NAME:Dr. Keith A. Arnaud
PRESENT POSITION:Associate Research Scientist
Department of Astronomy
University of Maryland
RESEARCH AREA:X-ray astronomy; Astrostatistics; Computational methods; Gravitational wave astronomy
EDUCATION:
1986 - Ph.D. - Cambridge University, U.K.
1986 - M.A. - Cambridge University, U.K.
1982 - C.A.S.M. - Cambridge University, U.K.
1981 - B.A. - Cambridge University, U.K.
PREVIOUS POSITIONS:
1990-1996Assistant Research Scientist
Department of Astronomy
University of Maryland
1988-1990Research Associate
Department of Astronomy
University of Maryland
1986-1988Postdoctoral Fellow
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for
Astrophysics
1985-1986Herchel-Smith Scholar to Harvard
PROFESSIONAL
SOCIETY
MEMBERSHIPS:
Royal Astronomical Society (Fellow)
American Astronomical Society
NASA AWARDS:
Goddard Space Flight Center Group Achievement Award : BBXRT Payload Developement and Operations Team (1991)
Goddard Space Flight Center Special Act Group Award : US ROSAT Science Data Center Team (1991)
NASA Group Achievement Award : Astro-1 Payload Science Team (1992)
Goddard Space Flight Center Special Act Group Award : Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA) Team (1993)
PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:
Developer and maintainer of the XSPEC X-ray spectral fitting program (1986--present).
ROSAT Guest Observer Facility (1988--1991).
NASA Information Systems Strategic Planning task force (1989).
Editor, US ROSAT newsletter (1989--1991).
Astro-D Science Working Group (1989--present).
US Astro-D User's Group (1991--1994).
Co-chair, Japan/US Astro-D Software Task Team (1991--1992).
ASCA Guest Observer Facility (1991--present).
Astro-E Science Working Group (1995--2000).
Constellation-X Facility Science Team (1997--present).
Chandra User's Committee (1999--present).
Technical Representative, ROSAT AO-1, AO-2, and AO-4 proposal reviews, ASCA AO-2, AO-3, AO-4, AO-5, AO-6 proposal reviews.

PUBLICATIONS IN REFEREED JOURNALS:

60. "Search for Oxygen Emission from Warm-Hot Intergalactic Medium around A2218 with Suzaku" Yoh Takei, Takaya Ohashi, J. Patrick Henry, Kazuhisa Mitsuda, Ryuichi Fujimoto, Takayuki Tamura, Noriko Y. Yamasaki, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Noriaki Tawa, Kyoko Matsushita, Mark W. Bautz, John P. Hughes, Grzegorz M. Madejski, Richard L. Kelley, Keith A. Arnaud, 2006, PASJ, in press

59. "Suzaku Reveals Helium-burning Products in the X-Ray-emitting Planetary Nebula BD +30 3639" M. Murashima, M. Kokubun, K. Makishima, J. Kotoku, H. Murakami, K. Matsushita, K. Hayashida, K. Arnaud, K. Hamaguchi, H. Matsumoto, 2006, ApJ 647, L131.

58. "A Cloudy/XSPEC Interface" R.L. Porter, G.J. Ferland, S.B. Kraemer, B.K. Armentrout, K.A. Arnaud, T.J. Turner, 2006, PASP 118, 920.

57. "A deep Chandra survey of the Groth Strip - I. The X-ray data" K. Nandra, E.S. Laird, K. Adelberger, Jonathan P. Gardner, R.F. Mushotzky, J. Rhodes, C.C. Steidel, H.I. Teplitz, K.A. Arnaud, 2005, MNRAS 356, 568.

56. "Chandra Detection of a Pulsar Wind Nebula Associated with Supernova Remnant 3C 396" C.M. Olbert, J.W. Keohane, K.A. Arnaud, K.K. Dyer, S.P. Reynolds, S. Safi-Harb, 2003, ApJ 592, L45.

55. "X-ray properties of Lyman Break Galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field North region" K. Nandra, R.F. Mushotzky, K.A. Arnaud, C.C. Steidel, K.A. Adelberger, J.P. Gardner, H.I. Teplitz, R.A. Windhorst, 2002 ApJ, 576, 625.

54. "A Chandra X-ray study of Cygnus A - II. The Nucleus" Andrew J. Young, Andrew S. Wilson, Yiuchi Terashima, Keith A. Arnaud, David A. Smith, 2002, ApJ, 564, 176.

53. "A Chandra X-ray study of Cygnus A - III. The Cluster of Galaxies" David A. Smith, Andrew S. Wilson, Keith A. Arnaud, Yiuchi Terashima, Andrew J. Young, 2002, ApJ, 565, 195.

52. "Chandra Limits on X-ray Emission Associated with the Supermassive Black Holes in Three Giant Elliptical Galaxies" M. Loewenstein, R. F. Mushotzky, L. Angelini, K. A. Arnaud, E. Quataert, 2001, ApJ, 555, L21.

51. "Central Elemental Abundance Ratios in Perseus Cluster: Not Resonant Scattering But SNIa Enrichment ?" Renato A. Dupke and Keith A. Arnaud, 2001, Apj, 548, 141.

50. "ASCA and ROSAT observations of nearby cluster cooling flows." S.W. Allen, A.C. Fabian, R.M. Johnstone, K.A. Arnaud, P.E.J. Nulsen, 2001, MNRAS, 322, 589.

49. "A broadband X-ray study of the young SNR 3C397" S. Safi-Harb, R. Petre, K.A. Arnaud, J.W. Keohane, K.J. Borkowski, K.K Dyer, S.P. Reynolds, J.P. Hughes, 2000, ApJ, 545, 922.

48. "On the origin of the iron K line in the spectrum of the galactic X-ray background." Azita Valinia, Vincent Tatischeff, Keith Arnaud, Ken Ebisawa, Reuven Ramaty, 2000, ApJ, 543, 733.

47. "Hard X-ray Observation of Abell 496." Azita Valinia, Keith Arnaud, Michael Loewenstein, Richard F. Mushotzky, Richard Kelley, 2000, ApJ, 541, 550.

46. "Resolving the extragalactic hard X-ray background" R.F. Mushotzky, L.L. Cowie, A.J. Barger, K.A. Arnaud, 2000, Nature, 404, 459

45. "RX J0720.4-3125: Implications for neutron star cooling and the dense matter equation of state" J.C.L. Wang, B. Link, K. van Riper, K. A. Arnaud, and J.A. Miralles, 1999, Astr.Ap., 345, 869

44. "A Dusty X-ray Absorber in the Perseus Cluster ?" K.A. Arnaud and R.F. Mushotzky, 1998, ApJ, 501, 119.

43. "Anomalous Radio Loudness of Cygnus A and Other Powerful Radio Galaxies" P.D. Barthel and K.A. Arnaud, 1996, MNRAS, 283, L45.

42. "Measurement of the Elemental Abundances in Four Rich Clusters of Galaxies I. Observations" R. Mushotzky, M. Loewenstein, K.A. Arnaud, T. Tamura, Y. Fukazawa, K. Matsushita, K. Kikuchi, 1996, ApJ, 471, L83.

41. "X-ray Emission from the Wind-blown Bubble in the Planetary Nebula BD+30 3639" Keith Arnaud, Kazimierz J. Borkowski, J. Patrick Harrington, 1996, ApJ, 462, L75.

40. "Confirmation of 2-40 keV Spectral Complexity in Seyfert Galaxies" K.A. Weaver, K.A. Arnaud, R.F. Mushotzky, 1995, ApJ, 447, 121

39. "Calibrating BBXRT." K.A. Weaver, K.A. Arnaud, E.A. Boldt, D. Christian, M. Corcoran, S.S. Holt, K. Jahoda, R. Kelley, F.E. Marshall, R.F. Mushotzky, R. Petre, G. Rawley, P.J. Serlemitsos, E.M. Schlegel, A.P. Smale, J.H. Swank, A.E. Szymkowiak, 1995, ApJS, 96, 303

38. "Temperature and Iron Abundance Variation of the Gas in the Perseus Cluster" K.A. Arnaud, R.F. Mushotzky, H. Ezawa, Y. Fukazawa, T. Ohashi, M.W. Bautz, G.B. Crew, K.C. Gendreau, K. Yamashita, Y. Kamata, F. Akimoto, 1994, ApJ, 436, L67

37. "ASCA Observations of Cooling Flows in Clusters of Galaxies" A.C. Fabian, K.A. Arnaud, M.W. Bautz, Y. Tawara, ApJ, 436, L63

36. "ASCA Detection of Iron Line Emission from the Distant Galaxy Cluster Abell 370" Marshall W. Bautz, Richard Mushotzky, Andrew C. Fabian, Koujun Yamashita, Keith C. Gendreau, Keith A. Arnaud, Geoffrey B. Crew, and Yuzuru Tawara, 1994, PASJ, 46, L131

35. "An ASCA observation of One Orbital Cycle of AR Lac" N.E. White, K.A. Arnaud, C.S.R. Day, K. Ebisawa, E. Gotthelf, K. Mukai, Y. Soong, T. Yaqoob, and A. Antunes, 1994, PASJ, 46, L97

34. "The Complex Soft X-ray Excess in NGC 4151" K.A. Weaver, R.F. Mushotzky, K.A. Arnaud, P.J. Serlemitsos, F.E. Marshall, R. Petre, K.M. Jahoda, A.P. Smale, and H. Netzer, 1994, ApJ, 423, 621

33. "An Upper Limit to Coronal X-rays from Single, Magnetic White Dwarfs" R. Cavallo, K.A. Arnaud, and V. Trimble, 1993, J.Astr.Ap., 14, 141

32. "Resolving the Iron K line in Cygnus X-2; an observation with BBXRT" A.P. Smale, C. Done, R.F. Mushotzky, K.A. Weaver, P.J. Serlemitsos, F.E. Marshall, R. Petre, K.M. Jahoda, E.A. Boldt, J. Swank, A.E. Szymkowiak, R. Kelley, and K.A. Arnaud, 1993, ApJ, 410, 796

30. "Broad-Band X-Ray Telescope Spectroscopy of Zeta Puppis" M.F. Corcoran, J.H. Swank, P.J. Serlemitsos, E. Boldt, R. Petre, F.E. Marshall, K. Jahoda, R.F. Mushotzky, A.E. Szymkowiak, K. Arnaud, K. Weaver, and S.S. Holt, 1993, ApJ, 412, 792

29. "A Catalog of Intracluster Gas Temperatures" L.P. David, A. Slyz, C. Jones, W. Forman, S. Vrtilek, and K. Arnaud, 1993, ApJ, 412, 479

28. "BBXRT Observations of the Magnetic Cataclysmic Variable H0538+608 = BY Cam" T.R. Kallman, E.M. Schlegel, P.J. Serlemitsos, R. Petre, F. Marshall, K. Jahoda, E.A. Boldt, S.S. Holt, R.F. Mushotzky, J. Swank, A.E. Szymkowiak, R.E. Kelley, A. Smale, K. Arnaud, and K. Weaver, 1993, ApJ, 411, 869

27. "A new X-ray spectral observation of NGC 1068" F.E. Marshall, H. Netzer, K. Arnaud, E.A. Boldt, S.S. Holt, K.M. Jahoda, R. Kelley, R.F. Mushotzky, R. Petre, P.J. Serlemitsos, A.P. Smale, J.H. Swank, A.E. Szymkowiak, and K.A. Weaver, 1993, ApJ, 405, 168

26. "BBXRT Observations of NGC 4151. I. Iron Line Diagnostics" K.A. Weaver, R.F. Mushotzky, K.A. Arnaud, P.J. Serlemitsos, F.E. Marshall, R. Petre, K.M. Jahoda, E.A. Boldt, S.S. Holt, J. Swank, A.E. Szymkowiak, R. Kelley, A.P. Smale, and C. Done, 1992, ApJ, 401, L11

25. "An Ionized Accretion Disk in Cygnus X-1" C. Done, J.S. Mulchaey, R.F. Mushotzky, and K.A. Arnaud, 1992, ApJ, 395, 275

24. "Coronal X-rays from Single, Magnetic White Dwarfs: A Search and Probable Detection" Keith A. Arnaud, Vladimir V. Zheleznyakov and Virginia Trimble, 1992, PASP, 104, 239

23. "The Soft X-ray Excess in Einstein Quasar Spectra" Jean-Louis Masnou, Belinda J. Wilkes, Martin Elvis, Jonathan C. McDowell and Keith A. Arnaud, 1992, Astr.Ap., 253, 35

22. "The discovery of large amounts of cold, X-ray absorbing matter in cooling flows" D.A. White, A.C. Fabian, R.M. Johnstone, R.F. Mushotzky, and K.A. Arnaud, 1991, MNRAS, 252, 72

21. "A Measurement of the Value of the Hubble Constant from the X-ray Properties and the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Effect of Abell 665" M. Birkinshaw, J.P. Hughes and K.A. Arnaud, 1991, ApJ, 379, 466

20. "A measurement of the mass fluctuation spectrum from the cluster X-ray temperature function" J.P. Henry and K.A. Arnaud, 1991, ApJ, 372, 410

19. "A Ubiquitous Absorption Feature in the X-ray Spectra of BL Lacs" Greg M. Madejski, Richard F. Mushotzky, Kimberly A. Weaver, Keith A. Arnaud and C. Megan Urry, 1991, ApJ, 370, 198

18. "Einstein X-ray observations of Hydra A" L.P. David, K.A. Arnaud, W. Forman and C. Jones, 1990, ApJ, 356, 32

17. "An X-ray flux-limited sample of clusters of galaxies: evidence for evolution of the luminosity function" A.C. Edge, G.C. Stewart, A.C. Fabian and K.A. Arnaud, 1990, MNRAS, 245, 559

16. "High Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of Four Active Galaxies: Probing the Intercloud Medium" K.S.K. Lum, C.R. Canizares, T.H. Markert and K.A. Arnaud, 1990, ApJ, 358, 139

15. "An Atlas of Stellar Spectra between 2.00 and 2.45 microns" K.A. Arnaud, Gerard Gilmore and A. Collier Cameron, 1989, MNRAS, 237, 495

14. "A2597: Another Massive Cooling Flow" C.S. Crawford, K.A. Arnaud, A.C. Fabian and R.M. Johnstone, 1989, MNRAS, 236, 277

13. "The X-ray properties of two galaxies with high far-infrared luminosities: Arp 220 and Markarian 231" S.A. Eales and K.A. Arnaud, 1988, ApJ, 324, 193

12. "X-ray observations of the Ophiuchus, PKS 0745-191 and Cygnus-A clusters of galaxies" K.A. Arnaud, R.M. Johnstone, A.C. Fabian, C.S. Crawford, P.E.J. Nulsen, R.A. Shafer and R.F. Mushotzky, 1987, MNRAS, 227, 241

11. "Soft X-ray transients in quiescence: observations of Aql X-1 and Cen X-4" J. van Paradijs, F. Verbunt, R.A. Shafer and K.A. Arnaud, 1987, Astr.Ap., 182, 47

10. "A soft X-ray observation of Omega Centauri with EXOSAT" F. Verbunt, R.A. Shafer, F. Jansen, K.A. Arnaud and J. van Paradijs, 1986, Astr.Ap., 168, 169

9. "The prevalence of cooling flows in elliptical galaxies" P.A. Thomas, A.C. Fabian, K.A. Arnaud, C. Jones and W. Forman, 1986, MNRAS, 222, 655

8. "Mass-to-light ratios in elliptical galaxies" K.A. Arnaud and G. Gilmore, 1986, MNRAS, 220, 759

7. "The detection of distant cooling flows and the formation of dark matter" A.C. Fabian, K.A. Arnaud, P.E.J. Nulsen and R.F. Mushotzky, 1986, ApJ, 305, 9

6. "Some implications of soft X-ray emission from Seyfert 1 galaxies" A.C. Fabian, P.W. Guilbert, K.A. Arnaud, R.A. Shafer, A.F. Tennant and M.J. Ward, 1986, MNRAS, 218, 457

5. "EXOSAT observations of a strong soft X-ray excess in MKN 841" K.A. Arnaud, G. Branduardi-Raymont, J.L. Culhane, A.C. Fabian, C. Hazard, T.A. McGlynn, R.A. Shafer, A.F. Tennant and M.J. Ward, 1985, MNRAS, 217, 105

4. "An X-ray, optical and radio study of PKS 0745-191 : a massive cooling flow" A.C. Fabian, K.A. Arnaud, P.E.J. Nulsen, M.G. Watson, G.C. Stewart, I. McHardy, A. Smith, B. Cooke, M. Elvis and R. Mushotzky, 1985, MNRAS, 216, 923

3. "The intracluster gas around Cygnus-A" K.A. Arnaud, A.C. Fabian, S.A. Eales, C. Jones and W. Forman, 1984, MNRAS, 211, 981

2. "Diffuse Ly-alpha emission around NGC 1275" A.C. Fabian, P.E.J. Nulsen and K.A. Arnaud, 1984, MNRAS, 208, 179

1. "The interrelation of cosmic rays and interstellar gas in the range l:65-180", K.A. Arnaud, Li Ti Pei, P.A. Riley, A.W. Wolfendale, T.M. Dame, J.E. Brock and P. Thaddeus), 1982, MNRAS 201, 745


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