Publications (7)
The First Pulse of the Extremely Bright GRB 130427A: A Test Lab for Synchrotron Shocks
R. Preece, J. Michael Burgess, A. von Kienlin +156
Gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A is one of the most energetic GRBs ever observed. The initial pulse up to 2.5 s is possibly the brightest well-isolated pulse observed to date. A fine…
A Relativistic Type Ibc Supernova Without a Detected Gamma-ray Burst
A. M. Soderberg, S. Chakraborti, G. Pignata +21
Long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) mark the explosive death of some massive stars and are a rare sub-class of Type Ibc supernovae (SNe Ibc). They are distinguished by the produc…
Earth Occultation Imaging of the Low Energy Gamma-Ray Sky with GBM
J. Rodi, M. L. Cherry, G. L. Case +5
The Earth Occultation Technique (EOT) has been applied to Fermi's Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (GBM) to perform all-sky monitoring for a predetermined catalog of hard X-ray/soft gamma-r…
Benchmarking an 11-qubit quantum computer
K. Wright, K. M. Beck, S. Debnath +21
The field of quantum computing has grown from concept to demonstration devices over the past 20 years. Universal quantum computing offers efficiency in approaching problems of scie…
The High-Metallicity Explosion Environment of the Relativistic Supernova 2009bb
E. M. Levesque, A. M. Soderberg, R. J. Foley +23
We investigate the environment of the nearby (d ~ 40Mpc) broad-lined Type Ic supernova SN 2009bb. This event was observed to produce a relativistic outflow likely powered by a cent…
GBM Monitoring of Cyg X-1 During the Recent State Transition
G. L. Case, S. Baldridge, M. L. Cherry +5
Cygnus X-1 is a high-mass x-ray binary with a black hole compact object. It is normally extremely bright in hard x-rays and low energy gamma rays and resides in the canonical hard…