Richard Willingale
Richard Willingale received the M.A. degree in natural sciences, Cambridge, in 1975; M.S. degree in experimental space physics, Leicester, 1976; and the Ph.D. degree in X-ray astronomy, Leicester, in 1979. He was a Research Associate, Leicester, 1979–1982; Lecturer in physics, Leicester, 1983–2002; and a Senior Lecturer, since 2003. His research interests include astronomical data analysis techniques, X-ray optics, X-ray instrumentation design, computational physics, supernova remnant, the interstellar medium, gamma-ray bursts.
Biography Updated on 12 September 2007
Personal Home Page
http://www.star.le.ac.uk/~rw
Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]
- Swift captures the spectrally evolving prompt emission of GRBĀ 070616
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 384, no. 2, pp. 504–514, 2008 - Gamma-ray bursts in the Swift era
Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 311, no. 1-3, pp. 167–175, 2007 - Swift ultraviolet photometry of the Deep Impact encounter with Comet 9P/Tempel 1
Icarus, vol. 187, no. 1, pp. 123–131, 2007 - Swift ultraviolet photometry of the Deep Impact encounter with Comet 9P/Tempel 1?
Icarus, vol. 191, no. 2, pp. 286–294, 2007 - Improving the Diagnostic Accuracy of N-Terminal B-Type Natriuretic Peptide in Human Systolic Heart Failure by Plasma Profiling Using Mass Spectrometry
Journal of Proteome Research, vol. 6, no. 8, pp. 3329–3334, 2007 - The prompt to late-time multiwavelength analysis of GRB?060210
Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 467, no. 3, pp. 1049–1055, 2007 - GRB Radiative Efficiencies Derived from the Swift Data: GRBs versus XRFs, Long versus Short
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 655, no. 2, pp. 989–1001, 2007 - Testing the Standard Fireball Model of Gamma-Ray Bursts Using Late X-Ray Afterglows Measured by Swift
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 662, no. 2, pp. 1093–1110, 2007 - GRB 061121: Broadband Spectral Evolution through the Prompt and Afterglow Phases of a Bright Burst
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 663, no. 2, pp. 1125–1138, 2007 - Swift Observations of GRB 070110: An Extraordinary X-Ray Afterglow Powered by the Central Engine
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 665, no. 1, pp. 599–607, 2007 - The First Survey of X-Ray Flares from Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed by Swift: Temporal Properties and Morphology
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 671, no. 2, pp. 1903–1920, 2007 - The First Survey of X-Ray Flares from Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed by Swift: Spectral Properties and Energetics
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 671, no. 2, pp. 1921–1938, 2007 - Using Swift observations of prompt and afterglow emission to classify GRBs
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 365, no. 1854, pp. 1179–1188, 2007 - The late X-ray afterglow of gamma-ray bursts
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 365, no. 1854, pp. 1189–1195, 2007 - Early multi-wavelength emission from gamma-ray bursts: from gamma-ray to x-ray
New Journal of Physics, vol. 8, no. 7, pp. 121–121, 2006 - The Soft X-Ray Blast in the Apparently Subluminous GRB 031203
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 636, no. 2, pp. 967–970, 2006 - The Dust-scattered X-Ray Halo around Swift GRB 050724
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 639, no. 1, pp. 323–330, 2006 - Testing the Curvature Effect and Internal Origin of Gamma-Ray Burst Prompt Emissions and X-Ray Flares with Swift Data
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 646, no. 1, pp. 351–357, 2006 - The Early X-Ray Emission from GRBs
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 647, no. 2, pp. 1213–1237, 2006 - GRB 050717: A Long, Short-Lag, High-Peak Energy Burst Observed by Swift and Konus
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 648, no. 2, pp. 1117–1124, 2006 - XMM-Newton observation of a dust echo and X-ray flash in GRB 031203
Advances in Space Research, vol. 38, no. 7, pp. 1287–1290, 2006 - Searching for biomarkers of heart failure in the mass spectra of blood plasma
PROTEOMICS, vol. 6, no. 22, pp. 5903–5914, 2006 - Evidence for chromatic X-ray light-curve breaks in Swift gamma-ray burst afterglows and their theoretical implications
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 369, no. 4, pp. 2059–2064, 2006 - Swift X-Ray Telescope and Very Large Telescope Observations of the Afterglow of GRB 041223
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 622, no. 2, pp. L85–L88, 2005 - A short ?-ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z = 0.225
Nature, vol. 437, no. 7060, Article ID nature04142, 3 pages, 2005 - The X-ray, optical and radio evolution of the GRB 030329 afterglow and the associated SN2003dh
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 349, no. 1, pp. 31–38, 2004 - The Discovery of an Evolving Dust-scattered X-Ray Halo around GRB 031203
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 603, no. 1, pp. L5–L8, 2004 - A Very Low Luminosity X-Ray Flash: XMM-Newton Observations of GRB 031203
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 605, no. 2, pp. L101–L104, 2004 - The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 611, no. 2, pp. 1005–1020, 2004 - The X-ray spectrum of the North Polar Spur
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 343, no. 3, pp. 995–1001, 2003 - Point spread function and centroiding accuracy measurements with the JET-X mirror and MOS CCD detector of the Swift gamma ray burst explorer's X-ray telescope
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 488, no. 3, pp. 543–554, 2002 - The distribution of caveolin-3 immunofluorescence in skeletal muscle fibre membrane defined by dual channel confocal laser scanning microscopy, fast Fourier transform and image modelling
Journal of Microscopy, vol. 206, no. 2, pp. 93–105, 2002 - Cassiopeia A: On the origin of the hard X-ray continuum and the implication
of the observed O
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Ly-?/Ly-? distribution
Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 365, no. 1, pp. L225–L230, 2001 - New light on the X-ray spectrum of the Crab Nebula
Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 365, no. 1, pp. L212–L217, 2001 - The extended X-ray halo of the Crab-like SNR G21.5-0.9
Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 365, no. 1, pp. L248–L253, 2001 - Experimental Astronomy, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 281–296, 1998
- The X-Ray CCDs Developed for the Joint European X-Ray Telescope
Journal of X-Ray Science and Technology, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 269–298, 1996 - In vacuo stability of CsI-coated microchannel plates in the presence of water vapour and organic contaminants
Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, vol. 332, no. 3, pp. 570–574, 1993 - Detection of a new white-dwarf binary system in the extreme
ultraviolet using the Rosat Wide Field Camera
Nature, vol. 355, no. 6355, Article ID 355061a0, 2 pages, 1992 - ROSAT Wide Field Camera minisurvey of the diffuse sky background in 90-188 eV soft X-rays
The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 397, p. 158, 1992 - The galactic ridge observed by Exosat
Nature, vol. 317, no. 6034, Article ID 317218a0, 3 pages, 1985 - EXOSAT observations of the X-ray pulsar 4U1145-619
Space Science Reviews, vol. 40, no. 3-4, 1985 - A new view of the galactic plane with EXOSAT
Space Science Reviews, vol. 40, no. 3-4, 1985 - The big dipper: 4U1624-49
Space Science Reviews, vol. 40, no. 1-2, pp. 195–200, 1985 - Einstein observations of the galactic centre
Space Science Reviews, vol. 30, no. 1-4, pp. 293–299, 1981