McCollough, Michael
Dr.
X-ray binaries; microquasars; high-energy astrophysics; multi-wavelength studies; X-ray astronomy; gamma-ray astronomy; supernova remnants
Background And Education
Education And Training
- B.S., Auburn University
- M.S., Auburn University
- Ph.D., Indiana University
Publications
Selected Publications
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Article
- Albacete-Colombo, J. F., Drake, J. J., Flaccomio, E., Wright, N. J., Kashyap, V., Guarcello, M. G., Briggs, K., Drew, J. E., Fenech, D. M., Micela, G., McCollough, Michael, Prinja, R. K., Schneider, N., Sciortino, S., and Vink, J. S. 2023. "Diffuse X-Ray Emission in the Cygnus OB2 Association." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 269 14. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acdd65. 2023
- Dickey, John M., Vrtilek, S. D., McCollough, Michael, Boroson, Bram, Tomsick, John A., Bailyn, Charles, Blanchard, Jay M., and Johnson, Charlotte. 2023. "Spectral Energy Distributions of Southern Binary X-Ray Sources." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 268 35. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ace4b9. 2023
- Flaccomio, E., Albacete-Colombo, J. F., Drake, J. J., Guarcello, M. G., Kashyap, V., Wright, N. J., Briggs, K., Ercolano, B., McCollough, Michael, and Sciortino, S. 2023. "X-Ray Spectral Characterization of the Young Cygnus OB2 Population." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 269 12. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/acdd66. 2023
- Dickey, John M., Weston, J. H. S., Sokoloski, J. L., Vrtilek, Saeqa D., and McCollough, Michael. 2021. "Radio Spectral Index Analysis of Southern Hemisphere Symbiotic Stars." The Astrophysical Journal, 911 30. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abe774. 2021
- Kim, Dong-Woo, Traynor, Liam, Paggi, Alessandro, O'Sullivan, Ewan, Anderson, Craig, Burke, Douglas, D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Fruscione, Antonella, Lauer, Jennifer, McCollough, Michael, Morgan, Douglas, Mossman, Amy, Vrtilek, Saeqa, and Trinchieri, Ginevra. 2020. "Temperature profiles of hot gas in early-type galaxies." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 492 2095–2118. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stz3530. 2020
- Kim, Dong-Woo, Anderson, Craig S., Burke, Douglas J., D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Fruscione, Antonella, Lauer, Jennifer, McCollough, Michael, Morgan, Douglas, Mossman, Amy, O'Sullivan, Ewan, Paggi, Alessandro, Vrtilek, Saeqa, and Trinchieri, Ginevra. 2019. "Chandra Early-type Galaxy Atlas." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 241 36. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4365/ab0ca4. 2019
- Kallman, T., McCollough, Michael, Koljonen, K., Liedahl, D., Miller, J., Paerels, F., Pooley, G., Sako, M., Schulz, N., Trushkin, S., and Corrales, L. 2019. "Photoionization Emission Models for the Cyg X-3 X-Ray Spectrum." The Astrophysical Journal, 874 51. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab09f8. 2019
- Kim, Dong-Woo, Anderson, Craig, Burke, Doug, Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Fruscione, Antonella, Lauer, Jen, McCollough, Michael, Morgan, Doug, Mossman, Amy, O'Sullivan, Ewan, Paggi, Alessandro, Vrtilek, Saeqa, and Trinchieri, Ginevra. 2018. "Disturbed Fossil Group Galaxy NGC 1132." The Astrophysical Journal, 853 129. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaa43a. 2018
- Brauer, Kaley, Vrtilek, Saeqa Dil, Peris, Charith, and McCollough, Michael. 2018. "Phase-resolved spectroscopy of the low-mass X-ray binary V801 Ara." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 478 4894–4904. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty1429. 2018
- Paggi, Alessandro, Kim, Dong-Woo, Anderson, Craig, Burke, Doug, D'Abrusco, Raffaele, Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Fruscione, Antonella, Gokas, Tara, Lauer, Jen, McCollough, Michael, Morgan, Doug, Mossman, Amy, O'Sullivan, Ewan, Trinchieri, Ginevra, Vrtilek, Saeqa, Pellegrini, Silvia, Romanowsky, Aaron J., and Brodie, Jean. 2017. "Constraining the Physical State of the Hot Gas Halos in NGC 4649 and NGC 5846." The Astrophysical Journal, 844 5. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa7897. 2017
- McCollough, Michael L., Corrales, L., and Dunham, M. M. 2016. "Cygnus X-3: Its Little Friend's Counterpart, the Distance to Cygnus X-3, and Outflows/Jets." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 830 L36. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8205/830/2/L36. 2016
- Koljonen, K. I. I., McCollough, Michael L., Hannikainen, D. C., and Droulans, R. 2013. "2006 May-July major radio flare episodes in Cygnus X-3: spectrotiming analysis of the X-ray data." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 429 1173–1188. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sts404. 2013
- McCollough, Michael L., Smith, Randall K., and Valencic, L. A. 2013. "Cygnus X-3's Little Friend." The Astrophysical Journal, 762 2. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/762/1/2. 2013
- Archambault, S., Beilicke, M., Benbow, Wystan, Berger, K., Bird, R., Bouvier, A., Buckley, J. H., Bugaev, V., Byrum, K., Cerruti, M., Chen, X., Ciupik, L., Connolly, M. P., Cui, W., Duke, C., Dumm, J., Errando, M., Falcone, A., Federici, S., Feng, Q., Finley, J. P., Fortson, L., Furniss, A., Galante, N., Gillanders, G. H. et al. 2013. "VERITAS Observations of the Microquasar Cygnus X-3." The Astrophysical Journal, 779 150. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/779/2/150. 2013
- Bulgarelli, A., Tavani, M., Chen, A. W., Evangelista, Y., Trifoglio, M., Gianotti, F., Piano, G., Sabatini, S., Striani, E., Pooley, G., Trushkin, S., Nizhelskij, N. A., McCollough, Michael L., Koljonen, K. I. I., Hannikainen, D., Lähteenmäki, A., Tammi, J., Lavonen, N., Steeghs, D., Aboudan, A., Argan, A., Barbiellini, G., Campana, R., Caraveo, P., Cattaneo, P. W. et al. 2012. "AGILE detection of Cygnus X-3 γ-ray active states during the period mid-2009/mid-2010." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 538. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201016129. 2012
- Primini, Francis A., Houck, John C., Davis, John E., Nowak, Michael A., Evans, Ian N., Glotfelty, Kenny J., Anderson, Craig S., Bonaventura, Nina R., Chen, Judy C., Doe, Stephen M., Evans, Janet D., Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Galle, Elizabeth C., Gibbs, Danny G., Grier, John D., Hain, Roger M., Hall, Diane M., Harbo, Peter N., Helen He, Xiangqun, Karovska, Margarita, Kashyap, Vinay L., Lauer, Jennifer, McCollough, Michael L., McDowell, Jonathan C., Miller, Joseph B. et al. 2011. "Statistical Characterization of the Chandra Source Catalog." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 194 37. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/194/2/37. 2011
- Koljonen, K. I. I., Hannikainen, D. C., and McCollough, Michael L. 2011. "The re-occurrence of mHz quasi-periodic oscillations in Cygnus X-3." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 416 L84–L88. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-3933.2011.01104.x. 2011
- Evans, Ian N., Primini, Francis A., Glotfelty, Kenny J., Anderson, Craig S., Bonaventura, Nina R., Chen, Judy C., Davis, John E., Doe, Stephen M., Evans, Janet D., Fabbiano, Giuseppina, Galle, Elizabeth C., Gibbs, Danny G., Grier, John D., Hain, Roger M., Hall, Diane M., Harbo, Peter N., Helen He, Xiangqun, Houck, John C., Karovska, Margarita, Kashyap, Vinay L., Lauer, Jennifer, McCollough, Michael L., McDowell, Jonathan C., Miller, Joseph B., Mitschang, Arik W. et al. 2010. "The Chandra Source Catalog." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 189 37–82. 2010
- Koljonen, K. I. I., Hannikainen, D. C., McCollough, Michael L., Pooley, G. G., and Trushkin, S. A. 2010. "The hardness-intensity diagram of Cygnus X-3: revisiting the radio/X-ray states." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 406 307–319. 2010
- Tavani, M., Bulgarelli, A., Piano, G., Sabatini, S., Striani, E., Evangelista, Y., Trois, A., Pooley, G., Trushkin, S., Nizhelskij, N. A., McCollough, Michael L., Koljonen, K. I. I., Pucella, G., Giuliani, A., Chen, A. W., Costa, E., Vittorini, V., Trifoglio, M., Gianotti, F., Argan, A., Barbiellini, G., Caraveo, P., Cattaneo, P. W., Cocco, V., Contessi, T. et al. 2009. "Extreme particle acceleration in the microquasar CygnusX-3." Nature, 462 620–623. 2009
- Vilhu, O., Hakala, P., Hannikainen, D. C., McCollough, Michael L., and Koljonen, K. 2009. "Orbital modulation of X-ray emission lines in Cygnus X-3." Astronomy and Astrophysics, 501 679–686. 2009
- Hannikainen, D. C., Hunstead, R. W., Wu, K., McIntyre, V., Lovell, J. E. J., Campbell-Wilson, D., McCollough, Michael L., Reynolds, J., and Tzioumis, A. K. 2009. "Revisiting the relativistic ejection event in XTE J1550-564 during the 1998 outburst." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 397 569–576. 2009
- Szostek, Anna, Zdziarski, Andrzej A., and McCollough, Michael L. 2008. "A classification of the X-ray and radio states of Cyg X-3 and their long-term correlations." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 388 1001–1010. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.13479.x. 2008
- Hjalmarsdotter, L., Zdziarski, A. A., Larsson, S., Beckmann, V., McCollough, Michael L., Hannikainen, D. C., and Vilhu, O. 2008. "The nature of the hard state of Cygnus X-3." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 384 278–290. 2008
Contact
Location
- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Academic Department