Selected Papers, Publications, and Products

Selected Recent Publications and Research Results by Members of the GWU Astrophysics group (past 3 years).

• January 2014 - The Afterglow of GRB 130427A from 1 to 1.0E+16 GHz

• December 2013 - New Constraints on the Cooling of the Central Compact Object in Cas A

• December 2013 - The Hurst exponent of Fermi gamma-ray bursts

• November 2013 - Probing Curvature Effects in the Fermi GRB 110920

• October 2013 - Review: Chandra Imaging of Gamma-Ray Binaries

• August 2013 - X-Ray Flares and Their Connection With Prompt Emission in GRBs

• July 2013 - The very energetic, broad-lined Type Ic supernova 2010ah costraints GRB projenitors

• June 2013 - Minimum variability time-scales of long and short GRBs

• May 2013 - Review of Gamma-ray and X-ray Properties of Pulsar Wind Nebulae and Unidentified Galactic TeV Sources

• April 2013 - A New Correlation between GRB X-Ray Flares and the Prompt Emission

• April 2013 - The role of GRB jet geometry in Fermi GRB 110920

• February 2013 - Discovery of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from CTA 1 by VERITAS

• January 2013 - Chandra reveals the amazing helical jet of the Vela Pulsar

• November 2012 - LIGO search for Gravitational Waves from Gamma-Ray Bursts

• September 2012 - Minimum variability timescale in Gamma-Ray Bursts observed by Fermi

• August 2012 - First Absorption Features in the X-ray Spectrum of an Ordinary Radio Pulsar are discovered

• August 2012 - Chandra pulsar survey (ChaPS)

• June 2012 - Infrahumps detected in Kepler light curve of V1504 Cygni

• April 2012 - LIGO prepares to search for transients having both gravitatinal wave and electromagnetic counterparts

• March 2012 - A Wolf-Rayet star explosion detected

• March 2012 - X-Ray Observations of the New Unusual Transient Magnetar Swift J1834.9–0846

• January 2012 - Connecting time and energy domains in GRBs observed by Swift

• January 2012 - Classifying X-ray sources in XMM-Newton Observations of Two Candidate Supernova Remnants

• January 2012 - The Thermal Spectrum of the Recycled PSR J0437–4715 and Its White Dwarf Companion

• December 2011 - Observational Constraints on Multimessenger Sources of Gravitational Waves and High-Energy Neutrinos

• November 2011 - A Broad-line Ic Supernova Discovered

• November 2011 - Multiwavelength Spectroscopy of nearby PSR B0656+14

• August 2011 - Probing the Fractal Nature of Long Gamma Ray Bursts

• June 2011 - Search for Gravitational Wave Bursts from Six Magnetars

• June 2011 - Extended X-Ray Emission in the Vicinity of the Microquasar LS 5039 Discovered by Chandra X-ray Observatory

• May 2011 - Gravitational-wave signals from magnetars

• April 2011 - A new frequency-luminosity relation for long gamma-ray bursts?

• April 2011 - Chandra helps to solve the mystery of extended TeV Source HESS J1834-087

• March 2011 - Discovery of Extended X-ray Emission from the PSR B1259-63/SS 2883 Binary with Chandra

Press Releases

• January 2013 (upcoming) - Discovery of the remarkable periodic changes in the Vela pulsar jet /a>; paper accepted to ApJ )

• September 2012 - Discovery of first spectral features in the X-ray spectrum of isolated pulsar (Science paper )