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Dr. Edward M. CackettEinstein Fellow (previously known as Chandra Fellow)ecackett@umich.edu Phone: 734 330-2649 Click here for a pdf version of my CV and publications list (last update: Nov. 2009) |
The Fundamental Plane of Black Hole Accretion in 3D!
Take a look at our interactive, 3D visualization of the Fundamental Plane from our recent paper, Gultekin et al. "The Fundamental Plane of Accretion Onto Black Holes with Dynamical Masses".Crustal cooling - new observation of KS 1731
Chandra has just observed KS 1731-260 which coincidently happened during the Crust09 workshop! This latest observation occurred about 3000 days after the end of the outburst. Preliminary analysis including this latest observation can be seen here, and shows that KS 1731 appears to be still cooling!Research Interests
- Accretion onto neutron stars and black holes in X-ray Binaries and Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN)
- Observational probes of the neutron star equation of state (neutron star radii and masses)
- Relativistic Fe lines in neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries
- Quiescent emission from cooling neutron stars
- The nature of low-luminosity accreting sources in our Galaxy
- Reverberation mapping and the broad-line region in AGN and low-luminosity AGN
Publications
You can find up-to-date listings of my publications from the following sites:NASA/ADS
astro-ph
Recent results in the news
NASA: Astronomers Pioneer New Method For Probing Exotic MatterNASA: Probing Scrunched Stars
ESA: XMM-Newton and Suzaku help pioneer method for probing exotic matter
U-M: Neutron stars warp space time, U-M astronomers observe
Sky & Telescope: Measuring Neutron Stars Exactly
