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  • 2014 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For fundamental contributions to our understanding of accreting compact objects on all scales, and in particular, for significant contributions to the question of formation of astrophysical jets in neutron stars and black holes

Overview

Sera Markoff is a researcher affiliated with the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands. Their work primarily focuses on the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a strong emphasis on subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Biomedical Engineering, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Geophysics.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Mechanics and Biomechanics Studies
  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena

Markoff's recent notable publications include:

  • "Cygnus X-1 contains a 21-solar mass black hole-Implications for massive star winds" (2021), published in Science
  • "Black Hole Flares: Ejection of Accreted Magnetic Flux through 3D Plasmoid-mediated Reconnection" (2022), published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • "A radio parallax to the black hole X-ray binary MAXI J1820+070" (2020), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters
  • "Disc tearing and Bardeen-Petterson alignment in GRMHD simulations of highly tilted thin accretion discs" (2020), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • "Broadband Multi-wavelength Properties of M87 during the 2017 Event Horizon Telescope Campaign" (2021), published in Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)

The venues where Markoff frequently publishes include:

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

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Markoff are:

  • Daryl Haggard
  • Koushik Chatterjee
  • J. C. A. Miller-Jones
  • Alexandra J. Tetarenko
  • Matthew Liska

In recognition of their contributions, Sera Markoff was awarded the title of Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2014 for fundamental contributions regarding accreting compact objects and the formation of astrophysical jets in neutron stars and black holes.

Best Publications

  • LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray

    M. P. van Haarlem;M. W. Wise;M. W. Wise;A. W. Gunst;George Heald

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. I. The Shadow of the Supermassive Black Hole

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. IV. Imaging the Central Supermassive Black Hole

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray

    M. P. van Haarlem;M. W. Wise;A. W. Gunst;G. Heald

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VI. The Shadow and Mass of the Central Black Hole

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. V. Physical Origin of the Asymmetric Ring

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: An advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy

    M. Actis;G. Agnetta;F. Aharonian;A. Akhperjanian

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. II. Array and Instrumentation

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. III. Data Processing and Calibration

    Kazunori Akiyama;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • Introducing the CTA concept

    B. S. Acharya;M. Actis;T. Aghajani;G. Agnetta

  • Going with the flow: can the base of jets subsume the role of compact accretion disk coronae?

    Sera Markoff;Michael A. Nowak;Jörn Wilms

  • Radio/X-ray correlation in the low/hard state of GX 339-4

    S. Corbel;M.A. Nowak;R.P. Fender;A.K. Tzioumis

  • Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array

    B.S. Acharya;I. Agudo;I. Al Samarai

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VIII. Magnetic Field Structure near the Event Horizon

    Kazunori Akiyama;Kazunori Akiyama;Kazunori Akiyama;Juan Carlos Algaba;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

  • Exploring the Role of Jets in the Radio/X-ray Correlations of GX339-4

    S. Markoff;M. Nowak;S. Corbel;R. Fender

  • Population X: Are the super-Eddington X-ray sources beamed jets in microblazars or intermediate mass black holes?

    E. Körding;H. Falcke;S. Markoff

  • Observing pulsars and fast transients with LOFAR

    B. W. Stappers;J. W. T. Hessels;J. W. T. Hessels;A. Alexov;K. Anderson

  • Population X: Are the super-Eddington X-ray sources beamed jets in microblazars or intermediate mass black holes?

    Elmar Koerding;Heino Falcke;Sera Markoff

  • Dissecting X-ray–Emitting Gas Around the Center of Our Galaxy

    Q. D. Wang;Q. D. Wang;M. A. Nowak;S. B. Markoff;F. K. Baganoff

  • First M87 Event Horizon Telescope Results. VII. Polarization of the Ring

    Kazunori Akiyama;Kazunori Akiyama;Kazunori Akiyama;Juan Carlos Algaba;Antxon Alberdi;Walter Alef

Frequent Co-Authors

Heino Falcke
Heino Falcke Radboud University
Rob Fender
Rob Fender University of Oxford
Michael Kramer
Michael Kramer Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy
Michael A. Nowak
Michael A. Nowak Washington University in St. Louis
Stephane Corbel
Stephane Corbel University of Paris-Saclay
Ue-Li Pen
Ue-Li Pen University of Toronto
Geoffrey C. Bower
Geoffrey C. Bower Institute of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Academia Sinica
Michael W. Wise
Michael W. Wise Netherlands Institute for Space Research
Jason W. T. Hessels
Jason W. T. Hessels University of Amsterdam
Mark J. Bentum
Mark J. Bentum Eindhoven University of Technology

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