Plucinsky, Paul
Fellowship Advisor Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staffPlucinsky, Paul
Fellowship Advisor Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory staffLocal X-ray background; supernova remnants; Interstellar Medium; Nearby Galaxies; X-ray detectors.
Background And Education
Education And Training
Awards And Honors
- Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Award, conferred by Smithsonian Scholarly Studies Awards, 2020
Publications
Selected Publications
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- Kyer, Rebecca, Albrecht, Shelby, Williams, Benjamin F., Hinton, Kyros, Binder, Breanna, Lazzarini, Margaret, Garofali, Kristen, Lehmer, Bret, Eracleous, Michael, Plucinsky, Paul P., and Antoniou, Vallia. 2024. "Monitoring the X-Ray Variability of Bright X-Ray Sources in M33." The Astrophysical Journal, 961 168. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad151a. 2024
- Sano, H., Yamane, Y., van Loon, J. Th, Furuya, K., Fukui, Y., Alsaberi, R. Z. E., Bamba, A., Enokiya, R., Filipović, M. D., Indebetouw, R., Inoue, T., Kawamura, A., Lakićević, M., Law, Charles J., Mizuno, N., Murase, T., Onishi, T., Park, S., Plucinsky, Paul P., Rho, J., Richards, A. M. S., Rowell, G., Sasaki, M., Seok, J., Sharda, P. et al. 2023. "ALMA Observations of Supernova Remnant N49 in the Large Magellanic Cloud. II. Non-LTE Analysis of Shock-heated Molecular Clouds." The Astrophysical Journal, 958 53. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acffbe. 2023
- Banovetz, John, Milisavljevic, Dan, Sravan, Niharika, Weil, Kathryn E., Subrayan, Bhagya, Fesen, Robert A., Patnaude, Daniel J., Plucinsky, Paul P., Law, Charles J., Blair, William P., and Morse, Jon A. 2023. "Hubble Space Telescope Proper Motion Measurements of Supernova Remnant N132D: Center of Expansion and Age." The Astrophysical Journal, 948 33. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/acb8b6. 2023
- Patnaude, Daniel J., Kraft, Ralph P., Kilbourne, Caroline, Bandler, Simon, Bogdan, Akos, Cumbee, Renata, Eckart, Megan, Garraffo, Cecilia, Hodges-Kluck, Edmund, Kelley, Richard, Markevitch, Maxim, Ogorzalek, Anna, Plucinsky, Paul P., Porter, Frederick Scott, Zuhone, John, Zhuravleva, Irina, Drake, Jeremy, Leutenegger, Maurice, Kenyon, Steve, Smith, Stephen, Zhang, Will, DePalo, Steve, Li, Xiaoyi, Williams, Nathan, Amatucci, Edward et al. 2023. "Line Emission Mapper: an X-ray probe mission concept to study the cosmic ecosystems and the physics of galaxy formation." Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 9 041008. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.9.4.041008. 2023
- Porter, Frederick S. and Plucinsky, Paul P. 2023. "Special Section Guest Editorial: The Line Emission Mapper X-ray Observatory." Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, 9 041001. https://doi.org/10.1117/1.JATIS.9.4.041001. 2023
- Long, Xi, Patnaude, Daniel J., Plucinsky, Paul P., and Gaetz, Terrance J. 2022. "The Proper Motion of the Pulsar J1124-5916 in the Galactic Supernova Remnant G292.0 1.8." The Astrophysical Journal, 932 117. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ac704b. 2022
- 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, 162 254. 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, 655 A116. 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. 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. 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." from Society of Photo-Optical Instrumentation Engineers (SPIE) Conference Series. 8859, https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2024541. 2013
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