Publications of Paul Kuin, Mullard Space Science Laboratory, UCL

UCL MSSL Swift

Over the years I have changed the way I presented my publications. If you just want a list ordered by citation frequency, see the one compiled by Google Scholar, or check the Astronomical Data System ADS.

Here I organize by the subject I studied, and then a list of publications that may be of some interest. I am not including the many Astronomical Telegrams or GCN Circulars, nor the astronomical catalogs where I worked on the documentation and reformatting. At the end I collect some notes on who picked up the story of the first GRB spectrum with the UVOT grism.

The more interesting publications

Supernovae

I have always thought that a star that turns into a supernova is just incredibly interesting. After many years burning slowly the star chokes when all the central fuel has been used up and ups the game. Large amounts of matter are transmuted, lots of energy is released, and possibly a black hole is formed. This is not going about slowly. Many parts of physics get intimately involved. Its not really spherical an explosion, but not by how much? What electric currents and magnetic fields are there to enhance or direct the energy flowing out? I love the things that we can learn with the quick response of the Swift satellite. Here are some of the publications where I had some input.

Margutti, R., Milisavljevic, D., Soderberg, A. M., Chornock, R., Zauderer, B. A., Murase, K., Guidorzi, C., Sanders, N. E., Kuin, P., Fransson, C., Levesque, E. M., Chandra, P., Berger, E., Bianco, F. B., Brown, P. J., Challis, P., Chatzopoulos, E., Cheung, C. C., Choi, C., Chomiuk, L., Chugai, N., Contreras, C., Drout, M. R., Fesen, R., Foley, R. J., Fong, W., Friedman, A. S., Gall, C., Gehrels, N., Hjorth, J., Hsiao, E., Kirshner, R., Im, M., Leloudas, G., Lunnan, R., Marion, G. H., Martin, J., Morrell, N., Neugent, K. F., Omodei, N., Phillips, M. M., Rest, A., Silverman, J. M., Strader, J., Stritzinger, M. D., Szalai, T., Utterback, N. B., Vinko, J., Wheeler, J. C., Arnett, D., Campana, S., Chevalier, R., Ginsburg, A., Kamble, A., Roming, P. W. A., Pritchard, T., & Stringfellow, G. 2014, The Astrophysical Journal A Panchromatic View of the Restless SN 2009ip Reveals the Explosive Ejection of a Massive Star Envelope
Brown, Peter J., Smitka, Michael T., Wang, Lifan, Breeveld, Alice, de Pasquale, Massimiliano, Hartmann, Dieter H., Krisciunas, Kevin, Kuin, N. P. M., Milne, Peter A., Page, Mat, & Siegel, Michael 2014, Swift Ultraviolet Observations of Supernova 2014J in M82: Large Extinction from Interstellar Dust; eprint arXiv1408.2381B
Dall'Ora, M., Botticella, M. T., Pumo, M. L., Zampieri, L., Tomasella, L., Pignata, G., Bayless, A. J., Pritchard, T. A., Taubenberger, S., Kotak, R., Inserra, C., Della Valle, M., Cappellaro, E., Benetti, S., Benitez, S., Bufano, F., Elias-Rosa, N., Fraser, M., Haislip, J. B., Harutyunyan, A., Howell, D. A., Hsiao, E. Y., Iijima, T., Kankare, E., Kuin, P., Maund, J. R., Morales-Garoffolo, A., Morrell, N., Munari, U., Ochner, P., Pastorello, A., Patat, F., Phillips, M. M., Reichart, D., Roming, P. W. A., Siviero, A., Smartt, S. J., Sollerman, J., Taddia, F., Valenti, S., & Wright, D. 2014, The Astrophysical Journal The Type IIP Supernova 2012aw in M95: Hydrodynamical Modeling of the Photospheric Phase from Accurate Spectrophotometric Monitoring
Brown, Peter J., Kuin, Paul, Scalzo, Richard, Smitka, Michael T., de Pasquale, Massimiliano, Holland, Stephen, Krisciunas, Kevin, Milne, Peter, & Wang, Lifan 2014, The Astrophysical Journal Ultraviolet Observations of Super-Chandrasekhar Mass Type Ia Supernova Candidates with Swift UVOT
Reynolds, Mark T., Loi, Shyeh T., Murphy, Tara, Miller, Jon M., Maitra, Dipankar, Gültekin, Kayhan, Gehrels, Neil, Kennea, Jamie A., Siegel, Michael H., Gelbord, Jonathan, Kuin, Paul, Moss, Vanessa, Reeves, Sarah, Robbins, William J., Gaensler, B. M., Reis, Rubens C., & Petre, Robert 2013, The Astrophysical Journal G306.3-0.9: A Newly Discovered Young Galactic Supernova Remnant
Bayless, Amanda J., Pritchard, Tyler A., Roming, Peter W. A., Kuin, Paul, Brown, Peter J., Botticella, Maria Teresa, Dall'Ora, Massimo, Frey, Lucille H., Even, Wesley, Fryer, Chris L., Maund, Justyn R., & Fraser, Morgan 2013, The Astrophysical Journal The Long-lived UV "Plateau" of SN 2012aw
Roming, P. W. A., Pritchard, T. A., Prieto, J. L., Kochanek, C. S., Fryer, C. L., Davidson, K., Humphreys, R. M., Bayless, A. J., Beacom, J. F., Brown, P. J., Holland, S. T., Immler, S., Kuin, N. P. M., Oates, S. R., Pogge, R. W., Pojmanski, G., Stoll, R., Shappee, B. J., Stanek, K. Z., & Szczygiel, D. M. 2013, The Astrophysical Journal Erratum: "The Unusual Temporal and Spectral Evolution of the Type IIn Supernova 2011ht" <A href="/abs/2012ApJ...751...92R">(2012, ApJ, 751, 92)</A>
Roming, P. W. A., Pritchard, T. A., Prieto, J. L., Kochanek, C. S., Fryer, C. L., Davidson, K., Humphreys, R. M., Bayless, A. J., Beacom, J. F., Brown, P. J., Holland, S. T., Immler, S., Kuin, N. P. M., Oates, S. R., Pogge, R. W., Pojmanski, G., Stoll, R., Shappee, B. J., Stanek, K. Z., & Szczygiel, D. M. 2012, ArXiv e-prints The Unusual Temporal and Spectral Evolution of the Type IIn Supernova 2011ht
Oates, S. R., Bayless, A. J., Stritzinger, M. D., Prichard, T., Prieto, J. L., Immler, S., Brown, P. J., Breeveld, A. A., De Pasquale, M., Kuin, N. P. M., Hamuy, M., Holland, S. T., Taddia, F., & Roming, P. W. A. 2012, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Multiwavelength observations of the Type IIb supernova 2009mg
Brown, Peter J., Dawson, Kyle S., de Pasquale, Massimiliano, Gronwall, Caryl, Holland, Stephen, Immler, Stefan, Kuin, Paul, Mazzali, Paolo, Milne, Peter, Oates, Samantha, & Siegel, Michael 2012, The Astrophysical Journal A Swift Look at SN 2011fe: The Earliest Ultraviolet Observations of a Type Ia Supernova ArXiv preprint
Pritchard, T. A., Roming, P. W. A., Brown, P. J., Kuin, N. P. M., Bayless, Amanda J., Holland, S. T., Immler, S., Milne, P., & Oates, S. R. 2012, The Astrophysical Journal Early Ultraviolet Observations of a Type IIn Supernova (2007pk)

Gamma Ray Bursts

From feeling rather indifferent about GRBs in the 1990-ies when their origin was a point of debate, after considering the evidence that had piled up for their origin by the time I joined the Swift team in 2007 my feelings about them changed a lot. One of the "reasons" was that the discovery of the GRBs extragalactic nature owes much to Jan van Paradijs discovery of the optical counterpart. I met Jan when he was a year in Oxford. I think it was 1984. His thouroughness in searching out old data was exemplary. We were both Dutch and shared often our meals in the "Kings Arms" pub. I have no doubt of the quality of his findings. Then, the evidence is quite compelling that they are extragalactic, and that we see them at all is evidence for the enormous energies in GRB. I was hooked. But the most obvious observations are dominated by the physics of the afterglow itself: a relativistic jet emitting from gamma rays to infrared. To get beyond the obvious signature of a jet needs us paying attention to the detailed evolution of the spectrum, the light curve in different bands, the signs of the galactic environment. Not only accurate observations are needed, but also of large variety. The combination of space and ground based observations is in itself a source of error and the reduction of the measurement errors is perhaps crucial in solving the puzzle of what is the cause of the GRBs.

De Pasquale, Massimiliano, Kuin, N. P. M., Oates, S., Schulze, S., Cano, Z., Guidorzi, C., Beardmore, A., Evans, P. A., Uhm, Z. L., Zhang, B., Page, M., Kobayashi, S., Castro-Tirado, A., Gorosabel, J., Sakamoto, T., Fatkhullin, T., Pandey, S. B., Im, M., Chandra, P., Frail, D., Gao, H., Kopač, D., Jeon, Y., Akerlof, C., Huang, K. Y., Pak, S., Park, W.-K., Gomboc, A., Melandri, A., Zane, S., Mundell, C. G., Saxton, C. J., Holland, S. T., Virgili, F., Urata, Y., Steele, I., Bersier, D., Tanvir, N., Sokolov, V. V., & Moskvitin, A. S. 2015, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society The optical rebrightening of GRB100814A: an interplay of forward and reverse shocks?; eprint arXiv1312.1648D
Maselli, A., Melandri, A., Nava, L., Mundell, C. G., Kawai, N., Campana, S., Covino, S., Cummings, J. R., Cusumano, G., Evans, P. A., Ghirlanda, G., Ghisellini, G., Guidorzi, C., Kobayashi, S., Kuin, P., La Parola, V., Mangano, V., Oates, S., Sakamoto, T., Serino, M., Virgili, F., Zhang, B.-B., Barthelmy, S., Beardmore, A., Bernardini, M. G., 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, J. P., Pagani, C., Page, K. L., Page, M., Perri, M., Pritchard, T., Romano, P., Saito, Y., Sbarufatti, B., Salvaterra, R., Steele, I., Tanvir, N., Vianello, G., Weigand, B., Wiersema, K., Yatsu, Y., Yoshii, T., & Tagliaferri, G. 2014, Science GRB 130427A: A Nearby Ordinary Monster
A Statistical Comparison of the Optical/UV and X-ray Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts using the Swift Ultra-violet Optical and X-ray Telescopes. Oates, S. R., Page, M. J., Schady, P., De Pasquale, M., Evans, P. A., Page, K. L., Chester, M. M., Curran, P. A., Koch, T. S., Kuin, N. P. M., Roming, P. W. A., Siegel, M. H., Zane, S., & Nousek, J. A. 2010, ArXiv 1010.62120 MNRAS 412, 561.
Dust and metal column densities in gamma-ray burst host galaxies. Schady, P., Page, M. J., Oates, S. R., Still, M., de Pasquale, M., Dwelly, T., Kuin, N. P. M., Holland, S. T., Marshall, F. E., & Roming, P. W. A. 2010, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society MNRAS 401, 2773
Oates, S. R., Page, M. J., De Pasquale, M., Schady, P., Breeveld, A. A., Holland, S. T., Kuin, N. P. M., & Marshall, F. E. 2012, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society A correlation between the intrinsic brightness and average decay rate of Swift/UVOT gamma-ray burst optical/ultraviolet light curves
Zheng, W., Shen, R. F., Sakamoto, T., Beardmore, A. P., Pasquale, M., Wu, X. F., Gorosabel, J., Urata, Y., Sugita, S., Zhang, B., Pozanenko, A., Nissinen, M., Sahu, D. K., Im, M., Ukwatta, T. N., Andreev, M., Klunko, E., Volnova, A., Akerlof, C. W., Anto, P., Barthelmy, S. D., Breeveld, A., Carsenty, U., Castillo-Carri'on, S., Castro-Tirado, A. J., Chester, M. M., Chuang, C. J., Cunniffe, R., Postigo, A., Duffard, R., Flewelling, H., Gehrels, N., Guver, T., Guziy, S., Hentunen, V. P., Huang, K. Y., Jelínek, M., Koch, T. S., Kub'anek, P., Kuin, P., McKay, T. A., Mottola, S., Oates, S. R., O'Brien, P., Page, M. J., Pandey, S. B., Pulgar, C., Rujopakarn, W., Rykoff, E., Salmi, T., S'anchez-Ramírez, R., Schaefer, B. E., Sergeev, A., Sonbas, E., Sota, A., Tello, J. C., Yamaoka, K., Yost, S. A., & Yuan, F. 2011, ArXiv e-prints Panchromatic observations of the textbook GRB 110205A: constraining physical mechanisms of prompt emission and afterglow ;2012, The Astrophysical Journal Panchromatic Observations of the Textbook GRB 110205A: Constraining Physical Mechanisms of Prompt Emission and Afterglow
Starling, R. L. C., Wiersema, K., Levan, A. J., Sakamoto, T., Bersier, D., Goldoni, P., Oates, S. R., Rowlinson, A., Campana, S., Sollerman, J., Tanvir, N. R., Malesani, D., Fynbo, J. P. U., Covino, S., D'Avanzo, P., O'Brien, P. T., Page, K. L., Osborne, J. P., Vergani, S. D., Barthelmy, S., Burrows, D. N., Cano, Z., Curran, P. A., de Pasquale, M., D'Elia, V., Evans, P. A., Flores, H., Fruchter, A. S., Garnavich, P., Gehrels, N., Gorosabel, J., Hjorth, J., Holland, S. T., van der Horst, A. J., Hurkett, C. P., Jakobsson, P., Kamble, A. P., Kouveliotou, C., Kuin, N. P. M., Kaper, L., Mazzali, P. A., Nugent, P. E., Pian, E., Stamatikos, M., Thöne, C. C., & Woosley, S. E. 2011, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Discovery of the nearby long, soft GRB 100316D with an associated supernova, ArXiv 1004.2919S
GRB 090926A and Bright Late-time Fermi Large Area Telescope Gamma-ray Burst Afterglows. Swenson, C. A., Maxham, A., Roming, P. W. A., Schady, P., Vetere, L., Zhang, B. B., Zhang, B., Holland, S. T., Kennea, J. A., Kuin, N. P. M., Oates, S. R., Page, K. L., & De Pasquale, M. 2010, The Astrophysical Journal Ap J Lett, 718, 14 [ArXiv 1004.5099S]
De Pasquale, M., Kuin, N. P., Oates, S., Page, M., Zane, S., Saxton, C., Schulze, S., Cano, Z., Guidorzi, C., Chandra, P., Frail, D., Evans, P., Beardmore, A., Castro-Tirado, A., Gorosabel, J., Fatkhullin, T., Akerlof, C., Pandey, S. B., Im, M., Uhm, Z. L., Urata, Y., Huang, L., Pak, S., Jeon, Y., & Zhang, B. 2012, -Ray Bursts 2012 Conference (GRB 2012) GRB100814A - a member of the growing set of bursts with sudden optical rebrightening
Swift and Fermi Observations of the Early Afterglow of the Short Gamma-Ray Burst 090510. De Pasquale, M., Schady, P., Kuin, N. P. M., Page, M. J., Curran, P. A., Zane, S., Oates, S. R., Holland, S. T., Breeveld, A. A., Hoversten, E. A., Chincarini, G., Grupe, D., Abdo, A. A., Ackermann, M., Ajello, M., Axelsson, M., Baldini, L., Ballet, J., Barbiellini, G., Baring, M. G., Bastieri, D., Bechtol, K., Bellazzini, R., Berenji, B., Bissaldi, E., Blandford, R. D., Bloom, E. D., Bonamente, E., Borgland, A. W., Bouvier, A., Bregeon, J., Brez, A., Briggs, M. S., Brigida, M., Bruel, P., Burnett, T. H., Buson, S., Caliandro, G. A., Cameron, R. A., Caraveo, P. A., Carrigan, S., Casandjian, J. M., Cecchi, C., Çelik, Ö., Chekhtman, A., Chiang, J., Ciprini, S., Claus, R., Cohen-Tanugi, J., Connaughton, V., Conrad, J., Dermer, C. D., de Angelis, A., de Palma, F., Dingus, B. L., Silva, E. do Couto e., Drell, P. S., Dubois, R., Dumora, D., Farnier, C., Favuzzi, C., Fegan, S. J., Fishman, G., Focke, W. B., Frailis, M., Fukazawa, Y., Funk, S., Fusco, P., Gargano, F., Gasparrini, D., Gehrels, N., Germani, S., Giglietto, N., Giordano, F., Glanzman, T., Godfrey, G., Granot, J., Greiner, J., Grenier, I. A., Grove, J. E., Guillemot, L., Guiriec, S., Harding, A. K., Hayashida, M., Hays, E., Horan, D., Hughes, R. E., Jackson, M. S., Jóhannesson, G., Johnson, A. S., Johnson, W. N., Kamae, T., Katagiri, H., Kataoka, J., Kawai, N., Kerr, M., Kippen, R. M., Knödlseder, J., Kocevski, D., Kuss, M., Lande, J., Latronico, L., Lemoine-Goumard, M., Longo, F., Loparco, F., Lott, B., Lovellette, M. N., Lubrano, P., Makeev, A., Mazziotta, M. N., McEnery, J. E., McGlynn, S., Meegan, C., Mészáros, P., Meurer, C., Michelson, P. F., Mitthumsiri, W., Mizuno, T., Monte, C., Monzani, M. E., Moretti, E., Morselli, A., Moskalenko, I. V., Murgia, S., Nolan, P. L., Norris, J. P., Nuss, E., Ohno, M., Ohsugi, T., Omodei, N., Orlando, E., Ormes, J. F., Paciesas, W. S., Paneque, D., Panetta, J. H., Parent, D., Pelassa, V., Pepe, M., Pesce-Rollins, M., Piron, F., Porter, T. A., Preece, R., Rainò, S., Rando, R., Razzano, M., Reimer, A., Reimer, O., Reposeur, T., Ritz, S., Rochester, L. S., Rodriguez, A. Y., Roth, M., Ryde, F., Sadrozinski, H. F.-W., Sander, A., Saz Parkinson, P. M., Scargle, J. D., Schalk, T. L., Sgrò, C., Siskind, E. J., Smith, P. D., Spandre, G., Spinelli, P., Stamatikos, M., Starck, J.-L., Stecker, F. W., Strickman, M. S., Suson, D. J., Tajima, H., Takahashi, H., Tanaka, T., Thayer, J. B., Thayer, J. G., Thompson, D. J., Tibaldo, L., Toma, K., Torres, D. F., Tosti, G., Tramacere, A., Uchiyama, Y., Uehara, T., Usher, T. L., van der Horst, A. J., Vasileiou, V., Vilchez, N., Vitale, V., von Kienlin, A., Waite, A. P., Wang, P., Winer, B. L., Wood, K. S., Wu, X. F., Yamazaki, R., Ylinen, T., & Ziegler, M. 2010, Ap J Lett 709, 146.
Rise and fall of the X-ray flash 080330: an off-axis jet? C. Guidorzi, C. Clemens, S. Kobayashi, J. Granot, A. Melandri, P. D'Avanzo, N. P. M. Kuin, A. Klotz, J. P. U. Fynbo, S. Covino, J. Greiner, D. Malesani, J. Mao, C. G. Mundell, I. A. Steele, P. Jakobsson, R. Margutti, D. Bersier, S. Campana, G. Chincarini, V. D'Elia, D. Fugazza, F. Genet, A. Gomboc, T. Krühler, A. Küpcü, Yoldaş, A. Moretti, C. J. Mottram, P. T. O'Brien, R. J. Smith, G. Szokoly, G. Tagliaferri, N. R. Tanvir, N. Gehrels, 2009, Astron. Astroph. 499, 439 ; arXiv:0903.2958
GRB 081203A: Swift UVOT captures the earliest ultraviolet spectrum of a gamma-ray burst. Kuin, N. P. M.; Landsman, W.; Page, M. J.; Schady, P.; Still, M.; Breeveld, A. A.; de Pasquale, M.; Roming, P. W. A.; Brown, P. J.; Carter, M.; James, C.; Curran, P. A.; Cucchiara, A.; Gronwall, C.; Holland, S. T.; Hoversten, E. A.; Hunsberger, S.; Kennedy, T.; Koch, S.; Lamoureux, H.; Marshall, F. E.; Oates, S. R.; Parsons, A.; Palmer, D. M.; Smith, P. J., 2009, MNRAS Letters 395, 21.
Jet breaks at the end of the slow decline phase of Swift GRB light curves. De Pasquale, M.; Evans, P.; Oates, S.; Page, M.; Zane, S.; Schady, P.; Breeveld, A.; Holland, S.; Kuin, P.; Still, M.; Roming, P.; Ward, P., 2009, MNRAS 392, 153.
A statistical study of gamma-ray burst afterglows measured by the Swift Ultra-violet Optical Telescope. Oates, S. R.; Page, M. J.; Schady, P.; de Pasquale, M.; Koch, T. S.; Breeveld, A. A.; Brown, P. J.; Chester, M. M.; Holland, S. T.; Hoversten, E. A.; Kuin, N. P. M.; Marshall, F. E.; Roming, P. W. A.; Still, M.; Vanden Berk, D. E.; Zane, S.; Nousek, J. A., 2009, MNRAS 395, 490.
The First Swift Ultraviolet/optical Telescope GRB Afterglow Catalog. Roming, P. W. A.; Koch, T. S.; Oates, S. R.; Porterfield, B. L.; Vanden Berk, D. E.; Boyd, P. T.; Holland, S. T.; Hoversten, E. A.; Immler, S.; Marshall, F. E.; Page, M. J.; Racusin, J. L.; Schneider, D. P.; Breeveld, A. A.; Brown, P. J.; Chester, M. M.; Cucchiara, A.; DePasquale, M.; Gronwall, C.; Hunsberger, S. D.; Kuin, N. P. M.; Landsman, W. B.; Schady, P.; Still, M., 2009, Ap.J. 690, 163.
The Rapidly Flaring Afterglow of the Very Bright and Energetic GRB 070125. A.C. Updike, J.B. Haislip, M.C. Nysewander, A.S. Fruchter, D. A. Kann, S. Klose, P.A. Milne, G.G. Williams, C.W. Hergenrother, J.X. Prochaska, J.P. Halpern, N. Mirabal, J.R. Thorstensen, A. van der Horst, R. Starling, R.A.M.J. Wijers, C. Kouveliotou, E. Rol, J.L. Racusin, D.N. Burrows, N. P. M. Kuin, P.W.A. Roming, E. Bellm, K.J. Hurley, W. Li, A.V. Filippenko, C. Blake, D. Starr, E.E. Falco, W.R. Brown, J.S. Bloom, P. Garnavich, K. Z. Stanek, D. Nanni, X. Dai, E. Maiorano, E. Palazzi, G. Greco, C. Bartolini, A. Guarnieri, A. Piccioni, G. Pizzichini, F. Terra, W. Zheng, J. Deng, L. Xin, Y. Qui, J. Wei, Y. Urata, K. Misra, B. C. Bhatt, G. C. Anupama, X. Fan, L. Jiang, D.E. Reichart, H.A. Eid, G. Bryngelson, J. Puls, R.C. Goldthwaite, D.H. Hartmann, 2008, Ap.J., 685, 361; arXiv:0805.1094.
Optimal Coaddition of Imaging Data for Rapidly Fading Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows. A.N. Morgan, D.E. Vanden Berk, P.W.A. Roming, J.A.Nousek, T.S.Koch, A.A. Breeveld, M. de Pasquale, S.T. Holland, N.P.M. Kuin, M.J. Page, M. Still., 2008, Ap.J 683, 913; arXiv:0805.1426 .
Swift captures the spectrally evolving prompt emission of GRB070616. R.L.C. Starling, P.T. O'Brien, R. Willingdale, K.L. Page, J.P. Osborne, M. De Pasquale, Y.E. Nakagawa, N.P.M. Kuin, K. Onda, J.P. Norris, T.N. Ukwatta, N. Kodaka, D.N. Burrows, J.A.Kennea, M.J. Page, and M. Perri, 2008, MNRAS, 384, 504; arXiv:0711.3753 .

Novae

I'm not very good in the classifications that abound of binary stars; never was or I would have gone into biology. There are several interesting things that happen in binaries and one is where we have one component being a white dwarf star with accretion from its companion. They go nova. Sometimes multiple times. The consensus is that the material accreting onto the white dwarf is mainly hydrogen which piles up until it ignites a nuclear burn at its bottom. We don't know all the details, we are not quite sure how much gets blown off the star in the nova outburst, but it looks like some remains, making the white dwarf heavier over time. At some point it then will collapse. Swift observations have been of the X-ray and UV optical evolution of a number of novae.

Godon, Patrick, Sion, Edward M., Starrfield, Sumner, Livio, Mario, Williams, Robert E., Woodward, Charles E., Kuin, Paul, & Page, Kim L. 2014, The Astrophysical Journal Hubble Space Telescope Far Ultraviolet Spectroscopy of the Recurrent Nova T Pyxidis
Morii, M., Tomida, H., Kimura, M., Suwa, F., Negoro, H., Serino, M., Kennea, J. A., Page, K. L., Curran, P. A., Walter, F. M., Kuin, N. P. M., Pritchard, T., Nakahira, S., Hiroi, K., Usui, R., Kawai, N., Osborne, J. P., Mihara, T., Sugizaki, M., Gehrels, N., Kohama, M., Kotani, T., Matsuoka, M., Nakajima, M., Roming, P. W. A., Sakamoto, T., Sugimori, K., Tsuboi, Y., Tsunemi, H., Ueda, Y., Ueno, S., & Yoshida, A. 2013, The Astrophysical Journal Extraordinary Luminous Soft X-Ray Transient MAXI J0158-744 as an Ignition of a Nova on a Very Massive O-Ne White Dwarf

Black Holes

Although we see evidence of massive black holes in the centres of galaxies, to see one being born is quite special. Also, the hunt for medium sized BH is exciting.

Saxton, Curtis J., Soria, Roberto, Wu, Kinwah, & Kuin, N. Paul M. 2012, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Long-term X-ray variability of Swift J1644+57
Discovery of an optical counterpart to the hyperluminous X-ray source in ESO 243-49. Soria, Roberto, Hau, George K. T., Graham, Alister W., Kong, Albert K. H., Kuin, N. Paul M., Li, I.-Hui, Liu, Ji-Feng, & Wu, Kinwah 2010, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society MNRAS 405, 870

Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections

One of the challenges of modeling flares and coronal mass ejections is to tie the energetics of the event to the energy generation and energy storage which are quite complicated when considered in detail. However, the overall energetics and evolution can be captured already by careful spatial integration of the phenomena and obtain an equivalent circuit model representation of the system. I investigate that from the powerful tool of the dynamics of the whole circuit system.

A Circuit Model for Filament Eruptions and Two-Ribbon Flares. Martens, P.C.H. and Kuin, N.P.M., 1989, Solar Physics 226, 263-302.
Martens-Kuin Models of Normal and Inverse-Polarity Filament Eruptions and Coronal Mass Ejections. Smith, D.F., Hildner, E., Kuin, N.P.M., 1992, Solar Physics, 137, 317-328.
The Yohkoh-BCS flare catalog, N.P.M. Kuin, and C. Foley, 2007, on-line catalog, the Yohkoh Legacy Archive at http://solar.physics.montana.edu/ylegacy/.
A Dynamic Model of Filament Eruptions and Two-Ribbon Flares. N.P.M. Kuin and P.C.H. Martens, in: Coronal and Prominence Plasma's, A. Poland (ed.), NASA CP 2442, p.241, 1986.

Thermal Dynamics of Coronal Loops

The solar corona is filled with magnetic field. Why do some field lines show emission as loops and others not? Surely it is a result of a combination of selective heating and mass loading. My thinking was that the feedback of heat to the chromosphere was an important element. I showed that time delays can cause some interesting changes in the observed loops.

Relaxation Oscillations and Double Temperature Structures in Stellar Coronae. Hearn, A.G., Martens, P.C.H. and Kuin, N.P.M, 1983, Astron. Astrophys. 125, 69.
The Thermal Evolution of Resonantly Heated Coronal Loops. Martens, P.C.H. and Kuin, N.P.M., 1983, Astron. Astrophys. 123, 216.
On Cool Coronal Loops. Martens, P.C.H. and Kuin, N.P.M., 1982, Astron. Astrophys. 112, 366.

On the Thermal Stability of Hot Coronal Loops: The Coupling Between Chromosphere and Corona. Kuin, N.P.M and Martens, P.C.H., 1982, Astron. Astrophys. 108, L1.

X-ray Spectrum of Capella and Its Relation to Coronal Structure and U.V.-Emission. Mewe, R., Gronenschild, E.H.B.M., Heise, J., Brinkman, A.C., Dijkstra, J.H., Westergaard, N.J., Schnopper, H.W., Seward, F.D., Chlebowski, T., Kuin, N.P.M., 1982, Astrophys. J. 260, 233.

Coronal Loops and the Minimum Flux Theory. Kuin, N.P.M. and Hearn, A.G., 1981, Astron. Astrophys. 98, 248.

X-ray Spectroscopic Investigation of the Coronal Structure of Capella. Gronenschild, E.H.B.M., Mewe, R., Heise, J., Brinkman, A.C., Dijkstra, J.H., Westergaard, N.J., Schnopper, H.W., Seward, F.D., Chlebowski, T., Kuin, N.P.M ., Space Science Review, vol. 30, p. 185, 1981.

Radiation transport / radiation losses / optically thin radiation

How radiation travels through a medium and its thermalisation are important considerations in interpreting and modeling astronomical observations. Radiation can escape from deep layers when it mostly scatters and inform about the thermodynamic conditions of those layers. Under optically thin conditions in stellar chromospheres line ratios inform about density, volume and temperatures.

The Outer Atmospheres and Winds of T Tau and RU Lup. Jordan C. and Kuin N.P.M., in: A Decade of UV Astronomy with the IUE Satellite, ESA-SP, 281, Vol 2, p 97, 1988.
A Semi-Empirical Model for the Red Supergiant's Wind in Zeta Aurigae Systems. N.P.M. Kuin and I.A. Ahmad, 1989, Astrophys. J. 344, 856-869.
Opacity Effects on the Radiative Losses of a Coronal Loop. N.P.M. Kuin and A. Poland, 1991, Astrophys.J. 370, 763-774. table1 table2 table3
Atmospheric Properties of RU Lupi Derived From High and Low Resolution Spectra. Brown, A., Penston, M.V., Johnstone, R., Jordan, C., Kuin, N.P.M., Lago, M.T.V.T, Gross,B., Linsky, J.L., Future of Ultraviolet Astronomy Based on Six Years of IUE Research, NASA conference publication #2349, p. 338, 1984.Atmospheric properties of RU LUPI derived from high- and low-resolution IUE spectra

Galaxies

UVOT photometry in the ultraviolet bands is sensitive to dust as well as star formation. Some interesting studies were done where my input is related to the UVOT observations.

Hutton, Susan, Ferreras, Ignacio, Wu, Kinwah, Kuin, Paul, Breeveld, Alice, Yershov, Vladimir, Cropper, Mark, & Page, Mat 2014, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society A panchromatic analysis of starburst galaxy M82: probing the dust properties
Karczewski, O. Ł., Barlow, M. J., Page, M. J., Kuin, N. P. M., Ferreras, I., Baes, M., Bendo, G. J., Boselli, A., Cooray, A., Cormier, D., De Looze, I., Galametz, M., Galliano, F., Lebouteiller, V., Madden, S. C., Pohlen, M., Rémy-Ruyer, A., Smith, M. W. L., & Spinoglio, L. 2013, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society A multiwavelength study of the Magellanic-type galaxy NGC 4449 - I. Modelling the spectral energy distribution, the ionization structure and the star formation history
Hoversten, E. A., Gronwall, C., Vanden Berk, D. E., Basu-Zych, A. R., Breeveld, A. A., Brown, P. J., Kuin, N. P. M., Page, M. J., Roming, P. W. A., & Siegel, M. H. 2011, The Astronomical Journal Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope Imaging of Star-forming Regions in M81 and Holmberg IX

Stellar winds

My thesis supervisor Tony Hearn was working on a computer code to compute stellar winds and my goal was to compare his results to observations. As is often the case, not only did the work on the computer code take longer, but also some new insights in the physics of stellar winds (and numerical methods) were discovered. I did however do some theoretical studies -- which illustrated the growing understanding that a proper formulation of the physics and boundary conditions was needed to get sensible results.

The Theory of Hot Coronae in T Tauri Stellar Winds. N.P.M. Kuin in: Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and The Sun, M. Zeilik and D.M. Gibson (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Physics Vol. 254, Springer Verlag, p466, 1986.
Multiple Critical Points in Stellar Winds With Divergent Geometries. Kuin, N.P.M.,1981, Astron. Astrophys. 96, 325.
Stellar Coronae and Their Mass Loss. N.P.M. Kuin, Ph.D. thesis, Astronomical Institute, Utrecht University, Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1982.
The Influence of Divergent Geometries on Stellar Winds. Kuin, N.P.M. and Hearn, A.G., 1982, Astron. Astrophys. 114, 303.
Semi-Empirical Models of the Wind in Cool Supergiant Stars Kuin N.P.M., and Ahmad, I.A., in: A Decade of UV Astronomy with the IUE Satellite, ESA-SP, 281, Vol. 2, p. 159, 1988.

About calibration and other things

Calibration of the Swift-UVOT ultraviolet and visible grisms N. P. M. Kuin; W. Landsman; A. A. Breeveld; M. J. Page; H. Lamoureux; C. James; M. Mehdipour; M. Still; V. Yershov; P. J. Brown; M. Carter; K. O. Mason; T. Kennedy; F. Marshall; P. W. A. Roming; M. Siegel; S. Oates; P. J. Smith; M. De Pasquale Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 2015 449 (3): 2514-2538; eprint arXiv 1501.02433.

Page, M. J., Kuin, N. P. M., Breeveld, A. A., Hancock, B., Holland, S. T., Marshall, F. E., Oates, S., Roming, P. W. A., Siegel, M. H., Smith, P. J., Carter, M., De Pasquale, M., Symeonidis, M., Yershov, V., & Beardmore, A. P. 2013, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society The use and calibration of read-out streaks to increase the dynamic range of the Swift Ultraviolet/Optical Telescope

Photometric calibration of the Swift ultraviolet/optical telescope. T.S. Poole, A.A. Breeveld, M.J. Page, W. Landsman, S.T. Holland, P. Roming, N.P.M. Kuin, P.J. Brown, C. Gronwall, S. Hunsberger, S Koch, K.O. Mason, P. Schady, D. Vanden Berk, A.J. Blustin, P. Boyd, P. Broos, M. Carter, M.M. Chester, A. Cucciara, B. Hancock, H. Huckle, S. Immler, M. Ivanushkina, T. Kennedy, F. Marschall, A. Morgan, S.B. Pandey, M. de Pasquale, P.J. Smith, and M. Still, 2008, MNRAS, 383, 627.

The measurement errors in the Swift-UVOT and XMM-OM. N.P.M. Kuin and S.R. Rosen, 2008, MNRAS 383, 383.

The in-flight performance of the SOHO/CDS Grazing Incidence Spectrometer. N.P.M. Kuin, and G. del Zanna, 2007, Solar Physics, 242, 187-211.

Breeveld, A. A., Landsman, W., Holland, S. T., Roming, P., Kuin, N. P. M., & Page, M. J. 2011, American Institute of Physics Conference Series An Updated Ultraviolet Calibration for the Swift/UVOT

Further calibration of the Swift ultraviolet/optical telescope. Breeveld, A. A., Curran, P. A., Hoversten, E. A., Koch, S., Landsman, W., Marshall, F. E., Page, M. J., Poole, T. S., Roming, P., Smith, P. J., Still, M., Yershov, V., Blustin, A. J., Brown, P. J., Gronwall, C., Holland, S. T., Kuin, N. P. M., McGowan, K., Rosen, S., Boyd, P., Broos, P., Carter, M., Chester, M. M., Hancock, B., Huckle, H., Immler, S., Ivanushkina, M., Kennedy, T., Mason, K. O., Morgan, A. N., Oates, S., de Pasquale, M., Schady, P., Siegel, M., & vanden Berk, D. 2010, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society MNRAS 406 1687B [ArXiv 1004.2448B]

Faint Near-ultraviolet/Far-ultraviolet Standards from Swift/UVOT, GALEX, and SDSS Photometry. Siegel, Michael H., Hoversten, Erik A., Roming, Peter W. A., Landsman, Wayne B., Allende Prieto, Carlos, Breeveld, Alice A., Brown, Peter, Holland, Stephen T., Kuin, N. P. M., Page, Mathew J., & Vanden Berk, Daniel E. 2010, Ap J 725, 121.

Astronomical Data Center CD-ROM, Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 2, Number 1 (ASCII version) and Volume 2, Number 2 (FITS version). N.P.M. Kuin, J.E. Gass, F. Ochsenbein, N.G. Roman, G.L. Schneider, D.T. Leisawitz, and C.-C.J. Lyu, ADC, Code 631, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S.A., 1995.

Astronomical Data Center CD-ROM, Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 3.

J.H. Blackwell, J.E.Gass, N.P.M. Kuin, N.G. Roman, G.L. Schneider, M.C. Larkin, C.-H. Lyu, J.A. Watko, C.Y. Cheung, and F. Ochsenbein,

Brown, Peter J., Breeveld, Alice A., Holland, Stephen, Kuin, Paul, & Pritchard, Tyler 2014, Astrophysics and Space Science SOUSA: the Swift Optical/Ultraviolet Supernova Archive
Kuin, Paul 2014, Astrophysics Source Code Library UVOTPY: Swift UVOT grism data reduction
Page, M., Yershov, V., Breeveld, A., Kuin, N. P. M., Mignani, R. P., Smith, P. J., Rawlings, J. I., Oates, S. R., Siegel, M., & Roming, P. W. A. 2015, ArXiv e-prints The Swift UVOT serendipitous source catalogue
Kuin, Paul, Breeveld, Alice, & Page, Mat 2015, ArXiv e-prints The Swift UVOT grism calibration and example spectra

specialist publications

Non-refereed scientific publications

Marshall, F. E., Maselli, A., & Kuin, N. P. M. 2014, GCN Report Swift Observations of GRB 140419A.
Mangano, V., Baumgartner, W. H., Kuin, N. P. M., Siegel, M. H. Barthelmy S. D., Burrows, D. N., Kennea, J. A., & Gehrels, N. 2014, GCN Report Swift Observations of GRB 140103A
Sánchez-Ramírez, R., Hancock, P., Murphy, T., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Gorosabel, J., Kann, D. A., Thöne, C. C., Lundgren, A., Kamble, A., Oates, S. R., Fynbo, J. P. U., de Gregorio Monsalvo, I., Garcia-Appadoo, D., Martín, S., Kuin, N. P. M., Greiner, J., & Castro-Tirado, A. J. 2013, EAS Publications Series GRB 110715A: Multiwavelength study of the first gamma-ray burst observed with ALMA
Oates, S. R., Page, M. J., De Pasquale, M., Schady, P., Breeveld, A. A., Holland, S. T., Kuin, N. P. M., & Marshall, F. E. 2013, EAS Publications Series An intrinsic correlation between GRB optical/UV afterglow brightness and decay rate
Sánchez-Ramírez, R., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Gorosabel, J., Hankcock, P., Murphy, T., Lundgren, A., Kann, D. A., de Gregorio Monsalvo, I., Fynbo, J. P. U., Garcia-Appadoo, D., Martín, S., Kamble, A., Kuin, M. P. M., Oates, S. R., Castro-Tirado, A. J., & Greiner, J. 2013, Highlights of Spanish Astrophysics VII GRB110715A: Multifrequency study of the first gamma-ray burst observed with ALMA
Siegel, M. H., Kuin, N. P. M., Holland, S., Barthelmy, S. D., Burrows, D. N., & Gehrels, N. 2013, GCN Report Swift Observations of GRB 120326A.
Kuin, N. P. M., Kennea, J. A., Sakamoto, T., Siegel, M., Barthelmy, S., & Gehrels, N. 2012, GCN Report Swift Observations of GRB 121201A.
Cannizzo, J. K., Palmer, D. M., Markwardt, C. B., Page, K. L., & Kuin, N. P. M. 2012, GCN Report Swift Observations of GRB 120911A.
Barlow, B. N., Grupe, D., Oates, S. R., Kuin, P., H Baumgartner, P. W., Barthelmy, S. D., Kennea, J. A., Burrows, D. N., Siegel, M. H., & Gehrels, A. N. 2012, GCN Report Swift Observations of GRB 120811C.
Sonbas, E., Sakamoto, T., Baumgartner, W., Pagani, C., & Kuin, P. 2012, GCN Report Swift Observations of GRB 120211A.
Ukwatta, T. N., D'Avanzo, P., Kuin, N. P. M., Krimm, H. A., Cummings, J. R., Barthelmy, S. D., Burrows, D. N., Siegel, M. H., & Gehrels, N. 2012, GCN Report Swift Observation of GRB 111228A.
Breeveld, A. A., Landsman, W., Holland, S. T., Roming, P., Kuin, N. P. M., & Page, M. J. 2011, American Institute of Physics Conference Series An Updated Ultraviolet Calibration for the Swift/UVOT
Oates, S. R., Page, M. J., Schady, P., de Pasquale, M., Evans, P. A., Page, K. L., Chester, M. M., Curran, P., Koch, T. S., Kuin, N. P. M., Roming, P. W. A., Siegel, M., Zane, S., & Nousek, J. A. 2011, American Institute of Physics Conference Series A Statistical Comparison of the Optical/UV and X-ray GRB Afterglows Observed using the Swift UVOT and XRT
Siegel, M. H., Osborne, J. P., Kuin, N. P. M., Zhang, B.-B., Barthelmy, S. D., Burrows, D. N., & Gehrels, N. 2011, GCN Report Swift Observations of GRB 111107A.

Swift Observations of GRB 111022B.

Sonbas, E., Palmer, D. M., Krimm, H. A., Evans, P. A., Page, K., Kuin, N. P. M., Morris, D. C., Barthelmy, S. D., Burrows, D. N., Roming, P., & Gehrels, N. 2011, GCN Report Swift Observations of GRB 110715A.
Grupe, D., Kuin, P., Cummings, J. R., Barthelmy, S. D., Kennea, J. A., Burrows, D. N., Siegel, M. H., & Gehrels, N. 2011, GCN Report Swift Observations of GRB 110411A.
Pritchard, Tyler A., Roming, P. W. A., & Kuin, N. P.M. 2010, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society Ultraviolet and Optical Properties of the Type-IIn Supernovae 2007pk

Grupe, D., Kuin, P., Cummings, J. R., Gronwall, C., Vetere, L., Barthelmy, S. D., Burrows, D. N., Roming, P., & Gehrels, N. 2009, GCN Report Swift observations of GRB 090927.

Hoversten, E. A., Krimm, H. A., Grupe, D., Kuin, N. P. M., Barthelmy, S. D., Burrows, D. N., Roming, P., & Gehrels, N. 2009, GCN Report Swift Observation of GRB 090510.

Vetere, L., Sakamoto, T., Kuin, P., & Fenimore, E. 2009, GCN Report Swift Observations of GRB 090301A.

Immler, S., Beardmore, A. P., Markwardt, C. B., Kuin, M., Page, K. L., Barthelmy, S. D., Burrows, D. N., Roming, P., & Gehrels, N. 2008, GCN Report Swift Observations of GRB 081109A.

Racusin, J. L., Kuin, N. P. M., Markwardt, C., & Pagani, C. 2008, GCN Report Swift Observation of GRB 080804.

Sbarufatti, B., Kuin, P., Barthelmy, S. D., Burrows, D. N., Roming, P., & Gehrels, N. 2008, GCN Report Swift Observations of INTEGRAL GRB 080603A.

Mangano, V., Parsons, A., Sakamoto, T., La Parola, V., Kuin, N. P. M., Barthelmy, S. D., Burrows, D. N., Roming, P., & Gehrels, N. 2008, GCN Report Swift Observation of GRB 080603B.

Sbarufatti, B., Parsons, A., Sakamoto, T., Mangano, V., La Parola, V., Kuin, P., Barthelmy, S. D., Burrows, D. N., Roming, P., & Gehrels, N. 2008, GCN Report Swift Observation of GRB 080605.

Swift Observations of GRB 080330, J. Mao, C. Guidorzi, C. Markwardt, N.P.M. Kuin, S.D. Barthelmy, D.N. Burrows, P. Roming, N. Gehrels for the Swift Team, 2008, GCN Report 132.1.

Cannizzo, J. K., Barthelmy, S. D., Beardmore, A. P., Cummings, J. R., Evans, P. A., Godet, O., Kuin, N. P. M., Gronwall, C., Holland, S. T., Hoversten, E. A., Immler, S., Kennea, J. A., Mangano, V., Markwardt, C. B., McLean, K. M., Mao, J., Moretti, A., Guidorzi, C., O'Brien, P. T., Goad, M. R., Osborne, J. P., Pagani, C., Page, K. L., Palmer, D. M., Fenimore, E., Parsons, A. M., Gehrels, N., Sakamoto, T., Krimm, H., Sato, G., Sbarufatti, B., Stamatikos, M., Tueller, J., Starling, R. L. C., Stratta, G., Ukwatta, T., Beckmann, V., & Troja, E. 2008, GCN Report Corrected final Swift observations of GRB 080229A.

Swift Observations of INTEGRAL GRB 071109, M. Perri, G. Stratta, N.P.M. Kuin, S.D. Barthelmy, D.N. Burrows, P. Roming, and N. Gehrels, 2007,GCN Report 102,2.

Swift Observations of GRB 071025, C. Pagani, J.L. Racusin, N.P.M. Kuin, S.T. Holland, S.D. Barthelmy, and N. Gehrels , 2007, GCN Report 97,1.

Swift Observation of GRB 070802, S. Immler, V. Mangano, N. P. M. Kuin, and J. Cummings, 2007, GCN Report 78, 2.

Swift Observations of GRB 070330, D. Grupe, C. Markwardt, H. Krimm, S.D. Barthelmy, P. Kuin, P. Schady, P. Brown, M. Chester, J. Kennea, D.N. Burrows, P. Roming, N. Gehrels, 2007, GCN Report 43, 2.

The Yohkoh-BCS flare catalog, N.P.M. Kuin, and C. Foley, 2007, on-line catalog, the Yohkoh Legacy Archive at http://solar.physics.montana.edu/ylegacy/.

Astronomical Data Center CD-ROM, Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 3.

J.H. Blackwell, J.E.Gass, N.P.M. Kuin, N.G. Roman, G.L. Schneider, M.C. Larkin, C.-H. Lyu, J.A. Watko, C.Y. Cheung, and F. Ochsenbein, ADC, Code 631, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, U.S.A., 1996.

Astronomical Data Center CD-ROM, Selected Astronomical Catalogs, Volume 2, Number 1 (ASCII version) and Volume 2, Number 2 (FITS version). N.P.M. Kuin, J.E. Gass, F. Ochsenbein, N.G. Roman, G.L. Schneider, D.T. Leisawitz, and C.-C.J. Lyu, ADC, Code 631, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, Maryland, U.S.A., 1995.
Astronomical Catalog Desk Reference, 1994 Edition. Gass, J., Kuin, N.P.M., Roman, N.G., and Schneider, G.L., ADC/NSSDC, Code 631, NASA-GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, U.S.A., 1993.
Flare Energy Release and Deposition, G. Holman, S. Benka, J. de la Beaujarderie, G. Dulk, A. Gabriel, J.C. Henoux, E. Hiei, S. Kane, P. Kuin, T. Larosa, A. MacKinnon, K. McClements, D. Moses, R. Ramaty, N. Tromans, N. Vilmer, 1989, Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Thermal-Non-Thermal Interactions in Solar Flares, held at Somerville College, University of Oxford, England, April 10-14, 1989. Editor, Kenneth J.H. Phillips; Publisher, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon., England
Kuin, N. P. M. & Poland, A. I. 1989, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society Opacity Effects on the Radiative Losses of Coronal Loops
The Outer Atmospheres and Winds of T Tau and RU Lup. Jordan C. and Kuin N.P.M., in: A Decade of UV Astronomy with the IUE Satellite, ESA-SP, 281, Vol 2, p 97, 1988.
Semi-Empirical Models of the Wind in Cool Supergiant Stars Kuin N.P.M., and Ahmad, I.A., in: A Decade of UV Astronomy with the IUE Satellite, ESA-SP, 281, Vol. 2, p. 159, 1988.
A Dynamic Model of Filament Eruptions and Two-Ribbon Flares. N.P.M. Kuin and P.C.H. Martens, in: Coronal and Prominence Plasma's, A. Poland (ed.), NASA CP 2442, p.241, 1986.
The Theory of Hot Coronae in T Tauri Stellar Winds. N.P.M. Kuin in: Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and The Sun, M. Zeilik and D.M. Gibson (Eds.), Lecture Notes in Physics Vol. 254, Springer Verlag, p466, 1986.
Ahmad, I. A. & Kuin, N. P. 1986, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society Alfven Wave Damping in Supergiant Stellar Winds
Martens, P. C. H. & Kuin, N. P. M. 1986, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society An Electrical Circuit Model for Two-Ribbon Flares.
Martens, P. C. H. & Kuin, N. P. M. 1985, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society Filament Evolution: Energy Build-Up, Eruption and Oscillations
Atmospheric Properties of RU Lupi Derived From High and Low Resolution Spectra. Brown, A., Penston, M.V., Johnstone, R., Jordan, C., Kuin, N.P.M., Lago, M.T.V.T, Gross,B., Linsky, J.L., Future of Ultraviolet Astronomy Based on Six Years of IUE Research, NASA conference publication #2349, p. 338, 1984.Atmospheric properties of RU LUPI derived from high- and low-resolution IUE spectra
X-ray Spectroscopic Investigation of the Coronal Structure of Capella. Gronenschild, E.H.B.M., Mewe, R., Heise, J., Brinkman, A.C., Dijkstra, J.H., Westergaard, N.J., Schnopper, H.W., Seward, F.D., Chlebowski, T., Kuin, N.P.M ., Space Science Review, vol. 30, p. 185, 1981.
Stalio, R., Thomas, R. N., La Dous, C., Lago, T., Kuin, P., Martens, P., & Ramella, M. 1984, Effects of variable mass loss on the local stellar environment. Second Trieste-Workshop held in Rupingrande near Trieste, 12 - 20 October 1983.. R. Stalio, R. N. Thomas (Editors), with a final discussion by C. La Dous, T. Lago, P. Kuin, P. Martens, M. Ramella.Trieste-Workshop series on nonlinear, nonequilibrium thermodynamics of open, nonthermal systems in astronomy. Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, Via G. B. Tiepolo, C. P. Succ. 5, I-34131 Trieste, Italy. 11+234 pp. (1984).The individual contributions are included in their corresponding subject categories - see abstracts 064.030, 064.031, 074.039, 112.049, 112.050, 117.095, 121.018, 124.007, 134.023. Effects of variable mass loss on the local stellar environment. Second Trieste-Workshop held in Rupingrande near Trieste, 12 - 20 October 1983.

Technical Reports

The pointing and alignment of the Grazing Incidence Spectrometer on SOHO CDS, N.P.M. Kuin and G. Del Zanna, SoHo CDS Software Note No. 57, 2006.

OMI SIPS Data Flow Diagrams and Data Volume Estimates, 2003, OMI SIPS, NASA-GSFC

OMI SIPS - ODPS Interface Control Document. N.P.M. Kuin, 2003, OMI SIPS, NASA-GSFC

OMI meta data guide. N.P.M.Kuin and M.Linda, 2001, OMI TLCF, NASA-GSFC

OMI error handling approach, white paper. 2001, OMI TLCF, NASA-GSFC

OMI software delivery guide for version 0.1 software. 2000, OMI TLCF, NASA-GSFC

OMI software requirements. 2000, OMI SIPS, NASA-GSFC

NPOESS-CRIS: Study of the accuracy of the atmospheric retrieval. 1999, Raytheon ITSS

The Error Budget for the NPOESS VIIRS. 1999, Raytheon ITSS

NPOESS VIIRS Software and Ancillary Data Requirements Document, Phase B Study. 1999, Raytheon ITSS

A possible NO2 retrieval algorithm for GAMP. 1997, Raytheon ITSS

Gass, J. E., Roman, N. G., Schneider, G. L., Blackwell, J. H., Kuin, N. P. M., Larkin, M. C., Lyu, C.-C. J., & Cheung, C. Y. 1996, Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society ADC Catalog Services: an Update

Astronomical Catalogs at CDS, Adopted Standards, Version1.4, Centre de Données astronomique de Strassbourg,

F. Ochsenbein, N.P.M. Kuin, 1994.

Report on a Possible Conversion from the DIF to the USMARC Format., S. Elswick, G. McCone, and N. P. Kuin , Journal Library High Tech., Vol. 13 No. 1&2 (1995) pp. 36-42.
Report on a Possible Conversion from the DIF to the USMARC Format. , S. Elswick, G. McCone, and N. P. Kuin , Global Change and Information Management, 48, 12:4, 27, 1994.
Status Report on Machine-Readable Catalogs. Quarterly Series, Schneider, G., Roman, N.G., Kuin, N.P.M ., 1993-1995.
Kuin, N. P. M. 1992, Cool Stars, Stellar Systems, and the Sun Catalog Interoperability; NASA's Master Directory as a New Facility for Research Support.

Astronomical Catalog Verification and Documentation (NASA-GSFC ADC 1993-1996)

Documentation of many (100+) astronomical catalogs, including reformatting and verification was performed. They are available through the IAU Astronomical Data Centers in France, Japan, and Russia. The american NASA Astronomical Data Center was closed in September 2002 since the access to CDS in France was judged sufficient.