Associate Research Scientist
Columbia Astrophysics Laboratory
Columbia University
550 West 120th Street
New York, NY 10027
E-mail: slavko at astro.columbia.edu
URL: www.slavko.org
Research
- Neutron stars: multiwavelength (X-ray, optical, radio,..) timing & spectroscopy of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars, X-ray/optical studies of neutron stars in globular clusters, modeling thermal emission from rotation-powered pulsars, measurement of neutron star compactness and constraints on equation of state (more...)
- Pulsar Arecibo L-band Feed Array (PALFA) Galactic plane survey
Education
- PhD in Astronomy, Harvard University (2008)
- Thesis: "X-ray Emission from Millisecond Pulsars"
- AM in Astronomy, Harvard University (2004)
- B.S. with Honors and Distinction in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University (2002)
Publications
- "A Chandra X-Ray Observation of the Binary Millisecond Pulsar PSR J1023+0038" Bogdanov, S., Archibald, A. M., Hessels, J. W. T., Kaspi, V. M., Lorimer, D., McLaughlin, M. A., Ransom, S. M., Stairs, I. H. 2011, ApJ, 742, 97
- "Arecibo PALFA Survey and Einstein@Home: Binary Pulsar Discovery by Volunteer Computing" Knispel, B. et al. 2011, ApJ, 732, 1
- "Chandra X-ray Observations of 12 Millisecond Pulsars in the Globular Cluster M28" Bogdanov, S., van den Berg, M., Servillat, M., Heinke, C. O., Grindlay, J. E., Stairs, I. H., Ransom, S. M, Freire, P. C. C., Begin, S., Becker, W. 2011, ApJ, 730, 81
- "Identification of Faint Chandra X-ray Sources in the Core-Collapsed Globular Cluster NGC 6397: Evidence for a Bimodal Cataclysmic Variable Population" Cohn, H. N., Lugger,
P. M., Couch, S. M., Anderson, J., Cool, A. M., van den Berg, M., Bogdanov, S.,
Heinke, C. O., Grindlay, J. E. 2010, ApJ, 722, 20
- "X-ray Observations of a Unique Radio
Pulsar/X-ray Binary Transition Object" Archibald, A., Kaspi, V. M.,
Bogdanov. S, Hessels, J. W. T., Stairs, I. H., Ransom, S. M.,
McLaughlin, M. A., Lorimer, D. 2010, ApJ, 722, 88
- "Pulsar Discovery by Global Volunteer Computing" Knispel, B. et al. 2010, Science, 329, 1305
- "A Chandra X-ray Observatory Study of PSR J1740-5340 and Candidate Millisecond Pulsars in the Globular Cluster NGC 6397" Bogdanov, S., van den Berg, M., Heinke, C. O., Cohn, H. N., Lugger, P. M., Grindlay, J. E., 2010, ApJ, 709, 241
- "Deep XMM-Newton Observations of the Isolated Millisecond Pulsar PSR J0030+0451" Bogdanov, S., Grindlay, J. E. 2009, ApJ, 703, 1557
- "Arecibo Pulsar Survey Using ALFA: Probing Radio Pulsar Intermittency and Transients" Deneva, J. S., et al. 2009, ApJ, 703, 2259
- “Thermal X-rays from Millisecond Pulsars: Unveiling the Fundamental Properties of Neutron Stars” Bogdanov, S., Grindlay, J. E., Rybicki, G. B. 2008, ApJ, 689, 407
- "Chandra X-Ray Observatory Observations of the Globular Cluster M71" Elsner, R. F., Heinke, C. O., Cohn, H. N., Lugger, P. M., Maxwell, J. E., Stairs, I. H., Ransom, S. M., Hessels, J. W. T., Becker, W., Huang, R. H. H., Edmonds, P. D., Grindlay, J. E., Bogdanov, S., Ghosh, K., Weisskopf, M. C. 2008, ApJ, 687, 1019
- “An X-ray View of Radio Millisecond Pulsars” Bogdanov, S., Grindlay, J. E. 40 Years of Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars and More. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 983, pp. 64-68 (2008)
- “Constraints on Neutron Star Properties from X-ray Observations of Millisecond Pulsars” Bogdanov, S., Rybicki, G. B., Grindlay, J. E. 2007, ApJ, 670, 668
- “X-rays from Millisecond Pulsars: Comptonized Thermal Radiation” Bogdanov, S., Grindlay, J. E., & Rybicki, G. B., 2006, ApJ, 648, L55
- “Chandra X-Ray Observations of 19 Millisecond Pulsars in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae" Bogdanov, S., Grindlay, J. E., Heinke, C. O., Camilo, F., Freire, P. C. C., Becker, W. 2006, ApJ, 646, 1104
- "The Hypervelocity Star SDSS J090745.0+024507 Is Variable" Fuentes, C. I., Stanek, K. Z., Gaudi, B. S., McLeod, B. A., Bogdanov, S., Hartman, J. D., Hickox, R. C., Holman, M. J. 2006, ApJ, 636, 37
- “An X-Ray Variable Millisecond Pulsar in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae: Closing the Link to Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries” Bogdanov, S., Grindlay, J, E., van den Berg, M. 2005, ApJ, 630, 1029
- "A Deep Chandra Survey of the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae: Catalog of Point Sources" Heinke, C. O., Grindlay, J. E., Edmonds, P. D., Cohn, H. N., Lugger, P. M., Camilo, F., Bogdanov, S., Freire, P. C. 2005, ApJ, 625, 796
- “Interstellar
Scintillation Velocities of the Relativistic Binary PSR B1534+12 and Three
Other Millisecond Pulsars” Bogdanov, S., Pruszyńska, M., Lewandowski, W., Wolszczan, A. 2002, ApJ, 581, 495
Useful Links (to me, at least)
- NASA ADS
- astro-ph
- Astrophysical Journal
- APOD
- Chandra X-ray Center
- HEASARC
- XMM-Newton SOC (ESA)
- XMM-Newton GOF (NASA)
- XSPEC
- Supermongo
- PGPLOT
- TEMPO
- ATNF Pulsar Catalogue
- Pulsars in Globular Clusters
- Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
- McGill Physics Department
- McGill Astrophysics and Cosmology Group
- McGill Pulsar Group
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
- Centre for Research in Astrophysics of Quebec (CRAQ)