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Evans PA, Cenko SB, Kennea JA, Emery SWK, Kuin NPM, Korobkin O, Wollaeger RT, Fryer CL, Madsen KK, Harrison FA, Xu Y, Nakar E, Hotokezaka K, Lien A, Campana S, Oates SR, Troja E, Breeveld AA, Marshall FE, Barthelmy SD, Beardmore AP, Burrows DN, Cusumano G, D'Aì A, D'Avanzo P, D'Elia V, de Pasquale M, Even WP, Fontes CJ, Forster K, Garcia J, Giommi P, Grefenstette B, Gronwall C, Hartmann DH, Heida M, Hungerford AL, Kasliwal MM, Krimm HA, Levan AJ, Malesani D, Melandri A, Miyasaka H, Nousek JA, O'Brien PT, Osborne JP, Pagani C, Page KL, Palmer DM, Perri M, Pike S, Racusin JL, Rosswog S, Siegel MH, Sakamoto T, Sbarufatti B, Tagliaferri G, Tanvir NR, Tohuvavohu A. Swift and NuSTAR observations of GW170817: Detection of a blue kilonova. Science 2017; 358:1565-1570. [PMID: 29038371 DOI: 10.1126/science.aap9580] [Citation(s) in RCA: 46] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/14/2017] [Accepted: 10/04/2017] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Abstract
With the first direct detection of merging black holes in 2015, the era of gravitational wave (GW) astrophysics began. A complete picture of compact object mergers, however, requires the detection of an electromagnetic (EM) counterpart. We report ultraviolet (UV) and x-ray observations by Swift and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array of the EM counterpart of the binary neutron star merger GW170817. The bright, rapidly fading UV emission indicates a high mass (≈0.03 solar masses) wind-driven outflow with moderate electron fraction (Ye ≈ 0.27). Combined with the x-ray limits, we favor an observer viewing angle of ≈30° away from the orbital rotation axis, which avoids both obscuration from the heaviest elements in the orbital plane and a direct view of any ultrarelativistic, highly collimated ejecta (a γ-ray burst afterglow).
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- P A Evans
- University of Leicester, X-ray and Observational Astronomy Research Group, Leicester Institute for Space and Earth Observation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK.
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- Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.,Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742, USA
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking RH5 6NT, UK
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- University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking RH5 6NT, UK
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- Center for Theoretical Astrophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
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- Center for Theoretical Astrophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
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- Center for Theoretical Astrophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
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- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- The Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
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- Center for Computational Astrophysics, Simons Foundation, 162 5th Avenue, New York, NY 10010, USA
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- Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology (CRESST) and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.,Department of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, 1000 Hilltop Circle, Baltimore, MD 21250, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-4111, USA
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- University College London, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking RH5 6NT, UK
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- Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- University of Leicester, X-ray and Observational Astronomy Research Group, Leicester Institute for Space and Earth Observation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica Palermo, via Ugo La Malfa 153, I-90146, Palermo, Italy
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- INAF-Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica Palermo, via Ugo La Malfa 153, I-90146, Palermo, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
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- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via Frascati 33, I-00040 Monteporzio Catone, Italy.,Space Science Data Center-Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), I-00133 Roma, Italy
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- Department of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of Istanbul, Beyzt 34119, Istanbul, Turkey
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- Center for Theoretical Astrophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA.,Department of Physical Sciences, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, UT 84720, USA
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- Center for Theoretical Astrophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
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- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Space Science Data Center-Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), I-00133 Roma, Italy
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- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.,Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Kinard Lab of Physics, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-0978, USA
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- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Center for Theoretical Astrophysics, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 USA
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- Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Universities Space Research Association, 7178 Columbia Gateway Drive, Columbia, MD 21046, USA.,National Science Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, VA 22314, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, DK-2100 Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
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- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
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- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- University of Leicester, X-ray and Observational Astronomy Research Group, Leicester Institute for Space and Earth Observation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- University of Leicester, X-ray and Observational Astronomy Research Group, Leicester Institute for Space and Earth Observation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- University of Leicester, X-ray and Observational Astronomy Research Group, Leicester Institute for Space and Earth Observation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- University of Leicester, X-ray and Observational Astronomy Research Group, Leicester Institute for Space and Earth Observation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Los Alamos National Laboratory, B244, Los Alamos, NM 87545, USA
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- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Roma, via Frascati 33, I-00040 Monteporzio Catone, Italy.,Space Science Data Center-Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), I-00133 Roma, Italy
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- Cahill Center for Astronomy and Astrophysics, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
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- Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- The Oskar Klein Centre, Department of Astronomy, AlbaNova, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University, Sagamihara, Kanagawa, 252-5258, Japan
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
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- University of Leicester, X-ray and Observational Astronomy Research Group, Leicester Institute for Space and Earth Observation, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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McDonnell MT, Olds DP, Page KL, Neufeind JC, Tucker MG, Bilheux JC, Zhou W, Peterson PF. ADDIE: ADvanced DIffraction Environment – a software environment for analyzing neutron diffraction data. Acta Crystallogr A Found Adv 2017. [DOI: 10.1107/s0108767317096325] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/10/2022] Open
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Maselli A, Melandri A, Nava L, Mundell CG, Kawai N, Campana S, Covino S, Cummings JR, Cusumano G, Evans PA, Ghirlanda G, Ghisellini G, Guidorzi C, Kobayashi S, Kuin P, La Parola V, Mangano V, Oates S, Sakamoto T, Serino M, Virgili F, Zhang BB, Barthelmy S, Beardmore A, Bernardini MG, Bersier D, Burrows D, Calderone G, Capalbi M, Chiang J, D’Avanzo P, D’Elia V, De Pasquale M, Fugazza D, Gehrels N, Gomboc A, Harrison R, Hanayama H, Japelj J, Kennea J, Kopac D, Kouveliotou C, Kuroda D, Levan A, Malesani D, Marshall F, Nousek J, O’Brien P, Osborne JP, Pagani C, Page KL, Page M, Perri M, Pritchard T, Romano P, Saito Y, Sbarufatti B, Salvaterra R, Steele I, Tanvir N, Vianello G, Wiegand B, Wiersema K, Yatsu Y, Yoshii T, Tagliaferri G. GRB 130427A: A Nearby Ordinary Monster. Science 2014; 343:48-51. [DOI: 10.1126/science.1242279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 89] [Impact Index Per Article: 8.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
Affiliation(s)
- A. Maselli
- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)–Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (IASF) Palermo, Via Ugo La Malfa 153 I-90146 Palermo, Italy
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
- AstroParticule et Cosmologie, Université Paris Diderot, CNRS/IN2P3, Commissariat à l'Energie Atomique et aux Energies Alternatives/Institut de Recherches sur les lois Fondamentales de l’Univers, Observatoire de Paris, Sorbonne Paris Cité, France
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Science Park, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
- Coordinated Space Observation and Experiment Research Group, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
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- University of Maryland, Baltimore County/Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science & Technology/NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Code 661, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)–Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (IASF) Palermo, Via Ugo La Malfa 153 I-90146 Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Ferrara, via Saragat 1, I-44122, Ferrara, Italy
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Science Park, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
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- Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6NT, UK
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- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)–Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (IASF) Palermo, Via Ugo La Malfa 153 I-90146 Palermo, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)–Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (IASF) Palermo, Via Ugo La Malfa 153 I-90146 Palermo, Italy
- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6NT, UK
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- Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University, 5-10-1 Fuchinobe, Chuo-ku, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 252-5258, Japan
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- Coordinated Space Observation and Experiment Research Group, RIKEN, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Science Park, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Science Park, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica “G. Occhialini,” Università di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, I-20126 Milano, Italy
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- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)–Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (IASF) Palermo, Via Ugo La Malfa 153 I-90146 Palermo, Italy
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics, and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
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- INAF/Rome Astronomical Observatory, via Frascati 33, 00040 Monteporzio Catone (Roma), Italy
- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) Science Data Centre, Via Galileo Galilei, 00044 Frascati (Roma), Italy
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- Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6NT, UK
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
- Centre of Excellence Space-si, Askerceva cesta 12, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Science Park, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
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- Ishigakijima Astronomical Observatory, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 1024-1 Arakawa, Ishigaki, Okinawa 907-0024, Japan
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, University of Ljubljana, Jadranska 19 1000, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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- Space Science Office, VP62, NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL 35812, USA
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- Okayama Astrophysical Observatory, National Astronomical Observatory of Japan, 3037-5 Honjo, Kamogata, Asaguchi, Okayama 719-0232
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- Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK
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- Dark Cosmology Centre (DARK), Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Juliane Maries Vej 30, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Mullard Space Science Laboratory, University College London, Holmbury St. Mary, Dorking, Surrey RH5 6NT, UK
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- INAF/Rome Astronomical Observatory, via Frascati 33, 00040 Monteporzio Catone (Roma), Italy
- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI) Science Data Centre, Via Galileo Galilei, 00044 Frascati (Roma), Italy
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- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica (INAF)–Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale e Fisica Cosmica (IASF) Palermo, Via Ugo La Malfa 153 I-90146 Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University, 525 Davey Lab, University Park, PA 16802, USA
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- INAF-IASF Milano, via E. Bassini 15, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool Science Park, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, UK
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- W. W. Hansen Experimental Physics Laboratory, Kavli Institute for Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology, Department of Physics, and SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305, USA
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- NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Leicester, Leicester, LE1 7RH, UK
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 2-12-1 Ookayama, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 152-8551, Japan
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- INAF–Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy
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Allen DE, Pringle MJ, Page KL, Dalal RC. A review of sampling designs for the measurement of soil organic carbon in Australian grazing lands. Rangel J 2010. [DOI: 10.1071/rj09043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
Abstract
The accurate measurement of the soil organic carbon (SOC) stock in Australian grazing lands is important due to the major role that SOC plays in soil productivity and the potential influence of soil C cycling on Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. However, the current sampling methodologies for SOC stock are varied and potentially conflicting. It was the objective of this paper to review the nature of, and reasons for, SOC variability; the sampling methodologies commonly used; and to identify knowledge gaps for SOC measurement in grazing lands. Soil C consists of a range of biological materials, in various SOC pools such as dissolved organic C, micro- and meso-fauna (microbial biomass), fungal hyphae and fresh plant residues in or on the soil (particulate organic C, light-fraction C), the products of decomposition (humus, slow pool C) and complexed organic C, and char and phytoliths (inert, passive or resistant C); and soil inorganic C (carbonates and bicarbonates). Microbial biomass and particulate or light-fraction organic C are most sensitive to management or land-use change; resistant organic C and soil carbonates are least sensitive. The SOC present at any location is influenced by a series of complex interactions between plant growth, climate, soil type or parent material, topography and site management. Because of this, SOC stock and SOC pools are highly variable on both spatial and temporal scales. This creates a challenge for efficient sampling. Sampling methods are predominantly based on design-based (classical) statistical techniques, crucial to which is a randomised sampling pattern that negates bias. Alternatively a model-based (geostatistical) analysis can be used, which does not require randomisation. Each approach is equally valid to characterise SOC in the rangelands. However, given that SOC reporting in the rangelands will almost certainly rely on average values for some aggregated scale (such as a paddock or property), we contend that the design-based approach might be preferred. We also challenge soil surveyors and their sponsors to realise that: (i) paired sites are the most efficient way of detecting a temporal change in SOC stock, but destructive sampling and cumulative measurement errors decrease our ability to detect change; (ii) due to (i), an efficient sampling scheme to estimate baseline status is not likely to be an efficient sampling scheme to estimate temporal change; (iii) samples should be collected as widely as possible within the area of interest; (iv) replicate of laboratory analyses is a critical step in being able to characterise temporal change. Sampling requirements for SOC stock in Australian grazing lands are yet to be explicitly quantified and an examination of a range of these ecosystems is required in order to assess the sampling densities and techniques necessary to detect specified changes in SOC stock and SOC pools. An examination of techniques that can help reduce sampling requirements (such as measurement of the SOC fractions that are most sensitive to management changes and/or measurement at specific times of the year – preferably before rapid plant growth – to decrease temporal variability), and new technologies for in situ SOC measurement is also required.
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Racusin JL, Karpov SV, Sokolowski M, Granot J, Wu XF, Pal’shin V, Covino S, van der Horst AJ, Oates SR, Schady P, Smith RJ, Cummings J, Starling RLC, Piotrowski LW, Zhang B, Evans PA, Holland ST, Malek K, Page MT, Vetere L, Margutti R, Guidorzi C, Kamble AP, Curran PA, Beardmore A, Kouveliotou C, Mankiewicz L, Melandri A, O’Brien PT, Page KL, Piran T, Tanvir NR, Wrochna G, Aptekar RL, Barthelmy S, Bartolini C, Beskin GM, Bondar S, Bremer M, Campana S, Castro-Tirado A, Cucchiara A, Cwiok M, D’Avanzo P, D’Elia V, Valle MD, de Ugarte Postigo A, Dominik W, Falcone A, Fiore F, Fox DB, Frederiks DD, Fruchter AS, Fugazza D, Garrett MA, Gehrels N, Golenetskii S, Gomboc A, Gorosabel J, Greco G, Guarnieri A, Immler S, Jelinek M, Kasprowicz G, La Parola V, Levan AJ, Mangano V, Mazets EP, Molinari E, Moretti A, Nawrocki K, Oleynik PP, Osborne JP, Pagani C, Pandey SB, Paragi Z, Perri M, Piccioni A, Ramirez-Ruiz E, Roming PWA, Steele IA, Strom RG, Testa V, Tosti G, Ulanov MV, Wiersema K, Wijers RAMJ, Winters JM, Zarnecki AF, Zerbi F, Mészáros P, Chincarini G, Burrows DN. Broadband observations of the naked-eye γ-ray burst GRB 080319B. Nature 2008; 455:183-8. [DOI: 10.1038/nature07270] [Citation(s) in RCA: 376] [Impact Index Per Article: 23.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/11/2008] [Accepted: 07/11/2008] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Soderberg AM, Berger E, Page KL, Schady P, Parrent J, Pooley D, Wang XY, Ofek EO, Cucchiara A, Rau A, Waxman E, Simon JD, Bock DCJ, Milne PA, Page MJ, Barentine JC, Barthelmy SD, Beardmore AP, Bietenholz MF, Brown P, Burrows A, Burrows DN, Byrngelson G, Cenko SB, Chandra P, Cummings JR, Fox DB, Gal-Yam A, Gehrels N, Immler S, Kasliwal M, Kong AKH, Krimm HA, Kulkarni SR, Maccarone TJ, Mészáros P, Nakar E, O’Brien PT, Overzier RA, de Pasquale M, Racusin J, Rea N, York DG. An extremely luminous X-ray outburst at the birth of a supernova. Nature 2008; 453:469-74. [PMID: 18497815 DOI: 10.1038/nature06997] [Citation(s) in RCA: 352] [Impact Index Per Article: 22.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/11/2008] [Accepted: 04/04/2008] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Campana S, Mangano V, Blustin AJ, Brown P, Burrows DN, Chincarini G, Cummings JR, Cusumano G, Della Valle M, Malesani D, Mészáros P, Nousek JA, Page M, Sakamoto T, Waxman E, Zhang B, Dai ZG, Gehrels N, Immler S, Marshall FE, Mason KO, Moretti A, O'Brien PT, Osborne JP, Page KL, Romano P, Roming PWA, Tagliaferri G, Cominsky LR, Giommi P, Godet O, Kennea JA, Krimm H, Angelini L, Barthelmy SD, Boyd PT, Palmer DM, Wells AA, White NE. The association of GRB 060218 with a supernova and the evolution of the shock wave. Nature 2006; 442:1008-10. [PMID: 16943830 DOI: 10.1038/nature04892] [Citation(s) in RCA: 573] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/13/2005] [Accepted: 05/10/2005] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Although the link between long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and supernovae has been established, hitherto there have been no observations of the beginning of a supernova explosion and its intimate link to a GRB. In particular, we do not know how the jet that defines a gamma-ray burst emerges from the star's surface, nor how a GRB progenitor explodes. Here we report observations of the relatively nearby GRB 060218 (ref. 5) and its connection to supernova SN 2006aj (ref. 6). In addition to the classical non-thermal emission, GRB 060218 shows a thermal component in its X-ray spectrum, which cools and shifts into the optical/ultraviolet band as time passes. We interpret these features as arising from the break-out of a shock wave driven by a mildly relativistic shell into the dense wind surrounding the progenitor. We have caught a supernova in the act of exploding, directly observing the shock break-out, which indicates that the GRB progenitor was a Wolf-Rayet star.
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- S Campana
- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E. Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, LC, Italy.
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Burrows DN, Romano P, Falcone A, Kobayashi S, Zhang B, Moretti A, O'brien PT, Goad MR, Campana S, Page KL, Angelini L, Barthelmy S, Beardmore AP, Capalbi M, Chincarini G, Cummings J, Cusumano G, Fox D, Giommi P, Hill JE, Kennea JA, Krimm H, Mangano V, Marshall F, Mészáros P, Morris DC, Nousek JA, Osborne JP, Pagani C, Perri M, Tagliaferri G, Wells AA, Woosley S, Gehrels N. Bright X-ray Flares in Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows. Science 2005; 309:1833-5. [PMID: 16109845 DOI: 10.1126/science.1116168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 410] [Impact Index Per Article: 21.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/02/2022]
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Gamma-ray burst (GRB) afterglows have provided important clues to the nature of these massive explosive events, providing direct information on the nearby environment and indirect information on the central engine that powers the burst. We report the discovery of two bright x-ray flares in GRB afterglows, including a giant flare comparable in total energy to the burst itself, each peaking minutes after the burst. These strong, rapid x-ray flares imply that the central engines of the bursts have long periods of activity, with strong internal shocks continuing for hundreds of seconds after the gamma-ray emission has ended.
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- D N Burrows
- Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 525 Davey Lab, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802, USA.
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Tagliaferri G, Goad M, Chincarini G, Moretti A, Campana S, Burrows DN, Perri M, Barthelmy SD, Gehrels N, Krimm H, Sakamoto T, Kumar P, Mészáros PI, Kobayashi S, Zhang B, Angelini L, Banat P, Beardmore AP, Capalbi M, Covino S, Cusumano G, Giommi P, Godet O, Hill JE, Kennea JA, Mangano V, Morris DC, Nousek JA, O'Brien PT, Osborne JP, Pagani C, Page KL, Romano P, Stella L, Wells A. An unexpectedly rapid decline in the X-ray afterglow emission of long γ-ray bursts. Nature 2005; 436:985-8. [PMID: 16107840 DOI: 10.1038/nature03934] [Citation(s) in RCA: 208] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/22/2005] [Accepted: 06/14/2005] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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'Long' gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are commonly accepted to originate in the explosion of particularly massive stars, which give rise to highly relativistic jets. Inhomogeneities in the expanding flow result in internal shock waves that are believed to produce the gamma-rays we see. As the jet travels further outward into the surrounding circumstellar medium, 'external' shocks create the afterglow emission seen in the X-ray, optical and radio bands. Here we report observations of the early phases of the X-ray emission of five GRBs. Their X-ray light curves are characterised by a surprisingly rapid fall-off for the first few hundred seconds, followed by a less rapid decline lasting several hours. This steep decline, together with detailed spectral properties of two particular bursts, shows that violent shock interactions take place in the early jet outflows.
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- G Tagliaferri
- INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, Via Bianchi 46, I-23807 Merate, Italy.
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Wigley P, Berchieri A, Page KL, Smith AL, Barrow PA. Salmonella enterica serovar Pullorum persists in splenic macrophages and in the reproductive tract during persistent, disease-free carriage in chickens. Infect Immun 2001; 69:7873-9. [PMID: 11705970 PMCID: PMC98884 DOI: 10.1128/iai.69.12.7873-7879.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 144] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/04/2000] [Accepted: 08/16/2001] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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Salmonella enterica serovar Pullorum is worldwide a poultry pathogen of considerable economic importance, particularly in those countries with a developing poultry industry. In addition to the characteristic high mortality rates among young chicks, one of the features of Salmonella serovar Pullorum infection is that it persists for long periods in convalescent chicks in the absence of clinical disease. This can lead to colonization of the reproductive tract of chickens and at sexual maturity can result in infected progeny through transovarian transmission to eggs. The sites of Salmonella serovar Pullorum persistence in convalescent birds are not known, and the mechanisms of persistence are not understood. Here we show that Salmonella serovar Pullorum can persist in both the spleen and the reproductive tract for over 40 weeks following experimental infection in chickens. During the period of sexual maturity, Salmonella serovar Pullorum colonized both the ovary and the oviduct of hens and led to 6% of laid eggs being infected by Salmonella serovar Pullorum. The colonization of several different sites of the reproductive tract suggests that Salmonella serovar Pullorum may employ more than one mechanism of egg infection. Persistence occurred despite a strong humoral response, suggesting an intracellular site of infection. By use of a Salmonella serovar Pullorum strain containing a plasmid stably expressing green fluorescent protein, we demonstrated that the main site of carriage in the spleen is within macrophages. This raises interesting questions about the biology of Salmonella serovar Pullorum, including why there is an increase in bacterial numbers when birds become sexually mature and in particular how Salmonella serovar Pullorum avoids clearance by macrophages and whether it modulates the immune system in other ways.
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- P Wigley
- Division of Environmental Microbiology, Institute for Animal Health, Compton Laboratory, Compton, Newbury, Berkshire RG20 7NN, United Kingdom.
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Jones MA, Wigley P, Page KL, Hulme SD, Barrow PA. Salmonella enterica serovar Gallinarum requires the Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 type III secretion system but not the Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 type III secretion system for virulence in chickens. Infect Immun 2001; 69:5471-6. [PMID: 11500419 PMCID: PMC98659 DOI: 10.1128/iai.69.9.5471-5476.2001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 98] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Salmonella enterica serovar Gallinarum is a host-specific serotype that causes the severe systemic disease fowl typhoid in domestic poultry and a narrow range of other avian species but rarely causes disease in mammalian hosts. Specificity of the disease is primarily at the level of the reticuloendothelial system, but few virulence factors have been described other than the requirement for an 85-kb virulence plasmid. In this work, by making functional mutations in the type III secretion systems (TTSS) encoded by Salmonella pathogenicity island 1 (SPI-1) and SPI-2, we investigated the role of these pathogenicity islands in interactions between Salmonella serovar Gallinarum and avian cells in vitro and the role of these pathogenicity islands in virulence in chickens. The SPI-1 mutant showed decreased invasiveness into avian cells in vitro but was unaffected in its ability to persist within chicken macrophages. In contrast the SPI-2 mutant was fully invasive in nonphagocytic cells but failed to persist in macrophages. In chicken infections the SPI-2 mutant was attenuated while the SPI-1 mutant showed full virulence. In oral infections the SPI-2 mutant was not observed in the spleen or liver, and following intravenous inoculation it was cleared rapidly from these sites. SPI-2 function is required by Salmonella serovar Gallinarum for virulence, primarily through promoting survival within macrophages allowing multiplication within the reticuloendothelial system, but this does not preclude the involvement of SPI-2 in uptake from the gut to the spleen and liver. SPI-1 appears to have little effect on virulence and survival of Salmonella serovar Gallinarum in the host.
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- M A Jones
- Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Berkshire RG20 7NN, United Kingdom.
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Milner P, Page KL, Hillerton JE. The effects of early antibiotic treatment following diagnosis of mastitis detected by a change in the electrical conductivity of milk. J Dairy Sci 1997; 80:859-63. [PMID: 9178126 DOI: 10.3168/jds.s0022-0302(97)76008-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Mastitis was induced experimentally by infusion of Streptococcus uberis or Staphylococcus aureus into the mammary glands of lactating dairy cows. Clinical mastitis was identified when clots appeared in foremilk (conventional diagnosis) or was predicted by changes in the electrical conductivity of foremilk (early diagnosis). The responses to intramammary antibiotic treatment that was initiated after early diagnosis of mastitis and after conventional diagnosis were compared. Early treatment significantly limited the severity of the disease and, in many cases, prevented the appearance of any visible signs of infection. Milk yield was less depressed, and the somatic cell count (SCC) was lower, when treatment was initiated earlier. The SCC of the quarter at the time mastitis was predicted was approximately 2 x 10(6) cells/ml for both pathogens, which was significantly less than when clots appeared at conventional diagnosis, approximately 4 x 10(6) and 12 x 10(6) cells/ml for Staph. aureus and Strep. uberis, respectively. The time required for SCC to recover to < 4 x 10(5) cells/ml was significantly less, approximately half, for both pathogens following early detection and early initiation of treatment. When treatment was administered in response to early detection, the bacteriological and clinical cure was almost complete, and the amount of antibiotic used was < or = 50% less. Obvious benefits for milk yield and quality and the health of the cow would result when changes in the electrical conductivity of milk are used to predict clinical mastitis and when treatment is initiated early.
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- P Milner
- Institute for Animal Health, Newbury, Berkshire, England
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Mastitis was induced by the direct infusion of Staphylococcus aureus or Streptococcus uberis into the mammary gland of lactating cows. Changes in electrical conductivity of foremilk indicated the establishment of bacteria, increased SCC, increased clotting of milk, and, hence, disease, in advance of visible changes in the milk that could be diagnosed by a herdsperson. Clinical mastitis was detectable by changes in electrical conductivity of foremilk, 90% of cases were detectable when clots first appeared in foremilk, and 55% of cases were detectable up to 2 milkings prior to the appearance of clots. All subclinical infections from Staph. aureus were detected, but subclinical infections from Strep. uberis were not detected. The results suggested that clinical mastitis caused by these two major pathogens could be detected earlier by measuring changes in electrical conductivity of milk than by waiting for a herdsperson to detect visible changes in milk. Earlier detection would permit earlier treatment. However, the handheld sensor used in this experiment is impractical for commercial application, and reliable automated sensors and decision-making algorithms are required.
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- P Milner
- Institute for Animal Health, Compton, Newbury, Berkshire, United Kingdom
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