Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astrophysics (LAMA)

In 2010, a subset of the faculty of RIT's Astrophysical Sciences and Technology (AST) graduate program established the Laboratory for Multiwavelength Astrophysics (LAMA). The mission of LAMA is to foster the utilization and advancement of cutting-edge techniques in multiwavelength astrophysics by RIT faculty, research staff, and students, so as to improve human understanding of the origin and fate of the universe and its constituents.

LAMA exists to support the following astrophysics activities at RIT:

exploitation of existing and forthcoming national and international ground- and space-based astronomical observing facilities/missions;
exploitation and mining of the present and forthcoming generations of multiwavelength data archives;
development of scientific requirements for future astronomical observing facilities/missions and future data archival and mining methods;
analysis and modeling of multiwavelength astronomical and astrophysical data.

Personnel

Participating Faculty: David Axon (Physics), Stefi Baum (CIS), Roger Dube (CIS), Joel Kastner (CIS; LAMA Director), Jacob Noel-Storr (CIS), Chris O'Dea (Physics), Michael Richmond (Physics), Andrew Robinson (Physics)

Research Staff: Rachel Curran, Preeti Kharb, Rupal Mittal, Rudy Montez

Graduate Students: Marcus Freeman, Davide Lena, Dave Principe, Valerie Rapson, David Saroff, Grant Tremblay, Sravani Vaddi, Billy Vazquez

Undergraduate Students: Kevin Christiansen, Mike Every, Marc Magagnoli

Research Activities

LAMA personnel perform research in a variety of subfields of astrophysics. Further details can be found via the following links:

Planetary Science & Space Physics: Space Weather
Galactic Astrophysics: Star & Planet Formation | Stellar Outflows | Chandra Planetary Nebula Survey
Extragalactic Astrophysics: Brightest Cluster Galaxies | Supermassive Black Holes

The most recent LAMA publications are listed below:

GSC 07396-00759 = V4046 Sgr C[D]: A Wide-separation Companion to the Close T Tauri Binary System V4046 Sgr AB Kastner, J. H., Sacco, G. G., Montez, R., Huenemoerder, D. P., Shi, H., Alecian, E., Argiroffi, C., Audard, M., Bouvier, J., Damiani, F., Donati, J.-F., Gregory, S. G., Güdel, M., Hussain, G. A. J., Maggio, A., Montmerle, T., The Astrophysical Journal, 2011, ADS link
NICMOS Polarimetry of "Polar-scattered" Seyfert 1 Galaxies Batcheldor, D., Robinson, A., Axon, D. J., Young, S., Quinn, S., Smith, J. E., Hough, J., Alexander, D. M., The Astrophysical Journal, 2011, ADS link
The close classical T Tauri binary V4046 Sgr: complex magnetic fields and distributed mass accretion Donati, J.-F., Gregory, S. G., Montmerle, T., Maggio, A., Argiroffi, C., Sacco, G., Hussain, G., Kastner, J., Alencar, S. H. P., Audard, M., Bouvier, J., Damiani, F., Güdel, M., Huenemoerder, D., Wade, G. A., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2011, ADS link
Signatures of large-scale magnetic fields in active galactic nuclei jets: transverse asymmetries Clausen-Brown, E., Lyutikov, M., Kharb, P., Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2011, ADS link
The L_X - T_vir relation in galaxy clusters: effects of radiative cooling and AGN heating Mittal, R., Hicks, A., Reiprich, T. H., Jaritz, V., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011, ADS link
SDSS J162520.29+120308.7 - a new SU Ursae Majoris star in the period gap Olech, A., de Miguel, E., Otulakowska, M., Thorstensen, J. R., Rutkowski, A., Novak, R., Masi, G., Richmond, M., Staels, B., Lowther, S., Stein, W., Ak, T., Boyd, D., Koff, R., Patterson, J., Eker, Z., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011, ADS link
Markarian 6: Shocking the Environment of an Intermediate Seyfert Mingo, B., Hardcastle, M. J., Croston, J. H., Evans, D. A., Hota, A., Kharb, P., Kraft, R. P., The Astrophysical Journal, 2011, ADS link
An optical spectroscopic survey of the 3CR sample of radio galaxies with z < 0.3. IV. Discovery of the new spectroscopic class of relic radio galaxies Capetti, A., Buttiglione, S., Axon, D. J., Robinson, A., Celotti, A., Baldi, R. D., Chiaberge, M., Macchetto, F. D., Sparks, W. B., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2011, ADS link
Parsec-scale Imaging of the Radio-bubble Seyfert Galaxy NGC 6764 Kharb, P., Hota, A., Croston, J. H., Hardcastle, M. J., O'Dea, C. P., Kraft, R. P., Axon, D. J., Robinson, A., The Astrophysical Journal, 2010, ADS link
The Origin of the Infrared Emission in Radio Galaxies. III. Analysis of 3CRR Objects Dicken, D., Tadhunter, C., Axon, D., Robinson, A., Morganti, R., Kharb, P., The Astrophysical Journal, 2010, ADS link
A Displaced Supermassive Black Hole in M87 Batcheldor, D., Robinson, A., Axon, D. J., Perlman, E. S., Merritt, D., The Astrophysical Journal, 2010, ADS link
The Chandra 3C Snapshot Survey for Sources with z<0.3 Harris, D. E., Massaro, F., Axon, D., Baum, S. A., Capetti, A., Chiaberge, M., Gilli, R., Giovannini, G., Grandi, P., Macchetto, F. D., O'Dea, C. P., Risaliti, G., Sparks, W., Tremblay, G. R., Twelfth International Solar Wind Conference, 2010, ADS link
Herschel photometry of brightest cluster galaxies in cooling flow clusters Edge, A. C., Oonk, J. B. R., Mittal, R., Allen, S. W., Baum, S. A., Böhringer, H., Bregman, J. N., Bremer, M. N., Combes, F., Crawford, C. S., Donahue, M., Egami, E., Fabian, A. C., Ferland, G. J., Hamer, S. L., Hatch, N. A., Jaffe, W., Johnstone, R. M., McNamara, B. R., O'Dea, C. P., Popesso, P., Quillen, A. C., Salomé, P., Sarazin, C. L., Voit, G. M., Wilman, R. J., Wise, M. W., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010, ADS link
Herschel observations of FIR emission lines in brightest cluster galaxies Edge, A. C., Oonk, J. B. R., Mittal, R., Allen, S. W., Baum, S. A., Böhringer, H., Bregman, J. N., Bremer, M. N., Combes, F., Crawford, C. S., Donahue, M., Egami, E., Fabian, A. C., Ferland, G. J., Hamer, S. L., Hatch, N. A., Jaffe, W., Johnstone, R. M., McNamara, B. R., O'Dea, C. P., Popesso, P., Quillen, A. C., Salomé, P., Sarazin, C. L., Voit, G. M., Wilman, R. J., Wise, M. W., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010, ADS link
Chandra Observations of 3C Radio Sources with z < 0.3: Nuclei, Diffuse Emission, Jets, and Hotspots Massaro, F., Harris, D. E., Tremblay, G. R., Axon, D., Baum, S. A., Capetti, A., Chiaberge, M., Gilli, R., Giovannini, G., Grandi, P., Macchetto, F. D., O'Dea, C. P., Risaliti, G., Sparks, W., The Astrophysical Journal, 2010, ADS link
What is a cool-core cluster? a detailed analysis of the cores of the X-ray flux-limited HIFLUGCS cluster sample Hudson, D. S., Mittal, R., Reiprich, T. H., Nulsen, P. E. J., Andernach, H., Sarazin, C. L., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010, ADS link
Infrared Spectral Energy Distributions of Seyfert Galaxies: Spitzer Space Telescope Observations of the 12 μm Sample of Active Galaxies Gallimore, J. F., Yzaguirre, A., Jakoboski, J., Stevenosky, M. J., Axon, D. J., Baum, S. A., Buchanan, C. L., Elitzur, M., Elvis, M., O'Dea, C. P., Robinson, A., The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 2010, ADS link
Extended Radio Emission in MOJAVE Blazars: Challenges to Unification Kharb, P., Lister, M. L., Cooper, N. J., The Astrophysical Journal, 2010, ADS link
Spectroastrometry of rotating gas disks for the detection of supermassive black holes in galactic nuclei. I. Method and simulations Gnerucci, A., Marconi, A., Capetti, A., Axon, D. J., Robinson, A., Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2010, ADS link