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DAVID KAPLAN

email: kaplan@gravity.phys.uwm.edu
phone: 414-229-4971
fax: 414-229-5589

Dept. of Physics, Room 480
University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee
P.O. Box 413, Milwaukee
WI 53201 USA

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.

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:

Selected Publications:

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)
Constraining the Spin-Down of the Nearby Isolated Neutron Star RX J2143.0+0654 (D. L. Kaplan and M. H. van Kerkwijk 2009, ApJ, 629, L62)
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)

thanks to D. Erb for design help