Plucinsky, Paul
Fellowship Advisor
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staff
Local X-ray background; supernova remnants; Interstellar Medium; Nearby Galaxies; X-ray detectors.
Background And Education
awards and honors
- Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2020
Publications
selected publications
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article
- Sano, Hidetoshi, Tsuge, Kisetsu, Tokuda, Kazuki, Muraoka, Kazuyuki, Tachihara, Kengo, Yamane, Yumiko, Kohno, Mikito, Fujita, Shinji, Enokiya, Rei, Rowell, Gavin, Maxted, Nigel, Filipović, Miroslav D., Knies, Jonathan, Sasaki, Manami, Onishi, Toshikazu, Plucinsky, Paul P., and Fukui, Yasuo. 2021. "ALMA CO observations of a giant molecular cloud in M 33: Evidence for high-mass star formation triggered by cloud-cloud collisions." Publications of the Astronomical Society of Japan 73:S62-S74. https://doi.org/10.1093/pasj/psaa045 2021
- Marshall, Herman L., Chen, Yang, Drake, Jeremy J., Guainazzi, Matteo, Kashyap, Vinay L., Meng, Xiao-Li, Plucinsky, Paul P., Ratzlaff, Peter, van Dyk, David A., and Wang, Xufei. 2021. "Concordance: In-flight Calibration of X-Ray Telescopes without Absolute References." The Astronomical Journal, 254. 162, https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-3881/ac230a. 2021
- Lazzarini, Margaret, Williams, Benjamin F., Durbin, Meredith, Dalcanton, Julianne, Antoniou, Vallia, Binder, Breanna A., Eracleous, Michael, Plucinsky, Paul P., Sasaki, Manami, and Vulic, Neven. 2021. "Multiwavelength Characterization of the High-mass X-Ray Binary Population of M31." The Astrophysical Journal 906:120. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abccca 2021
- Suzuki, H., Plucinsky, Paul P., Gaetz, T. J., and Bamba, A. 2021. "Spatial and temporal variations of the Chandra ACIS particle-induced background and development of a spectral-model generation tool." Astronomy and Astrophysics, A116. 655, https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/202141458. 2021
- Binder, Breanna A., Sy, Janelle M., Eracleous, Michael, Christodoulou, Dimitris M., Bhattacharya, Sayantan, Cappallo, Rigel, Laycock, Silas, Plucinsky, Paul P., and Williams, Benjamin F. 2021. "The Wolf-Rayet Black Hole Binary NGC 300 X-1: What is the Mass of the Black Hole?." The Astrophysical Journal 910:74. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abe6a9 2021
- Sano, H., Plucinsky, Paul P., Bamba, A., Sharda, P., Filipovic, M. D., Law, Charles J., Alsaberi, R. Z. E., Yamane, Y., Tokuda, K., Acero, F., Sasaki, M., Vink, J., Inoue, T., Inutsuka, S., Shimoda, J., Tsuge, K., Fujii, K., Voisin, F., Maxted, N., Rowell, G., Onishi, T., Kawamura, A., Mizuno, N., Yamamoto, H., Tachihara, K. et al. 2020. "ALMA CO Observations of Gamma-Ray Supernova Remnant N132D in the Large Magellanic Cloud: Possible Evidence for Shocked Molecular Clouds Illuminated by Cosmic-Ray Protons." The Astrophysical Journal 902:53. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abb469 2020
- Kavanagh, Patrick J., Sasaki, Manami, Breitschwerdt, Dieter, de Avillez, Miguel A., Filipović, Miroslav D., Galvin, Timothy, Haberl, Frank, Hatzidimitriou, Despina, Henze, Martin, Plucinsky, Paul P., Saeedi, Sara, Sokolovsky, Kirill V., and Williams, Benjamin F. 2020. "Deep XMM-Newton observations of the northern disc of M31. II. Tracing the hot interstellar medium." Astronomy and Astrophysics 637:A12. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201937008 2020
- Fukushima, Kotaro, Yamaguchi, Hiroya, Slane, Patrick O., Park, Sangwook, Katsuda, Satoru, Sano, Hidetoshi, Lopez, Laura A., Plucinsky, Paul P., Kobayashi, Shogo B., and Matsushita, Kyoko. 2020. "Element Stratification in the Middle-aged SN Ia Remnant G344.7-0.1." The Astrophysical Journal 897:62. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab94a6 2020
- Xi, Long, Gaetz, Terrance J., and Plucinsky, Paul P. 2020. "On the X-Ray Properties of the Putative Central Compact Object in 1E 0102.2-7219." The Astrophysical Journal 904:70. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abc075 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
- Sharda, Piyush, Gaetz, Terrance J., Kashyap, Vinay L., and Plucinsky, Paul P. 2020. "Spatially Resolved Chandra Spectroscopy of the Large Magellanic Cloud Supernova Remnant N132D." The Astrophysical Journal 894:145. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab8a46 2020
- Law, Charles J., Milisavljevic, Dan, Patnaude, Daniel J., Plucinsky, Paul P., Gladders, Michael D., Schmidt, Judy, Sravan, Niharika, Banovetz, John, Sano, Hidetoshi, McGraw, Jordan M., Takahashi, George, and Orlando, Salvatore. 2020. "Three-dimensional Kinematic Reconstruction of the Optically Emitting, High-velocity, Oxygen-rich Ejecta of Supernova Remnant N132D." The Astrophysical Journal 894:73. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab873a 2020
- Suzuki, Hiromasa, Bamba, Aya, Enokiya, Rei, Yamaguchi, Hiroya, Plucinsky, Paul P., and Odaka, Hirokazu. 2020. "Uniform Distribution of the Extremely Overionized Plasma Associated with the Supernova Remnant G359.1-0.5." The Astrophysical Journal 893:147. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab80ba 2020
- Antoniou, Vallia, Zezas, Andreas, Drake, Jeremy J., Badenes, Carles, Haberl, Frank, Wright, Nicholas J., Hong, Jaesub, Di Stefano, Rosanne, Gaetz, Terrance J., Long, Knox S., Plucinsky, Paul P., Sasaki, Manami, Williams, Benjamin F., Winkler, P. Frank, and SMC XVP collaboration. 2019. "Deep Chandra Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud. III. Formation Efficiency of High-mass X-Ray Binaries." The Astrophysical Journal 887:20. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab4a7a 2019
- Xi, Long, Gaetz, Terrance J., Plucinsky, Paul P., Hughes, John P., and Patnaude, Daniel J. 2019. "The Expansion of the Forward Shock of 1E 0102.2-7219 in X-Rays." The Astrophysical Journal 874:14. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab09ea 2019
- West, Lacey A., Lehmer, Bret D., Wik, Daniel, Yang, Jun, Walton, Dominic J., Antoniou, Vallia, Haberl, Frank, Hornschemeier, Ann, Maccarone, Thomas J., Plucinsky, Paul P., Ptak, Andrew, Williams, Benjamin F., Vulic, Neven, Yukita, Mihoko, and Zezas, Andreas. 2018. "On the Nature of the X-Ray Emission from the Ultraluminous X-Ray Source, M33 X-8: New Constraints from NuSTAR and XMM-Newton." The Astrophysical Journal 869:111. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aaec6b 2018
- Knies, Jonathan R., Sasaki, Manami, and Plucinsky, Paul P. 2018. "Suzaku observations of the Monogem Ring and the origin of the Gemini H alpha ring." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 477:4414-4422. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/sty915 2018
- Hong, Jaesub, Antoniou, Vallia, Zezas, Andreas, Haberl, Frank, Sasaki, Manami, Drake, Jeremy J., Plucinsky, Paul P., and Laycock, Silas. 2017. "Deep Chandra Survey of the Small Magellanic Cloud. II. Timing Analysis of X-Ray Pulsars." The Astrophysical Journal 847:26. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa8953 2017
- Temim, Tea, Slane, Patrick, Plucinsky, Paul P., Gelfand, Joseph, Castro, Daniel, and Kolb, Christopher. 2017. "Proper Motion of the High-velocity Pulsar in SNR MSH 15-56." The Astrophysical Journal 851:128. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/aa9d41 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
- Garofali, Kristen, Williams, Benjamin F., Plucinsky, Paul P., Gaetz, Terrance J., Wold, Brian, Haberl, Frank, Long, Knox S., Blair, William P., Pannuti, Thomas G., Winkler, P. Frank, and Gross, Jacob. 2017. "Supernova remnants in M33: X-ray properties as observed by XMM-Newton." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 472:308-333. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx1905 2017
- Binder, B., Gross, J., Williams, B. F., Eracleous, M., Gaetz, T. J., Plucinsky, Paul P., and Skillman, E. D. 2017. "The Effect of Variability on X-Ray Binary Luminosity Functions: Multiple-epoch Observations of NGC 300 with Chandra." The Astrophysical Journal 834:128. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/834/2/128 2017
- Binder, B., Williams, B. F., Kong, A. K. H., Gaetz, T. J., Plucinsky, Paul P., Skillman, E. D., and Dolphin, A. 2016. "Recurring X-ray outbursts in the supernova impostor SN 2010da in NGC 300." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 457:1636-1643. https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stw119 2016
- Hong, Jaesub, Antoniou, Vallia, Zezas, Andreas, Haberl, Frank, Drake, Jeremy J., Plucinsky, Paul P., Gaetz, Terrance, Sasaki, Manami, Williams, Benjamin, Long, Knox S., Blair, William P., Winkler, P. Frank, Wright, Nicholas J., Laycock, Silas, and Udalski, Andrzej. 2016. "SXP 214: An X-Ray Pulsar in the Small Magellanic Cloud, Crossing the Circumstellar Disk of the Companion." The Astrophysical Journal 826:4. https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/4 2016
- Williams, Benjamin F., Wold, Brian, Haberl, Frank, Garofali, Kristen, Blair, William P., Gaetz, Terrance J., Kuntz, K. D., Long, Knox S., Pannuti, Thomas G., Pietsch, Wolfgang, Plucinsky, Paul P., and Winkler, P. Frank. 2015. "A Deep XMM-Newton Survey of M33: Point-source Catalog, Source Detection, and Characterization of Overlapping Fields." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 218:9. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/218/1/9 2015
- Blair, William P., Winkler, P. Frank, Long, Knox S., Whitmore, Bradley C., Kim, Hwihyun, Soria, Roberto, Kuntz, K. D., Plucinsky, Paul P., Dopita, Michael A., and Stockdale, Christopher. 2015. "A Newly Recognized Very Young Supernova Remnant in M83." The Astrophysical Journal 800:118. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/800/2/118 2015
- Binder, B., Williams, B. F., Eracleous, M., Plucinsky, Paul P., Gaetz, T. J., Anderson, S. F., Skillman, E. D., Dalcanton, J. J., Kong, A. K. H., and Weisz, D. R. 2015. "The Chandra Local Volume Survey. I. The X-Ray Point Source Populations of NGC 55, NGC 2403, and NGC 4214." The Astronomical Journal 150:94. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-6256/150/3/94 2015
- Soria, Roberto, Kuntz, K. D., Long, Knox S., Blair, William P., Plucinsky, Paul P., and Winkler, P. Frank. 2015. "The Slim-disk State of the Ultraluminous X-Ray Source in M83." The Astrophysical Journal 799:140. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/799/2/140 2015
- Long, Knox S., Kuntz, Kip D., Blair, William P., Godfrey, Leith, Plucinsky, Paul P., Soria, Roberto, Stockdale, Christopher, and Winkler, P. Frank. 2014. "A Deep Chandra ACIS Survey of M83." The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 212:21. https://doi.org/10.1088/0067-0049/212/2/21 2014
- Sasaki, M., Plucinsky, Paul P., Gaetz, T. J., and Bocchino, F. 2013. "Chandra observation of the Galactic supernova remnant CTB 109 (G109.1-1.0)." Astronomy and Astrophysics 552:45. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201220836 2013
- Temim, Tea, Slane, Patrick O., Castro, Daniel, Plucinsky, Paul P., Gelfand, Joseph, and Dickel, John R. 2013. "High-energy Emission from the Composite Supernova Remnant MSH 15-56." The Astrophysical Journal 768:61. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/768/1/61 2013
- 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
- Long, Knox S., Blair, William P., Godfrey, L. E. H., Kuntz, K. D., Plucinsky, Paul P., Soria, Roberto, Stockdale, Christopher J., Whitmore, Bradley C., and Winkler, P. Frank. 2012. "Recovery of the Historical SN1957D in X-Rays with Chandra." The Astrophysical Journal 756:18. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/756/1/18 2012
- Binder, B., Williams, B. F., Eracleous, M., Gaetz, T. J., Plucinsky, Paul P., Skillman, E. D., Dalcanton, J. J., Anderson, S. F., Weisz, D. R., and Kong, A. K. H. 2012. "The Chandra Local Volume Survey: The X-Ray Point-source Catalog of NGC 300." The Astrophysical Journal 758:15. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/758/1/15 2012
- Petre, R., Bregman, J., Bautz, M., Burrows, D., Cash, W., Jones-Forman, C., Murray, S., Plucinsky, Paul P., Ramsey, B., Remillard, R., Wilson-Hodge, C., Ptak, A., Bookbinder, J., Garcia, M., Smith, R., and Daelemans, G. 2012. "The NASA X-ray Mission concepts study." Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series 8443:https://doi.org/10.1117/12.926212 2012
- Binder, B., Williams, B. F., Eracleous, M., Seth, A. C., Dalcanton, J. J., Skillman, E. D., Weisz, D. R., Anderson, S. F., Gaetz, T. J., and Plucinsky, Paul P. 2011. "A Deep Chandra View of the NGC 404 Central Engine." The Astrophysical Journal 737:77. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/737/2/77 2011
- Binder, B., Williams, B. F., Kong, A. K. H., Gaetz, T. J., Plucinsky, Paul P., Dalcanton, J. J., and Weisz, D. R. 2011. "Chandra Detection of SN 2010da Four Months After Outburst: Evidence for a High-mass X-Ray Binary in NGC 300." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 739, L51. IOP Publishing, https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/739/2/L51. 2011
- Tsujimoto, M., Guainazzi, M., Plucinsky, Paul P., Beardmore, A. P., Ishida, M., Natalucci, L., Posson-Brown, J. L. L., Read, A. M., Saxton, R. D., and Shaposhnikov, N. V. 2011. "Cross-calibration of the X-ray instruments onboard the Chandra, INTEGRAL, RXTE, Suzaku, Swift, and XMM-Newton observatories using G21.5-0.9." Astronomy and Astrophysics 525:25. https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201015597 2011
- Eriksen, Kristoffer A., Hughes, John P., Badenes, Carles, Fesen, Robert, Ghavamian, Parviz, Moffett, David, Plucinsky, Paul P., Rakowski, Cara E., Reynoso, Estela M., and Slane, Patrick O. 2011. "Evidence for Particle Acceleration to the Knee of the Cosmic Ray Spectrum in Tycho's Supernova Remnant." The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 728, (2), L28. IOP Publishing. 2011
- Koutroumpa, Dimitra, Smith, Randall K., Edgar, Richard J., Kuntz, Kip D., Plucinsky, Paul P., and Snowden, Steven L. 2011. "XMM-Newton Observations of MBM 12: More Constraints on the Solar Wind Charge Exchange and Local Bubble Emissions." The Astrophysical Journal 726:91. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/726/2/91 2011
- Tüllmann, R., Plucinsky, Paul P., Gaetz, T. J., Slane, P., Hughes, J. P., Harrus, I., and Pannuti, T. G. 2010. "Searching for the Pulsar in G18.95-1.1: Discovery of an X-ray Point Source and Associated Synchrotron Nebula with Chandra." The Astrophysical Journal 720:848-852. https://doi.org/10.1088/0004-637X/720/1/848 2010
- Tüllmann, Ralph, Long, Knox S., Pannuti, Thomas G., Winkler, P. F., Plucinsky, Paul P., Gaetz, Terrance J., Williams, Ben, Kuntz, Kip D., Pietsch, Wolfgang, Blair, William P., Haberl, Frank, and Smith, Randall K. 2009. "Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33): The Enigmatic X-Ray Emission from IC131." The Astrophysical Journal 707:1361-1371. 2009
- Pietsch, Wolfgang, Haberl, Frank, Gaetz, Terrance J., Hartman, Joel D., Plucinsky, Paul P., Tllmann, Ralph, Williams, Benjamin F., Shporer, Avi, Mazeh, Tsevi, and Pannuti, Thomas G. 2009. "Detection of the Second Eclipsing High-Mass X-Ray Binary in M 33." The Astrophysical Journal 694:449-458. 2009
- Tüllmann, Ralph, Gaetz, Terrance J., Plucinsky, Paul P., Long, Knox S., Hughes, John P., Blair, William P., Winkler, P. Frank, Pannuti, Thomas G., Breitschwerdt, Dieter, and Ghavamian, Parviz. 2008. "The Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33): Investigating the Hot Ionized Medium in NGC 604." The Astrophysical Journal 685:919-932. https://doi.org/10.1086/591019 2008
- Williams, Benjamin F., Gaetz, Terrance J., Haberl, Frank, Pietsch, Wolfgang, Shporer, Avi, Ghavamian, Parviz, Plucinsky, Paul P., Mazeh, T., Sasaki, Manami, and Pannuti, Thomas G. 2008. "The Chandra ACIS Survey of M33 (ChASeM33): Transient X-Ray Sources Discovered in M33." The Astrophysical Journal 680:1120-1131. 2008
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conference paper
- O'Dell, Stephen L., Swartz, Douglas A., Tice, Neil W., Plucinsky, Paul P., Grant, Catherine E., Marshall, Herman L., Vikhlinin, Alexey A., and Tennant, Allyn F. 2013. "Modeling contamination migration on the Chandra X-ray Observatory II." In , , https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024541 2013
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- Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory Academic Department
