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JCA Publications 2005

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JCA scientists during at least part of this period were:
Dave L. Band, Volker Beckmann, Patricia T. Boyd, John Cannizzo, James Chiang, David S. Davis, Markos Georgeanopoulos, Ian M George, Masaharu Hirayama, Mark J. Henriksen, Kip Kuntz, Julie McEnery, Igor Moskalenko, Eric S. Perlman, Dirk Petry, and T. Jane Turner.
Graduate Students:
Deatrick Foster, C. Alex Padgett, Brain P. Wingert, Jianning Zeng.
Others:
Timothy Daughery (Ugrad student)
These people are underlined below (and are in bold if work performed while a JCA member, and JCA/UMBC affiliation acknowledged).

This list is Incomplete!

Papers, Proceedings etc


12/2005	Discovery of an Afterglow Extension of the Prompt Phase of Two Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed by Swift Barthelmy, S. D., Cannizzo, J. K., Gehrels, N., Cusumano, G., Mangano, V., O'Brien, P. T., Vaughan, S., Zhang, B., Burrows, D. N., Campana, S., Chincarini, G., Goad, M. R., Kouveliotou, C., Kumar, P., Mészáros, P., Nousek, J. A., Osborne, J. P., Panaitescu, A., Reeves, J. N., Sakamoto, T., Tagliaferri, G., and Wijers, R. A. M. J. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 635 L133
12/2005	Ultraviolet, Optical, and X-Ray Observations of the Type Ia Supernova 2005am with Swift Brown, P. J., Holland, S. T., James, C., Milne, P., Roming, P. W. A., Mason, K. O., Page, K. L., Beardmore, A. P., Burrows, D., Morgan, A., Gronwall, C., Blustin, A. J., Boyd, P., Still, M., Breeveld, A., de Pasquale, M., Hunsberger, S., Ivanushkina, M., Landsman, W., McGowan, K., Poole, T., Rosen, S., Schady, P., and Gehrels, N. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 635 1192
12/2005	Swift UVOT Detection of GRB 050318 Still, M., Roming, P. W. A., Mason, K. O., Blustin, A., Boyd, P., Breeveld, A., Brown, P., De Pasquale, M., Gronwall, C., Holland, S. T., Hunsberger, S., Ivanushkina, M., James, C., Landsman, W., McGowan, K., Morgan, A., Poole, T., Rosen, S., Schady, P., Zhang, B., Krimm, H., Sakamoto, T., Giommi, P., Goad, M. R., Mangano, V., Page, K., Perri, M., Burrows, D. N., Gehrels, N., and Nousek, J. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 635 1187
12/2005	INTEGRAL observations of six AGN in the Galactic Plane, Soldi, S., Beckmann, V., Bassani, L., Courvoisier, T. J.-L., Landi, R., Malizia, A., Dean, A. J., de Rosa, A., Fabian, A. C., and Walter, R. 2005 Astronomy and Astrophysics 444 431
12/2005	The High-Energy Spectrum of NGC 4151, Beckmann, V., Shrader, C. R., Gehrels, N., Soldi, S., Lubiński, P., Zdziarski, A. A., Petrucci, P.-O., and Malzac, J. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 634 939
12/2005	Chandra Deep X-Ray Observation of a Typical Galactic Plane Region and Near-Infrared Identification, Ebisawa, K., Tsujimoto, M., Paizis, A., Hamaguchi, K., Bamba, A., Cutri, R., Kaneda, H., Maeda, Y., Sato, G., Senda, A., Ueno, M., Yamauchi, S., Beckmann, V., Courvoisier, T. J.-L., Dubath, P., and Nishihara, E. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 635 214

11/2005	Gamma-Ray Bursts and the Earth: Exploration of Atmospheric, Biological, Climatic, and Biogeochemical Effects Thomas, B. C., Melott, A. L., Jackman, C. H., Laird, C. M., Medvedev, M. V., Stolarski, R. S., Gehrels, N., Cannizzo, J. K., Hogan, D. P., and Ejzak, L. M. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 634 509
11/2005	Is the Core of M87 the Source of Its TeV Emission? Implications for Unified Schemes, Georganopoulos, M., Perlman, E. S., and Kazanas, D. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 634 L33
11/2005	Simultaneous Ultraviolet and X-Ray Observations of Seyfert Galaxy NGC 4151. I. Physical Conditions in the X-Ray Absorbers, Kraemer, S. B., George, I. M., Crenshaw, D. M., Gabel, J. R., Turner, T. J., Gull, T. R., Hutchings, J. B., Kriss, G. A., Mushotzky, R. F., Netzer, H., Peterson, B. M., and Behar, E. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 633 693
11/2005	Evidence for Gravitational Infall of Matter onto the Supermassive Black Hole in the Quasar PG 1211+143?, Reeves, J. N., Pounds, K., Uttley, P., Kraemer, S., Mushotzky, R., Yaqoob, T., George, I. M., and Turner, T. J. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 633 L81

10/2005	A short γ-ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z = 0.225 Gehrels, N., Sarazin, C. L., O'Brien, P. T., Zhang, B., Barbier, L., Barthelmy, S. D., Blustin, A., Burrows, D. N., Cannizzo, J., Cummings, J. R., Goad, M., Holland, S. T., Hurkett, C. P., Kennea, J. A., Levan, A., Markwardt, C. B., Mason, K. O., Meszaros, P., Page, M., Palmer, D. M., Rol, E., Sakamoto, T., Willingale, R., Angelini, L., Beardmore, A., Boyd, P. T., Breeveld, A., Campana, S., Chester, M. M., Chincarini, G., Cominsky, L. R., Cusumano, G., de Pasquale, M., Fenimore, E. E., Giommi, P., Gronwall, C., Grupe, D., Hill, J. E., Hinshaw, D., Hjorth, J., Hullinger, D., Hurley, K. C., Klose, S., Kobayashi, S., Kouveliotou, C., Krimm, H. A., Mangano, V., Marshall, F. E., McGowan, K., Moretti, A., Mushotzky, R. F., Nakazawa, K., Norris, J. P., Nousek, J. A., Osborne, J. P., Page, K., Parsons, A. M., Patel, S., Perri, M., Poole, T., Romano, P., Roming, P. W. A., Rosen, S., Sato, G., Schady, P., Smale, A. P., Sollerman, J., Starling, R., Still, M., Suzuki, M., Tagliaferri, G., Takahashi, T., Tashiro, M., Tueller, J., Wells, A. A., White, N. E., and Wijers, R. A. M. J. 2005 Nature 437 851
10/2005	The Knotty Question of the Jet of PKS B1421-490, Gelbord, J. M., Marshall, H. L., Worrall, D. M., Birkinshaw, M., Lovell, J. E. J., Ojha, R., Godfrey, L., Schwartz, D. A., Perlman, E. S., Georganopoulos, M., Murphy, D. W., and Jauncey, D. L. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 632 L75
10/2005	The Ionized Gas and Nuclear Environment in NGC 3783. V. Variability and Modeling of the Intrinsic Ultraviolet Absorption, Gabel, J. R., Kraemer, S. B., Crenshaw, D. M., George, I. M., Brandt, W. N., Hamann, F. W., Kaiser, M. E., Kaspi, S., Kriss, G. A., Mathur, S., Nandra, K., Netzer, H., Peterson, B. M., Shields, J. C., Turner, T. J., and Zheng, W. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 631 741

9/2005	Constraints on Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts Atkins, R., Benbow, W., Berley, D., Blaufuss, E., Coyne, D. G., DeYoung, T., Dingus, B. L., Dorfan, D. E., Ellsworth, R. W., Fleysher, L., Fleysher, R., Gonzalez, M. M., Goodman, J. A., Hays, E., Hoffman, C. M., Kelley, L. A., Lansdell, C. P., Linnemann, J. T., McEnery, J. E., Mincer, A. I., Morales, M. F., Nemethy, P., Noyes, D., Ryan, J. M., Samuelson, F. W., Parkinson, P. M. S., Shoup, A., Sinnis, G., Smith, A. J., Sullivan, G. W., Williams, D. A., Wilson, M. E., Xu, X. W., and Yodh, G. B. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 630 996
9/2005	Application of a multidimensional wavelet denoising algorithm for the detention and characterization of astrophysical sources of Gamma rays. Digel, S.W., Zhang, B., Chiang, J., Fadili, M., Starck, J.-L., 2005 PHYSTAT 05 Proceedings.
9/2005	A Recurrence Time versus Orbital Period Relation for the Z Camelopardalis Stars Shafter, A. W., Cannizzo, J. K., and Waagen, E. O. 2005 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 117 931
9/2005	Upper limits on gravitational wave bursts in LIGO's second science run Abbott, B., et al. (423 other authors incl Cannizzo, J. K.) 2005 Physical Review D 72 062001
9/2005	Swift, INTEGRAL, RXTE, and Spitzer Reveal IGR J16283-4838 Beckmann, V., Kennea, J. A., Markwardt, C., Paizis, A., Soldi, S., Rodriguez, J., Barthelmy, S. D., Burrows, D. N., Chester, M., Gehrels, N., Mowlavi, N., and Nousek, J. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 631 506

8/2005	Search for gravitational waves associated with the gamma ray burst GRB030329 using the LIGO detectors Abbott, B., et al. (403 other authors incl Cannizzo, J. K.) 2005 Physical Review D 72 042002
8/2005	The Infrared-dominated Jet of 3C 401, Chiaberge, M., Sparks, W. B., Macchetto, F. D., Perlman, E., Capetti, A., Balmaverde, B., Floyd, D., O'Dea, C., and Axon, D. J. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 629 100
8/2005	XMM-Newton Spectroscopy of the Starburst-Dominated Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxy NGC 6240, Netzer, H., Lemze, D., Kaspi, S., George, I. M., Turner, T. J., Lutz, D., Boller, T., and Chelouche, D. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 629 739

7/2005	Testing the Gamma-Ray Burst Energy Relationships, Band, D. L. and Preece, R. D. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 627 319
7/2005	The X-Ray Emissions from the M87 Jet: Diagnostics and Physical Interpretation, Perlman, E. S. and Wilson, A. S. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 627 140

6/2005	Characterizing a new class of variability in GRS 1915+105 with simultaneous INTEGRAL/RXTE observations Hannikainen, D. C., Rodriguez, J., Vilhu, O., Hjalmarsdotter, L., Zdziarski, A. A., Belloni, T., Poutanen, J., Wu, K., Shaw, S. E., Beckmann, V., Hunstead, R. W., Pooley, G. G., Westergaard, N. J., Mirabel, I. F., Hakala, P., Castro-Tirado, A., and Durouchoux, P. 2005 Astronomy and Astrophysics 435 995
6/2005	Bulk Comptonization of the Cosmic Microwave Background by Extragalactic Jets as a Probe of Their Matter Content, Georganopoulos, M., Kazanas, D., Perlman, E., and Stecker, F. W. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 625 656
6/2005	Intrinsic Curvature in the X-Ray Spectra of BL Lacertae Objects, Perlman, E. S., Madejski, G., Georganopoulos, M., Andersson, K., Daugherty, T., Krolik, J. H., Rector, T., Stocke, J. T., Koratkar, A., Wagner, S., Aller, M., Aller, H., and Allen, M. G. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 625 727

5/2005	A Survey of Unidentified EGRET Sources at Very High Energies Fegan, S. J., et al (69 other authors, incl McEnery, J.E. and Petry, D.) 2005 Astrophysical Journal 624 638
5/2005	Swift Observations of GRB 050128: The Early X-Ray Afterglow Campana, S., Antonelli, L. A., Chincarini, G., Covino, S., Cusumano, G., Malesani, D., Mangano, V., Moretti, A., Pagani, C., Romano, P., Tagliaferri, G., Capalbi, M., Perri, M., Giommi, P., Angelini, L., Boyd, P., Burrows, D. N., Hill, J. E., Gronwall, C., Kennea, J. A., Kobayashi, S., Kumar, P., Mészáros, P., Nousek, J. A., Roming, P. W. A., Zhang, B., Abbey, A. F., Beardmore, A. P., Breeveld, A., Goad, M. R., Godet, O., Mason, K. O., Osborne, J. P., Page, K. L., Poole, T., and Gehrels, N. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 625 L23
5/2005	Simultaneous X-ray and UV spectroscopy of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 5548. II. Physical conditions in the X-ray absorber, Steenbrugge, K. C., Kaastra, J. S., Crenshaw, D. M., Kraemer, S. B., Arav, N., George, I. M., Liedahl, D. A., van der Meer, R. L. J., Paerels, F. B. S., Turner, T. J., and Yaqoob, T. 2005 Astronomy and Astrophysics 434 569

4/2005	Terrestrial Ozone Depletion due to a Milky Way Gamma-Ray Burst Thomas, B. C., Jackman, C. H., Melott, A. L., Laird, C. M., Stolarski, R. S., Gehrels, N., Cannizzo, J. K., and Hogan, D. P. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 622 L153
4/2005	The relationship between X-ray variability amplitude and black hole mass in active galactic nuclei, O'Neill, P. M., Nandra, K., Papadakis, I. E., and Turner, T. J. 2005 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 358 1405
4/2005	Continuing a Chandra Survey of Quasar Radio Jets, Gelbord, J. M., Marshall, H. L., Schwartz, D. A., Worrall, D. M., Birkinshaw, M., Lovell, J. E. J., Jauncey, D. L., Perlman, E. S., Murphy, D. W., and Preston, R. A. 2005 X-Ray and Radio Connections (eds. L.O. Sjouwerman and K.K Dyer) Published electronically by NRAO, Held 3-6 February 2004 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, (E7.14) 4 pages

03/2005	Spectrum of Very High Energy Gamma-Rays from the blazar 1ES 1959+650 during Flaring Activity in 2002 Daniel, M. K., et al (68 other authors including Petry, D.) 2005 Astrophysical Journal 621 181
3/2005	Unveiling the nature of the high energy source IGR J19140+0951Rodriguez, J., Cabanac, C., Hannikainen, D. C., Beckmann, V., Shaw, S. E., and Schultz, J. 2005 Astronomy and Astrophysics 432 235

2/2005	The Earth's Gamma-ray Albedo as observed by EGRET Petry, D. 2005 AIP Conf. Proc. 745: High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy 745 709
2/1005	A New Determination Of The Diffuse Galactic and Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Emission Strong, A. W., Moskalenko, I. V., and Reimer, O. 2005 AIP Conf. Proc. 745: High Energy Gamma-Ray Astronomy 745 585
2/2005	The Optical Counterpart of M101 ULX-1, Kuntz, K. D., Gruendl, R. A., Chu, Y.-H., Chen, C.-H. R., Still, M., Mukai, K., and Mushotzky, R. F. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 620 L31

1/2005	INTEGRAL observations of the field of the BL Lacertae object S5 0716+714 Pian, E., Foschini, L., Beckmann, V., Sillanpää, A., Soldi, S., Tagliaferri, G., Takalo, L., Barr, P., Ghisellini, G., Malaguti, G., Maraschi, L., Palumbo, G. G. C., Treves, A., Courvoisier, T. J.-L., Di Cocco, G., Gehrels, N., Giommi, P., Hudec, R., Lindfors, E., Marcowith, A., Nilsson, K., Pasanen, M., Pursimo, T., Raiteri, C. M., Savolainen, T., Sikora, M., Tornikoski, M., Tosti, G., Türler, M., Valtaoja, E., Villata, M., and Walter, R. 2005 Astronomy and Astrophysics 429 427
1/2005	The Extended Mid-Infrared Structure of the Circinus Galaxy, Packham, C., Radomski, J. T., Roche, P. F., Aitken, D. K., Perlman, E., Alonso-Herrero, A., Colina, L., and Telesco, C. M. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 618 L17
1/2005	A Chandra Survey of Quasar Jets: First Results, Marshall, H. L., Schwartz, D. A., Lovell, J. E. J., Murphy, D. W., Worrall, D. M., Birkinshaw, M., Gelbord, J. M., Perlman, E. S., and Jauncey, D. L. 2005 Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 156 13
1/2005	Complex X-Ray Absorption and the Fe Kα Profile in NGC 3516, Turner, T. J., Kraemer, S. B., George, I. M., Reeves, J. N., and Bottorff, M. C. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 618 155
1/2005	Cluster Mergers, Core Oscillations, and Cold Fronts, Tittley, E. R. and Henriksen, M. 2005 Astrophysical Journal 618 227

0/2005	Propagation model for cosmic ray species in the Galaxy Ptuskin, V. S., Moskalenko, I. V., Jones, F. C., Strong, A. W., and Mashnik, S. G. 2005 Advances in Space Research 35 162
0/2005	Propagation of secondary antiprotons and cosmic rays in the Galaxy Moskalenko, I. V., Strong, A. W., Ormes, J. F., and Mashnik, S. G. 2005 Advances in Space Research 35 156
0/2005	A Probe of the Matter Content of Quasar Jets, Georganopoulos, M., Kazanas, D., Perlman, E. S., and Stecker, F. W. 2005 Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana 76 118
0/2005	What Types of Jets Does Nature Make? A New Population of Blazars, Landt, H., Padovani, P., Perlman, E., and Giommi, P. 2005 Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana 76 136
0/2000	One-up on L1: Can X-rays provide longer advanced warning of solar wind flux enhancements than upstream monitors?, Collier, M. R., Moore, T. E., Snowden, S. L., and Kuntz, K. D. 2005 Advances in Space Research 35 2157

Other Publications


0/2005	Translation of Song of Songs in The Song of Songs: The Honeybee in the Garden (Ed. Debra Band; Jewish Publication Society, Philadelphia).

Gramma-ray Burst Coordinates Network (GCN) Circulars

(GCN Home Page)
[Note: Affiliations are often incorrect/incomplete on GCN circulars]


0/2005	GRB051117b: no Swift/UVOT detection. Poole, T. S., Holland, S. T., Band, D., Boyd, P., and Nousek, J. 2005 GRB Coordinates Network 4303 1
0/2005	GRB 051117A: Swift/UVOT detection of an afterglow. Holland, S. T., Band, D., Mason, K., Marshall, F., and Gehrels, N. 2005 GRB Coordinates Network 4300 1
0/2005	GRB 051117B: swift detection of a burst. Band, D., Barthelmy, S., Beardmore, A., Burrows, D., Cummings, J., Holland, S. T., Goad, M., Godet, O., Gehrels, N., Gronwall, C., Kennea, J., Krimm, H., Osborne, J., and Page, K. 2005 GRB Coordinates Network 4281 1
0/2005	GRB 051117: swift detection of a bright burst., Band, D., Barthelmy, S., Beardmore, A., Burrows, D., Gehrels, N., Goad, M., Godet, O., Gronwall, C., Kennea, J., Page, K., and Rol, E. 2005 GRB Coordinates Network 4280 1
0/2005	GRB050803: Optical/UV upper limits from Swift-UVOT. Brown, P. J., Band, D. L., Boyd, P., Norris, J., Hurley, K., and Gehrels, N. 2005 GRB Coordinates Network 3759 1
0/2005	GRB050803: Swift-BAT detection of a very long burst. Band, D. L., Barthelmy, S., Boyd, P., Brown, P., Burrows, D., Chester, M., Cummings, J., Gehrels, N., Markwardt, C., Nousek, J., Page, K., Pagani, C., Palmer, D., Sakamoto, T., and Racusin, J. 2005 GRB Coordinates Network 3748 1
0/2005	GRB 050802: Swift/UVOT observations. McGowan, K., Band, D., Brown, P., Gronwall, C., Huckle, H., and Hancock, B. 2005 GRB Coordinates Network 3739 1
0/2005	GRB 05080: swift gamma-ray burst. Band, D., Markwardt, C., Perri, M., McGowan, K., Gronwall, C., Page, K., Racusin, J., Burrows, D., Gehrels, N., and Kennea, J. 2005 GRB Coordinates Network 3734 1
0/2005	GRB050801: Swift/UVOT optical and UV detections. Blustin, A. J., Band, D., Hunsberger, S., Gronwall, C., Carter, M., and Smith, P. 2005 GRB Coordinates Network 3733 1
0/2005	GRB050801: Swift-BAT detection of a burst. Band, D. L., Barthelmy, S., Cummings, J., Gehrels, N., Gronwall, C., Hunsberger, S., Kennea, J., Palmer, D., and Perri, M. 2005 GRB Coordinates Network 3725 1
0/2005	GRB 050525A: swift late-time decay rate. Holland, S. T., Band, D., Blustin, A., Boyd, P., Marshall, F., Mason, K., Perri, M., Breeveld, A., Brown, P., Cucchiara, A., Gronwall, C., Hunsberger, S., Ivanushkina, M., Landsman, W., McGowan, K., Morgan, A., de Pasquale, M., Poole, T., Roming, P., Rosen, S., Schady, P., Still, M., Nousek, J., and Gehrels, N. 2005 GRB Coordinates Network 3551 1
0/2005	Swift-BAT detection of possible GRB 050528. Holland, S. T., Band, D., Barthelmy, S., Gehrels, N., Goad, M., Gronwall, C., Krimm, H., Markwardt, C., Palmer, D., and Roming, P. 2005 GRB Coordinates Network 3496 1
0/2005	GRB 050525, spectral lag pseudo-redshift. Norris, J., Barthelmy, S., Gehrels, N., Cummings, J., Band, D., Barbier, L., Krimm, H., Markwardt, C., Parsons, A., and Tueller, J. 2005 GRB Coordinates Network 3484 1
0/2005	Swift/UVOT UV and optical detections of GRB 050525. Holland, S., Band, D.>, Blustin, A., Rosen, S., Roming, P., Schady, P., Mason, K., Gronwall, C., Breeveld, A., Poole, T., James, C., McGowan, K., de Pasquale, M., Hunsberger, S., Pagani, C., Brown, P., Ivanushkina, M., Hancock, B., Kennedy, T., Broos, P., Koch, S., Smith, P., Huckle, H., Still, M., Boyd, P., Landsman, W., Nousek, J., and Gehrels, N. 2005 GRB Coordinates Network 3475 1
0/2005	GRB 050525: swift detection of a bright, possibly short burst. Band, D., Cummings, J., Perri, M., Holland, S., Burrows, D. N., Gehrels, N., Hill, J. E., Kennea, J. A., Hunsberger, S., Markwardt, C., and Palmer, D. 2005 GRB Coordinates Network 3466 1