Foster, Adam
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staff
Co-principal Investigator On
Selected Publications
Article
Yang, Yang, Dipti, Gall, Amy C., O'Neil, Galen, Szypryt, Paul, Hosier, Adam, Foster, Adam, Naing, Aung, Tan, Joseph N., Schultz, David R., Smith, Randall, Brickhouse, Nancy, Ralchenko, Yuri, and Takacs, Endre. 2023. "Determination of Electron Beam Energy in Measuring the Electron-Impact Ionization Cross Section of He-like Fe24 ." Atoms , 11 44. https://doi.org/10.3390/atoms11030044 .
2023
Sciortino, F., Howard, N. T., Reksoatmodjo, R., Foster, A. R., Hughes, J. W., Marmar, E. S., Miller, M. A., Mordijck, S., Odstrčil, T., Pütterich, T., Reinke, M. L., Rice, J. E., and Rodriguez-Fernandez, P. 2021. "Experimental inference of neutral and impurity transport in Alcator C-Mod using high-resolution x-ray and ultra-violet spectra ." Nuclear Fusion , 61 126060. https://doi.org/10.1088/1741-4326/ac32f2 .
2021
Heuer, Keri, Foster, Adam R., and Smith, Randall. 2021. "Spectral Implications of Atomic Uncertainties in Optically Thin Hot Plasmas ." The Astrophysical Journal , 908 3. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abcaff .
2021
Seward, Frederick D., Foster, Adam R., Smith, Randall K., and Points, Sean D. 2021. "XMM Observation of the Supernova Remnant J0454-6713 and the Adjacent N9 Superbubble ." The Astrophysical Journal , 909 13. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abd561 .
2021
Foster, Adam R. 2020. "Atomic data and uncertainties with PyAtomDB ." Astronomische Nachrichten , 341 191–196. https://doi.org/10.1002/asna.202023777 .
2020
Dunn, William R., Gray, R., Wibisono, A. D., Lamy, L., Louis, C., Badman, S. V., Branduardi-Raymont, G., Elsner, R., Gladstone, G. R., Ebert, R., Ford, P., Foster, Adam, Tao, C., Ray, L. C., Yao, Z., Rae, I. J., Bunce, E. J., Rodriguez, P., Jackman, C. M., Nicolaou, G., Clarke, J., Nichols, J., Elliott, H., and Kraft, Ralph. 2020. "Comparisons Between Jupiter's X-ray, UV and Radio Emissions and In-Situ Solar Wind Measurements During 2007 ." Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics) , 125 e27222. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027222 .
2020
Dunn, William R., Branduardi-Raymont, G., Carter-Cortez, V., Campbell, A., Elsner, R., Ness, J. -U, Gladstone, G. R., Ford, P., Yao, Z., Rodriguez, P., Clark, G., Paranicas, C., Foster, Adam R., Baker, D., Gray, R., Badman, S. V., Ray, L. C., Bunce, E. Â. J., Snios, Bradford T., Jackman, C. M., Rae, I. J., Kraft, Ralph P., Rymer, A., Lathia, S., and Achilleos, N. 2020. "Jupiter's X-ray Emission During the 2007 Solar Minimum ." Journal of Geophysical Research (Space Physics) , 125 e27219. https://doi.org/10.1029/2019JA027219 .
2020
Suzuki, Hitomi, Yamaguchi, Hiroya, Ishida, Manabu, Uchida, Hiroyuki, Plucinsky, Paul P., Foster, Adam R., and Miller, Eric D. 2020. "Plasma Diagnostics of the Supernova Remnant N132D using Deep XMM-Newton Observations with the Reflection Grating Spectrometer ." The Astrophysical Journal , 900 39. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aba524 .
2020
Foster, Adam R. and Heuer, Keri. 2020. "PyAtomDB: Extending the AtomDB Atomic Database to Model New Plasma Processes and Uncertainties ." Atoms , 8 49. https://doi.org/10.3390/atoms8030049 .
2020
Gall, Amy C., Foster, Adam R., Silwal, Roshani, Dreiling, Joan M., Borovik, Alexander, Jr., Kilgore, Ethan, Ajello, Marco, Gillaspy, John D., Ralchenko, Yuri, and Takács, Endre. 2019. "EBIT Observation of Ar Dielectronic Recombination Lines near the Unknown Faint X-Ray Feature Found in the Stacked Spectrum of Galaxy Clusters ." The Astrophysical Journal , 872 194. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0177 .
2019
Bulbul, Esra, Foster, Adam, Brown, Gregory V., Bautz, Mark W., Beiersdorfer, Peter, Hell, Natalie, Kilbourne, Caroline, Kraft, Ralph, Kelley, Richard, Leutenegger, Maurice A., Miller, Eric D., Porter, F. Scott, and Smith, Randall K. 2019. "Laboratory Measurements of X-Ray Emission from Highly Charged Argon Ions ." The Astrophysical Journal , 870 21. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaee7d .
2019
Zhang, Gao-Yuan, Slavin, Jonathan D., Foster, Adam, Smith, Randall K., ZuHone, John A., Zhou, Ping, and Chen, Yang. 2019. "Nonequilibrium Ionization in Mixed-morphology Supernova Remnants ." The Astrophysical Journal , 875 81. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab0f9a .
2019
Cui, Xiaohong, Foster, Adam R., Yuasa, Takayuki, and Smith, Randall K. 2019. "X-Ray Spectra from Plasmas with High-energy Electrons: κ-distributions and e− ─e− Bremsstrahlung ." The Astrophysical Journal , 887 182. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab5304 .
2019
Zhang, Shuinai, Wang, Q. Daniel, Foster, Adam R., Sun, Wei, Li, Zhiyuan, and Ji, Li. 2019. "XMM-Newton RGS Spectroscopy of the M31 Bulge. I. Evidence for a Past AGN Half a Million Years Ago ." The Astrophysical Journal , 885 157. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4a0f .
2019
Martínez-Rodríguez, Héctor, Badenes, Carles, Lee, Shiu-Hang, Patnaude, Daniel J., Foster, Adam R., Yamaguchi, Hiroya, Auchettl, Katie, Bravo, Eduardo, Slane, Patrick O., Piro, Anthony L., Park, Sangwook, and Nagataki, Shigehiro. 2018. "Chandrasekhar and Sub-Chandrasekhar Models for the X-Ray Emission of Type Ia Supernova Remnants. I. Bulk Properties ." The Astrophysical Journal , 865 151. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aadaec .
2018
Hitomi Collaboration, Aharonian, Felix, Akamatsu, Hiroki, Akimoto, Fumie, Allen, Steven W., Angelini, Lorella, Audard, Marc, Awaki, Hisamitsu, Axelsson, Magnus, Bamba, Aya, Bautz, Marshall W., Blandford, Roger, Brenneman, Laura W., Brown, Gregory V., Bulbul, Esra, Cackett, Edward M., Chernyakova, Maria, Chiao, Meng P., Coppi, Paolo S., Costantini, Elisa, de Plaa, Jelle, de Vries, Cor P., den Herder, Jan-Willem, Done, Chris, Dotani, Tadayasu et al. 2018. "Detection of polarized gamma-ray emission from the Crab nebula with the Hitomi Soft Gamma-ray Detector ." Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan , 70 113. https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psy118 .
2018
Zhang, Gao-Yuan, Foster, Adam, and Smith, Randall. 2018. "Eigenvalue Method for NEI Unit in FLASH Code ." The Astrophysical Journal , 864 79. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aad692 .
2018
Yamaguchi, Hiroya, Tanaka, Takaaki, Wik, Daniel R., Rho, Jeonghee, Bamba, Aya, Castro, Daniel, Smith, Randall K., Foster, Adam R., Uchida, Hiroyuki, Petre, Robert, and Williams, Brian J. 2018. "Evidence for Rapid Adiabatic Cooling as an Origin of the Recombining Plasma in the Supernova Remnant W49B Revealed by NuSTAR Observations ." The Astrophysical Journal Letters , 868 L35. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aaf055 .
2018
Cappelluti, Nico, Bulbul, Esra, Foster, Adam, Natarajan, Priyamvada, Urry, Megan C., Bautz, Mark W., Civano, Francesca, Miller, Eric, and Smith, Randall K. 2018. "Searching for the 3.5 keV Line in the Deep Fields with Chandra: The 10 Ms Observations ." The Astrophysical Journal , 854 179. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaaa68 .
2018
Pindzola, M. S., Loch, S. D., and Foster, A. R. 2017. "Electron-impact single and double ionization of W ." Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular Physics , 50 095201. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6455/aa66e6 .
2017
Aharonian, F. A., Akamatsu, H., Akimoto, F., Allen, S. W., Angelini, L., Arnaud, K. A., Audard, M., Awaki, H., Axelsson, M., Bamba, A., Bautz, M. W., Blandford, R. D., Bulbul, E., Brenneman, L. W., Brown, G. V., Cackett, E. M., Chernyakova, M., Chiao, M. P., Coppi, P., Costantini, E., de Plaa, J., den Herder, J. -W, Done, C., Dotani, T., Ebisawa, K. et al. 2017. "Hitomi Constraints on the 3.5 keV Line in the Perseus Galaxy Cluster ." The Astrophysical Journal Letters , 837 L15. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aa61fa .
2017
Slavin, Jonathan D., Smith, Randall K., Foster, Adam, Winter, Henry D., Raymond, John C., Slane, Patrick O., and Yamaguchi, Hiroya. 2017. "Numerical Simulations of Supernova Remnant Evolution in a Cloudy Interstellar Medium ." The Astrophysical Journal , 846 77. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8552 .
2017
Henderson, S. S., Bluteau, M., Foster, Adam, Giunta, A., O'Mullane, M. G., Pütterich, T., and Summers, H. P. 2017. "Optimisation and assessment of theoretical impurity line power coefficients relevant to ITER and DEMO ." Plasma Physics and Controlled Fusion , 59 055010. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6587/aa6273 .
2017
Plucinsky, Paul P., Beardmore, Andrew P., Foster, Adam, Haberl, Frank, Miller, Eric D., Pollock, Andrew M. T., and Sembay, Steve. 2017. "SNR 1E 0102.2-7219 as an X-ray calibration standard in the 0.5-1.0 keV bandpass and its application to the CCD instruments aboard Chandra, Suzaku, Swift and XMM-Newton ." Astronomy and Astrophysics , 597 A35. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201628824 .
2017
Franse, Jeroen, Bulbul, Esra, Foster, Adam, Boyarsky, Alexey, Markevitch, Maxim, Bautz, Mark, Iakubovskyi, Dmytro, Loewenstein, Mike, McDonald, Michael, Miller, Eric, Randall, Scott W., Ruchayskiy, Oleg, and Smith, Randall K. 2016. "Radial Profile of the 3.5 keV Line Out to R200 in the Perseus Cluster ." The Astrophysical Journal , 829 124. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/829/2/124 .
2016
Bulbul, Esra, Markevitch, Maxim, Foster, Adam, Miller, Eric, Bautz, Mark, Loewenstein, Mike, Randall, Scott W., and Smith, Randall K. 2016. "Searching for the 3.5 keV Line in the Stacked Suzaku Observations of Galaxy Clusters ." The Astrophysical Journal , 831 55. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/831/1/55 .
2016
Hitomi Collaboration, Aharonian, Felix, Akamatsu, Hiroki, Akimoto, Fumie, Allen, Steven W., Anabuki, Naohisa, Angelini, Lorella, Arnaud, Keith, Audard, Marc, Awaki, Hisamitsu, Axelsson, Magnus, Bamba, Aya, Bautz, Marshall, Blandford, Roger, Brenneman, Laura, Brown, Gregory V., Bulbul, Esra, Cackett, Edward, Chernyakova, Maria, Chiao, Meng, Coppi, Paolo, Costantini, Elisa, de Plaa, Jelle, den Herder, Jan-Willem, Done, Chris et al. 2016. "The quiescent intracluster medium in the core of the Perseus cluster ." Nature , 535 117–121. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature18627 .
2016
Yamaguchi, Hiroya, Badenes, Carles, Foster, Adam R., Bravo, Eduardo, Williams, Brian J., Maeda, Keiichi, Nobukawa, Masayoshi, Eriksen, Kristoffer A., Brickhouse, Nancy S., Petre, Robert, and Koyama, Katsuji. 2015. "A Chandrasekhar Mass Progenitor for the Type Ia Supernova Remnant 3C 397 from the Enhanced Abundances of Nickel and Manganese ." The Astrophysical Journal Letters , 801 L31. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/801/2/L31 .
2015
Auchettl, Katie, Slane, Patrick, Castro, Daniel, Foster, Adam R., and Smith, Randall K. 2015. "Multi-wavelength Analysis of the Galactic Supernova Remnant MSH 11-61A ." The Astrophysical Journal , 810 43. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/810/1/43 .
2015
Bulbul, Esra, Markevitch, Maxim, Foster, Adam, Smith, Randall K., Loewenstein, Michael, and Randall, Scott W. 2014. "Detection of an Unidentified Emission Line in the Stacked X-Ray Spectrum of Galaxy Clusters ." The Astrophysical Journal , 789 13. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/789/1/13 .
2014
Yamaguchi, Hiroya, Eriksen, Kristoffer A., Badenes, Carles, Hughes, John P., Brickhouse, Nancy S., Foster, Adam R., Patnaude, Daniel J., Petre, Robert, Slane, Patrick O., and Smith, Randall K. 2014. "New Evidence for Efficient Collisionless Heating of Electrons at the Reverse Shock of a Young Supernova Remnant ." The Astrophysical Journal , 780 136. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/780/2/136 .
2014
Smith, Randall K., Foster, Adam R., Edgar, Richard J., and Brickhouse, Nancy S. 2014. "Resolving the Origin of the Diffuse Soft X-Ray Background ." The Astrophysical Journal , 787 77. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/787/1/77 .
2014
Zhang, Shuinai, Wang, Q. Daniel, Ji, Li, Smith, Randall K., Foster, Adam R., and Zhou, Xin. 2014. "Spectral Modeling of the Charge-exchange X-Ray Emission from M82 ." The Astrophysical Journal , 794 61. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/794/1/61 .
2014
Plucinsky, Paul P., Beardmore, Andrew P., DePasquale, Joseph M., Dewey, Daniel, Foster, Adam, Haberl, Frank, Miller, Eric D., Pollock, A. M. T., Posson-Brown, Jennifer L. L., Sembay, Steve, and Smith, Randall K. 2012. "Cross-calibration of the x-ray instruments onboard the Chandra, Suzaku, Swift, and XMM- Newton Observatories using the SNR 1E 0102.2-7219 ." Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series , 8443 12. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926506 .
2012
Bulbul, G. Esra, Smith, Randall K., Foster, Adam, Cottam, Jean, Loewenstein, Michael, Mushotzky, Richard, and Shafer, Richard. 2012. "High-resolution XMM-Newton Spectroscopy of the Cooling Flow Cluster A3112 ." The Astrophysical Journal , 747 32. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/747/1/32 .
2012
Takahashi, Tadayuki, Mitsuda, Kazuhisa, Kelley, Richard, Aarts, Henri, Aharonian, Felix, Akamatsu, Hiroki, Akimoto, Fumie, Allen, Steve, Anabuki, Naohisa, Angelini, Lorella, Arnaud, Keith, Asai, Makoto, Audard, Marc, Awaki, Hisamitsu, Azzarello, Philipp, Baluta, Chris, Bamba, Aya, Bando, Nobutaka, Bautz, Mark, Blandford, Roger, Boyce, Kevin, Brown, Greg, Cackett, Ed, Chernyakova, Mara, Coppi, Paolo et al. 2012. "The ASTRO-H X-ray Observatory ." Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series , 8443. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926190 .
2012
Foster, A. R., Ji, L., Smith, Randall K., and Brickhouse, Nancy S. 2012. "Updated Atomic Data and Calculations for X-Ray Spectroscopy ." The Astrophysical Journal , 756 128. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/756/2/128 .
2012
Foster, Adam R. and Testa, Paola. 2011. "Fe IX Calculations for the Solar Dynamics Observatory ." The Astrophysical Journal Letters , 740 L52. https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/740/2/L52 .
2011