Foster, Adam
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staff
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- 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, 13. 909, 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. IOP Publishing, 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. IOP Publishing, https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/740/2/L52. 2011
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