Department of Physics

Ernest Rutherford Physics Building
McGill University
3600 rue University
Montréal, QC, Canada H3A 2T8

 Tel: +1 (514) 398 6520     Fax: +1 (514) 398 8434
e-mail: bogdanov at physics dot mcgill dot ca
URL: www.slavkobogdanov.com


Research

  • Neutron stars: multiwavelength (X-ray, optical, radio,..) timing & spectroscopy of rotation-powered millisecond pulsars, X-ray/optical studies of neutron stars in globular clusters, modeling thermal emission from rotation-powered pulsars, measurement of neutron star compactness and constraints on equation of state  (more...)
  • Pulsar Arecibo L-band Feed Array (PALFA) Galactic plane survey

 

Education

  • PhD in Astronomy, Harvard University (2008)
    •  Thesis: "X-ray Emission from Millisecond Pulsars"
  • AM in Astronomy, Harvard University (2004)
  • B.S. with Honors and Distinction in Astronomy & Astrophysics, Pennsylvania State University  (2002)


Publications

  1. "Deep XMM-Newton Observations of the Isolated Millisecond Pulsar PSR J0030+0451" Bogdanov, S., Grindlay, J. E. 2009, ApJ, submitted 
  2. “Thermal X-rays from Millisecond Pulsars: Unveiling the Fundamental Properties of Neutron Stars” Bogdanov, S., Grindlay, J. E., Rybicki, G. B. 2008, ApJ,  689, 407
  3. "Chandra X-Ray Observatory Observations of the Globular Cluster M71" Elsner, R. F., Heinke, C. O., Cohn, H. N., Lugger, P. M., Maxwell, J. E., Stairs, I. H., Ransom, S. M., Hessels, J. W. T., Becker, W., Huang, R. H. H., Edmonds, P. D., Grindlay, J. E., Bogdanov, S., Ghosh, K., Weisskopf, M. C. 2008, ApJ, 687, 1019
  4. “An X-ray View of Radio Millisecond Pulsars” Bogdanov, S., Grindlay, J. E. 40 Years of Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars and More. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 983, pp. 64-68 (2008)
  5. “Constraints on Neutron Star Properties from X-ray Observations of Millisecond Pulsars” Bogdanov, S., Rybicki, G. B., Grindlay, J. E. 2007, ApJ, 670, 668
  6. “X-rays from Millisecond Pulsars: Comptonized Thermal Radiation” Bogdanov, S., Grindlay, J. E., & Rybicki, G. B., 2006, ApJ, 648, L55
  7. “Chandra X-Ray Observations of 19 Millisecond Pulsars in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae" Bogdanov, S., Grindlay, J. E., Heinke, C. O., Camilo, F., Freire, P. C. C., Becker, W. 2006, ApJ, 646, 1104
  8. "The Hypervelocity Star  SDSS J090745.0+024507 Is Variable" Fuentes, C. I., Stanek, K. Z., Gaudi, B. S., McLeod, B. A., Bogdanov, S., Hartman, J. D., Hickox, R. C., Holman, M. J. 2006, ApJ, 636, 37
  9. “An X-Ray Variable Millisecond Pulsar in the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae: Closing the Link to Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries” Bogdanov, S., Grindlay, J, E., van den Berg, M. 2005, ApJ, 630, 1029
  10. "A Deep Chandra Survey of the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae: Catalog of Point Sources" Heinke, C. O., Grindlay, J. E., Edmonds, P. D., Cohn, H. N., Lugger, P. M., Camilo, F., Bogdanov, S., Freire, P. C. 2005, ApJ, 625, 796
  11. “Interstellar Scintillation Velocities of the Relativistic Binary PSR B1534+12 and Three Other Millisecond Pulsars” Bogdanov, S., Pruszyńska, M., Lewandowski, W., Wolszczan, A. 2002, ApJ, 581, 495

 

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Some of my photographs