Enrico Costa (physicist)
Enrico Costa (born 1944 in Sassari, Sardinia) is an Italian astrophysicist, known for studies of gamma ray bursts (GRBs).
Costa's family moved in 1954 to Rome, where he spent the remainder of his childhood and adolescence and studied physics. For his PhD with Giulio Auriemma, he participated in rocket experiments with X-ray detectors at the IAS (Istituto di Astrofisica Spaziale) in Rome. In 1976, he joined the IAS and worked on balloon experiments. Later he was involved in BeppoSAX, the Italian X-ray astronomy satellite (with Dutch participation, and ESA support), which operated from 1996 to 2003. Costa was in 1981 part of the team of Livio Scarsi, which proposed the construction of the satellite for X-ray detection. On the satellite was a Phoswich Detector[1] System (PDS) used by Filippo Frontera for the discovery of gamma ray bursts (i.e., the PDS was a Gamma Ray Burst Monitor, GRBM). February 28, 1997 was the first time an X-ray afterglow associated with a GRB was observed after localization by SAX,[2] followed shortly thereafter by the optical afterglow (observed by Herschel and Isaac Newton telescopes, La Palma). Two months later, another GRB was detected with subsequent observation in the radio range, thus directly demonstrating by the redshift that GRBs are of extragalactic origin.[3] In 1999, he developed the X-ray detector for the Italian X-ray/gamma-ray satellites AGILE, which started in 2007. He also developed X-ray polarimeters.
Enrico Costa is the author or co-author of a number of papers in peer reviewed scientific journals. Several are published in Science Magazine.[4] Also, in 2011 he received with Gerald J. Fishman the Shaw Prize.
References
- ^ "Phoswich "phosphor sandwich" detector description from Saint Gobain Crystals". Archived from the original on 2013-01-04. Retrieved 2012-06-14.
- ^ message of GRB 970228 to the IAU by Costa and others. Costa, Frontera, et al. Discovery of an X-ray afterglow associated with the γ-ray burst of 28 February 1997, Nature, Vol. 387, 1997, pp.783–785, Arxiv
- ^ Daniel Reichert The redshift of GRB 970580, Astrophysical Journal Letters, Volume 495, 1997, pp. L99-L101
- ^ "Costa's body of work" (Web page with links to papers and citations). Google Scholar. Retrieved 2012-06-15.
Sources
- Govert Schilling Flash! The Hunt for the Biggest Explosions in the Universe, Cambridge University Press 2002
External links
- Autobiography for Shaw Prize Archived 2017-11-05 at the Wayback Machine
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- Jim Peebles (2004)
- Geoffrey Marcy and Michel Mayor (2005)
- Saul Perlmutter, Adam Riess and Brian Schmidt (2006)
- Peter Goldreich (2007)
- Reinhard Genzel (2008)
- Frank Shu (2009)
- Charles Bennett, Lyman Page and David Spergel (2010)
- Enrico Costa and Gerald Fishman (2011)
- David C. Jewitt and Jane Luu (2012)
- Steven Balbus and John F. Hawley (2013)
- Daniel Eisenstein, Shaun Cole and John A. Peacock (2014)
- William J. Borucki (2015)
- Ronald Drever, Kip Thorne and Rainer Weiss (2016)
- Simon White (2017)
- Jean-Loup Puget (2018)
- Edward C. Stone (2019)
- Roger Blandford (2020)
- Victoria Kaspi and Chryssa Kouveliotou (2021)
- Lennart Lindegren and Michael Perryman (2022)
- Matthew Bailes, Duncan Lorimer and Maura McLaughlin (2023)
- Shrinivas R. Kulkarni (2024)
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- Stanley Norman Cohen, Herbert Boyer, Yuet-Wai Kan and Richard Doll (2004)
- Michael Berridge (2005)
- Xiaodong Wang (2006)
- Robert Lefkowitz (2007)
- Ian Wilmut, Keith H. S. Campbell and Shinya Yamanaka (2008)
- Douglas Coleman and Jeffrey Friedman (2009)
- David Julius (2010)
- Jules Hoffmann, Ruslan Medzhitov and Bruce Beutler (2011)
- Franz-Ulrich Hartl and Arthur L. Horwich (2012)
- Jeffrey C. Hall, Michael Rosbash and Michael W. Young (2013)
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- Ian R. Gibbons and Ronald Vale (2017)
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- Maria Jasin (2019)
- Gero Miesenböck, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel (2020)
- Scott D. Emr (2021)
- Paul A. Negulescu and Michael J. Welsh (2022)
- Patrick Cramer and Eva Nogales (2023)
- Stuart H. Orkin and Swee Lay Thein (2024)
science
- Shiing-Shen Chern (2004)
- Andrew Wiles (2005)
- David Mumford and Wentsun Wu (2006)
- Robert Langlands and Richard Taylor (2007)
- Vladimir Arnold and Ludwig Faddeev (2008)
- Simon Donaldson and Clifford Taubes (2009)
- Jean Bourgain (2010)
- Demetrios Christodoulou and Richard S. Hamilton (2011)
- Maxim Kontsevich (2012)
- David Donoho (2013)
- George Lusztig (2014)
- Gerd Faltings and Henryk Iwaniec (2015)
- Nigel Hitchin (2016)
- János Kollár and Claire Voisin (2017)
- Luis Caffarelli (2018)
- Michel Talagrand (2019)
- Alexander Beilinson and David Kazhdan (2020)
- Jean-Michel Bismut and Jeff Cheeger (2021)
- Noga Alon and Ehud Hrushovski (2022)
- Vladimir Drinfeld and Shing-Tung Yau (2023)
- Peter Sarnak (2024)