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Refereed Publications 2002 - 2011 — Julian Paul Osborne REFEREED PUBLICATIONS 2002 - 2011 — JULIAN PAUL OSBORNE Last Update: 05 Sep, 2011 The numbering system reflects lifetime total refereed and non-refereed publications. appeared in 2002 [118] King, A.R., Osborne, J.P. and Schenker, K. The Short Period Supersoft Source in M31. M.N.R.A.S. 329, L43-46 [120] Barcons, X., Carrera, F.J., Watson, M.G., McMahon, R.G., Aschenbach, B., Freyberg, M.J., Page, K., Page, M.J., Roberts, T.P., Turner, M.J.L., Barret, D., Brunner, H., Ceballos, M.T., Della Cecha, R., Guillout, P., Hasinger, G., Maccacaro, T., Mateos, S., Motch, C., Negueruela, I., Osborne, J.P., P´erez-Fournon, I., Schwope, A.D., Severgnini, P., Szkoloy, G.P., Webb, N.A., Wheatley, P.J. and Worrall, D.M. The XMM-Newton Serendipitous Survey. II.First results from the AXIS high galactic latitude medium sensitivity survey. A.A. 382, 522-536. [122] Reeves, J. N.; Watson, D.; Osborne, J. P.; Pounds, K. A.; O’Brien, P. T.; Short, A. D. T.; Turner, M. J. L.; Watson, M. G.; Mason, K. O.; Ehle, M.; Schartel, N. The signature of supernova ejecta in the X-ray afterglow of the gamma-ray burst 011211 Nature, 416, 512-515. [124] Sutaria, F. K., Kolb, K., Charles, P., Osborne, J. P., Kuulkers, E., Casares, J., Harlaftis, E. T., Shahbaz, T., Still, M. & Wheatley, P. XMM-Newton Detection of Nova Muscae 1991 in Quiescence A.A., 391, 993-997. [125] Watson, D., Reeves, J.N., Osborne, J., O’Brien, P.T., Pounds, K.A., Tedds, J.A., Santos-Lleo, M. & Ehle, M. The X-ray afterglows of gamma-ray bursts GRB001025A and GRB010220 observed with XMM-Newton A.A., 393, L1-L5. [126] Watson, D., Reeves, J.N., Osborne, J., Tedds, J.A., O’Brien, P.T., Thomas, L. & Ehle, M. The X-ray afterglow of GRB020322 A.A., 395, L41-L45. [127] Trudolyubov, S. P., Borozdin, K. N., Priedhorsky, W. C., Osborne, J. P., Watson, M. G., Mason, K. O., Cordova, F. A. The discovery of a 2.78 hour periodic modulation of the X-ray flux from globular cluster source B0 158 in M31 Ap.J., 581 L27-L31 appeared in 2003 [129] Watson, M. G., Pye, J. P., Denby, M., Osborne, J. P., Barret, D., Boller, Th., Brunner, H., Ceballos, M. T., DellaCeca, R., Fyfe, D. J., Lamer, G., Maccacaro, T., Michel, L., Motch, C., Pietsch, W., Saxton, R. D., Schroeder, A. C., Stewart, I. M., Tedds, J. A., Webb, N. The XMM-Newton serendipitous source catalogue Astron. Nachr. 324, 89-92. [130] Reeves, J N., Watson, D., Osborne, J. P., Pounds, K. A., O’Brien, P. Soft X-ray emission lines in the afterglow spectrum of GRB 011211: A detailed XMM-Newton analysis 1 A.A, 403, 463-472. [131] Barnard, R., Kolb, U., Osborne, J. P., Borozdin, K.H. RXJ0042.3+415: a stellar mass black hole candidate identified in M31 A.A., 405, 505-511 [132] Barnard, R. Kolb, U. Osborne, J. P. Tracing a Z-track in the M31 X-ray binary RX J0042.6+4115 A.A., 411, 553 appeared in 2004 [135] Vaughan, S., Willingale, O’Brien, P.T., Osborne, J.P., Reeves, J.N., Levan, A.N., Watson, M.G., Tedds, J.A., Santos-Lleo, M., Rodriuez-Pascual, P.M., Schartel, N. The Discovery of an evolving dust scattered X-ray halo around GRB 031203 ApJLett, 603, L5-8 [136] Willingale, R., Osborne, J.P., O’Brien, P.T., Ward, M.J., Levan, A., Page, K. The X-ray, optical and radio evolution of the GRB030329 afterglow and the associated SN2003dh MNRAS, 349, 31-38 [137] Watson, D., Hjorth, J., Levan, A., Jakobsson, P., O’Brien, P.T., Osborne, J.P., Pederson, K., Reeves, J.N., Tedds, J.A., Vaughan, S.A., Ward, M.J., Willingale, R. A very low luminosity X-ray flash: XMM-Newton observations of GRB 031203 ApJLett, 605, L101-104 [143] Barnard, R., Kolb, U., Osborne, J.P. Identifying a black hole X-ray transient in M31 with XMM-Newton and Chandra. A.A., 423, 147-153. [145] Gehrels, N., Chincarini, G., Giommi, P., Mason, K.O., Nousek, J.A., Wells, A.A., White, N.E., Barthelmy, S.D., Burrows, D.N., Cominsky, L.R., Hurley, K.C., Marshall, F.E., Meszaros, P., Roming, P.W.A., Angelini, L., Barbier, L.M., Belloni, T., Campana, S., Caraveo, P.A., Chester, M.M., Citterio, O., Cline, T.L., Cropper, M.S., Cummings, J.R., Dean, A.J., Feigelson, E.D., Fenimore, E.E., Frail, D.A., Fruchter, A.S., Garmire, G.P., Gendreau, K., Ghisellini, G., Greiner, J., Hill, J.E., Hunsberger, S.D., Krimm, H., A., Kulkarni, S.R., Kumar, P., Lebrun, F., Lloyd-Ronning, N.M., Markwardt, C.B., Matteson, B.J., Mushotzky, R.F., Norris, J.P., Osborne, J.P., Paczynski, B., Palmer, D.M., Park, H.-S., Parsons, A.M., Paul, J., Rees, M.J., Reynolds, C.S., Rhoads, J.E., Sasseen, T.P., Schaeffer. B.E., Short, A.T., Smale, A.P., Smith, I.A., Stella, L., Tagliaferi, G., Takahashi, T., Tashiro, M., Townsley, L.K., Tueller, J., Turner, M.J.L., Vietri, M., Voges, W., Ward, M.J., Willingale, R., Zerbi, F.M., Zhang, W.W. The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission. ApJ, 611, 1005-1020 [146] Yuan, W., Komossa, S., Xu, D., Osborne, J.P., Watson, M., McMahon, R.G. Discovery of high-amplitude X-ray variability in the Seyfert-LINER transition galaxy NGC 7589. MNRAS, 353, L29-33 appeared in 2005 [157] Baskill, D.S., Wheatley, P.J., Osborne, J.P. The complete set of ASCA observations of non-magnetic cataclysmic variables. MNRAS 357, 626-644 [158] Burrows, D.N., Hill, J.E., Chincarini, G., Tagliaferi, G., Campana, S.,Moretti, A., Romano, P., Malesani, D., 2 Racusin, J.L., Kobayashi, S., Zhang, B., Meszaros, P., O’Brien, P.T., Willingale, R., Osborne, J.P., Cusumano, G., Giommi, P., Angelini, L., Abbey, A.F., Antonelli, A., Beardmore, A., Capalbi, M., Covino, S., D’Avanzo, P., Goad, M.R., Kennea, J.A., Morris, D., Pagani, C., Page , K.L., Stella, Nousek, J.A., Wells, A.A., Gehrels, N. Swift XRT and VLT observations of the afterglow of GRB 041223. Ap.J.Lett. [159] S.Campana, L.Antonelli, G. Chincarini, S.Covino, G.Cusumano, D.Malesani, V.Manango, A.Moretti, C.Pagani, G.Tagliaferri, M.Capalbi, M.Perri, P.Giommi, L.Angelini, P.Boyd, D.Burrows, J.Hill, C.Gronwall, J.Kennea, S.Kobayashi, P.Kumar, P.Meazaros, J.Nousek, P.Roming, B.Zhang, A.Abbey, A.Beardmore, A.Breeveld, M.Goad, O.Godet, K.Mason, J.Osborne, K.Page, T.Poole, N.Gehrels Swift observations of GRB 050128: The early X-ray afterglow. Ap J Lett. 625, L23-26 [161] Tagliaferri, G., Goad, M., Chincarini, G., Moretti, A., Campana, S., Burrows, D.N., Perri, M., Barthelmy, Gehrels, N., Krimm, H., Sakamoto, T., Kumar, P., Meszaros, P., Kobayashi, S., Zhang, B., Angelini, L., Banat, P., Beardmore, A.P., Capalbi, M., Covino, S., Cusumano, G., Giommi, P., Godet. O., Hill, J.E., Kennea, J.A., Mangano, V., Morris, D.C., Nousek, J.A., O’Brien, P.T., Osborne, J.P., Pagani, C., Page, K.L., Romano, P., Stella, L., Wells, A. The early phases of Gamma ray bursts X-ray afterglows Nature, 436, 985 [162] King, A., O’Brien, P.T., Goad, M.R., Osborne, J.P., Olsson, E., Page, K. Gamma-ray bursts: restarting the engine. ApJ Letters, vol 630, L113. [163] Gehrels, N., Sarazin, C.L., O’Brien, P.T., Barbier, L., Barthelmy, S.D., Blustin, A., Burrows, D.N., Cummings, J.R., Goad, M., Holland, S.T, Hurkett, C.P., Kennea, J.A., Levan, A., Markwardt, C.B., Mason, K.O., Meszaros, P., O’Brien, P.T., Page, M., Palmer, D.M., Rol, E., Sakamoto, T., Willingale, R., Zhang, B., Angelini, L., Beardmore, A.P., Boyd, P.T., Breeveld, A., Campana, S., Chester, M.M., Chincarini, G., Cominsky, L.R., Cusumano, G., de Pasquale, M., Fennimore, E.E., Giommi, P., Gronwall, C., Grupe, D., Hill, J.E., Hinshaw, D., Hjorth, J., Hullinger, D., Hurley, K.C., Klose, S., Kobayashi, S., Kouveliotou, C., Krimm, H., Mangano, V., Marshall, F.E., McGowan, K., Moretti, A., Mushotzky, R.F., Nakazawa, K., Norris, J.P., Nousek, J.A., Osborne, J.P., Page, K.L., Parsons, A.M., Patel, S., Perri, M., Poole, T., Romano, P., Roming, P.W.A., Rosen, S., Sato, G., Schady, P., Smale, A.P., Sollerman, J., Starling, R., Still, M., Suzuki, M., Tagliaferri, G., Takahashi, T., Tashiro, M., Teuller, J., Wells, A.A., Whit, N.E., Wijers, R.A.M.J A short gamma-ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z=0.225 Nature, 437, 851. 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