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M. De Angelis

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arXiv2021

X-ray spectra, light-curves and SEDs of blazars frequently observed by Swift

Blazars research is one of the hot topics of contemporary extra-galactic astrophysics. That is because these sources are the most abundant type of extra-galactic gamma-ray sources and are suspected to play a central role in multi-messenger astrophysics. We have used swift_xrtproc, a tool to carry out an accurate spectral and photometric analysis of the Swift-XRT data of all blazars observed by Swift at least 50 times between December 2004 and the end of 2020. We present a database of X-ray spectra, best-fit parameter values, count-rates and flux estimations in several energy bands of over 31,000 X-ray observations and single snapshots of 65 blazars. The results of the X-ray analysis have been combined with other multi-frequency archival data to assemble the broad-band Spectral Energy Distributions (SEDs) and the long-term light-curves of all sources in the sample. Our study shows that large X-ray luminosity variability on different timescales is present in all objects. Spectral changes are also frequently observed with a "harder-when-brighter" or "softer-when-brighter" behavior depending on the SED type of the blazars. The peak energy of the synchrotron component nu_peak in the SED of HBL blazars, estimated from the log-parabolic shape of their X-ray spectra, also exhibits very large changes in the same source, spanning a range of over two orders of magnitude in Mrk421 and Mrk501, the objects with the best data sets in our sample.

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arXiv2020

The Open Universe survey of Swift-XRT GRB fields: a complete sample of HBL blazars

We have analysed all the X-ray images centred on Gamma Ray Bursts generated by Swift over the last 15 years using automatic tools that do not require any expertise in X-ray astronomy, producing results in excellent agreement with previous findings. This work, besides presenting the largest medium-deep survey of the X-ray sky and a complete sample of blazars, wishes to be a step in the direction of achieving the ultimate goal of the Open Universe Initiative, that is to enable non expert people to fully benefit of space science data, possibly extending the potential for scientific discovery, currently confined within a small number of highly specialised teams, to a much larger population. We have used the Swift_deepsky Docker container encapsulated pipeline to build the largest existing flux-limited and unbiased sample of serendipitous X-ray sources. Swift_deepsky runs on any laptop or desktop computer with a modern operating system. The tool automatically downloads the data and the calibration files from the archives, runs the official Swift analysis software and produces a number of results including images, the list of detected sources, X-ray fluxes, SED data, and spectral slope estimations. We used our source list to build the LogN-LogS of extra-galactic sources, which perfectly matches that estimated by other satellites. Combining our survey with multi-frequency data we selected a complete radio flux-density limited sample of High Energy Peaked (HBL) blazars.

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arXiv2019

Open Universe for Blazars: a new generation of astronomical products based on 14 years of Swift-XRT data

Open Universe for blazars is a set of high-transparency data products for blazar science, and the tools designed to generate them. Blazar astrophysics is becoming increasingly data driven, depending on the integration and combined analysis of large quantities of data from the entire span of observational astrophysics techniques. The project was therefore chosen as one of the pilot activities within the United Nations Open Universe Initiative. In this work we developed a data analysis pipeline called Swift_deepsky, based on the Swift XRTDAS software and the XIMAGE package, encapsulated into a Docker container. Swift_deepsky, downloads and reads low-level data, generates higher-level products, detects X-ray sources and estimates several intensity and spectral parameters for each detection, thus facilitating the generation of complete and up-to-date science-ready catalogues from an entire space-mission dataset. The Docker version of the pipeline and its derived products is publicly available from the Open Universe Website at openuniverse.asi.it. We present the results of a detailed X-ray image analysis based on Swift_deepsky on all Swift XRT observations including a known blazar, carried out during the first 14 years of operations of the Swift Observatory. The resulting database includes over 27,000 images integrated in different X-ray bands, and a catalogue, called 1OUSXB, that provides intensity and spectral information for 33,396 X-ray sources, 8,896 of which are single or multiple detections of 2,308 distinct blazars. All the results can be accessed on-line in a variety of ways: e.g., from the Open Universe portal at openuniverse.asi.it, through Virtual Observatory services, via the VOU-Blazar tool and the SSDC SED builder. One of the most innovative aspects of this work is that the results can be safely reproduced and extended by anyone.

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arXiv2018

The Open Universe Initiative

The almost universal availability of electronic connectivity, web software, and portable devices is bringing about a major revolution: information of all kinds is rapidly becoming accessible to everyone, transforming social, economic and cultural life practically everywhere in the world. Internet technologies represent an unprecedented and extraordinary two-way channel of communication between producers and users of data. For this reason the web is widely recognized as an asset capable of achieving the fundamental goal of transparency of information and of data products, in line with the growing demand for transparency of all goods that are produced with public money. This paper describes "Open Universe" an initiative proposed to the United Nations Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space (COPUOS) with the objective of stimulating a dramatic increase in the availability and usability of space science data, extending the potential of scientific discovery to new participants in all parts of the world.

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arXiv2014

Asymptotic estimates related to an integro differential equation

The paper deals with an integrodifferential operator which models numerous phenomena in superconductivity, in biology and in viscoelasticity. Initialboundary value problems with Neumann, Dirichlet and mixed boundary conditions are analyzed. An asymptotic analysis is achieved proving that for large t, the in uences of the initial data vanish, while the effects of boundary disturbances are everywhere bounded.

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arXiv2013

A priori estimates for excitable models

The reaction-diffusion system of Fitzhugh Nagumo is considered. The initial- boundary problems with Neumann and Dirichlet conditions are analyzed. By means of an equivalent semilinear integrodifferential equation which characterizes several dissipative models of viscoelasticity, biology, and superconductivity, some results on existence, uniqueness and a priori estimates are deduced both in the linear case and in the non linear one.

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arXiv2013

Asymptotic effects of boundary perturbations in excitable systems

A Neumann problem in the strip for the Fitzhugh Nagumo system is consid- ered. The transformation in a non linear integral equation permits to deduce a priori estimates for the solution. A complete asymptotic analysis shows that for large t the effects of the initial data vanish while the effects of bound- ary disturbances depend on the properties of the data. When they are convergent for large t, the solution is everywhere bounded; when theirs first derivatives belong to L one too, the effects are vanishing.

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arXiv2012

Existence and uniqueness results for a class of non linear models

The qualitative analysis of the initial value problem P related to a non linear third order parabolic equation typical of diffusive models is discussed. Some basic properties of the the fundamental solution of a related linear operator are determined and are applied to an equivalent integro differential formulation of the problem. By the fixed point theorem, existence and uniqueness results are obtained

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arXiv2012

Asymptotic analysis for the strip problem related to a parabolic third - order operator

Aim of this paper is the qualitative analysis of a boundary value problem for a third order non linear parabolic equation which describes several dissipative models. When the source term is linear, the problem is explictly solved by means of a Fourier series with properties of rapid convergence. In the non linear case, appropriate estimates of this series allow to deduce the asymptotic behaviour of the solution.

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arXiv2012

Non linear problems in dissipative models

Aim of the paper is the qualitative analysis of a quasi-linear parabolic third order equation, which describes the evolution in a large class of dissipative models. As examples of some typical boundary problems, both Dirichlet's and Neumann's type boundary conditions are examined. In the linear case, the related Green functions are explicitly determined, together with rigorous estimates of their behavior when the parameter of dissipation is vanishing. These results are basic to study the integral equations to which the non linear problems can be reduced. Moreover, boundary layer estimates can be determined too.

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arXiv2012

On fast and slow times in models with diffusion

The linear Kelvin{Voigt operator L_εis a typical example of wave operator L_0 perturbed by higher-order viscous terms as \epsilonu_xxt. If Pεis a prefixed boundary value problem for L_ε, when ε= 0, L_εturns into L_0 and P_εinto a problem P_0 with the same initial{boundary conditions of Pε. Boundary layers are missing and the related control terms depending on the fast time are negligible. In a small time interval, the wave behavior is a realistic approximation of u_εwhen ε\rightarrow 0. On the contrary, when t is large, diffusion effects should prevail and the behavior of u_εfor ε\rightarrow 0 and t \rightarrow 1 should be analyzed. For this, a suitable functional correspondence between the Green functions G_εand G_0 of P_epsilon and P_0 is derived and its asymptotic behavior is rigorously examined. As a consequence, the interaction between diffusion effects and pure waves is evaluated by means of the slow time \epsilont; the main results show that in time intervals as (ε; 1/epsilon) pure waves are quasi-undamped, while damped oscillations predominate as from the instant t > 1/ε.

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arXiv2012

Non linear travelling waves with diffusion

A third order parabolic operator L_εtypical of a non linear wave operator cal L_0 perturbed by viscous terms, is analyzed. Some particular solutions related to L_0 are explicitly determined and the initial value problem for L_εis considered. The parabolic-hyperbolic behaviour is analyzed and rigorous approximations of the solution are achieved.

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arXiv2012

Wave hierarchies in viscoelasticity

An evolution operator L_n with n arbitrary, typical of several models, is analyzed. When n= 1, the operator characterizes the standard linear solid of viscoelasticity, whose properties are already established in previous papers. The fundamental solution εn of L_n is explicitly obtained and it's estimated in terms of the fundamental solution ε1 of L_1. So, whatever n may be, asymptotic properties and maximum theorems are achieved. These results are applied to the Rouse model and reptation model, which describe different aspects of polymer chains.

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arXiv2012

On hereditary models of polymers

An equivalence between an integro-differential operator M and an evolution operator Ln is determined. From this equivalence the fundamental solution of Ln is estimated in terms of the fundamental solution related to the third-order operator L1 whose behavior is now available. Moreover, properties typical of wave hierarchies can be applied to polymeric materials. As an example the case n= 2 is considered and results are applied to the Rouse model and the reptation model which describe different aspects of polymer chains.

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arXiv2012

Existence, uniqueness and a priori estimates for a non linear integro-differential equation

The paper deals with the explicit calculus and the properties of the fundamental solution K of a parabolic operator related to a semilinear equation that models reaction diffusion systems with excitable kinetics. The initial value problem in all of the space is analyzed together with continuous dependence and a priori estimates of the solution. These estimates show that the asymptotic behavior is determined by the reaction mechanism. Moreover it's possible a rigorous singular perturbation analysis for discussing travelling waves with their characteristic times.

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arXiv2012

On the Fitzhugh-Nagumo model

The initial value problem P0, in all of the space, for the spatio - temporal FitzHugh - Nagumo equations is analyzed. When the reaction kinetics of the model can be outlined by means of piecewise linear approximations, then the solution of P0 is explicitly obtained. For periodic initial data are possible damped travelling waves and their speed of propagation is evaluated. The results imply applications also to the non linear case.

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