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

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational-wave Background

Agazie, G., Anumarlapudi, A., Archibald, A. M., Baker, P. T., Bécsy, B., Blecha, L., …Sun, J. P. (2023). The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Constraints on Supermassive Black Hole Binaries from the Gravitational-wave Background. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 952(2), Article L37. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ace18b

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries

Agazie, G., Anumarlapudi, A., Archibald, A. M., Arzoumanian, Z., Baker, P. T., Bécsy, B., …Young, O. (2023). The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Bayesian Limits on Gravitational Waves from Individual Supermassive Black Hole Binaries. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 951(2), Article L50. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ace18a

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Observations and Timing of 68 Millisecond Pulsars

Agazie, G., Faisal Alam, M. F., Anumarlapudi, A., Archibald, A. M., Arzoumanian, Z., Baker, P. T., …NANOGrav Collaboration. (2023). The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Observations and Timing of 68 Millisecond Pulsars. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 951(1), Article L9. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acda9a

The NANOGrav 15yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics

Afzal, A., Agazie, G., Anumarlapudi, A., Archibald, A. M., Arzoumanian, Z., Baker, P. T., …Siemens, X. (2023). The NANOGrav 15yr Data Set: Search for Signals from New Physics. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 951(1), Article L11. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acdc91

The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Detector Characterization and Noise Budget

Agazie, G., Anumarlapudi, A., Archibald, A. M., Arzoumanian, Z., Baker, P. T., Bécsy, B., …Young, O. (2023). The NANOGrav 15 yr Data Set: Detector Characterization and Noise Budget. Astrophysical journal. Letters, 951(1), Article L10. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/acda88

Research interests

Pulsars

Neutron stars

The interstellar medium

Gravitational waves

Radio astronomy

Testing theories of gravity

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

International Astronomical Union

2018

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