Dr. Michael Francis Corcoran

PRESENT POSITION:

1991 - Research Scientist, High Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center, USRA/NASA

1997 - Adjunct Faculty, George Washington University

1999 - Course Coordinator, Astronomy 191, George Washington University

RESEARCH AREA:

Observational X-ray Astrophysics; Stellar Coronae; Colliding Winds

EDUCATION:

1988-- Ph.D. Astrophysics, University of Pennsylvania

1982-- BA. Physics, Cornell

PREVIOUS POSITIONS:

1993--Visiting Professorship, Universidad Nacional de La Plata

1989--National Research Council Resident Research Associate, Laboratory for High Energy Astrophysics, GSFC

1988--Staff Astronomer, Advanced Computer Concepts Inc.

AWARDS:

1992--Group Achievement Award, Astro-1 payload

2001--USRA/CPSS University Collaborations Award

HONORS:

GSFC PROJECTS:

1991--US ROSAT Project

1989-1990-- Broad-Band X-ray Telescope

1998-- HEASARC Calibration Database

1999-- HEASARC Picture of the Week

1999-- HETE2 Archive Scientist

2001-- GLAST Archive Scientist

GRADUATE STUDENT SUPERVISION:

1992 -Jose Suarez, Florida Institute of Technology

1993 - Jennifer Catelli, U. Maryland

1994 - Sven Geier, U. Maryland

1996 - 1999 Kazunori Ishibashi, U. Minnesota (M. Sc., Ph. D.)

1999 - Amy Fredericks, U. Maryland

2000 - Laura Brenneman, USRA

2003 - Gary Price, Richard Stockton College

POSTDOCTORAL SUPERVISION:

2001 - Dr. Aaron Flores

2002 - Dr. Kenji Hamaguchi

PRINCIPAL SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATIONS (1995--PRESENT):

1995 -Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal investigator

XTE, "Monitoring Hard X-ray Emission from Eta Carinae".

1995 -Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

ASCA AO4 proposal, "The Nature of the X-ray Variability of Eta Carinae".

1995 -Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

ASCA AO4 proposal, "Colliding Wind X-ray Emission in Gamma Velorum".

1996 -Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

ROSAT A07 proposal, "HOT MASSIVE STARS AND THE X-RAY/STELLAR WIND CONNECTION"

1995 -Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

XTE AO1 proposal, "MONITORING THE HARD X-RAY EMISSION FROM ETA CARINAE".

1996 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

XTE AO2 proposal, "SIMULTANEOUS STIS/XTE MONITORING OF 4U 1700-37: PROBING WIND INSTABILITIES ON THE SMALL SCALE"

1997 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

XTE AO3 proposal, "AN EXTREMELY MASSIVE X-RAY BINARY?"

1998 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

RXTE AO4 "THE 'POST-PERIASTRON' X-RAY LIGHTCURVE"

1998 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

RXTE AO4 "SIMULTANEOUS STIS/XTE MONITORING OF 4U 1700-37: PROBING SMALL-SCALE WIND INSTABILITIES"

1999 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

RXTE AO5 "THE X-RAY LIGHTCURVE OF ETA CARINAE - A HIDDEN ROSETTA STONE REVEALED?"

1999 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

XMM AO1 "COLLIDING WIND X-RAY EMISSION IN THE LBV BINARY HD 5980"

2000 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

RXTE AO6 "THE X-RAY LIGHTCURVE OF ETA CARINAE - RETURN FROM APASTRON"

2000 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

CHANDRA AO1 "RESOLVING THE X-RAY SPECTRUM OF THE EXTREMELY MASSIVE, SUPERLUMINOUS STAR ETA CARINAE WITH AXAF"

2000 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

CHANDRA AO1 "X-RAY PROPERTIES OF VERY MASSIVE STARS WITH VERYDIFFERENT METALLICITIES:THE 'STARBURSTS' NGC 3603 AND NGC 346"

2001 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

RXTE AO7 "THE X-RAY LIGHTCURVE OF ETA CAR - APPROACH TO PERIASTRON"

2001 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

CHANDRA AO2 "THE NEARBY LOW METALLICITY STARBURST NGC~346: A HIGH REDSHIFT STARBURST ANALOGUE"

2002 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

RXTE AO8 "ESSENTIAL X-RAY MONITORING OF ETA CAR'S NEXT X-RAY ECLIPSE"

2002 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

XMM AO2 "THE X-RAY VARIABILITY OF ETA CAR DURING THE APPROACH TO PERIASTRON"

2002 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

XMM AO2 "THE X-RAY SPECTRAL EVOLUTION OF ETA CAR DURING THE X-RAY ECLIPSE"

2002 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

CHANDRA AO3 "UNVEILING ETA CAR: CHANDRA OBSERVATIONS DURING THE 2003.5 EVENT"

2003 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

RXTE AO9 "CONTINUED MONITORING OF ETA CAR'S X-RAY VARIABILITY"

2003 - Present -- NASA/GSFC, Principal Investigator

XMM AO3 "X-RAY MONITORING OF ETA CAR'S ECLIPSE EGRESS: EVIDENCE FOR A "MINI-ERUPTION?"

EDUCATION AND OUTREACH:

1992-1994 -- Invited Speaker, Career Day, Baltimore Elementary Schools.

1996 -- Mentor, Space Science Student Involvement Program, GSFC

1997 -- speaker, Cosgriff Elementary School, Salt Lake City, UT

1998 -- speaker, STAR Amateur Astronomy club, NJ.

1999 -- Mentor, Frank Chung, Eleanor Roosevelt High Research Practicum program

2000 -- Mentor, Ebony Carson, Eleanor Roosevelt High School Research Practicum program

2000 -- Mentor, Nardos Ghirmai, Northwestern High School, GSFC Apprenticeship program

2001 -- Mentor, Si Tran, Parkdale High School

2002 -- Mentor, Justin Heath, Southern High School

2003 -- Mentor, Amanda Greenwell, Southern High School

2004 -- Mentor, Laura Woodworth, Eleanor Roosevelt High School Research Practicum program

COMMITTEES:

GSFC COMMITTEES:

2000-- LHEA Seminar Committee, Chair

OTHER COMMITTEES:

1995--Scientific Organizing Committee, "Workshop on Colliding Winds in Binary Stars", La Plata, Argentina.

1998 -Scientific Organizing Committee, "Eta Carinae at the Millenium", Gallatin Gateway, Montana

2002 -Scientific Organizing Committee, "Eta Carinae: Reading the Legend", Mt. Rainier, Washington (Agenda subcommittee chair)

PROFESSIONAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS:

American Physical Society

American Astronomical Society

International Astronomical Union

INVITED LECTURES

1993 - "The Carina Nebula in X-rays", given at "The Eta Carina Region - A Laboratory for Stellar Astrophysics", Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

1995 - "X-ray Emission from Colliding Wind Binaries", given at the "Workshop on Colliding Winds in Binary Stars", Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

1996 - "X-ray Variability of Eta Carinae", at "Luminous Blue Variables - Massive Stars in Transition" Kona, HI

1997 - "X-ray Emission from Open Clusters", at "Hot Stars in Open Clusters of the Galaxy and the Magellanic Clouds", Universidad Nacional de La Plata, La Plata, Argentina

1998 - "Resolving X-ray Spectral Variations in Eta Carinae", Eta Carinae at the Millenium, Gallatin Gateway, MT, July 19th ­ 23rd 1998

1998 - "Resolving X-ray Emission in Eta Carinae", Eta Carinae at the Millenium, Gallatin Gateway, MT, July 19th - 23rd 1998

2000 - "Solving the X-ray Lightcurve of Eta Car", Eta Car and Other Mysterious Stars, Hven, Sweden, Aug 24th-26th 2000

2001 - "The CHANDRA HETGS X-ray Grating Spectrum of Eta Carinae", Two Years of Science with CHANDRA, Washington DC, September 5-7 2001

2002 - "X-ray observations of massive colliding wind binaries", A Massive Star Odyssey, from Main Sequence to Supernova, IAU Symposium 212, Lanzarote, Canary Islands, 24-28 June 2002

2002 - "X-ray Variability of Eta Carinae", Eta Carinae: Reading the Legend, Mount Rainier, WA, 11-13 July 2002

2003 - "X-rays of a Monster Star: Eta Car Approaching The X-ray Eclipse", HEAD 2003 Meeting: High Energy Astrophysics in the "Beyond Einstein" Era, 23-26 March, 2003, at Mt. Tremblant, Quebec

2003 - "X-raying a Stellar Monster", Oklahoma University, Norman OK, 19 Sep, 2003

2004 - "X-raying a Stellar Monster", National Capital Astronomers, 3 Jan 2004

2004 - "Multi-Wavelength Observations of Colliding Stellar Winds", X-Ray and Radio Connections, Santa Fe, NM, 3-6 Feb, 2004 (ppt or pdf)

2004 - "The Last X-ray Eclipse of Eta Carinae", Penn State University, State College, PA, 22 Sep 2004 (pdf)

2004 - "X-rays from an Imposter", "The Fate of the Most Massive Stars", May 23-28 2004, Jackson Lake Lodge, Jackson Hole, WY

2004 - "X-ray Gyrations of Eta Car, or, Is Presence of Evidence Evidence of Presence?", "Massive Stars in Interacting Binaries", August 16-20 2004, Lake Sacacomie, Quebec

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS

"IUE Observations of V Sagittae", R. H. Koch, M. F. Corcoran, B. D. Holenstein, and G. E. McCluskey Jr., 1986, ApJ, 306, 618.

"Circumstellar Material Around the Massive Close Binary DH Cep", M. F. Corcoran, 1991, ApJ, 366, 308.

"H Beta Photometry of V1010 Ophiuchi", M. F. Corcoran, M. J. Siah, and E. F. Guinan, 1991, AJ, 101, 1828.

"Properties of the Massive X-ray Binary Uhuru 1700-37 = HD 153919", S. R. Heap and M. F. Corcoran, 1992, ApJ, 387, 340.

"Broad-Band X-ray Telescope Spectroscopy of Zeta Pup", M. F. Corcoran et al., 1993, ApJ, 412, 792.

"Effects of Coronal and Shock-Produced X-rays on the Ionization Distribution in Hot Star Winds", J. J. MacFarlane et al., 1993, ApJ, 429. 813.

"ASCA Solid State Imaging Spectrometer Observations of O Stars", M. F. Corcoran, W. L. Waldron, J. J. MacFarlane, W. Chen, A. M. T. Pollock, K. Torii, S. Kitamoto, N. Miura, M. Egoshi, and Y. Ohno, 1994, ApJ, 436, L95.

"Calibrating BBXRT", K. A. Weaver, et al., 1994, ApJS, 96, 303.

"Spectroscopic Binary Orbits from Ultraviolet Radial Velocities - Paper 16: EM Carinae (HD 97484)", D. J. Stickland, C. Lloyd, and M. F. Corcoran, 1994, The Observatory, 114, 284.

"First Detection of X-ray Variability of Eta Carinae", M. F. Corcoran, G. L. Rawley, J. H. Swank, and R. Petre, 1995, ApJ, 445, L121.

"X-ray Variability in V444 Cygni - Evidence for Colliding Winds?", M. F. Corcoran, I. R. Stevens, A. M. T. Pollock, J. H. Swank, S. N. Shore, and G. L. Rawley, 1996, ApJ, 464, 434.

"ASCA Observations of Gamma2 Velorum (WC8+O9I): The Variable X-ray Spectrum of Colliding Winds", I. R. Stevens, M. F. Corcoran, A. J. Willis, S. L. Skinner, A. M. T. Pollock, F. Nagase, and K. Koyama, 1996, MNRAS, 283, 589.

"Dynamic Processes in Be Star Atmospheres. VI. Simultaneous X-Ray, Ultraviolet, and Optical Variations in Lambda Eridani", M. A. Smith, Murakami, T., Ezuka, H., Anandarao, B. G., Chakraborty, A., Corcoran, M. F., and Hirata, R., 1997, ApJ, 481, 479.

"Increasing X-ray emissions and periodic outbursts from the massive star eta Carinae", Corcoran, M. F., Ishibashi, K., Swank, J. H., Davidson, K., Petre, R. Schmitt, J. H. M. M., 1997, Nature, 390, 587.

"The ASCA X-ray Spectrum of Eta Carinae", M. F. Corcoran, R. Petre, J. H. Swank, S. A. Drake, K. Koyama, Y. Tsuboi, R. Viotti, A. Damineli, K. Davidson, K. Ishibashi, S. White, and D. Currie, 1998, ApJ, 494, 381.

"The relationship between two periodicities observed in Eta Carinae", K. Davidson, K. Ishibashi, and M. F. Corcoran, 1998, New Astr., 3, 241.

"The X-ray light curve of Eta Carinae", J. M. Pittard, I. R. Stevens, M. F. Corcoran and K. Ishibashi, 1998, MNRAS, 299, 5P.

"X-Ray and Radio Observations of the Cygnus OB2 Association", W. L. Waldron, M. F. Corcoran, S. A. Drake, and A. P. Smale, 1998, ApJS, 118, 217.

"Recurrent X-Ray Emission Variations of Eta Carinae and the Binary Hypothesis", K. Ishibashi, M. F. Corcoran, K. Davidson, J. H. Swank, R. Petre, S. A. Drake, A. Damineli, and S. White, 1999, ApJ, 524, 983.

"ASCA spectroscopy of the hard X-ray emission from the colliding wind interaction in Gamma2 Velorum", G. Rauw, I. R. Stevens, J. M. Pittard, M. F. Corcoran, 2000, MNRAS, 316, 129.

"Coordinated monitoring of the eccentric O-star binary Iota Orionis: optical spectroscopy and photometry", Sergey V. Marchenko, Gregor Rauw, Eleonora A. Antokhina, Igor I. Antokhin, Dominique Ballereau, Jacques Chauville, Michael F. Corcoran, Rafael Costero, Juan Echevarria, Thomas Eversberg, Ken G. Gayley, Gloria Koenigsberger, Anatoly S. Miroshnichenko, Anthony F. J. Moffat, Nidia I. Morrell, Nancy D. Morrison, Christopher L. Mulliss, Julian M. Pittard, Ian R. Stevens, Jean-Marie Vreux, and Jean Zorec, 2000, MNRAS, 317, 333.

"Coordinated monitoring of the eccentric O-star binary Iota Orionis: the X-ray analysis", Julian M. Pittard, Ian R. Stevens, Michael F. Corcoran, Ken G. Gayley, Sergey V. Marchenko, and Gregor Rauw, 2000, MNRAS, 319, 137.

"The X-Ray Spectral Evolution of Eta Carinae as Seen by ASCA", M. F. Corcoran, A. C. Fredericks, R. Petre, J. H. Swank, and S. A. Drake, 2000, ApJ, 545, 420.

"The X-Ray Light Curve of Eta Carinae: Refinement of the Orbit and Evidence for Phase-dependent Mass Loss", M. F. Corcoran, K. Ishibashi, J. H. Swank, and R. Petre, 2001, ApJ, 547, 1034.

"Optical spectroscopy of X-MEGA targets I. CPD -59 2635: A New Double-Lined O type Binary in the Carina Nebula", J.F. Albacete Colombo, N.I. Morrell, V.S. Niemela, and M.F. Corcoran, 2001, MNRAS, 326, 78.

"Optical spectroscopy of X-Mega targets in the Carina Nebula. II. The massive double-lined O-type binary HD 93205", N.I. Morrell, R.H. Barbá, V.S. Niemela, M.A. Corti, J.F. Albacete Colombo, G. Rauw, M. Corcoran, T. Morel, J.-F. Bertrand, A.F.J. Moffat, and N. St-Louis, 2001, MNRAS, 326, 85.

"Early Chandra X-ray observations of η Carinae", F. D. Seward, Y. M. Butt, M. Karovska, A. Prestwich, E. M. Schlegel, and M. Corcoran, 2001, ApJ, 553, 832

"X-Rays and Protostars in the Trifid Nebula", Jeonghee Rho, Michael F. Corcoran, You-Hua Chu, and William T. Reach, 2001, ApJ, 562, 446

"The CHANDRA HETGS X-ray Grating Spectrum of η Carinae", M. F. Corcoran, J. H. Swank, R. Petre, K. Ishibashi, K. Davidson, L. Townsley, R. Smith, S. White, R. Viotti, & A. Damineli, 2001, ApJ, 562, 1031

MOST RECENT REFEREED PUBLICATION

"In hot pursuit of the hidden companion of eta Carinae: An X-ray determination of the wind parameters", J. M. Pittard and M. F. Corcoran, 2002, A&A, 383, 636.

"BeppoSAX broad X-ray range observations of eta Carinae during high and low spectroscopic states", R. F. Viotti, L. A. Antonelli, M. F. Corcoran, A. Damineli, P. Grandi, J. M. Muller, S. Rebecchi, C. Rossi, & M. Villada, 2002 A&A, 385, 874

"The massive double-lined O-type binary HD 165052", Arias, J. I., Morrell, N. I., Barbá, R. H., Bosch, G. L., Grosso, M., Corcoran, M., 2002, MNRAS, 333, 202

"Australia Telescope Compact Array Radio Imaging of the Proplyd-like Objects in the Giant H II Region NGC 3603", Mücke, A., Koribalski, B. S., Moffat, A. F. J., Corcoran, M. F., Stevens, I. R., 2002, ApJ, 571, 366

"High Resolution X-ray Imaging of the Colliding Wind Shock in WR147", J. M. Pittard, I. R. Stevens, P. M. Williams, A. M. T. Pollock, S. L. Skinner, M. F. Corcoran, and A. F. J. Moffat, 2002, A&A, 388, 335

"Galactic Starburst NGC 3603 from X-Rays to Radio", A. F. J. Moffat, M. F. Corcoran, I. R. Stevens, G. Skalkowski, S. V. Marchenko, A. Mücke, A. Ptak, B. S. Koribalski, L. Brenneman, R. Mushotzky, J. M. Pittard, A. M. T. Pollock, and W. Brandner, 2002, ApJ, 575, 191

"An X-Ray Investigation of the NGC 346 Field in the Small Magellanic Cloud I. The Luminous Blue Variable HD 5980 and the NGC 346 Cluster", Yael Naze, J. M. Hartwell, I. R. Stevens, M. F. Corcoran, Y.-H. Chu, G. Koenigsberger, A. F. J. Moffat, and V. S. Niemela, 2002, ApJ, 580, 225

"An X-Ray Investigation of the NGC 346 Field in the Small Magellanic Cloud. II. The Field Population", Nazé, Y., J. M. Hartwell, I. R. Stevens, J. Manfroid, S. Marchenko, M. F. Corcoran, A. F. J. Moffat, and G. Skalkowski, 2003, ApJ, 983

"An XMM-Newton observation of the Lagoon Nebula and the very young open cluster NGC 6530",Rauw, G., Y. Nazé, E. Gosset, I. R. Stevens, R. Blomme, M. F. Corcoran, J. M. Pittard, and M. C. Runacres, 2002, A&A, 499

"A multi-wavelength investigation of the non-thermal radio emitting O-star 9 Sgr",Rauw, G., R. Blomme, W. L. Waldron, M. F. Corcoran, J. M. Pittard, A. M. T. Pollock, M. C. Runacres, H. Sana, I. R. Stevens, and S. Van Loo, 2002, A&A, 993

"Chandra Grating Spectroscopy of the X-Ray Binary 4U 1700-37 in a Flaring State", Bram Boroson, Saeqa Dil Vrtilek, Timothy Kallman, & Michael Corcoran, 2003, Astrophysical Journal, 592, 516

"CHANDRA/VLA Follow-up of TeV J2032+4131, the Only Unidentified TeV Gamma-ray Source", Yousaf M. Butt, Paula Benaglia, Jorge A. Combi, Michael Corcoran, Thomas M. Dame, Jeremy Drake, Marina Kaufman Bernado´, Peter Milne, Francesco Miniati, Martin Pohl, Olaf Reimer, Gustavo E. Romero, Michael Rupen, 2003, ApJ, 597, 494

"Chandra Observations of a Young Embedded Magnetic B Star in the Rho Ophiuchus Cloud", Kenji Hamaguchi, Michael F. Corcoran, & Kensuke Imanishi, 2003, PASJ, 55, 981.

"A spectral and spatial analysis of Carinae's diffuse X-ray emission using CHANDRA", K. Weis, M. F. Corcoran, D. J. Bomans, and K. Davidson, 2004, A&A, 415, 595.

"Kinematics and Ultraviolet to Infrared Morphology of the Inner Homunculus of Carinae", Nathan Smith, Jon A. Morse, Theodore R. Gull, D. John Hillier, Robert D. Gehrz, Nolan R. Walborn, Manuel Bautista, Nicholas R. Collins, Michael F. Corcoran, Augusto Damineli, Fred Hamann, Henrik Hartman, Sveneric Johansson, Otmar Stahl, and Kerstin Weis, 2004, ApJ, 605, 405.

"Chandra Observation of the Trifid Nebula: X-Ray Emission from the O Star Complex and Actively Forming Pre-Main-Sequence Stars", Jeonghee Rho, Solange V. Ramirez, Michael F. Corcoran, Kenji Hamaguchi, & Betrand Lefloch, 2004, ApJ, 607, 405.

"An X-Ray Investigation of the NGC 346 Field in the Small Magellanic Cloud. III. XMM-Newton Data", Yaël Nazé, Jean Manfroid, Ian R. Stevens, Michael F. Corcoran, and Aaron Flores, 2004, ApJ, 608, 208.

"Waiting in the Wings: Reflected X-Ray Emission from the Homunculus Nebula", M. F. Corcoran, K. Hamaguchi, T. Gull, K. Davidson, R. Petre, D. J. Hillier, N. Smith, A. Damineli, J. A. Morse, N. R. Walborn, E. Verner, N. Collins, S. White, J. M. Pittard, K. Weis, D. Bomans, and Y. Butt, 2004, ApJ, 613, 381.

"A Period and a Prediction for the Of?p Spectrum Alternator HD 191612", Nolan R. Walborn, Ian D. Howarth, Gregor Rauw, Daniel J. Lennon, Howard E. Bond, Ignacio Negueruela, Yaël Nazé, Michael F. Corcoran, Artemio Herrero, and Anne Pellerin, 2004, ApJ, 617, L61.

"A Change in the Physical State of Eta Carinae?",K. Davidson, J. Martin, R. M. Humphreys, K. Ishibashi, T. R. Gull, O. Stahl, K. Weis, D. J. Hillier, A. Damineli, M. Corcoran, & F. Hamann, 2005, AJ, 129, 900.

"X-Ray Monitoring of Eta Carinae: Variations on a Theme", M. F. Corcoran, 2005, AJ, 129, 2018 (electronic version of Table 2, RXTE PCU lightcurve, 1996-2004)

OTHER SIGNIFICANT PUBLICATIONS

Go to most recent publications

"Polarizing Gas at Small Optical Depths around Algols", R. H. Koch, N. M. Elias, M. F. Corcoran, and B. D. Holenstein, 1988, Sp. Sci. Rev. 50, 63.

"Winds and the Underlying Physical Parameters of Hot Stars: An Observational Approach", M. F. Corcoran, 1990, ASP Conference Ser. 7, 294.

"The Mass of the O6Iaf Star HD 153919", S. R. Heap and M. F. Corcoran, 1990, ASP Conference Ser. 7, 297.

"X-ray Variability in V444 Cygni - Evidence for Colliding Winds", M. F. Corcoran, S. N. Shore, J. H. Swank, S. R. Heap, G. L. Rawley, A. M. Pollock, and I. R. Stevens, 1992, ASP Conference Ser., 35, 260.

"X-ray Variability in V444 Cygni - Evidence for Colliding Winds", M. F. Corcoran, S. N. Shore, J. H. Swank, S. R. Heap, G. L. Rawley, A. M. Pollock, and I. R. Stevens, 1993, Adv. Sp. Res., 13, (12)295.

"The Carina Nebula in X-rays", M. F. Corcoran, J. Swank, G. Rawley, R. Petre, J. Schmitt, and C. Day, 1994, AIP Conference Proceedings 313, 159.

"ROSAT: The Images Volume 1", B. O'Neel, B. Perry, W. Pence, M. F. Corcoran, N. White, R. Petre, and K. Smale, 1994, HEASARC.

"ROSAT: The Images Volume 2", M. F. Corcoran, B. O'Neel, B. Perry, K. Smale, W. Pence, White, N., and R. Petre, 1994, HEASARC.

"ROSAT: The Images Volume 3", M. F. Corcoran, B. O'Neel, B. Perry, K. Smale, W. Pence, White, N., and R. Petre, 1995, HEASARC.

"ROSAT: The Images Volume 4", M. F. Corcoran, B. O'Neel, B. Perry, K. Smale, W. Pence, White, N., and R. Petre, 1995, HEASARC.

"The Carina Nebula in X-rays", M. F. Corcoran, J. Swank, G. Rawley, R. Petre, J. Schmitt, and C. Day, 1995, Rev. Mex. Conf. Ser., 2, 97.

"The ROSAT PSPC Survey of Wolf-Rayet Stars", A. M. T. Pollock, F. W. Haberl, and M. F. Corcoran, 1995, in Wolf-Rayet Stars: Binaries, Colliding Winds, Evolution, ed. van der Hucht, K, and Williams, P. (Kluwer:Dordrecht), p. 512.

"ASCA X-ray Spectroscopy of WR 140 Near Periastron", A. M. T. Pollock, M. F. Corcoran, I. R. Stevens, P. M. Williams, and K. van der Hucht, 1995, in Wolf-Rayet Stars: Binaries, Colliding Winds, Evolution, ed. van Der Hucht, K, and Williams, P. (Kluwer:Dordrecht), p. 510.

"ASCA Observations of Colliding Stellar Winds in Gamma Velorum", Stevens, I. R., Skinner, S. L., Nagase, F., Corcoran, M. F., Willis, A.J., Pollock, A. M. T., and Koyama, K., 1995, Ap&SS, 224, 569.

"Eta Carinae: Variability in a New Light", M. F. Corcoran, G. L. Rawley, J. H. Swank, R. Petre, and J. H. M. M. Schmitt, 1996, in "Roentgenstrahlung from the Universe", ed Zimmerman, H. U., Truemper, J., and Yorke, H., (MPE Report 263), 25.

"X-ray Emission from Colliding Wind Binaries", M. F. Corcoran, 1996, in "Proceedings of the Workshop on Colliding Winds in Binary Stars", RMAA Conf. Ser. 5, 54.

MOST RECENT OTHER PUBLICATION

"X-Ray Emission from Massive Stars in Open Clusters", 1999, Rev. Mex. Astron. Astrofis. Serie de Conf., 8, 131 (available in postscript or PDF formats)

"RXTE X-ray Monitoring of the Supermassive Star Eta Carinae: Colliding Wind Emission in a Pre-Hypernova Candidate Binary?", M. F. Corcoran, A. C. Fredericks, R. Petre, J. H. Swank, S. A. Drake, K. Davidson K. Ishibashi, S. White, and A. Damineli, In the proceedings of the 1999 Cosmic Explosions Workshop at the University of Maryland, in press.

"Eta Carinae", Corcoran, M.~F., Drake, S.~A., Swank, J.~H., Petre, R., Ishibashi, K., Davidson, K., Humphreys, R., Damineli, A., Koyama, K., Tsuboi, Y., & Viotti, R., 1999, International Astronomical Union Circular, 7177, 2

"A Study of Nonthermal X-Ray and Radio Emission from the O Star 9 Sgr", Waldron, Wayne L., Corcoran, Michael F., & Drake, Stephen A., 1999, NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N, 99, 16711

"Six Early Type Stars Observed by ASCA", Kitamoto, Shunji, Tanaka, Sachiko, Suzuki, Takeshi, Torii, Ken'ich, Corcoran, M.~F., & Waldron, W., 2000, Advances in Space Research, 25, 527

"Recurrent X-ray Emission Variation of Eta Carinae and the Binary Hypothesis", Ishibashi, K., Corcoran, M.~F., Swank, J.~H., Davidson, K., Drake, S.~A., Petre, R., Damineli, A., & White, S., Rossi2000: Astrophysics with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. March 22-24, 2000 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD USA, p.E93

"RXTE X-ray monitoring of the supermassive star eta carinae: Colliding wind emission in a pre-hypernova candidate binary?", Corcoran, M.~F., Fredericks, A.~C., Petre, R., Swank, J.~H., Drake, S.~A., Davidson, K., Ishibashi, K., White, S., & Damineli, A., 2000, Cosmic Explosions: Tenth Astrophysics Conference. AIP Conference Proceedings, Vol. 522. College Park, Maryland, 11-13 Oct 1999. Edited by Stephen S. Holt and William W. Zhang, p.431

"Solving the X-Ray Variability of Eta Carinae", Corcoran, M., Ishibashi, K., Swank, J., & Petre, R., 2001, ASP Conf. Ser. 242: Eta Carinae and Other Mysterious Stars: The Hidden Opportunities of Emission Spectroscopy, 41

"The 5.52 Year Cycle of Eta Carinae: BeppoSAX Detection of Variable Hard (> 10 keV) X-Ray Emission", Rebecchi, S., Viotti, R.~F., Grandi, P., Antonelli, L.~A., Corcoran, M.~F., Damineli, A., & Rossi, C., 2001, ASP Conf. Ser. 234: X-ray Astronomy 2000, 107

"An XMM-Newton Study of 9SGR and the Lagoon Nebula", Rauw, G., Blomme, R., Waldron, W.~L., Naze, Y., Harries, T.~J., Chapman, J.~M., Corcoran, M.~F., Detal, A., & Gosset, E., 2001, NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N, 2, 47005

"X-ray emission and variability of eta Carinae", Corcoran, M.~F., Ishibashi, K., Swank, J.~H., & Petre, R., 2001, ASP Conf. Ser. 233: P Cygni 2000: 400 Years of Progress, 75

"The Chandra HETGS X-ray Grating Spectrum of η Carinae", Corcoran, M.~F., Swank, J.~H., & Petre, R., 2001, Two Years of Science with Chandra, Symposium held in Washington, DC, 5-7 September

"ClassX: Prototyping the Virtual Observatory with an X-ray Classifier", McGlynn, T., Angelini, L., Corcoran, M., Drake, S., Hanisch, R., White, R., Postman, M., Donahue, M., Suchkov, A., Genova, F., Ochsenbein, F., Fernique, P., & Wenger, M., 2002, ASP Conf. Ser. 281: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XI, 11, 50

"New X-Ray Results on Colliding Wind Systems: Chandra Observations of NGC 3603", Stevens, Ian R., Corcoran, Michael F., & Moffat, Anthony F.~J., 2002, ASP Conf. Ser. 260: Interacting Winds from Massive Stars, 343

"X-Ray Variability and the Nature of Eta Carinae", Corcoran, M.~F., Ishibashi, K., Swank, J.~H., & Petre, R., 2002, ASP Conf. Ser. 260: Interacting Winds from Massive Stars, 481

"Testing Colliding-Wind X-Ray Theories with WR140", Pollock, A.~M.~T., Corcoran, M.~F., & Stevens, I.~R., 2002, ASP Conf. Ser. 260: Interacting Winds from Massive Stars, 537

"On the X-ray Emission of η Carinae's Outer Ejecta", Weis, K., Corcoran, M.~F., & Davidson, K., 2002, ASP Conf. Ser. 262: The High Energy Universe at Sharp Focus: Chandra Science, 275

"eta Carinae", Corcoran, M.~F., 2002, International Astronomical Union Circular, 7886, 1

"Classifying the High Energy Universe with ClassX, McGlynn, Thomas, Suchkov, Anatoly, Winter, Eric, Angelini, Lorella, Corcoran, Michael, Derriere, Sebastien, Donahue, Megan, Drake, Stephen, Fernique, Pierre, Genova, Francois, Hanisch, Robert J., Ochsenbein, Francois, Pence, William D., Postman, Marc, White, Nicholas, & White, Richard L., 2002, Virtual Observatories. Edited by Szalay, Alexander S. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 4846, pp. 43-52 (2002)., 4846, 43

"Automated Classification of X-Ray Sources", Hanisch, Robert J., Suchkov, Anatoly A., White, Richard L., McGlynn, Thomas A., Winter, Eric L., Corcoran, Michael F., & Voges, Wolfgang, 2003, Large Telescops and Virtual Observatory: Visions for the Future, 25th meeting of the IAU, Joint Discussion 8, 17 July 2003, Sydney, Australia, 8

"Is the Ejecta of Eta Carinae Overabundant or Overexcited?", Gull, Theodore, Davidson, Kris, Johansson, Sveneric, Damineli, Augusto, Ishibashi, Kazunori, Corcoran, Michael, Hartman, Henrick, Viera, Gladys, Nielsen, Krister, & Eta Carinae Teams, 2003, Frontiers of High Resolution Spectroscopy, 25th meeting of the IAU, Joint Discussion 20, 23-24 July 2003, Sydney, Australia, 20

"X-ray observations of massive colliding wind binaries", Corcoran, Michael F., 2003, IAU Symposium, 212, 130

"In hot pursuit of the hidden companion of η Carinae: an X-ray determination of the wind parameters", Pittard, Julian M. & Corcoran, Michael F., 2003, IAU Symposium, 212, 218

"High-resolution X-ray imaging of the colliding wind shock in WR 147 (WN8(h)+B0.5V)", Pittard, Julian M., Stevens, Ian R., Williams, Peredur M., Pollock, Andrew M.~T., Skinner, Steven L., Corcoran, Michael F., & Moffat, Anthony F.~J., 2003, IAU Symposium, 212, 222

"A high-resolution study of η Carinae's outer ejecta", Weis, Kerstin, Corcoran, Michael F., Davidson, Kris, & Humphreys, Roberta M., 2003, IAU Symposium, 212, 759

"Cosmic Ray Acceleration by Cygnus OB2?", Butt, Yousaf, Benaglia, Paula, Combi, Jorge, Corcoran, Michael, Dame, Thomas, Drake, Jeremy, Kaufman Bernado, Marina, Milne, Peter, Miniati, Francesco, & Pohl, Martin, IAU Symposium, 217, (2003)

An XMM-Newton Observation of the Herbig BE Star, TY CRA, Hamaguchi, Kenji & Corcoran, Michael F., IAU Symposium, 221, (2003)

"Automated Object Classification with ClassX", Suchkov, A.~A., Hanisch, R.~J., White, R.~L., Postman, M., Donahue, M.~E., McGlynn, T.~A., Angelini, L., Corcoran, M.~F., Drake, S.~A., Pence, W.~D., White, N., Winter, E.~L., Genova, F., Ochsenbein, F., Fernique, P., & Derriere, S., 2003, ASP Conf. Ser. 295: Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems XII, 12, 419

"The Wind Properties of Eta Carinae", Pittard, J. M. & Corcoran, M.F., Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series, 15, 81-81 (2003)

"X-rays of a Monster Star: Eta Car Approaching The X-ray Eclipse", Corcoran, M. F., 2003, AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division, 35,

"CHANDRA/VLA Follow-up of TeV J2032+4131, the Only Unidentified TeV Gamma-ray Source", Butt, Y., Benaglia, P., Combi, J., Corcoran, M., Dame, T., Drake, J., Kaufman Bernado, M., Milne, P., Miniati, F., Pohl, M., Reimer, O., Romero, G., & Rupen, M., 2003, AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division, 35,

"X-ray Astronomy", Corcoran, Michael F., 2002, The Encyclopedia of Physical Sciences and Technology, 3rd Edition, Vol. 17, Section 2.01

"eta Carinae", M. F. Corcoran, International Astronomical Union Circular, 2003, 8160, 3

"eta Carinae", M. F. Corcoran, International Astronomical Union Circular, 2003, 8154, 2

"eta Carinae", M. F. Corcoran, International Astronomical Union Circular, 2003, 8146, 1

"eta Carinae", M. F. Corcoran, International Astronomical Union Circular, 2003, 8137, 3

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