Peter Roming

Peter Roming received the B.S. and M.S. degrees in physics from Brigham Young University (BYU), USA, in 1991 and 1995, respectively. He received the Ph.D. degree in physics and astronomy, with a secondary emphasis on mechanical engineering, from BYU, USA, in 1998. From 1998 to 2006, he was a Research Associate at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the Pennsylvania State University (PSU), and in 2005 he joined the graduate faculty at PSU. He is currently a Senior Research Associate at the Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics at PSU. Since 1991, Dr. Roming has been involved in astronomical space programs. During 1991–1998, he was a Member of the GoldHelOX Team at BYU where his responsibilities included optical design Engineer, systems Engineer, and eventually Project Manager. Between 1998 and 1999, he was an Instrument Scientist for the Rocket Program at PSU. Since 1999, he has been the Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope Lead (equivalent to Principal Investigator). He is a recipient of four NASA Group Achievement Awards, and in 2007 he received the High Energy Astrophysics Division Bruno Rossi Prize as a Member of the Swift Team. Dr. Roming’s research interests fall into three main categories: astronomical and space instrumentation, transient object observations (such as gamma-ray bursts, particularly rapid observations of dark and short bursts, and supernovae), and observational cosmology.

Biography Updated on 15 April 2008

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Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Swift observations of GRB?050904: the most distant cosmic explosion ever observed
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 462, no. 1, pp. 73–80, 2007
  2. SWIFT observations of TeV BL Lacertae objects
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 467, no. 2, pp. 501–508, 2007
  3. The exceptionally extended flaring activity in the X-ray afterglow of GRB 050730 observed with Swift and XMM-Newton
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 471, no. 1, pp. 83–92, 2007
  4. GRB?050410 and GRB?050412: are they really dark gamma-ray bursts?
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 469, no. 2, pp. 663–669, 2007
  5. Swift multi-wavelength observations of the bright flaring burst GRB 051117A
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 468, no. 1, pp. 103–112, 2007
  6. Swift observations of GRB 060614: an anomalous burst with a well behaved afterglow
    Astronomy and Astrophysics, vol. 470, no. 1, pp. 105–118, 2007
  7. Swift ultraviolet photometry of the Deep Impact encounter with Comet 9P/Tempel 1
    Icarus, vol. 187, no. 1, pp. 123–131, 2007
  8. Swift ultraviolet photometry of the Deep Impact encounter with Comet 9P/Tempel 1?
    Icarus, vol. 191, no. 2, pp. 286–294, 2007
  9. 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
  10. Early Ultraviolet, Optical, and X-Ray Observations of the Type IIP SN 2005cs in M51 with Swift
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 659, no. 2, pp. 1488–1495, 2007
  11. Redshift Filtering by Swift Apparent X-Ray Column Density
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 133, no. 5, pp. 2216–2221, 2007
  12. Swift and XMM-Newton Observations of the Extraordinary Gamma-Ray Burst 060729: More than 125 Days of X-Ray Afterglow
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 662, no. 1, pp. 443–458, 2007
  13. X-Ray, UV, and Optical Observations of Supernova 2006bp with Swift: Detection of Early X-Ray Emission
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 664, no. 1, pp. 435–442, 2007
  14. Optical/UV afterglows: Swift UVOT overview
    Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, vol. 365, no. 1854, pp. 1227–1234, 2007
  15. Dust and gas in the local environments of gamma-ray bursts
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 377, no. 1, pp. 273–284, 2007
  16. Early afterglow detection in the Swift observations of GRB 050801
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 377, no. 4, pp. 1638–1646, 2007
  17. The two-component afterglow of Swift GRB 050802
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 380, no. 1, pp. 270–280, 2007
  18. Extreme properties of GRB?061007: a highly energetic or a highly collimated burst?
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 380, no. 3, pp. 1041–1052, 2007
  19. Swift XRT Observations of the Afterglow of XRF 050416A
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 654, no. 1, pp. 403–412, 2007
  20. Optical, Infrared, and Ultraviolet Observations of the X-Ray Flash XRF 050416A
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 133, no. 1, pp. 122–129, 2006
  21. Swift and optical observations of GRB 050401
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 365, no. 3, pp. 1031–1038, 2006
  22. Swift observations of GRB 050712
    Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, vol. 0, no. 0, pp. 060629065502003–???, 2006
  23. Gamma-ray bursts: Huge explosion in the early Universe
    Nature, vol. 440, no. 7081, Article ID 440164a, 1 pages, 2006
  24. The association of GRB 060218 with a supernova and the evolution of the shock wave
    Nature, vol. 442, no. 7106, Article ID nature04892, 2 pages, 2006
  25. A new ?-ray burst classification scheme from GRB?060614
    Nature, vol. 444, no. 7122, Article ID nature05376, 2 pages, 2006
  26. Swift Panchromatic Observations of the Bright Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 050525a
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 637, no. 2, pp. 901–913, 2006
  27. Prompt Optical Observations of GRB 050319 with the Swift UVOT
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 639, no. 1, pp. 311–315, 2006
  28. Swift UVOT Observations of X-Ray Flash 050406
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 643, no. 1, pp. 276–283, 2006
  29. Swift Observations of GRB 050603: An Afterglow with a Steep Late-Time Decay Slope
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 645, no. 1, pp. 464–469, 2006
  30. X-Ray Observations of Type Ia Supernovae with Swift: Evidence of Circumstellar Interaction for SN 2005ke
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 648, no. 2, pp. L119–L122, 2006
  31. GRB 060313: A New Paradigm for Short-Hard Bursts?
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 651, no. 2, pp. 985–993, 2006
  32. Very Early Optical Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Evidence for Relative Paucity of Detection
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 652, no. 2, pp. 1416–1422, 2006
  33. Erratum: “The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission” (ApJ, 611, 1005 [2004])
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 621, no. 1, pp. 558–558, 2005
  34. Swift Observations of GRB 050128: The Early X-Ray Afterglow
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 625, no. 1, pp. L23–L26, 2005
  35. Ultraviolet, Optical, and X-Ray Observations of the Type Ia Supernova 2005am with Swift
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 635, no. 2, pp. 1192–1196, 2005
  36. Swift UVOT Detection of GRB 050318
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 635, no. 2, pp. 1187–1191, 2005
  37. The Swift Ultra-Violet/Optical Telescope
    Space Science Reviews, vol. 120, no. 3-4, pp. 95–142, 2005
  38. 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
  39. Nucleosynthesis in the Oxygen-rich Supernova Remnant G292.0+1.8 from Chandra X-Ray Spectroscopy
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 602, no. 1, pp. L33–L36, 2004
  40. The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 611, no. 2, pp. 1005–1020, 2004
  41. An X-Ray Pulsar in the Oxygen-rich Supernova Remnant G292.0+1.8
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 591, no. 2, pp. L139–L142, 2003
  42. The Structure of the Oxygen-rich Supernova Remnant G292.0+1.8 from [ITAL]Chandra[/ITAL] X-Ray Images: Shocked Ejecta and Circumstellar Medium
    The Astrophysical Journal, vol. 564, no. 1, pp. L39–L43, 2002
  43. A Long-Slit Spectral Analysis of the Nuclear Region of M101
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 117, no. 4, pp. 1733–1742, 1999
  44. Reddening Study of a Bright High Galactic Latitude Nebula: LBN 434
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 113, p. 1375, 1997
  45. Evidence for Mass Outflow from the Nucleus of M101: Knots, Rings, and a Geyser
    The Astronomical Journal, vol. 110, p. 2088, 1995