Dr James McKee

Dr James McKee

Lecturer

Faculty and Department

  • Faculty of Science and Engineering
  • Data Science AI and Modelling Centre (DAIM)

Qualifications

  • BSc (University of Hull)
  • PhD / DPhil (University of Manchester)

Summary

I am an astrophysicist at the E.A. Milne Centre for Astrophysics and a lecturer in the Centre of Excellence for Data Science, Artificial Intelligence and Modelling (DAIM). I work on radio astronomy of pulsars, using some of the most sensitive telescopes in the world. My main areas of research are pulsar timing, the interstellar medium, and single pulse emission from pulsars.

I studied Physics at the University of Hull and was awarded a Ph.D. in Astronomy & Astrophysics by The University of Manchester. I have held research positions at the Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy and the Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics.

I am a member of several international collaborations including:

Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME)

North American NanoHertz Observatory for Gravitational Waves (NANOGrav)

Large European Array for Pulsars (LEAP)

European Pulsar Timing Array (EPTA)

International Pulsar Timing Array (IPTA)

The NenuFAR array

Recent outputs

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Journal Article

An Unusual Pulse Shape Change Event in PSR J1713+0747 Observed with the Green Bank Telescope and CHIME

Jennings, R. J., Cordes, J. M., Chatterjee, S., McLaughlin, M. A., Demorest, P. B., Arzoumanian, Z., …Witt, C. A. (2024). An Unusual Pulse Shape Change Event in PSR J1713+0747 Observed with the Green Bank Telescope and CHIME. The Astrophysical journal, 964(2), Article 179. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad2930

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Transverse Polarization Modes in the Gravitational-wave Background

Agazie, G., Anumarlapudi, A., Archibald, A. M., Arzoumanian, Z., Baier, J., Baker, P. T., …The NANOGrav Collaboration. (2024). The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Search for Transverse Polarization Modes in the Gravitational-wave Background. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 964(1), L14. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad2a51

The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: A Computationally Efficient Eccentric Binary Search Pipeline and Constraints on an Eccentric Supermassive Binary Candidate in 3C 66B

Agazie, G., Arzoumanian, Z., Baker, P. T., Bécsy, B., Blecha, L., Blumer, H., …The NANOGrav Collaboration. (2024). The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: A Computationally Efficient Eccentric Binary Search Pipeline and Constraints on an Eccentric Supermassive Binary Candidate in 3C 66B. The Astrophysical journal, 963(2), 144. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad1f61

The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Search for Gravitational Wave Memory

Agazie, G., Arzoumanian, Z., Baker, P. T., Bécsy, B., Blecha, L., Blumer, H., …The NANOGrav Collaboration. (2024). The NANOGrav 12.5 yr Data Set: Search for Gravitational Wave Memory. The Astrophysical journal, 963(1), Article 61. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad0726

The Green Bank North Celestial Cap Survey. IX. Timing Follow-up for 128 Pulsars

McEwen, A. E., Swiggum, J. K., Kaplan, D. L., Tan, C. M., Meyers, B. W., Fonseca, E., …Stairs, I. H. (2024). The Green Bank North Celestial Cap Survey. IX. Timing Follow-up for 128 Pulsars. The Astrophysical journal, 962(2), Article 167. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ad11f0

Research interests

Pulsars

Neutron stars

The interstellar medium

Gravitational waves

Radio astronomy

Testing theories of gravity

Lead investigator

Project

Funder

Grant

Started

Status

Project

EMO-GP: Emission Mechanisms of Giant Pulses

Funder

STFC Science & Technology Facilities Council

Grant

£446,691.00

Started

1 April 2024

Status

Ongoing

Postgraduate supervision

Radio astronomy of pulsars

Current student: Georgia Lowes, "Shedding light on pulsar emission and its propagation through plasma environments"

Membership/Fellowship of professional body

Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society

2023

International Astronomical Union

2018

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