Darach Jafar Watson

Darach Jafar Watson

Professor


  1. 2006
  2. Published

    Are short gamma-ray bursts collimated? GRB 050709, a flare but no break

    Watson, Darach Jafar, Hjorth, Jens, Jakobsen, P., Xu, D., Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Sollerman, J. O., Thöne, C. & Pedersen, K., 2006, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 454, p. L123-L126

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  3. Published

    GRB 050814 at z=5.3 and the redshift distribution of Swift GRBs

    Jakobsson, P., Levan, A., Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Hjorth, Jens, Tanvir, N., Watson, Darach Jafar, Jensen, B. L., Sollerman, J. O., Natarajan, P., Gorosabel, J., Castro Cerón, J. M. & Pedersen, K., 2006, Gamma-ray bursts in the swift era.16th Annual Astrophysics Conference, NOV 29-DEC 02, 2005 Washington, DC: AIP Conference Proceedings vol.836. American Institute of Physics, Vol. 836. p. 552-557 5 p.

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  4. Published

    H I column densities of z > 2 swift gamma-ray bursts

    Jakobsson, P., Fynbo, J. P. U., Ledoux, C., Vreewijk, P. M., Kann, D. A., Hjorth, J., Priddey, R. S., Tanvir, N. R., Reichart, D., Gorosabel, J., Klose, S., Watson, D., Sollerman, J. O., Fruchter, A. S., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Wiersema, K., Björnsson, G., Chapman, R., Tröne, C. C., Pedersen, K. & 1 others, Jensen, B. L., 2006, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 460, 2, p. L13-L17

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  5. Published

    Low-resolution VLT spectroscopy of GRBs 991216, 011211 and 021211

    Vreeswijk, P. M., Smette, A., Fruchter, A. S., Palazzi, E., Rol, E., Wijers, R. A. M. J., Kouveliotou, C., Kaper, L., Pian, E., Masetti, N., Frontera, F., Hjorth, Jens, Gorosabel, J., Piro, L., Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Jakobsson, P., Watson, Darach Jafar, O'Brian, P. T. & Ledoux, C., 2006, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 447, p. 145-156

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  6. Published

    Multiwavelength studies of the optically dark gamma-ray burst 001025A

    Pedersen, K., Hurley, K., Hjorth, J., Smith, D. A., Andersen, M. I., Christensen, L., Cline, T., Fynbo, J. P. U., Goldsten, J., Golenetskii, S., Gorosabel, J., Jakobsson, P., Jensen, B. L., Milvang-Jensen, B., McClanahan, T., Møller, P., Palshin, V., Schartel, N., Trombka, J., Ulanov, M. & 1 others, Watson, Darach Jafar, 2006, In: Astrophysical Journal. 636, 1, part 1, p. 381-390

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  7. Published

    No supernovae associated with two long-duration gamma-ray bursts

    Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Watson, Darach Jafar, Sollerman, J. O., Bloom, J. S., Hjorth, Jens, Jakobsson, P. & Thöne, C., 2006, In: Nature. 444, 7122, p. 1047-1049

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  8. Published

    Outshining the quasars at reionization: the X-ray spectrum and light curveof the redshift 6.29 gamma-ray burst GRB 050904

    Watson, Darach Jafar, Reeves, J. N., Hjorth, Jens, Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Jakobsson, P., Pedersen, K., Sollerman, J. O., Castro Cerón, J. M., McBreen, S. & Foley, S., 2006, In: Astrophysical Journal. 637, 2, p. L69-L72

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  9. Published

    Probing cosmic chemical evolution with gamma-ray bursts: GRB 060206 at z=4.048

    Fynbo, J. P. U., Starling, R. L. C., Ledoux, C., Wiersema, K., Thöne, C. C., Sollerman, J. O., Jakobsson, P., Hjorth, J., Watson, D., Vreeswijk, P. M., Møller, P., Rol, E., Gorosabel, J., Näränen, J., Wijers, R. A. M. J., Björnsson, G., Castro Cerón, J. M., Curran, P., Hartmann, D. H., Holland, S. T. & 6 others, Jensen, B. L., Levan, A. J., Limousin, M., Kouveliotou, C., Pedersen, K. & Tanvir, R., 2006, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 451, p. L47-L50

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  10. Published

    Star formation rates and stellar masses in z ~ 1 gamma-ray burst hosts

    Castro Cerón, J. M., Michalowski, M., Hjorth, Jens, Watson, Darach Jafar, Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall & Gorosabel, J., 2006, In: Astrophysical Journal. 653, 2, p. L85-L88

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  11. Published

    Supernova 2006aj and the associated X-Ray flash 060218

    Sollerman, J. O., Jaunsen, A. O., Fynbo, J. P. U., Hjorth, J., Jakobsson, P., Féron, C., Laursen, P., Ovaldsen, J. -E., Selj, J., Thöne, C., Xu, D., Davis, T. M., Gorosabel, J., Watson, D., Duro, R., Ilyin, I., Jensen, B. L., Lysfjord, N., Marquart, T., Nielsen, T. B. & 5 others, Näränen, J., Schwarz, H. E., Walch, S., Wold, M. & Östlin, G., 2006, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 454, 2, p. 503-509

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  12. Published

    The X-ray spectrum and fightcurve of the redshift 6.29 gamma-ray burst GRB 050904

    Watson, Darach Jafar, Reeves, J., Hjorth, Jens, Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Jakobsson, P., Pedersen, K., Sollerman, J. O., Castro Cerón, J. M., McBreen, S. & Foley, S., 2006, AIP Conference Proceedings vol.836. 16th Annual Astrophysics ConferenceWashington, DC, NOV 29-DEC 02, 2005NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr; Univ Maryland; Gen Dynam. American Institute of Physics, Vol. 836. p. 582-585

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  13. Published

    The galaxies in the field of the nearby GRB 980425/SN 1998bw

    Foley, S., Watson, Darach Jafar, Gorosabel, J., Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Sollerman, J. O., McGlynn, S., McBreen, B. & Hjorth, Jens, 2006, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 447, p. 891-895

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  14. Published

    The soft X-ray blast in the apparently subluminous GRB 031203

    Watson, Darach Jafar, Vaughan, S. A., Willingale, R., Hjorth, Jens, Foley, S., Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Jakobsson, P., Levan, A., O'Brian, P. T., Osborne, J. P., Pedersen, K., Reeves, J. N., Tedds, J. A. & Watson, M. G., 2006, In: Astrophysical Journal. 636, 2, p. 967-970

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  15. Published

    XMM-Newton observation of a dust echo and X-ray flash in GRB 031203

    Reeves..[et al.], J. N. & Watson, Darach Jafar, 2006, In: Advances in Space Research. 38, 7, p. 1287-1290

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  16. 2007
  17. Published

    A multi-wavelength study of z = 3.15 Lyman-a emitters in the GOODS south field

    Nilsson, K. K., Møller, P., Möller, O., Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Michalowski, M., Watson, Darach Jafar, Ledoux, C., Rosati, P., Pedersen, K. & Grove, L. F., 2007, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 471, 1, p. 71-82 12 p.

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  18. Published

    Detection of GRB 060927 at z =5.47: Implications for the use of gamma-ray bursts as probes of the end of the dark ages

    Ruiz-Velasco, A. E., Swan, H., Troja, E., Malesani, D., Fynbo, J. P. U., Starling, R. L. C., Xu, D., Aharonian, F., Akerlof, C., Andersen, M. I., Ashley, M. C. B., Barthelmy, S. D., Bersier, D., Castro Cer'on, J. M., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Gehrels, N., Gögüs, E., Gorosabel, J., Guidorzi, C., Güver, T. & 37 others, Hjorth, Jens, Horns, D., Huang, K. Y., Jakobsson, P., Jensen, B. L., Kiziloglu, Ü., Kouveliotou, C., Krimm, H. A., Ledoux, C., Levan, A. J., Marsh, T., McKay, T., Melandri, A., Milvang-Jensen, B., Mundell, C. G., O'Brien, P. T., Özel, M., Phillips, A., Quimby, R., Rowell, G., Rujopakarn, W., Rykoff, E. S., Schaefer, B. E., Sollerman, J. O., Tanvir, N. R., Thöne, C. C., Urata, Y., Vestrand, W. T., Vreeswijk, P. M., Watson, Darach Jafar, Wheeler, J. C., Wijers, R. A. M. J., Wren, J., Yost, S. A., Yuan, F., Zhai, M. & Zheng, W. K., 2007, In: Astrophysical Journal. 669, 1, p. 1-9 9 p.

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  19. Published

    Gamma-ray burst host galaxies and the link to star-formation

    Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Hjorth, Jens, Malesani, Daniele Bjørn, Sollerman, J. O., Watson, Darach Jafar, Jakobsson, P., Gorosabel, J. & Janusen, A. O., 2007, To appear in the Proceedings of the Eleventh Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity: Singapre, Marts,  2007. 9 p.

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  20. Published

    No supernovae detected in two long-duration gamma-ray bursts

    Watson, Darach Jafar, Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Thöne, C. & Sollerman, J. O., 2007, In: Philosophical Transactions. Series A : Mathematical, physical, and engineering science. 1854, p. 1269-1275

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  21. Published

    The nature of the x-ray flash of August 24 2005: Photometric evidence for an on-axis z= 0.83 burst with continuous energy injection and an associated supernova ?

    Sollerman, J. O., Fynbo, J. P. U., Gorosabel, J., Halpern, J., Hjorth, J., Jakobsson, P., Mirabal, N., Watson, D. J., Xu, D., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Féron, C., Jaunsen, A. O., Jelinek, M., Jensen, B. L., Kann, D. A., Osvaldsen, J. E., Pozanenko, A., Stritzinger, M. D., Thöne, C., de Ugarte Postigo, A. & 6 others, Guziy, S., Ibrahimov, M., Järvinen, S. P., Levan, A., Rumyantsev, V. & Tanvir, N., 2007, In: Astronomy & Astrophysics. 466, 3, p. 839-846 8 p.

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  22. Published

    Very different x-ray-to-optical column density ratios in ¿-ray burst afterglows: ionization in GRB environments

    Watson, Darach Jafar, Hjorth, Jens, Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Jakobsson, P., Foley, S., Sollerman, J. O. & Wijers, R. A. M. J., 2007, In: Astrophysical Journal. 660, 2, p. L101-L104 5 p.

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  23. 2008
  24. Published

    GRB 070306: a highly extinguished afterglow

    Jaunsen, A. O., Rol, E., Watson, Darach Jafar, Malesani, Daniele Bjørn, Ovaldsen, J. -., Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Milvang-Jensen, B., Hjorth, Jens, Vreeswijk, P. M., Wiersema, K., Tanvir, N. R., Levan, A., Schirmer, M. & Castro-Tirado, A. J., 2008, In: Astrophysical Journal. 681, 1, p. 453-461 9 p.

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  25. Published

    GRB 080928: VLT redshift

    Vreeswijk, P. M., Malesani, Daniele Bjørn, Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Jacobsson, J., Thöne, C., Sollerman, J. O., Watson, Darach Jafar & Milvang-Jensen, B., 2008, In: GCN circulars. 8301, 1

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  26. Published

    Hot GRB-selected submillimeter galaxies: Conference on Pathways Through and Eclectic UniverseSantiago del Teide, SPAIN, APR 23-27, 2007 , Book Series: ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF THE PACIFIC CONFERENCE SERIES    Volume: 390    Pages: 493-494    Published: 2008

    Michalowski, M., Hjorth, Jens, Castro Cerón, J. M. & Watson, Darach Jafar, 2008, ASP Conference Series,  vol.390: Pathways Through an Eclectic Universe. Vol. 390.

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  27. Published
  28. Published

    On the nature of the short-duration GRB 050906

    Levan, A., Tanvir, N., Jakobsson, P., Chapman, R., Hjorth, Jens, Priddey, R., Fynbo, Johan Peter Uldall, Hurley, K., Jensen, B., Johnson, R., Gorosabel, J., Castro-Tirado, A., Jarvis, M., Watson, Darach Jafar & Wiersema, K., 2008, In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 384, 2, p. 541-547 6 p.

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