BOLOGNA UNIVERSITY
FACULTY OF SCIENCES MM.FF.NN 

ASTRONOMY DEPARTMENT

Scientific Activities

 
 

Prof. Corrado Bartolini

 phone: (+39) 051-2099326

 fax : (+39) 051-2095700

 email: corrado.bartolini@unibo.it

RESEARCH  INTERESTS:

1. GAMMA RAY BURST:

Our group has given significant contributions in this field of research, obtaining the earliest photometry of GRB 970228, the first for which an optical counterpart was identified. We followed up the Optical Transient of many other GRBs.

 

In the animation the explosion and the light curve of a Gamma-ray Burst(GRB) is presented.GRBs are the strongest explosions in the Universe after the Big Bang and are one of the most fascinating problems of Astrophysics, the "engine" producing these explosions because is still unknown.
 

2. X-RAY BINARIES:

The X-ray binaries produce high energy photons because matter coming from the normal star falls onto a collapsed stars: Black Hole (BH) or Neutron Stars (NS). We obtained photometry and spectroscopy of such as systems; V725 Tauri, optical counterpart of A0535+26, is observed since about 28 years.
 

    

Model of X-Ray Binary

3. CLASSICAL ECLIPSING BINARIES

Very accurate photometry of classical eclipsing binaries as XY Leonis was achieved by means of a two head photometer mounted on the 1.5m telescope of the observatory of Loiano.

 

MAIN COLLABORATORS:

A. GUARNIERI,

A. PICCIONI,

A. BONIFAZI,

G. COSENTINO,

L. SOLMI

MAJOR REFERENCE PAPERS:

1. C. Bartolini, A. Guarnieri, A. Piccioni, G. Beskin, S. Neizvestny (1994)
  Fast optical variability of GRO J0422+32.
  Ap. J. Supp. 92, 455.
   
2. A. Guarnieri, C. Bartolini, N. Masetti, A. Piccioni (1997)
  Early detection of the Optical Transient following the Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 970228.
  Astronomy Astrophysics, 328, L13
   
3. G. Beskin, C. Bartolini, A. Guarnieri, A. Piccioni (1999)
  A possible connectionbetween Gamma-Ray Burst and Single Black Holes.
  Astronomy Astrophysics Supp. 138, 509