Swift's Continuous Commanding: Enabling New Discoveries in the Gravitational Wave Era
Swift's New Capability: Continuous Commanding A new capability of the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, called "continuous commanding", allows Swift to respond to targets of opportunity within 10 secon...
4 Nov 202410min
Ultra-High-Energy Photons: Unlocking the Secrets of Gravitational Wave Sources
The Pierre Auger Observatory, situated in Argentina, is designed to detect UHE cosmic rays. The observatory is also sensitive to UHE photons and has been used to search for photons from various source...
31 Okt 20249min
The Mystery of the 21-Minute Pulsar
Astronomers discovered a new long-period (21-minute) radio transient called GPM J1839–10, with the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA). Follow-up observations were done using other telescopes, including t...
28 Okt 202412min
Microquasar V4641 Sgr: A New Cosmic Ray Source?
Microquasars, like V4641 Sgr, are binary star systems with a black hole that pulls material from a companion star. They are fascinating objects for astronomers because they can produce jets of relativ...
24 Okt 202411min
LOFAR's Big Catch: A Radio Flash from a Neutron Star Crash
Astronomers using LOFAR detected a short, coherent radio flash at 144 MHz, 76.6 minutes after observing a short gamma-ray burst (GRB) called GRB 201006A. The probability of finding an unrelated transi...
21 Okt 20248min
Correcting the Narrative: One Collaboration's Fight for Visibility
The paper examines the "Matthew Effect" in science, where more well-known scientists or institutions tend to receive a disproportionate amount of credit for discoveries, even in collaborative efforts....
18 Okt 202410min
The Pierre Auger Observatory: Unlocking the Secrets of Cosmic Rays
Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are a mystery. Scientists still don’t know where or how they are created. A new study combines three kinds of data measured at the Auger Observatory: the energy ...
17 Okt 202410min
GRB 201216C: MAGIC Detects Farthest GRB at VHE energies
GRB 201216C, a long GRB, was observed by numerous instruments, including Swift-BAT, Fermi-GBM, and the MAGIC telescopes. MAGIC detected GRB 201216C at a redshift of z = 1.1, making it the farthest kno...
16 Okt 202411min
