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Peter W. A. Roming
Researcher at Southwest Research Institute
Publications - 86
Citations - 9533
Peter W. A. Roming is an academic researcher from Southwest Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gamma-ray burst & Supernova. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 85 publications receiving 8789 citations. Previous affiliations of Peter W. A. Roming include Brigham Young University & University of Texas at San Antonio.
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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 Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope
Peter W. A. Roming,T. Kennedy,Keith O. Mason,John A. Nousek,Lindy Ahr,Richard E. Bingham,Patrick S. Broos,M. Carter,B. Hancock,H. E. Huckle,S. D. Hunsberger,H. Kawakami,Ronnie Killough,T. Scott Koch,M. McLelland,Kelly D. Smith,Philip J. Smith,Juan Carlos Soto,Patricia T. Boyd,A. A. Breeveld,Stephen T. Holland,M. Ivanushkina,Michael S. Pryzby,Martin Still,Joseph Stock +24 more
TL;DR: The Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) as discussed by the authors is one of the three instruments flying aboard the Swift Gamma-ray Observatory, which is designed to capture the early (∼1 min) UV and optical photons from the afterglow of gamma-ray bursts in the 170-600 nm band as well as long term observations of these afterglows.
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DISCERNING THE PHYSICAL ORIGINS OF COSMOLOGICAL GAMMA-RAY BURSTS BASED ON MULTIPLE OBSERVATIONAL CRITERIA: THE CASES OF z = 6.7 GRB 080913, z = 8.2 GRB 090423, AND SOME SHORT/HARD GRBs
Bing Zhang,Bin-Bin Zhang,Francisco J. Virgili,En-Wei Liang,D. Alexander Kann,Xue-Feng Wu,Xue-Feng Wu,Daniel Proga,Hou-Jun Lv,Kenji Toma,Peter Mészáros,David N. Burrows,Peter W. A. Roming,Neil Gehrels +13 more
TL;DR: In this article, two high-redshift gamma-ray bursts, GRB 080913 at 6.7 and GRB 090423 at 8.2, recently detected by Swift appear as intrinsically short, hard GRBs.
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Discerning the physical origins of cosmological Gamma-ray bursts based on multiple observational criteria: the cases of z=6.7 GRB 080913, z=8.3 GRB 090423, and some short/hard GRBs
Bing Zhang,Bin-Bin Zhang,Francisco J. Virgili,En-Wei Liang,D. Alexander Kann,Xue-Feng Wu,Daniel Proga,Hou-Jun Lv,Kenji Toma,Peter Mészáros,David N. Burrows,Peter W. A. Roming,Neil Gehrels +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors perform a more thorough investigation on two physically distinct types (Type I/II) of cosmological GRBs and their observational characteristics, and they suggest that GRB 080913 and GRB 090423 are more likely Type II events.
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GRB Radiative Efficiencies Derived from the Swift Data: GRBs versus XRFs, Long versus Short
Bing Zhang,En-Wei Liang,En-Wei Liang,K. L. Page,Dirk Grupe,Bin-Bin Zhang,Bin-Bin Zhang,Scott Barthelmy,David N. Burrows,Sergio Campana,Guido Chincarini,Guido Chincarini,Neil Gehrels,Shiho Kobayashi,Peter Mészáros,Alberto Moretti,John A. Nousek,P. T. O'Brien,J. P. Osborne,Peter W. A. Roming,T. Sakamoto,Patricia Schady,Richard Willingale +22 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors systematically analyzed the prompt emission and the early afterglow data of a sample of 31 GRBs detected by Swift before 2005 September and estimate the GRB radiative efficiency.