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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2011 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For her fundamental contributions to the understanding of the gammaray sky through her leadership of the Fermi mission as Project Scientist and her discoveries of gammaray burst high energy properties

Overview

Julie McEnery is affiliated with the Goddard Space Flight Center in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on physics and astronomy, with notable work spanning the subfields of astronomy and astrophysics as well as nuclear and high energy physics.

The scientist's publications concentrate on topics related to astrophysics and cosmic phenomena, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, astrophysical phenomena and observations, pulsars and gravitational waves research, solar and space plasma dynamics, and dark matter and cosmic phenomena.

  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
  • Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

Frequent co-authors in McEnery's publications include:

  • E. Bissaldi
  • M. Ajello
  • L. Baldini
  • D. Bastieri
  • R. Bellazzini

Scientific papers have been published predominantly in venues such as The Astrophysical Journal Letters and Nature Astronomy.

  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Nature Astronomy

Some significant recent papers authored by McEnery include:

  • Fermi-GBM Discovery of GRB 221009A: An Extraordinarily Bright GRB from Onset to Afterglow, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • High-energy emission from a magnetar giant flare in the Sculptor galaxy, 2021, Nature Astronomy
  • Puzzling Variation of Gamma Rays from the Sun over the Solar Cycle Revealed with Fermi-LAT, 2025, The Astrophysical Journal Letters

McEnery was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society in 2011. The award citation notes their fundamental contributions to the understanding of the gamma-ray sky, leadership of the Fermi mission as Project Scientist, and discoveries related to gamma-ray burst high energy properties.

Best Publications

  • The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Mission

    W. B. Atwood;A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;W. Althouse

  • FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE FIRST SOURCE CATALOG

    A.A. Abdo;A.A. Abdo;Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;A. Allafort

  • Fermi Large Area Telescope Second Source Catalog

    P. L. Nolan;A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello

  • Measurement of the Cosmic Ray e+ + e- spectrum from 20 GeV to 1 TeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope.

    A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;M. Axelsson

  • Searching for dark matter annihilation from Milky Way dwarf spheroidal galaxies with six years of Fermi Large Area Telescope data

    M. Ackermann;A. Albert;B. Anderson;W. B. Atwood

  • THE SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION OF FERMI BRIGHT BLAZARS

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;I. Agudo;M. Ajello

  • The Spectral Energy Distribution of Fermi bright blazars

    A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;M. Axelsson

  • An Ordinary Short Gamma-Ray Burst with Extraordinary Implications: Fermi-GBM Detection of GRB 170817A

    A. Goldstein;P. Veres;E. Burns;M. S. Briggs

  • The second catalog of active galactic nuclei detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

    Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;A. Allafort;E. Antolini;E. Antolini

  • Detection of the characteristic pion-decay signature in supernova remnants

    Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;A. Allafort;Luca Baldini

  • THE SECOND FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE CATALOG OF GAMMA-RAY PULSARS

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ajello;A. Allafort;L. Baldini

  • Fermi-LAT observations of the diffuse γ-ray emission: implications for cosmic rays and the interstellar medium

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;W. B. Atwood;L. Baldini

  • The spectrum of isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 100 MeV and 820 GeV

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;A. Albert

  • Measurement of Separate Cosmic-Ray Electron and Positron Spectra with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;A. Allafort;W. B. Atwood

  • The spectrum of isotropic diffuse gamma-ray emission between 100 MeV and 820 GeV

    M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;A. Albert;W. B. Atwood

  • The First Catalog of Active Galactic Nuclei Detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;A. Allafort

  • Fermi/Large Area Telescope bright gamma-ray source list

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;W. B. Atwood

  • A limit on the variation of the speed of light arising from quantum gravity effects

    A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;K. Asano

  • Spectrum of the Isotropic Diffuse Gamma-Ray Emission Derived from First-Year Fermi Large Area Telescope Data

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;M. Ackermann;M. Ajello;W. B. Atwood

  • Extremely rapid bursts of TeV photons from the active galaxy Markarian 421

    J. A. Gaidos;C. W. Akerlof;S. Biller;P. J. Boyle

Frequent Co-Authors

Diego F. Torres
Diego F. Torres Institute of Space Sciences
Olaf Reimer
Olaf Reimer University of Innsbruck
G. Tosti
G. Tosti University of Perugia
A. Morselli
A. Morselli National Institute for Nuclear Physics
Marco Ajello
Marco Ajello Clemson University
Igor V. Moskalenko
Igor V. Moskalenko Stanford University
Peter F. Michelson
Peter F. Michelson Stanford University
C. C. Cheung
C. C. Cheung United States Naval Research Laboratory
Yasushi Fukazawa
Yasushi Fukazawa Hiroshima University
P. A. Caraveo
P. A. Caraveo National Institute for Astrophysics

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