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  • 2015 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to the study of radio pulsars, including the measurement of pulsar masses that have constrained the equation of state of ultradense matter, the discovery of many millisecond and binary pulsars, and development of key pulsar algorithms

Overview

Scott M. Ransom is affiliated with the National Radio Astronomy Observatory in the United States. Their primary field of study encompasses Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Oceanography, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and Aerospace Engineering.

Their research addresses several main topics, including:

  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Geophysics and Gravity Measurements
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena

Scott M. Ransom has contributed to numerous papers, with some recent publications being:

  • "The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Evidence for a Gravitational-wave Background," 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • "The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics," 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • "The NANOGrav 11-year data set: High-precision timing of 45 millisecond pulsars," 2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • "The First CHIME/FRB Fast Radio Burst Catalog," 2021, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • "The NANOGrav 11 Year Data Set: Pulsar-timing constraints on the Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background," 2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Thevenues where Scott M. Ransom frequently publishes include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Frequent co-authors in their research collaborations include:

  • I. H. Stairs
  • Emmanuel Fonseca
  • M. A. McLaughlin
  • Megan E. DeCesar
  • Ryan S. Lynch

Scott M. Ransom has been recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2015. The citation highlights contributions to the study of radio pulsars, including the measurement of pulsar masses that have constrained the equation of state of ultradense matter, the discovery of many millisecond and binary pulsars, and the development of key pulsar algorithms.

Best Publications

  • A two-solar-mass neutron star measured using Shapiro delay

    Paul Demorest;Tim Pennucci;Scott Ransom;Mallory Roberts

  • A massive pulsar in a compact relativistic binary

    John Antoniadis;Paulo C. C. Freire;Norbert Wex;Thomas M. Tauris

  • Relativistic Shapiro delay measurements of an extremely massive millisecond pulsar

    H. Thankful Cromartie;Emmanuel Fonseca;Scott M. Ransom;Paul B. Demorest

  • A radio pulsar spinning at 716 Hz.

    Jason W. T. Hessels;Scott M. Ransom;Ingrid H. Stairs;Paulo C. C. Freire

  • Relativistic Shapiro delay measurements of an extremely massive millisecond pulsar

    H. T. Cromartie;E. Fonseca;S. M. Ransom;P. B. Demorest

  • A repeating fast radio burst

    L. G. Spitler;P. Scholz;J. W. T. Hessels;J. W. T. Hessels;S. Bogdanov

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

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

  • The Radius of PSR J0740+6620 from NICER and XMM-Newton Data

    M. C. Miller;F. K. Lamb;A. J. Dittmann;S. Bogdanov

  • A NICER View of the Massive Pulsar PSR J0740+6620 Informed by Radio Timing and XMM-Newton Spectroscopy

    Thomas E. Riley;Anna L. Watts;Paul S. Ray;Slavko Bogdanov

  • A direct localization of a fast radio burst and its host

    S. Chatterjee;C. J. Law;R. S. Wharton;S. Burke-Spolaor;S. Burke-Spolaor

  • The International Pulsar Timing Array project: using pulsars as a gravitational wave detector

    G. Hobbs;A. Archibald;Z. Arzoumanian;D. Backer

  • The Host Galaxy and Redshift of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102

    Shriharsh P. Tendulkar;Cees Bassa;James M. Cordes;Geoffery C. Bower

  • The Host Galaxy and Redshift of the Repeating Fast Radio Burst FRB 121102

    S. P. Tendulkar;C. G. Bassa;J. M. Cordes;G. C. Bower

  • Swings between rotation and accretion power in a binary millisecond pulsar

    A. Papitto;C. Ferrigno;E. Bozzo;N. Rea

  • Fast Radio Burst Discovered in the Arecibo Pulsar ALFA Survey

    L. G. Spitler;J. M. Cordes;J. W. T. Hessels;D. R. Lorimer

  • The First Fermi Large Area Telescope Catalog of Gamma-ray Pulsars

    A. A. Abdo;A. A. Abdo;Markus Ackermann;Marco Ajello;W. B. Atwood

  • A bright millisecond-duration radio burst from a Galactic magnetar

    Chime;B. C. Andersen;K. M. Bandura

  • A radio pulsar/x-ray binary link.

    Anne M. Archibald;Ingrid H. Stairs;Ingrid H. Stairs;Ingrid H. Stairs;Scott M. Ransom;Victoria M. Kaspi

  • The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Search for an Isotropic Stochastic Gravitational-wave Background

    Zaven Arzoumanian;Paul T. Baker;Harsha Blumer;Bence Bécsy

  • A NICER View of the Massive Pulsar PSR J0740+6620 Informed by Radio Timing and XMM-Newton Spectroscopy: Nested Samples for Millisecond Pulsar Parameter Estimation

    Thomas E. Riley;Anna L. Watts;Paul S. Ray;Slavko Bogdanov

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason W. T. Hessels
Jason W. T. Hessels University of Amsterdam
Ingrid H. Stairs
Ingrid H. Stairs University of British Columbia
Maura McLaughlin
Maura McLaughlin West Virginia University
Fernando Camilo
Fernando Camilo South African Radio Astronomy Observatory
Duncan R. Lorimer
Duncan R. Lorimer West Virginia University
Paulo C. C. Freire
Paulo C. C. Freire Max Planck Society
Michael Kramer
Michael Kramer Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Paul S. Ray
Paul S. Ray United States Naval Research Laboratory
Victoria M. Kaspi
Victoria M. Kaspi McGill University
David L. Kaplan
David L. Kaplan University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee

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