As of June 2024:
91 refereed publications (18 as lead author)
2763 total citations
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Below is a list of publications led by students in my group, and a list of my refereed first author publications.
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[7] "Radio Scrutiny of the X-ray Weak Tail of Low-mass Active Galactic Nuclei: A Novel Signature of High-Eddington Accretion?" (ADS)
Paul, J. D.^, Plotkin, R. M., Brandt, W. N., Ellis C. H.^, Gallo E., Greene J. E., Ho L. C, Kimball, A. E., Haggard, D., 2024, ApJ, 974, 66.
[6] "Negative Cosmic Evolution of BL Lac Objects from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (ADS)
Clapp, O. D.*, Plotkin, R. M., Anderson, S. F., RNAAS, 2024, 8, 67 (Non-refereed Research Note).
[5] "Multiwavelength Scrutiny of X-ray Sources in Dwarf Galaxies: ULXs versus AGNs" (ADS)
Thygesen, E.^, Plotkin, R.M., Soria, R., Reines, A.E., Greene, J.E., Anderson, G.E., Baldassare, V.F., Owens, M.G.*, Urquhart, R.T., Gallo, E., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Paul, J.D.^, Rollings, A.P.^, 2023, MNRAS, 519, 5848 (the lead author, E. Thygesen, is a graduate student at Michigan State University at the time of publication).
[4] "The Flickering Radio Jet from the Quiescent Black Hole X-ray Binary A0620-00" (ADS)
dePolo, D.*, Plotkin, R. M., Miller-Jones, J. C. A., Starder, J., Maccarone, T. J., O'Doherty, T. N., Chomiuk, L., Gallo, E. , 2022, MNRAS, 516, 4640.
[3] "Photometry+: Development of a Photometric Pipeline for the Great Basin Observatory Robotic Telescope" (ADS)
Tudor, A. R.^, Plotkin, R. M., Shaw, A. W.**, Neill, M.*, Dascalu, S., 2022, Astronomy & Computing, 40, 100627.
[2] "Connecting Low- and High-redshift Weak Emission-line Quasars via Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy of Lya Emission" (ADS)
Paul, J. D.^, Plotkin, R. M., Shemmer, O., Anderson, S. F., Brandt, W. N., Fan, X., Gallo, E., Luo, B., Ni, Q., Richards, G. T., Schneider, D. P., Wu, J., Yi, W., 2022, ApJ, 929, 78.
[1] "Investigating the Low-flux States of Six Intermediate Polars" (ADS)
Covington, A. E.*, Shaw, A. W.**, Mukai, K., Littlefield C., Heinke, C. O., Plotkin, R. M., Barrett, D., Boardman, J., Boyd, D., Brincat, S. M., Carstens, R., Collins, D. F., Cook, L. M., Cooney, W. R., Fernandez, D. C., Dufoer, S., Dvoarak, S., Galdies, C., Goff, W., Hambsch, F., Johnston, S., Jones, J., Menzies, K., Monard, L. A. G., Morelle, E., Nelson, P., Ogmen, Y., Rock, J. W., Sabo, R., Seargeant, J., Stone, G., Ulowetz, J., Vanmunster, T. 2022, ApJ, 928, 164.
[18] "Toward a Larger Sample of Radio Jets from Quiescent Black Hole X-ray Binaries" (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Bahramian, A., Miller-Jones, J. C. A., Reynolds, M. T., Atri, P., Maccarone, T. J., Shaw, A. W., Gandhi, P. , 2021, MNRAS, 503, 3784.
[17] "Radio Variability from a Quiescent Stellar Mass Black Hole Jet" (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Miller-Jones, J. C. A., Chomiuk, L, Strader, J., Bruzewski, S., Bundas, A., Smith, K. R., Ruan, J. J.. 2019, ApJ, 874, 13.
[16] "Local Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Seeds from a Next Generation Very Large Array" (ADS )
Plotkin, R. M., & Reines, A. E. 2018, Science with a Next Generation Very Large Array, 517, 719.
[15] "Up and Down the Black Hole Radio/X-ray Correlation: the 2017 mini-outbursts from Swift J1753.5-0127" (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Bright, J., Shaw, A. W., Tomsick, J. A., Russell, T. D., Zhang, G.-B., Russell, D. M., Fender, R. P., Homan, J., Atri, P., Bernardini, F., Gelfand, J. D., Lewis, F., Cantwell, T. M., Carey, S. H., Grainge, K. J. B., Hickish, J., Perrott, Y. C., Razavi-Ghods, N., Scaife, A. M. M., Scott, P. F., Titterington, D. J., 2017, ApJ, 848, 92.
[14] "The 2015 Decay of the Black Hole X-ray Binary V404 Cygni: Robust Disk-jet Coupling and a Sharp Transition into Quiescence" (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Miller-Jones, J. C. A., Gallo, E., Jonker, P. G., Homan, J., Tomsick, J. A., Kaaret, P., Russell, D. M., Heinz, S., Hodges-Kluck, E. J., Markoff, S., Sivakoff, G. R., Altamirano, D., Neilsen, J., 2017, ApJ, 834, 104.
[13] “The X-ray Properties of Million Solar Mass Black Holes at Low-Eddington Ratios” (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Gallo, E., Haardt, F., Miller, B. P., Reines, A. E., Wu, J., Greene, J. E., 2016, ApJ, 825, 139.
[12] “A Clean Sightline to Quiescence: Multiwavelength Observations of the High Galactic Latitude Black Hole X-ray Binary Swift J1357.2-0933” (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Gallo, E., Jonker, P. G., Miller-Jones, J. C. A., Homan, J., Munoz-Darias, T., Markoff, S., Armas Padilla, M., Fender, R., Rushton, A. P., Russell, D. M., Torres, M. A. P., 2016, MNRAS, 456, 2707.
[11] “Detection of Rest-frame Optical Lines from X-shooter Spectroscopy of Weak Emission Line Quasars” (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Shemmer, O., Trakhtenbrot, B., Anderson, S. F., Brandt, W. N., Fan, X., Gallo, E., Lira, P., Luo, B., Richards, G. T., Schneider, D. P., Strauss, M. A., Wu, J., 2015, ApJ, 805, 123.
[10] “Constraints on Relativistic Jets in Quiescent Black Hole X-ray Binaries from Broadband Spectral Modeling” (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Gallo, E., Markoff, S., Homan, J., Jonker, P. G., Miller-Jones, J. C. A., Russell, D. M., Drappeau, S., 2015 MNRAS, 446, 4098.
[9] “An Environmental Study of the Ultraluminous X-ray Source Population in Early- type Galaxies” (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Gallo, E., Miller, B. P., Baldassare, V. F., Treu, T., Woo, J., 2014, ApJ, 780, 6.
[8] “The X-ray Spectral Evolution of Galactic Black Hole X-ray Binaries Toward Quiescence” (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Gallo, E., Jonker, P. G., 2013, ApJ, 773, 59.
[7] “The Lack of Torus Emission from BL Lacertae Objects: an Infrared View of Unification with WISE” (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Anderson, S. F., Brandt, W. N., Markoff, S., Shmmer, O., Wu, J., 2012, ApJL, 745, 27.
[6] “Using the Fundamental Plane of Black Hole Activity to Distinguish X-ray Processes from Weakly Accreting Black Holes” (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Markoff, S., Kelly, B. C., K ̈ording, E., Anderson, S. F., 2012, MNRAS, 419, 267.
[5] “Dynamical Black Hole Masses of BL Lac Objects From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey” (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Markoff, S., Trager, S. C., Anderson, S. F., 2011, MNRAS, 413, 805.
[4] “Multiwavelength Observations of Radio-quiet Quasars With Weak Emission Lines” (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Anderson, S. F., Brandt, W. N., Diamond-Stanic, A. M., Fan, Z., MacLeod, C. L., Schneider, D. P., Shemmer, O., 2010, ApJ, 721, 562.
[3] “Optically Selected BL Lacertae Candidates from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Date Release Seven” (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Anderson, S. F., [19 authors], 2010, AJ, 139, 390.
[2] “A Large Sample of BL Lac Objects from the SDSS and FIRST” (ADS)
Plotkin, R. M., Anderson, S. F., Hall, P. B., Margon, B., Voges, W., Schneider, D. P., Stinson, G., York, D. G., 2008, AJ, 135, 2453.
[1] “Photometry of SK−69◦202, the Progenitor of SN 1987A, from 1896 to 1954”
Plotkin, R. M., Clayton, G. C., 2004, JAAVSO, 32, 89. (from undergraduate REU program; ADS)