Modeling Extreme Mass Ratio Inspirals within the Effective-One-Body Approach (2009)
Yunes, Nicolas, Buonanno, Alessandra, Hughes, Scott A., Miller, M. Coleman, Pan, Yi
We present the first models of extreme-mass-ratio inspirals within the effective-one-body (EOB) formalism, focusing on quasi-circular orbits into non-rotating black holes. We show that the phase...
Bhattacharyya, Sudip, Miller, M. Coleman, Galloway, Duncan K.
Precision measurements of neutron star radii can provide a powerful probe of the properties of cold matter beyond nuclear density. Beginning in the late 1970s it was proposed that the radius could be...
Modeling Flows Around Merging Black Hole Binaries (2009)
Van Meter, James R., Wise, John H., Miller, M. Coleman, Reynolds, Christopher S., Centrella, Joan M., Baker, John G., ...
Coalescing massive black hole binaries are produced by the mergers of galaxies. The final stages of the black hole coalescence produce strong gravitational radiation that can be detected by the...
Exploring intermediate and massive black-hole binaries with the Einstein Telescope (2009)
Gair, Jonathan R., Mandel, Ilya, Miller, M. Coleman, Volonteri, Marta
We discuss the capability of a third-generation ground-based detector such as the Einstein Telescope (ET) to enhance our astrophysical knowledge through detections of gravitational waves emitted by...
kHz Quasi-Periodic Oscillations in the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 0614+09 (2009)
Boutelier, Martin, Barret, Didier, Miller, M. Coleman
We report on a comprehensive analysis of the kilohertz (above 300 Hz) quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) detected from the neutron star low-mass X-ray binary 4U0614+09 with the Rossi X-ray Timing...
Mass Segregation in NGC 2298: limits on the presence of an Intermediate Mass Black Hole (2009)
Pasquato, Mario, Trenti, Michele, De Marchi, Guido, Gill, Michael, Hamilton, Douglas P., Miller, M. Coleman, ...
[abridged] Theoretical investigations have suggested the presence of Intermediate Mass Black Holes (IMBHs, with masses in the 100-10000 Msun range) in the cores of some Globular Clusters (GCs). In...
Probing Stellar Dynamics in Galactic Nuclei (2009)
Miller, M. Coleman, Alexander, Tal, Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Barth, Aaron J., Cutler, Curt, Gair, Jonathan R., ...
Electromagnetic observations over the last 15 years have yielded a growing appreciation for the importance of supermassive black holes (SMBH) to the evolution of galaxies, and for the intricacies of...
Gravitational Waves from Eccentric Intermediate-mass Black Hole Binaries (2009)
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Miller, M. Coleman, Freitag, Marc
f binary intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs; with masses between 100 and 10(4) M-circle dot) form in dense stellar clusters, their inspiral will be detectable with the planned Laser Interferometer...
Reaction of Accretion Disks to Abrupt Mass Loss During Binary Black Hole Merger (2008)
O'Neill, Sean M., Miller, M. Coleman, Bogdanovic, Tamara, Reynolds, Christopher S., Schnittman, Jeremy
The association of an electromagnetic signal with the merger of a pair of supermassive black holes would have many important implications. For example, it would provide new information about gas and...
Intermediate-Mass Black Holes as LISA Sources (2008)
Intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), with masses of hundreds to thousands of solar masses, will be unique sources of gravitational waves for LISA. Here we discuss their context as well as specific...
O'Neill, Sean M., Reynolds, Christopher S., Miller, M. Coleman
We examine the evolution and influence of viscosity-induced diskoseismic modes in simulated black hole accretion disks. Understanding the origin and behavior of such oscillations will help us to...
Lamb, Frederick K., Boutloukos, Stratos, Van Wassenhove, Sandor, Chamberlain, Robert T., Lo, Ka Ho, Miller, M. Coleman
We have shown previously that many properties of accretion-powered millisecond pulsars, including the small oscillation amplitudes and nearly sinusoidal waveforms of most and the large, rapid phase...
Lamb, Frederick K., Boutloukos, Stratos, Van Wassenhove, Sandor, Chamberlain, Robert T., Lo, Ka Ho, Clare, Alexander, ...
Ten accretion-powered millisecond pulsars are now known. We show that many properties of their X-ray oscillations can be understood if the X-ray emitting regions of most are near their spin axes but...
Rates and characteristics of intermediate mass ratio inspirals detectable by advanced LIGO (2008)
Mandel, Ilya, Brown, Duncan A., Gair, Jonathan R., Miller, M. Coleman
Gravitational waves (GWs) from the inspiral of a neutron star (NS) or stellar-mass black hole (BH) into an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) with mass M ~ 50–350 M⊙ may be detectable by the...
Intermediate Mass Black Hole Induced Quenching of Mass Segregation in Star Clusters (2008)
Gill, Michael, Trenti, Michele, Miller, M. Coleman, Van Der Marel, Roeland, Hamilton, Douglas, Stiavelli, Massimo
In many theoretical scenarios it is expected that intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs, with masses M ~ 100-10000 solar masses) reside at the centers of some globular clusters. However, observational...
Reynolds, Christopher S., Miller, M. Coleman
We present a detailed temporal analysis of a set of hydrodynamic and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations of geometrically-thin (h/r~0.05) black hole accretion disks. The black hole potential is...
Mergers of Stellar-Mass Black Holes in Nuclear Star Clusters (2008)
Miller, M. Coleman, Lauburg, Vanessa M.
Mergers between stellar-mass black holes will be key sources of gravitational radiation for ground-based detectors. However, the rates of these events are highly uncertain, given that such systems...
Modeling kicks from the merger of generic black-hole binaries (2008)
Baker, John G., Boggs, William D., Centrella, Joan, Kelly, Bernard J., McWilliams, Sean T., Miller, M. Coleman, ...
Recent numerical relativistic results demonstrate that the merger of comparable-mass spinning black holes has a maximum ``recoil kick'' of up to $\sim 4000 \kms$. However the scaling of these recoil...
Discovery of the upper kilo-Hz QPO from the X-ray transient Aql X-1 (2007)
Barret, Didier, Boutelier, Martin, Miller, M. Coleman
We report on a comprehensive analysis of the kilo-Hz (>~600 Hz) quasi-periodic oscillations (kHz QPOs) detected from the neutron star X-ray transient Aquila X-1 (Aql X-1) with the Rossi X-ray Timing...
Implications of the PSR 1257+12 Planetary System for Isolated Millisecond (2007)
M. Coleman Miller, Douglas P. Hamilton
The first extrasolar planets were discovered in 1992 around the millisecond pulsar PSR 1257+12. We show that recent developments in the study of accretion onto magnetized stars, plus the existence of...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Gair, Jonathan R., Freitag, Marc, Miller, M. Coleman, Mandel, Ilya, Cutler, Curt J., ...
Black hole binaries with extreme (gtrsim104:1) or intermediate (~102–104:1) mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to be detected by the proposed...
Cackett, Edward M., Miller, Jon M., Bhattacharyya, Sudip, Grindlay, Jonathan E., Homan, Jeroen, Van Der Klis, Michiel, ...
Using Suzaku observations of three neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries (Ser X-1, 4U 1820-30 and GX 349+2) we have found broad, asymmetric, relativistic Fe K emission lines in all three objects....
Neutron stars in Einstein-aether theory (2007)
Eling, Christopher, Jacobson, Ted, Miller, M. Coleman
As current and future experiments probe strong gravitational regimes around neutron stars and black holes, it is desirable to have theoretically sound alternatives to general relativity against which...
Rates and Characteristics of Intermediate Mass Ratio Inspirals Detectable by Advanced LIGO (2007)
Mandel, Ilya, Brown, Duncan A., Gair, Jonathan R., Miller, M. Coleman
Gravitational waves (GWs) from the inspiral of a neutron star (NS) or stellar-mass black hole (BH) into an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) with mass between ~50 and ~350 solar masses may be...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Gair, Jonathan R., Freitag, Marc, Miller, M. Coleman, Mandel, Ilya, Cutler, Curt J., ...
Black hole binaries with extreme ($\gtrsim 10^4:1$) or intermediate ($\sim 10^2-10^4:1$) mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to be detected by the...
Alignment of the spins of supermassive black holes prior to coalescence (2007)
Bogdanovic, Tamara, Reynolds, Christopher S., Miller, M. Coleman
Recent numerical relativistic simulations of black hole coalescence suggest that in certain alignments the emission of gravitational radiation can produce a kick of several thousand kilometers per...
Modeling kicks from the merger of non-precessing black-hole binaries (2007)
Baker, John G., Boggs, William D., Centrella, Joan, Kelly, Bernard J., McWilliams, Sean T., Miller, M. Coleman, ...
Several groups have recently computed the gravitational radiation recoil produced by the merger of two spinning black holes. The results suggest that spin can be the dominant contributor to the kick,...
Barret, Didier, Olive, Jean-Francois, Miller, M. Coleman
Analysis of archival RXTE data on neutron stars binaries has shown that for several sources the quality factor (Q) of the lower kilohertz Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPO) drops sharply beyond a...
Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Gair, Jonathan R., Freitag, Marc, Miller, M. Coleman, Mandel, Ilya, Cutler, Curt, ...
Black hole binaries with extreme ($\gtrsim 10^4:1$) or intermediate ($\sim 10^2-10^4:1$) mass ratios are among the most interesting gravitational wave sources that are expected to be detected by the...
Compact Binaries as Sources of Gravitational Radiation (2006)
With current terrestrial gravitational wave detectors working at initial design sensitivities, and upgrades and space missions planned, it is likely that in the next five to ten years gravitational...
The MODEST questions: challenges and future directions in stellar cluster research (2006)
Davies, Melvyn B., Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Bassa, Cees, Dale, Jim, De Angeli, Francesca, Freitag, Marc, ...
We present a review of some of the current major challenges in stellar cluster research, including young clusters, globular clusters, and galactic nuclei. Topics considered include: primordial mass...
Observing IMBH-IMBH Binary Coalescences via Gravitational Radiation (2006)
Fregeau, John M., Larson, Shane L., Miller, M. Coleman, O'Shaughnessy, Richard, Rasio, Frederic A.
Recent numerical simulations have suggested the possibility of forming double intermediate mass black holes (IMBHs) via the collisional runaway scenario in young dense star clusters. The two IMBHs...
The coherence of kHz quasi-periodic oscillations in the X-rays from accreting neutron stars (2006)
Barret, Didier, Olive, Jean-Francois, Miller, M. Coleman
We study in a systematic way the quality factor of the lower and upper kHz QPOs in a sample of low luminosity neutron star X-ray binaries, showing both QPOs varying over a wide frequency range. The...
Getting a kick out of numerical relativity (2006)
Baker, John G., Centrella, Joan, Choi, Dae-Il, Koppitz, Michael, Van Meter, James R., Miller, M. Coleman
Recent developments in numerical relativity have made it possible to follow reliably the coalescence of two black holes from near the innermost stable circular orbit to final ringdown. This opens up...
The MODEST questions: Challenges and future directions in stellar cluster research (2006)
Davies, Melvyn B., Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Bassa, Cees, Dale, Jim, De Angeli, Francesca, Freitag, Marc, ...
We present a review of some of the current major challenges in stellar cluster research, including young clusters, globular clusters, and galactic nuclei. Topics considered include: primordial mass...
The MODEST questions: challenges and future directions in stellar cluster research (2006)
Davies, Melvyn B., Amaro-Seoane, Pau, Bassa, Cees, Dale, Jim, De Angeli, Francesca, Freitag, Marc, ...
We present a review of some of the current major challenges in stellar cluster research, including young clusters, globular clusters, and galactic nuclei. Topics considered include: primordial mass...
Bhattacharyya, Sudip, Miller, M. Coleman, Strohmayer, Tod E., Lamb, Frederick K., Markwardt, Craig B.
We discuss millisecond period brightness oscillations and surface atomic spectral lines observed during type I X-ray bursts from a neutron star in a low mass X-ray binary system. We show that...
Constraints on Alternatives to Supermassive Black Holes (2005)
Observations of the centers of galaxies continue to evolve, and it is useful to take a fresh look at the constraints that exist on alternatives to supermassive black holes at their centers. We...
Barret, Didier, Olive, Jean-Francois, Miller, M. Coleman
Using all available archival data from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), we follow the frequency of the kilo-Hz QPOs in three low luminosity neutron star low mass X-ray binaries; namely 4U...
Three-Body Dynamics with Gravitational Wave Emission (2005)
Gultekin, Kayhan, Miller, M. Coleman, Hamilton, Douglas P.
We present numerical three-body experiments that include the effects of gravitational radiation reaction by using equations of motion that include the 2.5-order post-Newtonian force terms, which are...
Binary Encounters With Supermassive Black Holes: Zero-Eccentricity LISA Events (2005)
Miller, M. Coleman, Freitag, Marc, Hamilton, Douglas P., Lauburg, Vanessa M.
Current simulations of the rate at which stellar-mass compact objects merge with supermassive black holes (called extreme mass ratio inspirals, or EMRIs) focus on two-body capture by emission of...
An abrupt drop in the coherence of the lower kilohertz QPO in 4U 1636-536 (2005)
Barret, Didier, Olive, Jean-Francois, Miller, M. Coleman
Using archival data from the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE), we study in a systematic way the variation of the quality factor and amplitude of the lower and upper kHz quasi-periodic oscillations...
Prompt Mergers of Neutron Stars with Black Holes (2005)
Mergers of neutron stars with black holes have been suggested as candidates for short gamma-ray bursts. They have also been studied for their potential as gravitational wave sources observable with...
Bhattacharyya, Sudip, Miller, M. Coleman, Lamb, Frederick K.
Motivated by the report by Cottam et al. (2002) of iron resonance scattering lines in the spectra of thermonuclear bursts from EXO 0748-676, we have investigated the information about neutron star...
Probing General Relativity With Mergers of Supermassive and Intermediate-Mass Black Holes (2004)
Recent observations and stellar dynamics simulations suggest that thousand solar mass black holes can form in compact massive young star clusters. Any such clusters in the bulge of their host galaxy...
Growth of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters (2004)
Gultekin, Kayhan, Miller, M. Coleman, Hamilton, Douglas P.
We present results of numerical simulations of sequences of binary-single scattering events of black holes in dense stellar environments. The simulations cover a wide range of mass ratios from equal...
Bhattacharyya, Sudip, Strohmayer, Tod E., Miller, M. Coleman, Markwardt, Craig B.
Detailed modeling of the millisecond brightness oscillations during thermonuclear bursts from low mass X-ray binaries can provide important information about neutron star structure. Until now the...
Interpreting QPOs from Accreting Neutron Stars (2003)
The high time resolution and large area of the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer have been essential in the detection and characterization of high-frequency quasi-periodic variability in the flux from...
Intermediate-Mass Black Holes (2003)
Miller, M. Coleman, Colbert, E. J. M
The mathematical simplicity of black holes, combined with their links to some of the most energetic events in the universe, means that black holes are key objects for fundamental physics and...
Sonic-Point and Spin-Resonance Model of the Kilohertz QPO Pairs (2003)
Lamb, Frederick K., Miller, M. Coleman
KHz QPOs have now been detected in more than twenty accreting neutron stars in low-mass binary systems. Two kHz QPOs are usually detected in each star. Burst oscillations and two kHz QPOs have...
Three-Body Encounters of Black Holes in Globular Clusters (2003)
Gultekin, Kayhan, Miller, M. Coleman, Hamilton, Douglas P.
Evidence has been mounting for the existence of black holes with masses from 10^2 to 10^4 M_Solar associated with stellar clusters. Such intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) will encounter other...
Formation Scenarios for Intermediate-Mass Black Holes (2003)
Black holes with hundreds to thousands of solar masses are more massive than can be formed from a single star in the current universe, yet the best candidates for these objects are not located in...
Gravitational Radiation from Intermediate-Mass Black Holes (2002)
Recent X-ray observations of galaxies with ROSAT, ASCA, and Chandra have revealed numerous bright off-center point sources which, if isotropic emitters, are likely to be intermediate-mass black...
Psaltis, Dimitrios, Miller, M. Coleman
The spin periods of the ten observed Anomalous X-ray Pulsars and Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters lie in the very narrow range 6-12 s. We use a point likelihood technique to assess the constraints this...
Four-Body Effects in Globular Cluster Black Hole Coalescence (2002)
Miller, M. Coleman, Hamilton, Douglas P.
In the high density cores of globular clusters, multibody interactions are expected to be common, with the result that black holes in binaries are hardened by interactions. It was shown by Sigurdsson...
Suppression of Gravitational Structure Formation by Cosmological Accretion Heating (2001)
Miller, M. Coleman, Ostriker, Eve C.
As increasingly precise information about the spectrum of the cosmic microwave background fluctuations is gathered with balloon and satellite experiments, interest has grown in foreground sources of...
Production of Intermediate-Mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters (2001)
Miller, M. Coleman, Hamilton, Douglas P.
The discovery of numerous non-nuclear X-ray point sources with luminosities L>10^39 erg/s in several starburst galaxies has stimulated speculation about their nature and origin. The strong...
Implications of the PSR 1257+12 Planetary System for Isolated Millisecond Pulsars (2000)
Miller, M. Coleman, Hamilton, Douglas P.
The first extrasolar planets were discovered in 1992 around the millisecond pulsar PSR 1257+12. We show that recent developments in the study of accretion onto magnetized stars, plus the existence of...
Small-scale structure deduced from X- and gamma-ray timing measurements (2000)
X-ray timing observations of neutron stars and black holes are among the few available probes of ultrastrong magnetic fields, strong gravity, high densities, and the propagation of thermonuclear...
Lamb, Frederick K., Miller, M. Coleman
Previous work on the sonic-point beat-frequency (SPBF) model of the kilohertz quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) observed in the X-ray flux from neutron stars in low-mass binary systems has shown...
Beat-Frequency Models of Kilohertz QPOs (2000)
Kilohertz QPO sources are reasonably well-characterized observationally, but many questions remain about the theoretical framework for these sources and the consequent implications of the...
Attenuation of Beaming Oscillations Near Neutron Stars (2000)
Observations with RXTE have revealed kilohertz quasi-periodic brightness oscillations (QPOs) from nearly twenty different neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries (LMXBs). These frequencies often appear...
Reionization Constraints on the Contribution of Primordial Compact Objects to Dark Matter (2000)
Many lines of evidence suggest that nonbaryonic dark matter constitutes roughly 30% of the critical closure density, but the composition of this dark matter is unknown. One class of candidates for...
Oscillation Waveforms and Amplitudes from Hot Spots on Neutron Stars (2000)
Weinberg, Nevin, Miller, M. Coleman, Lamb, Donald Q.
The discovery of high-amplitude brightness oscillations during type I X-ray bursts from six low-mass X-ray binaries has provided a powerful new tool to study the properties of matter at supranuclear...
Extracting Neutron Star Properties from X-ray Burst Oscillations (1999)
Weinberg, Nevin, Miller, M. Coleman, Lamb, Donald Q.
Many thermonuclear X-ray bursts exhibit brightness oscillations. The brightness oscillations are thought to be due to the combined effects of non-uniform nuclear burning and rotation of the neutron...
The discovery of nearly coherent brightness oscillations during thermonuclear X-ray bursts from six neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries has opened up a new way to study the propagation of...
Psaltis, Dimitrios, Wijnands, Rudy, Homan, Jeroen, Jonker, Peter G., Van Der Klis, Michiel, Miller, M. Coleman, ...
We study the horizontal branch oscillations (HBO) and the two simultaneous kilohertz QPOs comparing their properties in five Z sources with the predictions of the magnetospheric beat-frequency and...
Gravitational Lensing and the Hubble Deep Field (1998)
Cooray, Asantha R., Quashnock, Jean M., Miller, M. Coleman
We calculate the expected number of multiply-imaged galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), using photometric redshift information for galaxies with m_I < 27 that were detected in all four HDF...
Evidence for Antipodal Hot Spots During X-ray Bursts From 4U 1636-536 (1998)
The discovery of high-frequency brightness oscillations in thermonuclear X-ray bursts from several neutron-star low-mass X-ray binaries has important implications for the beat frequency model of...
A Lower Limit on Omega-Lambda Using Gravitational Lensing in the Hubble Deep Field (1998)
Cooray, Asantha R., Quashnock, Jean M., Miller, M. Coleman
We calculate the expected number of multiply-imaged galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field (HDF), using photometric redshift information for galaxies with $m_I < 27$ that were detected in all four HDF...
Miller, M. Coleman, Lamb, Frederick K., Cook, Gregory B.
Quasi-periodic X-ray brightness oscillations (QPOs) with frequencies around a kilohertz have now been discovered in more than a dozen neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binary systems using the Rossi...
Gravitational Lensing Limits on the Average Redshift of Gamma-Ray Bursts (1998)
Holz, Daniel E., Miller, M. Coleman, Quashnock, Jean M.
The lack of bright host galaxies in several recently examined gamma-ray burst (GRB) error boxes suggests that the redshifts of cosmological GRBs may be significantly higher than previously believed....
The Origin of Kilohertz QPOs and Implications for Neutron Stars (1998)
Lamb, Frederick K., Miller, M. Coleman, Psaltis, Dimitrios
One of the most dramatic discoveries made with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer is that many accreting neutron stars in low-mass binary systems produce strong, remarkably coherent, high-frequency...
Rapid X-Ray Variability of Neutron Stars in Low-Mass Binary Systems (1998)
Lamb, Frederick K., Miller, M. Coleman, Psaltis, Dimitrios
The dramatic discovery with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer satellite of remarkably coherent $\sim$300--1200 Hz oscillations in the X-ray brightness of some sixteen neutron stars in low-mass binary...
Effects of Radiation Forces on the Frequency of Gravitomagnetic Precession Near Neutron Stars (1998)
Gravitomagnetic precession near neutron stars and black holes has received much recent attention, particularly as a possible explanation of 15--60 Hz quasi-periodic brightness oscillations (QPOs)...
Miller, M. Coleman, Lamb, Frederick K., Psaltis, Dimitrios
The frequencies of the highest-frequency kilohertz QPOs recently discovered in some sixteen neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binary systems are most likely the orbital frequencies of gas in Keplerian...
Constraints on Neutron Star Masses and Radii from Kilohertz QPOs (1997)
Lamb, Frederick K., Miller, M. Coleman, Psaltis, Dimitrios
The frequencies of the highest-frequency kilohertz QPOs recently discovered in some sixteen neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binary systems are most likely orbital frequencies. If so, these QPOs...
Models of Kilohertz Quasi-Periodic Brightness Oscillations (1997)
The remarkable discovery of kilohertz quasi-periodic brightness oscillations (QPOs) in the accretion-powered emission from some sixteen neutron-star low-mass X-ray binary systems has led to much...
Bounds on the Compactness of Neutron Stars from Brightness Oscillations (1997)
Miller, M. Coleman, Lamb, Frederick K.
The discovery of high-amplitude brightness oscillations at the spin frequency or its first overtone in six neutron stars in low-mass X-ray binaries during type~1 X-ray bursts provides a powerful new...
Sonic-Point Model for High-Frequency QPOs in Neutron Star Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries (1997)
Miller, M. Coleman, Lamb, Frederick K., Psaltis, Dimitrios
Quasi-periodic brightness oscillations (QPOs) with frequencies in the range 300-1200 Hz have been detected from at least nine neutron star low-mass X-ray binaries. Here we summarize the sonic-point...
Optical/near-infrared observations of GRO J1744-28 (1997)
Cole, David M., Van Den Berk, Daniel E., Severson, Scott A., Miller, M. Coleman, Quashnock, J. M., Nichol, Robert C., ...
We present results from a series of optical (g- and r-band) and near-infrared (K'-band) observations of the region of the sky including the entire Rossi X-Ray Tinting Explorer and ROSAT error circles...
Optical/near-infrared observations of GRO J1744-28 (1997)
Cole, David M., Van Den Berk, Daniel E., Severson, Scott A., Miller, M. Coleman, Quashnock, J. M., Nichol, Robert C., ...
We present results from a series of optical (g- and r-band) and near-infrared (K'-band) observations of the region of the sky including the entire Rossi X-Ray Tinting Explorer and ROSAT error circles...
Constraints on the Production of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays by Isolated Neutron Stars (1996)
Venkatesan, Aparna, Miller, M. Coleman, Olinto, Angela V.
The energetics, spectrum, and composition of cosmic rays with energies below about $10^{15}$ eV are fairly well explained by models involving supernova shocks. In contrast, no widely accepted theory...
Spectral Effects of the Vacuum Resonance in Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters (1996)
Bulik, Tomasz, Miller, M. Coleman
The association of all three soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) with supernova remnants has established that SGRs are young neutron stars, and has given us a starting point for detailed modeling. One of...
Magnetized Iron Atmospheres for Neutron Stars (1996)
Rajagopal, Mohan, Romani, Roger W., Miller, M. Coleman
Using a Hartree-Fock formalism, we estimate energy levels and photon cross sections for atomic iron in magnetic fields B ~ 10^13 G. Computing ionization equilibrium and normal mode opacities with...
Miller, M. Coleman, Lamb, Frederick K., Psaltis, Dimitrios
Strong, coherent, quasi-periodic brightness oscillations (QPOs) with frequencies ranging from about 300 Hz to 1200 Hz have been discovered with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer in the X-ray emission...
GRO J1744-28: Last Gasps of a Dying Low-mass X-ray Binary (1996)
Lamb, D. Q., Miller, M. Coleman, Taam, R. E.
We argue that the bursting, transient X-ray source GRO J1744-28 is a binary consisting of a very low-mass ($M \approx 0.2 M_\sun$), highly evolved giant star that is transferring mass by Roche lobe...
Compton scattering effects in the spectra of soft gamma-ray repeaters (1995)
Miller, M. Coleman, Bulik, Tomasz
The association of all three soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) with supernova remnants has made possible estimates of the distance to and luminosity of the sources of SGRs, which have provided a...