Ph.D.
in Physics and Astronomy,
Northwestern University,
Physics and Astronomy,
Thesis: An X-ray Survey for Tidal Disruption Flares in Rich Clusters of Galaxies 2005 - 2012
Primarily supermassive black holes, as well as other extragalactic high energy phenomena. AGN accretion and feedback. Black hole formation and growth. Tidal disruption events and other time domain phenomena. X-ray astronomy and multi-wavelength imaging of narrow line emission. Surveys, monitoring, and high-resolution studies of individual objects.
Maksym, W. Peter, Liodakis, Ioannis, Saade, M. Lynne, Kim, Dawoon E., Middei, Riccardo, Di Gesu, Laura, Kiehlmann, Sebastian, Matzeu, Gabriele, Agudo, Iván, Marscher, Alan P., Ehlert, Steven R., Jorstad, Svetlana G., Kaaret, Philip, Marshall, Herman L., Pacciani, Luigi, Perri, Matteo, Puccetti, Simonetta, Kouch, Pouya M., Lindfors, Elina, Aceituno, Francisco José, Bonnoli, Giacomo, Casanova, Víctor, Escudero, Juan, Gómez, José L., Agís-González, Beatriz et al. 2025. "A Two-week IXPE Monitoring Campaign on Mrk 421." The Astrophysical Journal, 986 230. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/adce6b.
2025
Windhorst, Rogier A., Cohen, Seth H., Jansen, Rolf A., Summers, Jake, Tompkins, Scott, Conselice, Christopher J., Driver, Simon P., Yan, Haojing, Coe, Dan, Frye, Brenda, Grogin, Norman, Koekemoer, Anton, Marshall, Madeline A., O'Brien, Rosalia, Pirzkal, Nor, Robotham, Aaron, Ryan, Russell E., Willmer, Christopher N. A., Carleton, Timothy, Diego, Jose M., Keel, William C., Porto, Paolo, Redshaw, Caleb, Scheller, Sydney, Wilkins, Stephen M. et al. 2023. "JWST PEARLS. Prime Extragalactic Areas for Reionization and Lensing Science: Project Overview and First Results." The Astronomical Journal, 165 13. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/aca163.
2023
Yan, Haojing, Cohen, Seth H., Windhorst, Rogier A., Jansen, Rolf A., Ma, Zhiyuan, Beacom, John F., Ling, Chenxiaoji, Cheng, Cheng, Huang, Jia-Sheng, Grogin, Norman A., Willner, S. P., Yun, Min, Hammel, Heidi B., Milam, Stefanie N., Conselice, Christopher J., Driver, Simon P., Frye, Brenda, Marshall, Madeline A., Koekemoer, Anton, Willmer, Christopher N. A., Robotham, Aaron, D'Silva, Jordan C. J., Summers, Jake, Lim, Jeremy, Harrington, Kevin et al. 2023. "JWST's PEARLS: Bright 1.5-2.0 μm Dropouts in the Spitzer/IRAC Dark Field." The Astrophysical Journal, 942 L8. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/aca974.
2023
Willmer, Christopher N. A., Ly, Chun, Kikuta, Satoshi, Kattner, S. A., Jansen, Rolf A., Cohen, Seth H., Windhorst, Rogier A., Smail, Ian, Tompkins, Scott, Beacom, John F., Cheng, Cheng, Conselice, Christopher J., Frye, Brenda L., Koekemoer, Anton M., Hathi, Nimish, Hyun, Minhee, Im, Myungshin, Willner, S. P., Zhao, Xiurui, Brisken, Walter A., Civano, Francesca, Cotton, William, Hasinger, Günther, Maksym, W. Peter, Rieke, Marcia J. et al. 2023. "PEARLS: Near-infrared Photometry in the JWST North Ecliptic Pole Time Domain Field." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 269 21. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acf57d.
2023
Miller, Jon M., Kaastra, Jelle S., Miller, M. Coleman, Reynolds, Mark T., Brown, Gregory, Cenko, S. Bradley, Drake, Jeremy J., Gezari, Suvi, Guillochon, James, Gultekin, Kayhan, Irwin, Jimmy, Levan, Andrew, Maitra, Dipankar, Maksym, W. Peter, Mushotzky, Richard, O'Brien, Paul, Paerels, Frits, de Plaa, Jelle, Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico, Strohmayer, Tod, and Tanvir, Nial. 2015. "Flows of X-ray gas reveal the disruption of a star by a massive black hole." Nature, 526 542–545. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature15708.
2015