DAVID KAPLAN
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email: kaplan@gravity.phys.uwm.edu Leonard
E. Parker Center for Gravitation, Cosmology, and Astrophysics |
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I am an Assistant Professor in the
Department of Physics at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. My
research concerns multi-wavelength (radio, infrared, optical, X-ray)
observations of a variety of types of young neutron stars such as
isolated, thermally emitting neutron stars and magnetars. I am also
working on detecting radio transients with the Murchison Widefield
Array and new binaries with the Palomar Transient Factory |
Astronomy:
- Current and past research
- My papers: preprints and reprints
- Recent talks
- CV: postscript | pdf | HTML
- A Pulsar Card for the GBT: the Pulsar Spigot (also see Spigot Papers)
- Quick reference page
Teaching:
- Spring 2013:
Astronomy 104
- Spring 2013:
Physics 718
- Fall 2012:
Astronomy 400
- Fall 2011:
Astronomy 299/Letters and Sciences 295
- Fall 2010:
Astronomy 300
Advising:
- UWM Students for the Exploration and Development of Space (SEDS): Facebook, wiki:
- Astronomy Club: wiki
Selected Publications:
- A Metal-rich Low-gravity Companion to a Massive Millisecond Pulsar (D. L. Kaplan et al. 2013, ApJ, 765, 158)
- Comparing H-alpha and HI Surveys as Means to a Complete Local Galaxy Catalog in the Advanced LIGO/Virgo Era (B. D. Metzger, D. L. Kaplan, and E. Berger 2012, ApJ, 764, 149)
- Low Frequency Observations of the Moon with the Murchison Widefield Array (B. McKinley, F. Briggs, D. L. Kaplan et al. 2013, AJ, 145, 23)
- Discovery of the Optical/Ultraviolet/Gamma-ray Counterpart to the Eclipsing Millisecond Pulsar J1816+4510 (D. L. Kaplan, et al. 2012, ApJ, 753, 174)
- The X-ray Counterpart of the High-B Pulsar PSR J0726-2612 (J. S. Speagle, D. L. Kaplan, and M. H. van Kerkwijk 2011, ApJ, 743, 183)
- New Optical/UV Counterparts and the Spectral Energy Distributions of Nearby, Thermally Emitting, Isolated Neutron Stars (D. L. Kaplan, A. Kamble, M. H. van Kerkwijk, and W. C. G. Ho 2011, ApJ, 736, 117)
- Blindly Detecting Merging Supermassive Black Holes with Radio Surveys (D. L. Kaplan, R. O'Shaughnessy, A. Sesana, and M. Volonteri 2011, ApJ, 734, L37)
- Mass Constraints from Eclipse Timing in Double White Dwarf Binaries (D. L. Kaplan 2010, ApJ, 717, L108)
- Discovery of the Eclipsing Detached Double White Dwarf Binary NLTT 11748 (J. D. R. Steinfadt, D. L. Kaplan, A. Shporor, L. Bildsten, and S. B. Howell 2010, ApJ, 716, L146)
- Constraining the Spin-down of the Nearby Isolated Neutron Star RX J0806.4-4123, and Implications for the Population of Nearby Neutron Stars (D. L. Kaplan and M. H. van Kerkwijk 2009, 705, 798)
- Nearby, Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars (D. L. Kaplan, invited review at "40 YEARS OF PULSARS: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars and More." 2008 AIP Conference Proceedings, 983, 331)
- A Precise Proper Motion for the Crab Pulsar, and the Difficulty of Testing Spin-Kick Alignment for Young Neutron Stars (D. L. Kaplan, S. Chatterjee, B. M. Gaensler, and J. Anderson 2008, ApJ, 677, 1201)
- Timing the Nearby Isolated Neutron Star RX J1856.5-3754 (van Kerkwijk and Kaplan 2008, ApJL, 673, 163)
- Lost and Found: A New Position and Infrared Counterpart for the X-ray Binary Scutum X-1 (Kaplan et al. 2007, ApJ, 661, 437)
- The Distance
to the Isolated Neutron Star RX J0720.4-3125 (Kaplan, van Kerkwijk,
and Anderson 2007, ApJ, 660, 1428)
- Spectral
and
Rotational
Changes in the Isolated Neutron Star RX J0720.4-3125
(van Kerkwijk, Kaplan, Pavlov, and Mori 2007, ApJ, 659, L149)
- Long-Wavelength
Excesses
in
Two Highly-obscured High-Mass X-ray Binaries: Evidence for
Circumstellar Dust (Kaplan, Moon, and Reach 2006, ApJ, 649, L107)
- A
debris
disk
around an isolated young neutron star (Wang,
Chakrabarty, & Kaplan 2006, Nature, 440, 772)
- The
GBT
Pulsar
Spigot (Kaplan et al. 2005, PASP, 117, 643)
- An
X-ray
Search
for Compact Central Sources in Supernova Remnants I: SNRs
G093.3+6.9, G315.4-2.3, G084.2+0.8, & G127.1+0.5 (Kaplan et
al. 2004, ApJS, 153, 269)