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astro-ph2008★ 19 cited
Timing and spectral properties of the accreting millisecond pulsar SWIFT J1756.9-2508
Manuel Linares, Rudy Wijnands, Michiel van der Klis +3
SWIFT J1756.9-2508 is one of the few accreting millisecond pulsars (AMPs) discovered to date. We report here the results of our analysis of its aperiodic X-ray variability, as meas…
astro-ph2007★ 66 cited
Detection of GRB 060927 at z = 5.47: Implications for the Use of Gamma-Ray Bursts as Probes of the End of the Dark Ages
A. E. Ruiz-Velasco, H. Swan, E. Troja +54
We report on follow-up observations of the GRB 060927 using the ROTSE-IIIa telescope and a suite of larger aperture ground-based telescopes. An optical afterglow was detected 20 s…