SWIFT 10
2-5 December 2014
La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
published August 19, 2015
La Sapienza University, Rome, Italy
published August 19, 2015
The conference Swift: 10 years of discovery was held in Roma at La Sapienza University on Dec. 2-5 2014 to celebrate 10 years of Swift successes. Thanks to a large attendance and a lively program, it provided the opportunity to review recent advances of our knowledge of the high-energy transient Universe both from the observational and theoretical sides. When Swift was launched on November 20, 2004, its prime objective was to chase Gamma-Ray Bursts and deepen our knowledge of these cosmic explosions. And so it did, unveiling the secrets of long and short GRBs. However, its multi-wavelength instrumentation and fast scheduling capabilities made it the most versatile mission ever flown. Besides GRBs, Swift has observed, and contributed to our understanding of, an impressive variety of targets including AGNs, supernovae, pulsars, microquasars, novae, variable stars, comets, and much more. Swift is continuously discovering rare and surprising events distributed over a wide range of redshifts, out to the most distant transient objects in the Universe. Such a trove of discoveries has been addressed during the conference with sessions dedicated to each class of events. Indeed, the conference in Rome was a spectacular celebration of the Swift 10th anniversary. It included sessions on all types of transient and steady sources. Top scientists from around the world gave invited and contributed talks. There was a large poster session, sumptuous lunches, news interviews and a glorious banquet with officials attending from INAF and ASI. All the presentations, as well as several conference pictures, can be found in the conference website (http://www.brera.inaf.it/Swift10/Welcome.html). Each paper, from submission to final acceptance, has been monitored by Paolo D'Avanzo who should be considered the main Editor of these Proceedings. The Conference has been made possible by the support from La Sapienza University as well as from the ARAP association. We acknowledge valuable inputs from the conference SOC and from the Swift User Committee Chair Dieter Hartmann. We also thank the LOC for their unrelenting efforts to solve all practical details. We would like to acknowledge financial support from INAF, ASI and NASA/GSFC.
EDITORIAL BOARD
Patrizia Caraveo
Paolo D’Avanzo
Neil Gehrels
Gianpiero Tagliaferri
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GROND coverage of the main peak of Gamma-Ray Burst 130925A
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Optical properties of Swift long Gamma-Ray Bursts
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Linear and circular polarization in GRB afterglows
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| GRB II |
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Exploring the chemical enrichment at z>2 via GRB afterglow spectroscopy
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| Swift and future GRB missions |
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The SVOM gamma-ray burst mission
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Einstein Probe — a small mission to monitor and explore the dynamic X-ray Universe
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| Low luminosity - Very Long GRBs |
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Testing for a class of ULGRBs using Swift GRBs
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| Swift catalogs |
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The XRT catalogs
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The Swift UVOT serendipitous source catalogue
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The Third Swift Burst Alert Telescope Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog
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Swift, UVOT and Hot Stars
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The Swift X-ray Cluster Survey
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| Magnetar |
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The X-ray outburst of the Galactic Centre magnetar as monitored by Chandra and XMM-Newton
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| Compact Objects and the Galactic Center |
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Swift contribution to our understanding of Ultraluminous X-ray Sources
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| Tidal Disruption |
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Spoon-feeding an active galactic nucleus
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| AGN - Blazar |
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The largest Swift AGN monitoring: UV/optical variability in NGC 5548
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| GRB Posters |
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Simulations of GRB detections with the ECLAIRs telescope onboard the future SVOM mission
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The GRB's Sky Exposure Function
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Lower orphan afterglow rates for Gaia and LSST
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10 years of XRT light curves: a general view of the X-ray afterglow
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Shedding light on the prompt high efficiency paradox - self consistent modeling of GRB afterglows
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Comparing the spectral lag of short and long gamma-ray bursts and its relation with the luminosity
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The Swift UVOT grism calibration and example spectra
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Numerical Models of Blackbody-Dominated GRBs
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GRB 130831A: The Birth and Death of a Magnetar at z=0.5
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Properties of Low Luminosity Afterglow GRBs
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Binary progenitors of GRBs in the fireshell model: relevance of Swift observations
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The Microchannel X-ray Telescope on board the SVOM satellite
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Constraining GRB progenitors environment with Swift XRT
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The distribution of GRB spectral lags: implications for the lag - Liso relation
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Anomalies in the GRBs' spatial distribution
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Nucleosynthesis of heavy elements in gamma-ray bursts
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Fitting GRB afterglow broadband data to hydrodynamical simulations
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Photospheric emission from long duration gamma-ray bursts powered by variable engines
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GRB 140619B: a short GRB from a neutron star merger leading to the black hole formation
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Black Hole Spin Down in GRB observations and cosmology
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Metallicity Measurements of GRB Explosion Sites: Lessons from HII regions in M31
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The early afterglow and magnetized ejecta present in GRB 110731A
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Reviewing the case of atypical central-engine activity in GRB 110709B
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Exploring the behaviour of long gamma-ray bursts with intrinsic afterglow correlations
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Numerical study of relativistic shock breakout in circumstellar medium
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Gamma-ray burst jets: uniform or structured?
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Binary-driven HyperNovae and their nested late X-ray emission
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Early detections of properties of Gamma-Ray Bursts
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Survival analysis of the optical brightness GRB host galaxies
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Testing and Performance of UFFO Burst Alert & Trigger Telescope
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What is the Astrophysical Meaning of the Intermediate Subgroup of GRBs
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Investigating the peak energy-intensity correlation for GRB Physics and Cosmology
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The ECLAIRs GRB trigger telescope onboard the future SVOM mission
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Short gamma-ray bursts from binary neutron star mergers: the time-reversal scenario
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Temporal Variability and the Bulk Lorentz Factor of GRBs
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Hydrodynamical models for low-luminosity GRBs and relativistic SNe
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Determining the Dust Composition of GRB Host Galaxies
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Constraining the fireball scenario of GRB afterglows with GROND and multi-wavelength data
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GRB Cosmology and SOC in GRBs
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Effect of Rapid Evolution of Magnetic Tilt Angle of a Newborn Magnetar on Light Curve of Gamma-ray Burst
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Ten years of Swift: a universal scaling for short and long gamma-ray bursts (EX,iso-Egamma,iso-Epk)
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Magnetically-induced outflows from binary neutron star merger remnants
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Evidence for Two-Component Jet in Sw J1644+57
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Hypercritical accretion, induced gravitational collapse and binary driven Hypernovae
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| Non-GRB Posters |
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Mining the XRT archive to probe the X-ray absorber structure in the AGN population
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SOUSA's Swift Supernova Siblings
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Follow-up of X-ray transients detected by SWIFT with COLORES using the BOOTES network
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High energy gamma-ray emission from PSR B1259-63 SS 2883 during 2014 and 2010 periastron passages
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The non standard evolution of the Compton corona in the three 2008-2010 subsequent outbursts of the Black Hole Candidate 4U 1630-47
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Swift Communications and Public Outreach
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Long-Term X-ray Spectral Variability of Seyfert Galaxies with Swift
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The 4th Palermo Swift-BAT catalogue: 100 months of survey of the hard X-ray sky
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The multi-faceted synergy between Swift and Fermi in radio-loud AGN studies
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An overview of the EXTraS project: Exploring the X-ray Transient and Variable Sky
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Exploring Multiwavelength AGN Variability with Swift Archival Data
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Collisionless shocks and X-ray emission around supernova shock breakout
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UVOT Measurements of Dust and Star Formation in the SMC and M33
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The Swift-XRT observations of HBL Source 1ES 1959+650
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Seyfert galaxies with Swift: giant flares, rapid drops, and other surprises
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Finding AGN in Deep X-ray Flux States with Swift
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Using X-ray catalogues to find counterparts to unassociated high-energy Fermi/LAT sources
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Swift XRT monitoring of the ULX M33 X8
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Three years of X-ray Light Curve of Swift J164449.3+573451
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New blazars from the cross-match of recent multi-frequency catalogs
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Energy Dependent Intensity Variations of Persistent X-ray Emission of Magnetars
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Flaring activity of Mrk 421 in 2012 and 2013: orphan flare and multiwavelength analysis
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SWIFT/BAT AGN2 reveal broad emission lines in the NIR: the first virial measure of their black hole masses
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Long-term spot topography and multi-band flare analysis of active ultra-fast rotator LO Peg
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Electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational wave candidates: perspectives in INAF
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A systematic search for periodicities of X-ray binaries in the Swift BAT data
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The 100-month Swift Catalogue of Supergiant Fast X-ray Transients
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Numerical simulations of the internal shock model in magnetized relativistic jets of blazars
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Broad-band Transient Monitor using the Swift/BAT and the MAXI/GSC data
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Wide-band X-ray Studies of Inner Disc Structure in Galactic Black Hole Binaries
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Swift and Suzaku observations of spectral evolution in the FRED type GRBs
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Search and Machine Learning Classification of Short Untriggered Transients
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X-ray and UV long-term properties of 3C 454.3 during low gamma-ray states: the Swift view
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