sergio Campana,Fiamma Capitanio,Annalisa Celotti,Yi Chen,Monica Colpi,Andrea Comastri,Jean-Gabriel Cuby,Mauro Dadina,A. De Luca,Y.-W. Dong,Stefano Ettori,Poshak Gandhi,E. Geza,Jochen Greiner,Sylvain Guiriec,Jan Harms,M. Hernanz,Allan Hornstrup,Ian Hutchinson,G. L. Israel,Peter G. Jonker,Peter G. Jonker,Yuki Kaneko,N. Kawai,K. Wiersema,S. Korpela,V. Lebrun,F. Lu,Andrew MacFadyen,Giuseppe Malaguti,L. Maraschi,A. Melandri,Maryam Modjaz,D. Morris,Nicola Omodei,A. Paizis,Petr Páta,V. Petrosian,A. Rachevski,James E. Rhoads,James E. Rhoads,Felix Ryde,Felix Ryde,L. Sabau-Graziati,N. Shigehiro,Mark R. Sims,J. Soomin,Dorottya Szécsi,Dorottya Szécsi,Yuji Urata,Michela Uslenghi,Luca Valenziano,Giacomo Vianello,S. Vojtech,Darach Watson,J. Zicha +226 more
TL;DR: Theseus as mentioned in this paper is a space mission concept aimed at exploiting Gamma-Ray Bursts for investigating the early Universe and at providing a substantial advancement of multi-messenger and time-domain astrophysics.
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Evidence for a supernova in reanalyzed optical and near-infrared images of GRB970228
Titus Galama,Nial Tanvir,P. M. Vreeswijk,R. A. M. J. Wijers,Paul J. Groot,E. Rol,J. van Paradijs,Chryssa Kouveliotou,A. S. Fruchter,N. Masetti,Henrik D. Pedersen,Bruce Margon,Eric W. Deutsch,Mark R. Metzger,Lee Armus,S. Klose,B. Stecklum +16 more
TL;DR: In this article, B-, V-, R-c-, I_c-, J-, H-, K- and K'-band observations of the optical transient (OT) associated with GRB970228, based on a reanalysis of previously used images and unpublished data.
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A log NH I = 22.6 Damped Lyα Absorber in a Dark Gamma-Ray Burst: The Environment of GRB 050401*
Darach Watson,Johan P. U. Fynbo,C. Ledoux,Paul Vreeswijk,Jens Hjorth,Alain Smette,Alain Smette,Anja C. Andersen,Kentaro Aoki,T. Augusteijn,A. P. Beardmore,D. Bersier,J. M. Castro Cerón,P. D'Avanzo,D. Diaz-Fraile,Javier Gorosabel,P. Hirst,P. Jakobsson,B. L. Jensen,N. Kawai,George Kosugi,Peter Laursen,Andrew J. Levan,Josefa Masegosa,Jyri Näränen,K. L. Page,Kristian Pedersen,A. Pozanenko,James Reeves,James Reeves,Vasilij Rumyantsev,T. Shahbaz,D. Sharapov,Jesper Sollerman,R. L. C. Starling,Nial Tanvir,K. Torstensson,Klaas Wiersema +37 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the optical afterglow spectrum of GRB 050401 (at z = 2.8992 ± 0.0004) shows the presence of a damped Lyα absorber (DLA), with log N = 22.6 ± 1.3.
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A log N(HI) = 22.6 DLA in a dark gamma-ray burst: the environment of GRB 050401
Dan M. Watson,J. P. U. Fynbo,C. Ledoux,P. M. Vreeswijk,Jens Hjorth,Alain Smette,Anja C. Andersen,Kentaro Aoki,T. Augusteijn,A. P. Beardmore,D. Bersier,J. M. Castro Cerón,P. D'Avanzo,D. Diaz-Fraile,J. Gorosabel,P. Hirst,P. Jakobsson,B. L. Jensen,N. Kawai,G. Kosugi,P. Laursen,A. J. Levan,Josefa Masegosa,Jyri Näränen,K. L. Page,K. Pedersen,A. Pozanenko,James Reeves,Vasilij Rumyantsev,T. Shahbaz,D. Sharapov,Jesper Sollerman,R. L. C. Starling,Nial Tanvir,K. Torstensson,K. Wiersema +35 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the optical afterglow spectrum of GRB050401 (at z=2.8992+/-0.0004) shows the presence of a DLA, with log(nHI)=22.6+/- 0.3.
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The PAndAS Field of Streams: Stellar Structures in the Milky Way Halo toward Andromeda and Triangulum
Nicolas F. Martin,Rodrigo A. Ibata,R. Michael Rich,Michelle L. M. Collins,Mark A. Fardal,Mike Irwin,Geraint F. Lewis,Alan W. McConnachie,Arif Babul,Nicholas F. Bate,Scott C. Chapman,Anthony R. Conn,Denija Crnojević,Denija Crnojević,Annette M. N. Ferguson,A. Dougal Mackey,Julio F. Navarro,Jorge Peñarrubia,Nial Tanvir,David Valls-Gabaud +19 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors reveal the highly structured nature of the Milky Way stellar halo within the footprint of the Pan-Andromeda Archaeological Survey (PAndAS) photometric survey from blue main sequence (MS) and MS turn-off stars.