Robert J. Nemiroff

Dr. Robert J. Nemiroff is a Professor of Physics at Michigan Technological University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in Astronomy and Astrophysics in 1987 and his B.S. from Lehigh University in Engineering Physics in 1982.[1] He is an active researcher with interests that include gamma-ray bursts, gravitational lensing, and cosmology, and is the cofounder and coeditor of Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD),[2] the home page of which receives over a million hits a day, approximately 20% of nasa.gov traffic.[3] He is married and has one daughter.[4]

Research

Nemiroff's research interests include gamma-ray bursts, gravitational lensing, sky monitoring, and cosmology. Among other findings, his research on gamma-ray bursts:

In 1999 Nemiroff and colleague Bruce Rafert published a paper showing that continuous astronomical sky monitors could soon become a reality.[10] With students, Nemiroff's initial night sky monitor was an automatically repeating SLR camera with a fisheye lens deployed to Michigan Technological University in 1999,[11] Nemiroff then led a group that designed, built, and deployed the first astronomical all sky optical web monitor, dubbed a CONtinuous CAMera (CONCAM), and in 2000 deployed it to Kitt Peak National Observatory.[12] By the mid-2000s, most major astronomical observatories deployed CONCAM or CONCAM-like devices together capable of monitoring most of the night sky most of the time.[13] Astronomical all sky web monitors are now common at astronomical observing sites.[14] Subsequent collaborative efforts in astronomical deep-sky monitoring now include Pan-STARRs and LSST.

In 1986, he predicted the likelihood of microlensing[15] and calculated basic microlensing induced light curves for several possible lens-source configurations in his 1987 thesis.[16] Among his microlensing findings, he, along with others:

Nemiroff and graduate student Bijunath R. Patla showed that the Sun is a "very interesting gravitational lens,"[19][20] and Nemiroff found that GRB pulses start at the same time at every energy and that they are scale invariant over energy.[21]

His complete publication list is available from ADS.

Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD)

Nemiroff is one of two creators and editors of the Astronomy Picture of the Day (APOD) website. Started in 1995 by Nemiroff and Dr. Jerry T. Bonnell, APOD is consistently among the most popular astronomy sites.[22] Its home page typically receives over one million hits per day;[23] APOD has served over one billion images [24] since its start. It is translated into more than 20 languages and has social media outlets on Facebook, Google+, Twitter, and various apps.[25]

Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL)

Nemiroff and John Wallin established the Astrophysics Source Code Library (ASCL), an online registry of scientist-written software used in astronomy or astrophysics research, in 1999.[26] The ASCL improves the transparency of astrophysics research by making the software used in research discoverable for examination.[27]

Books

References

  1. ↑ "RJN's Bio Page". apod.nasa.gov. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  2. ↑ O'Brien, Miles (September 21, 2002). "Astronomy Picture of the Day". CNN Saturday Morning News. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  3. ↑ "Alexa". Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  4. ↑ "About Astronomy Picture of the Day". Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  5. ↑ Norris, J. P.; Nemiroff, R. J.; Scargle, J. D.; Kouveliotou, C.; Fishman, G. J.; Meegan, C. A.; Paciesas, W. S.; Bonnel, J. T. (April 1994). "Detection of signature consistent with cosmological time dilation in gamma-ray bursts". Astrophysical Journal. 424 (2): 540–545. Bibcode:1994ApJ...424..540N. doi:10.1086/173912.
  6. ↑ Wilford, John Noble (January 16, 1994). "Gamma-Ray Finding Bolsters Einstein Theory, Report Says". The New York Times. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  7. ↑ "Spacetime: A smoother brew than we knew". Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  8. ↑ Nemiroff, Robert J.; Connolly, Ryan; Holmes, Justin; Kostinski, Alexander B. (June 2012). "Bounds on Spectral Dispersion from Fermi-Detected Gamma Ray Bursts". Physical Review Letters. 108 (23). Bibcode:2012PhRvL.108w1103N. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.108.231103.
  9. ↑ Cowen, Ron (10 January 2012). "Cosmic race ends in a tie". Nature. Retrieved 23 January 2014.
  10. ↑ Nemiroff, R.J.; Rafert, J.B. "Toward a Continuous Record of the Sky". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 111 (761): 886–897. Bibcode:1999PASP..111..886N. doi:10.1086/316402.
  11. ↑ Zimmer, G.A.; Pereira, W.E.; Nemiroff, R.J.; Rafert, J.B. "A Passive Sky Variability Monitor for Under $1500". American Astronomical Society, 194th AAS Meeting, #70.09. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 31: 93. Bibcode:1999AAS...194.7009Z. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  12. ↑ Pereira, W.E.; Nemiroff, R.J.; Rafert, J.B.; Ftaclas, C.; Perez-Ramirez, D. "CONCAM Sky Monitor Operating at KPNO". American Astronomical Society, 197th AAS Meeting, #115.10. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 32: 1599. Bibcode:2000AAS...19711510P. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  13. ↑ Nemiroff, R.J.; Schwarz, H.E.; CONCAM Collaboration; TASCA Collaboration. "Expanding Fisheye Webcam Network Now Capable of Monitoring Most of the Night Sky". American Astronomical Society Meeting 202, #03.03. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 35: 702. Bibcode:2003AAS...202.0303N. Retrieved 30 March 2014.
  14. ↑ See, for example, http://www.cfht.hawaii.edu/~asiva/ & http://www.nasa.gov/connect/chat/allsky.html ; http://www.allskycam.com/
  15. ↑ Nemiroff, Robert J. (June 1986). "Random gravitational lensing". Astrophysics and Space Science. 123 (2): 381–387. Bibcode:1986Ap&SS.123..381N. doi:10.1007/BF00653957. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  16. ↑ Nemiroff, Robert J. (December 1987). "Prediction and analysis of basic gravitational microlensing phenomena". Bibcode:1987PhDT........12N. Retrieved 27 January 2014.
  17. ↑ Nemiroff, Robert J.; Wickramasinghe, W. A. D. T. (March 1994). "Finite source sizes and the information content of macho-type lens search light curves". Astrophysical Journal Letters. 424 (1): L21–L23. Bibcode:1994ApJ...424L..21N. doi:10.1086/187265.
  18. ↑ Nemiroff, Robert J. (November 1994). "Magnification bias in galactic microlensing searches". Astrophysical Journal. 435 (2): 682–684. Bibcode:1994ApJ...435..682N. doi:10.1086/174845.
  19. ↑ Nemiroff, Robert. "Who is this R. J. Nemiroff? Some Favorite Astronomy Ideas". Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  20. ↑ Patla, Bijunath; Nemiroff, Robert J. (2008). "Gravitational Lensing Characteristics of the Transparent Sun". The Astrophysical Journal. 685 (2): 1297–1303. Bibcode:2008ApJ...685.1297P. doi:10.1086/588805.
  21. ↑ Nemiroff, Robert (2000). "The Pulse Scale Conjecture and the Case of BATSE Trigger 2193". The Astrophysical Journal. 544 (2): 805–810. Bibcode:2000ApJ...544..805N. doi:10.1086/317230.
  22. ↑ Pullen, Lee; Russo, Pedro (June 2010). "Robert Nemiroff: Communicating Astronomy 365 Days a Year". Communicating Astronomy with the Public (8): 22–23. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  23. ↑ "From 14 to a Million: The Astronomical Growth of the Astronomy Picture of the Day". Physics Buzz. Retrieved 26 January 2014.
  24. ↑ Nemiroff, R.; Bonnell, J., eds. (16 June 2012). "APOD Turns 17". Astronomy Picture of the Day. NASA. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  25. ↑ Nemiroff, R.; Bonnell, J., eds. (16 June 2012). "APOD Turns 17". Astronomy Picture of the Day. NASA. Retrieved 22 January 2014.
  26. ↑ Nemiroff, R. J.; Wallin, J. F. (May 1999). "The Astrophysics Source Code Library: http://www.ascl.net/". Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. American Astronomical Society. 31: 885. Bibcode:1999AAS...194.4408N. External link in |title= (help)
  27. ↑ "Astrophysics Source Code Library". Retrieved 21 October 2013.
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