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]

  1. 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
  2. Gamma-ray bursts in the Swift era
    Astrophysics and Space Science, vol. 311, no. 1-3, pp. 167–175, 2007
  3. Swift ultraviolet photometry of the Deep Impact encounter with Comet 9P/Tempel 1
    Icarus, vol. 187, no. 1, pp. 123–131, 2007
  4. Swift ultraviolet photometry of the Deep Impact encounter with Comet 9P/Tempel 1?
    Icarus, vol. 191, no. 2, pp. 286–294, 2007
  5. 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
  6. The prompt to late-time multiwavelength analysis of GRB?060210
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 467, no. 3, pp. 1049–1055, 2007
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. 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
  10. 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
  11. 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
  12. 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
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. 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
  16. The Soft X-Ray Blast in the Apparently Subluminous GRB 031203
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 636, no. 2, pp. 967–970, 2006
  17. The Dust-scattered X-Ray Halo around Swift GRB 050724
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 639, no. 1, pp. 323–330, 2006
  18. 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
  19. The Early X-Ray Emission from GRBs
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 647, no. 2, pp. 1213–1237, 2006
  20. 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
  21. 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
  22. Searching for biomarkers of heart failure in the mass spectra of blood plasma
    PROTEOMICS, vol. 6, no. 22, pp. 5903–5914, 2006
  23. 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
  24. 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
  25. 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
  26. 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
  27. The Discovery of an Evolving Dust-scattered X-Ray Halo around GRB 031203
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 603, no. 1, pp. L5–L8, 2004
  28. A Very Low Luminosity X-Ray Flash: XMM-Newton Observations of GRB 031203
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 605, no. 2, pp. L101–L104, 2004
  29. The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 611, no. 2, pp. 1005–1020, 2004
  30. The X-ray spectrum of the North Polar Spur
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 343, no. 3, pp. 995–1001, 2003
  31. 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
  32. 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
  33. Cassiopeia A: On the origin of the hard X-ray continuum and the implication of the observed O v??? Ly-?/Ly-? distribution
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 365, no. 1, pp. L225–L230, 2001
  34. New light on the X-ray spectrum of the Crab Nebula
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 365, no. 1, pp. L212–L217, 2001
  35. 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
  36. Experimental Astronomy, vol. 8, no. 4, pp. 281–296, 1998
  37. 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
  38. 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
  39. 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
  40. 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
  41. The galactic ridge observed by Exosat
    Nature, vol. 317, no. 6034, Article ID 317218a0, 3 pages, 1985
  42. EXOSAT observations of the X-ray pulsar 4U1145-619
    Space Science Reviews, vol. 40, no. 3-4, 1985
  43. A new view of the galactic plane with EXOSAT
    Space Science Reviews, vol. 40, no. 3-4, 1985
  44. The big dipper: 4U1624-49
    Space Science Reviews, vol. 40, no. 1-2, pp. 195–200, 1985
  45. Einstein observations of the galactic centre
    Space Science Reviews, vol. 30, no. 1-4, pp. 293–299, 1981