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Comprehensive X-ray Observations of the Exceptional Ultra-long X-ray and Gamma-ray Transient GRB 250702B with Swift, NuSTAR, and Chandra: Insights from the X-ray Afterglow Properties
Brendan O'Connor, Ramandeep Gill, James DeLaunay +22
GRB 250702B is an exceptional transient that produced multiple episodes of luminous gamma-ray radiation lasting for ks, placing it among the class of ultra-long gamma-ray bur…
BatAnalysis -- A Comprehensive Python Pipeline for Swift BAT Time-Tagged Event Data Analysis
Tyler Parsotan, David M. Palmer, Samuele Ronchini +7
The Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) is a coded aperture gamma-ray instrument with a large field of view that was designed to detect and localize transient events. When a transien…
Panning for gold with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory: an optimal strategy for finding the counterparts to gravitational wave events
R. A. J. Eyles-Ferris, P. A. Evans, A. A. Breeveld +17
The LIGO, Virgo and KAGRA gravitational wave observatories are currently undertaking their O4 observing run offering the opportunity to discover new electromagnetic counterparts to…
Swiftly chasing gravitational waves across the sky in real-time
Aaron Tohuvavohu, Jamie A. Kennea, Christopher J. Roberts +8
We introduce a new capability of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, dubbed `continuous commanding,' achieving 10 seconds latency response time on-orbit to unscheduled Target of Op…
Time-Domain And MultiMessenger Astrophysics Communications Science Analysis Group Report
Jamie A. Kennea, Judith L. Racusin, Eric Burns +11
The Time-Domain And MultiMessenger (TDAMM) Communications Science Analysis Group (TDAMMCommSAG) was formulated to describe the unique technical challenges of communicating rapidly…
Swift-BAT GUANO follow-up of gravitational-wave triggers in the third LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA observing run
Gayathri Raman, Samuele Ronchini, James Delaunay +1819
We present results from a search for X-ray/gamma-ray counterparts of gravitational-wave (GW) candidates from the third observing run (O3) of the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA (LVK) network usin…
Constraining possible -ray burst emission from GW230529 using Swift-BAT and Fermi-GBM
Samuele Ronchini, Suman Bala, Joshua Wood +35
GW230529 is the first compact binary coalescence detected by the LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA collaboration with at least one component mass confidently in the lower mass-gap, corresponding to…
Soft X-ray prompt emission from a high-redshift gamma-ray burst EP240315a
Y. Liu, H. Sun, D. Xu +191
Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to originate from core collapse of massive stars. High-redshift GRBs can probe the star formation and reionization history of the early un…
Windows on the Universe: Establishing the Infrastructure for a Collaborative Multi-messenger Ecosystem
The 2023 Windows on the Universe Workshop White Paper Working Group, T. Ahumada, J. E. Andrews +43
In this White Paper, we present recommendations for the scientific community and funding agencies to foster the infrastructure for a collaborative multi-messenger and time-domain a…
UV to near-IR observations of the DART-Dimorphos collision
E. O. Ofek, D. Kushnir, D. Polishook +15
The impact of the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft with Dimorphos allows us to study asteroid collision physics, including momentum transfer, the ejecta propertie…
A Joint Fermi-GBM and Swift-BAT Analysis of Gravitational-Wave Candidates from the Third Gravitational-wave Observing Run
C. Fletcher, J. Wood, R. Hamburg +1696
We present Fermi Gamma-ray Burst Monitor (Fermi-GBM) and Swift Burst Alert Telescope (Swift-BAT) searches for gamma-ray/X-ray counterparts to gravitational wave (GW) candidate even…
Gamma-ray Transient Network Science Analysis Group Report
Eric Burns, Michael Coughlin, Kendall Ackley +34
The Interplanetary Network (IPN) is a detection, localization and alert system that utilizes the arrival time of transient signals in gamma-ray detectors on spacecraft separated by…
JWST detection of heavy neutron capture elements in a compact object merger
A. Levan, B. P. Gompertz, O. S. Salafia +80
The mergers of binary compact objects such as neutron stars and black holes are of central interest to several areas of astrophysics, including as the progenitors of gamma-ray burs…
Swift/UVOT discovery of Swift J221951-484240: a UV luminous ambiguous nuclear transient
S. R. Oates, N. P. M. Kuin, M. Nicholl +57
We report the discovery of Swift J221951-484240 (hereafter: J221951), a luminous slow-evolving blue transient that was detected by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Ultra-violet/O…
Science with a small two-band UV-photometry mission I: Mission description and follow-up observations of stellar transients
N. Werner, J. Řípa, C. Thöne +33
This is the first in a collection of three papers introducing the science with an ultra-violet (UV) space telescope on an approximately 130~kg small satellite with a moderately fas…
GRB 221009A: Discovery of an Exceptionally Rare Nearby and Energetic Gamma-Ray Burst
Maia A. Williams, Jamie A. Kennea, S. Dichiara +53
We report the discovery of the unusually bright long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB), GRB 221009A, as observed by the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (Swift), Monitor of All-sky X-ra…
A very luminous jet from the disruption of a star by a massive black hole
Igor Andreoni, Michael W. Coughlin, Daniel A. Perley +78
Tidal disruption events (TDEs) are bursts of electromagnetic energy released when supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the centers of galaxies violently disrupt a star that passes t…
SN 2022oqm -- a Ca-rich explosion of a compact progenitor embedded in C/O circumstellar material
I. Irani, Ping Chen, Jonathan Morag +27
We present the discovery and analysis of SN\,2022oqm, a Type Ic supernova (SN) detected \,day after explosion. The SN rises to a blue and short-lived (2\,days) initial peak. Ea…
A low-cost ultraviolet-to-infrared absolute quantum efficiency characterization system of detectors
Ajay S. Gill, Mohamed M. Shaaban, Aaron Tohuvavohu +8
We present a low-cost ultraviolet to infrared absolute quantum efficiency detector characterization system developed using commercial off-the-shelf components. The key components o…
The First Short GRB Millimeter Afterglow: The Wide-Angled Jet of the Extremely Energetic SGRB 211106A
Tanmoy Laskar, Alicia Rouco Escorial, Genevieve Schroeder +14
We present the discovery of the first millimeter afterglow of a short-duration -ray burst (SGRB) and the first confirmed afterglow of an SGRB localized by the GUANO system on Sw…
The Second Catalog of Interplanetary Network Localizations of Konus Short Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts
D. Svinkin, K. Hurley, A. Ridnaia +72
We present the catalog of Interplanetary Network (IPN) localizations for 199 short-duration gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) detected by the Konus-Wind (KW) experiment between 2011 January…
Harvesting BAT-GUANO with NITRATES (Non-Imaging Transient Reconstruction And TEmporal Search): Detecting and localizing the faintest GRBs with a likelihood framework
James DeLaunay, Aaron Tohuvavohu
The detection of the gravitational wave counterpart GRB 170817A, underluminous compared to the cosmological GRB population by a factor of 10,000, motivates significant effort in de…
Swift/UVOT follow-up of Gravitational Wave Alerts in the O3 era
S. R. Oates, F. E. Marshall, A. A. Breeveld +41
In this paper, we report on the observational performance of the Swift Ultra-violet/Optical Telescope (UVOT) in response to the Gravitational Wave alerts announced by the Advanced…
Multi-messenger emission from the parsec-scale jet of the flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1502+106 coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-190730A
Foteini Oikonomou, Maria Petropoulou, Kohta Murase +4
On July 30th, 2019 IceCube detected a high-energy astrophysical muon neutrino candidate, IC-190730A, with a probability of astrophysical origin. The flat spectrum radio quas…