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Publication and citation statistics for UK astronomers
A. J. Blustin
This article presents a survey of publication and citation statistics for 835 UK professional astronomers: the majority of academics and contract researchers within the UK astronom…
Swift detection of all previously undetected blazars in a micro-wave flux-limited sample of WMAP foreground sources
P. Giommi, M. Capalbi, E. Cavazzuti +19
Almost the totality of the bright foreground sources in the WMAP CMB maps are blazars, a class of sources that show usually also X-ray emission. However, 23 objects in a flux-limit…
The mass-energy budget of the ionised outflow in NGC 7469
A. J. Blustin, G. A. Kriss, T. Holczer +6
Although AGN feedback through ionised winds is of great importance in models of AGN/galaxy coevolution, the mass and energy output via these winds, even in the nearby universe, is…
Anatomy of A Dark Burst - The Afterglow of GRB 060108
S. R. Oates, C. G. Mundell, S. Piranomonte +20
We report the first detection of an optical afterglow of a GRB (060108) that would have been classified as 'dark' in the absence of deep, rapid ground-based optical imaging with th…
Optical, Infrared, and Ultraviolet Observations of the X-Ray Flash GRB 050416A
S. T. Holland, P. T. Boyd, J. Gorosabel +25
We present ultraviolet, optical, and infrared photometry of the afterglow of the X-ray flash XRF 050416A taken between approximately 100 seconds and 36 days after the burst. We fin…
Swift-UVOT Observations of the X-Ray Flash 050406
P. Schady, K. O. Mason, J. P. Osborne +14
We present Swift-UVOT data on the optical afterglow of the X-ray flash of 2005 April 6 (XRF 050406) from 88s to \sim 10^5s after the initial prompt gamma-ray emission. Our observat…
XMM-Newton observations of the Seyfert 1 AGN H0557-385
C. E. Ashton, M. J. Page, G. Branduardi-Raymont +1
We present XMM-Newton observations of the Seyfert 1 AGN H0557-385. We have conducted a study into the warm absorber present in this source, and using high-resolution RGS data we fi…
Principal component analysis of the X-ray variability in NGC 7469
A. J. Blustin, S. V. Fuerst, G. Branduardi-Raymont +3
We apply Principal Component Analysis (PCA) to study the variability of the X-ray continuum in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 7469. The PCA technique is used to separate out linear compo…
The nature and origin of Seyfert warm absorbers
A. J. Blustin, M. J. Page, S. V. Fuerst +2
We collate the results of recent high resolution X-ray spectroscopic observations of 23 AGN, and use the resulting information to try to provide answers to some of the main open qu…
XMM-Newton observations of the heavily absorbed Seyfert 1 galaxy IC 4329A
K. C. Steenbrugge, J. S. Kaastra, M. Sako +5
We detect seven distinct absorbing systems in the high-resolution X-ray spectrum of the Seyfert 1 galaxy IC 4329A, taken with XMM-Newton. Firstly we detect absorption due to cold g…
XMM-Newton observations of warm absorbers in PG quasars
C. E. Ashton, M. J. Page, A. J. Blustin +5
We present XMM-Newton EPIC observations of warm absorbers in the quasars PG 1114+445 and PG 1309+355, both of which exhibit evidence for absorption by warm material in the line-of-…
Intrinsic absorbers in BL Lac objects: the XMM-Newton view
A. J. Blustin, M. J. Page, G. Branduardi-Raymont
We present XMM-Newton observations of four BL Lac objects (1H1219+301, H1426+428, Markarian 501 and PKS 0548-322), which have been found with past X-ray missions to contain evidenc…
A Long Look at NGC 3783 with the XMM-Newton Reflection Grating Spectrometers
Ehud Behar, Andrew P. Rasmussen, Alexander J. Blustin +5
A long 280 ks observation of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3783 with XMM-Newton is reported. We focus on the oxygen line complex between 17 and 24 A as measured with the RGS spectromete…
Chandra LETGS and XMM-Newton observations of NGC 4593
K. C. Steenbrugge, J. S. Kaastra, A. J. Blustin +6
In this paper, we analyze spectra of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 4593 obtained with the Chandra Low Energy Transmission Grating Spectrometer (LETGS), the Reflection Grating Spectromet…
Multiwavelength studies of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC7469. II - X-ray and UV observations with XMM-Newton
A. J. Blustin, G. Branduardi-Raymont, E. Behar +6
We present an XMM-Newton observation of NGC 7469, including studies of the X-ray and UV variability, 0.2-10 keV spectral continuum, Fe K-alpha emission line and the first-ever high…
Multi-wavelength study of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 3783 with XMM-Newton
A. J. Blustin, G. Branduardi-Raymont, E. Behar +5
We present the analysis of multi-wavelength XMM-Newton data from the Seyfert galaxy NGC 3783, including UV imaging, X-ray and UV lightcurves, the 0.2-10 keV X-ray continuum, the ir…
Ultraviolet images of Seyfert galaxies from the Optical Monitor on XMM-Newton
A. J. Blustin, G. Branduardi-Raymont, A. Breeveld +2
The Optical Monitor telescope (Mason et al. 2001) on XMM-Newton provides an exciting multi-wavelength dimension to observations of Active Galactic Nuclei. Here we present ultraviol…