Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

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1 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics (SCIPP) University of California, Santa Cruz 1156 High Street Santa Cruz, CA Tel: (831) Fax: (831) URL: pablo POSITION Assistant Project Scientist. Santa Cruz Institute for Particle Physics, University of California, Santa Cruz RESEARCH INTERESTS Experimental High Energy Astrophysics Pulsar Astrophysics Gamma-Ray Bursts EDUCATION Ph.D. in Physics, Stanford University Dissertation: Timing and Spectral studies of the Peculiar X-ray Binary Circinus X-1. Committee: Elliott Bloom (chair), Robert Wagoner, Peter Michelson M.S. in Physics, Stanford University M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Thermosciences), Stanford University Diplomatura C.C. Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), Madrid, Spain B.S. in Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University EMPLOYMENT Oct 2009 Present - Assistant Project Scientist Oct 2003 Sept Post-doctoral Research Scientist GRANTS & PROPOSALS Co-I of Chandra Proposal Cycle 11, Constraining the Distance & Temperature of LAT PSR J , The Newly Discovered Nearby Middle-Aged Neutron Star (PI: G. Sivakoff) Co-I of Chandra Proposal Cycle 11, Search for the X-Ray counterpart to LAT PSR J (PI: M. Weisskopf)

2 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson p Co-I of Chandra Proposal Cycle 11, A Search for X-rays from Pulsars Discovered by Fermi (PI: M. Roberts) Co-I of Chandra Proposal Cycle 11, A Deep Chandra/NOAO Investigation to Identify a Counterpart of an Old Pulsar Discovered in Gamma Rays (PI: A. de Luca) AAS International Travel Grant: $ Co-I of XMM Proposal Cycle 8, XMM-Newton Observations of Unidentified High Latitude FermiSources (PI: M. Wolff) Co-I of XMM Proposal Cycle 8, Pulse Searches of Two Radio Quiet GeV Pulsars Associated with TeV Sources (PI: M. Roberts) Co-I of Suzaku Proposal Cycle 4, Unidentified Fermi-LAT gamma-ray sources on the Galactic plane 160 ks (PI: N. Kawai) Co-I of Suzaku Proposal Cycle 4, X-ray counterparts of new Fermi gamma-ray pulsars 200 ks (PI: N. Kawai) Co-I of VLA Proposal, VLA Observations of Unidentified Fermi-LAT Gamma-Ray Sources (PI: C. Cheung) AAS International Travel Grant: $ Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics (IGPP) at LANL (co-investigator) Very High Energy Observations of Gamma Ray Bursts in the Swift Era PIs: Prof. David A. Williams and Dr. Brenda Dingus. $130, NASA Swift Guest Investigator Program (co-investigator) Simultaneous TeV Observations of SWIFT GRBs by Milagro PI: Dr. Brenda Dingus. $35, AAS International Travel Grant: $ European Union Marie Curie Accomodation Grant: 546 Euro AAS International Travel Grant: $820. HONORS & AWARDS NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, NSF Research Experience for Undergraduates (REU) Summer Fellowship, 1994 Dean s List at Columbia University, Samuel Bronfman Foundation Seagram Scholar, SEAS, Columbia University, Hugo Cohn Scholarship, SEAS, Columbia University,

3 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson p. 3 Everard Elledge Memorial Scholarship, SEAS, Columbia University, SCIENTIFIC ACTIVITIES Referee: Astrophysical Journal Seminars: Coordinator of the SCIPP Seminars: January 2005 September Outreach: Attended 2002 SACNAS National Conference to recruit students to Stanford. Memberships: American Physical Society (APS), American Astronomical Society (AAS), Tau Beta Pi Honor Society

4 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson p. 4 SCIENTIFIC COLLABORATIONS Fermi-LAT March 2008 Present: SCIPP, UC Santa Cruz Worked primarily on the blind search of gamma-ray pulsars. Member of Galactic Sources and Gamma Ray Bursts Groups. Milagro October 2003 Present: SCIPP, UC Santa Cruz Worked on various aspects of data analysis for Milagro. Studied possible emission of TeV gamma-rays from GRBs. Searched for high energy emission from pulsars and PWN. USA September 1998 September 2003: Group K, SLAC Analyzed USA data on numerous X-ray binaries (e.g. Cir X-1, Cyg X-1, GX 349+2) Worked on timing and other instrumental issues relating to the USA experiment. Performed the energy calibration of USA experiment. Worked on the background model for USA. March 2000: Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C. Collaborated with the X-Ray Astronomy branch at NRL trying to solve several issues in the initial stages of USA, including issues with the housekeeping data of the detector and the development of a background model. TEACHING AND ADVISEMENT Teaching Assistant: Physics Department, Stanford University. Quarter: Course number: Course title: Professor: Autumn Physics 15A Nature of the Universe R. Romani Autumn Physics 15A Nature of the Universe R. Wagoner Winter Physics 15A Nature of the Universe J. Willick Principal Supervisor Undergraduate Research Students: Melinda Soares (UC Santa Cruz), Summer 2008 ongoing, CAMP scholar at SCIPP. Hector Romo (UC Santa Cruz), Summer 2008, UC LEADS scholar at SCIPP. Kevin Quiñones (UC Berkeley), Summer 2003, UC LEADS scholar at SLAC. John Lee (Taylor University), Summer 2002, ERULF scholar at SLAC.

5 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson p. 5 REFEREED PAPERS Discovery of a Population of Gamma-Ray Millisecond Pulsars with the Fermi Large Area Telescope, Abdo, A. A. et al., Science, 325, Detection of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from the Globular Cluster 47 Tucanae with Fermi, Abdo, A. A. et al., Science, 325, Detection of 16 Gamma-Ray Pulsars Discovered Through Blind Frequency Searches Using the Fermi LAT, Abdo, A. A. et al., Science, 325, Prospects for GRB Science with the Fermi Large Area Telescope, Band, D. L. et al., ApJ, 701, Milagro Observations of Multi-TeV Emission from Galactic Sources in the Fermi Bright Source List, Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJL, 700, L Pulsed Gamma-rays from PSR J with the Fermi Large Area Telescope, Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJ, 700, Fermi/Large Area Telescope Bright Gamma-Ray Source List, Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJS, 183, Bright Active Galactic Nuclei Source List from the First Three Months of the Fermi Large Area Telescope All-Sky Survey, Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJ, 700, Discovery of Pulsations from the Pulsar J in SNR 3C 58 with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope, Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJL, 699, L Pulsed Gamma Rays from the Millisecond Pulsar J with the Fermi Large Area Telescope, Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJ, 699, Fermi/Large Area Telescope Discovery of Gamma-Ray Emission from a Relativistic Jet in the Narrow-Line Quasar PMN J , Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJ, 699, Early Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Observations of the Quasar 3C 454.3, Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJ, 699, 817

6 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson p Fermi Discovery of Gamma-ray Emission from NGC 1275, Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJ, 699, The Large-Scale Cosmic-Ray Anisotropy as Observed with Milagro, Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJ, 698, The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Mission, Atwood, W. B. et al., ApJ, Measurement of the Cosmic Ray e + +e Spectrum from 20GeV to 1TeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope, Abdo, A. A. et al., Physical Review Letters, 102, Fermi/Large Area Telescope Discovery of Gamma-Ray Emission from the Flat- Spectrum Radio Quasar PKS , Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJ, 697, Fermi Large Area Telescope Observations of the Vela Pulsar, Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJ, 696, Discovery of Pulsed Gamma-Rays from the Young Radio Pulsar PSR J with the Fermi Large Area Telescope, Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJL, 695, Fermi Observations of High-Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from GRB C, Abdo, A. A. et al., Science, 323, A Measurement of the Spatial Distribution of Diffuse TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Galactic Plane with Milagro, Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJ, 688, The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Discovers the Pulsar in the Young Galactic Supernova Remnant CTA 1, Abdo, A. A. et al., Science, 322, Discovery of Localized Regions of Excess 10-TeV Cosmic Rays, Abdo, A. A. et al., Physical Review Letters, 101, Milagro Constraints on Very High Energy Emission from Short Duration Gamma- Ray Bursts, Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJ, 666, TeV Gamma-Ray Sources from a Survey of the Galactic Plane with Milagro, Abdo, A. A. et al., ApJL, 664, L91-L94

7 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson p Discovery of TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from the Cygnus Region of the Galaxy, Abdo, A. A. et al, ApJL, 658, L33-L Milagro Search for Very High Energy Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era, Saz Parkinson, P. M., Il Nuovo Cimento B, 121, Evidence for TeV Gamma-Ray Emission from a Region of the Galactic Plane, Atkins, R. et al., Phys. Rev. Lett., 95, Constraints on Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts, Atkins, R. et al., ApJ, 630, X-Ray Bursts in Neutron Star and Black Hole Binaries from Unconventional Stellar Aspect Experiment and Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer Data: Detections and Upper Limits, Tournear, D., et al., ApJ., 595, p Long-term X-ray variability of Circinus X-1, Saz Parkinson, P. M., et al., ApJ., 595, p Observation of X-ray variability in the BL Lac object 1ES , Giebels, B., et al., ApJ, 571, 2, pp Results from the beam test of the engineering model of the GLAST large area telescope, do Couto e Silva, E., et al., NIM A, 474, 1, pp USA Experiment Observation of Spectral and Timing Evolution During the 2000 Outburst of XTE J , Reilly, K. T., et al., ApJL, 561, 2, pp. L183-L USA Experiment and RXTE Observations of a Variable Low-Frequency Quasiperiodic Oscillation in XTE J , Wood, K. S., et al., ApJ, 544, 1, pp. L45-L48 CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS Fermi LAT Discovery of Gamma-ray Pulsars in a Blind Search Saz Parkinson, P. M., Dormody, M., & Ziegler, M. for the LAT Collaboration (astro-ph/ ). Proceedings of the 31st ICRC, Lodz, Poland, 7-15 July Search for GeV-TeV emission from GRB B using the Milagro Observatory Aune, T. & Saz Parkinson, P. M. for the Milagro Collaboration.

8 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson p. 8 Proceedings of the 31st ICRC, Lodz, Poland, 7-15 July A search for GeV-TeV emission from Gamma-ray Bursts using the Milagro detector. Saz Parkinson, P. M. for the Milagro Collaboration. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Science with the New Generation of High Energy Gamma-Ray Experiments (SciNeGHE 08), held in Padova, Italy 8 10 October American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1112, 181 (2009) Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Observations of Gamma-ray Pulsars. Saz Parkinson, P. M. for the Fermi-LAT Collaboration. Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Science with the New Generation of High Energy Gamma-Ray Experiments (SciNeGHE 08), Padova, Italy 8 10 October American Institute of Physics Conference Series, 1112, 79 (2009) A Search for >1 GeV Emission from GRBs Using the Milagro Detector. Saz Parkinson, P. M. for the Milagro Collaboration. Proceedings of the GRB 2007 Conference, held in Santa Fe, NM, 5 9 November, The Status and Future of Very High Energy Gamma Ray Burst Observations. Falcone, A. et al. for the white paper GRB working group. Proceedings of the GRB 2007 Conference, held in Santa Fe, NM, 5 9 November, A Search for Prompt Very High Energy Emission from Satellite-detected Gamma-ray Bursts using Milagro. Saz Parkinson, P. M. & Dingus, B. for the Milagro Collaboration (astro-ph/ ). Proceedings of the 30th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), held in Merida, Mexico, 3 11 July, Milagro Search for Very High Energy Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era. Saz Parkinson, P. M. for the Milagro Collaboration (astro-ph/ ). Proceedings of the 2005 Gamma Ray Bursts in the Swift Era Symposium, held in Washington, DC, 29 Nov 2 Dec, Search for Very High Energy Emission from satellite-triggered GRBs with the Milagro Observatory. Saz Parkinson, P. M. for the Milagro Collaboration (astro-ph/ ). Proceedings of the 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), held in Pune, India, 3 10 Aug, Recent Results from the Milagro TeV Gamma-ray Observatory. Saz Parkinson, P. M. for the Milagro Collaboration (astro-ph/ ). Proceedings of the Rencontres de Moriond, Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe, held at La Thuile, Italy, Mar, 2005.

9 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson p Detection of TeV Gamma-Rays from Extended Sources with Milagro. Saz Parkinson, P. M. for the Milagro Collaboration (astro-ph/ ). Proceedings of the 22nd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, held at Stanford, California, Dec, Search for VHE emission from GRB with Milagro. Saz Parkinson, P. M. for the Milagro Collaboration. Proceedings of International Symposium on High Energy Gammaray Astronomy held in Heidelberg, Germany, July AIP conference proceedings 745, The USA X-ray Timing Experiment. Ray, P. S., Wood, K. S., Fritz, G., Hertz, P., Kowalski, M., Johnson, W. N., Lovellette, M. N., Wolff, M. T.; Yentis, D., Bandyopadhyay, R. M., Bloom, E. D., Giebels, B., Godfrey, G., Reilly, K., Saz Parkinson, P., Shabad, G., Michelson, P., Roberts, M., Leahy, D. A., Cominsky, L., Scargle, J., Beall, J., Chakrabarty, D., Kim, Y. X-ray astronomy : stellar endpoints, AGN, and the diffuse X-ray background, proceedings of a conference held in Bologna, Italy, 6-10 September Published by Melville, NY: American Institute of Physics, xvii, 1041 p. Edited by Nicholas E. White, Giuseppe Malaguti, and Giorgio G.C. Palumbo. AIP conference proceedings, Vol 599 ISBN , p.336. GAMMA-RAY BURST COORDINATES NETWORK (GCN) CIRCULARS GRB Milagro GeV/TeV Observations, Saz Parkinson, GCN Circular 7004 (2007) GRB Milagro GeV/TeV Observations, Saz Parkinson, GCN Circular 6448 (2007) GRB A Milagro GeV/TeV Observations, Saz Parkinson, GCN Circular 5527 (2006) GRB B Milagro GeV/TeV Observations, Saz Parkinson, GCN Circular 5061 (2006) GRB B Milagro GeV/TeV Observations, Saz Parkinson, GCN Circular 5061 (2006) GRB A Milagro GeV/TeV Observations, Saz Parkinson, GCN Circular 4265 (2005) GRB Milagro GeV/TeV Observations, Saz Parkinson, GCN Circular 4249 (2005) GRB b Milagro GeV/TeV Observations, Saz Parkinson, GCN Circular 3411 (2005) PRESENTATIONS Gamma-ray Pulsars in the Fermi-LAT Era (talk), LLNL Astrophysics Seminar, 2 October 2009, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA New Gamma-Ray Pulsars discovered by Fermi and their TeV Pulsar-Wind Nebulae seen by Milagro (talk) INPA Journal Club, 31 July 2009, Berkeley, CA Search for GeV-TeV emission from GRB B using the Milagro Observatory (talk) 31st ICRC, Lodz, Poland, 10 July Fermi LAT Discovery of Gamma-ray Pulsars in a Blind Search (talk) 31st ICRC,

10 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson p. 10 Lodz, Poland, 8 July Milagro Observations of TeV Emission from Galactic GeV Gamma-ray Sources Seen with Fermi (talk) Fermi Lunch Seminar, 14 May 2009, Stanford, CA A search for GeV-TeV emission from Gamma-ray Bursts using the Milagro detector (talk), 6th Workshop on Science with the New Generation of High Energy Gamma-Ray Experiments (SciNeGHE 08), Padova, Italy 8 10 October Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Observations of Gamma-ray Pulsars (talk), 6th Workshop on Science with the New Generation of High Energy Gamma-Ray Experiments (SciNeGHE 08), Padova, Italy 8 10 October A Search for >1 GeV Emission from GRBs Using the Milagro Detector (poster) GRB 2007 Conference, 5 9 November 2007, Santa Fe, NM An Introduction to Gamma-Ray Bursts. 70 minute guest lecture as part of the course Astronomy 117: High-Energy Astrophysics, 1 June 2007, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA The Highest Energy Emission from Short Gamma-Ray Bursts (talk) University of California, Santa Cruz, SCIPP Seminar, 9 March 2007, Santa Cruz, CA Search for Very High Energy Emission from Gamma-ray Bursts using Milagro (poster) The First International GLAST Symposium, 5 8 February 2007, Stanford, CA Recent Results of the Milagro Search for VHE Emission from GRBs (poster) XXIII Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, December 2006, Melbourne, Australia Milagro: An All-Sky TeV Gamma-Ray Observatory (poster) XXIII Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, December 2006, Melbourne, Australia TeV Astrophysics with Milagro (talk) California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) Colloquium, 16 November 2006, San Luis Obispo, CA A Search for Very High Energy Emission from Archival Gamma-Ray Bursts (poster) American Astronomical Society HEAD meeting, 4 7 October, San Francisco, CA.

11 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson p Milagro Search for Very High Energy Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era (poster) Swift and GRBs: Unveiling the Relativistic Universe, 5 9 June, 2006, Venice, Italy Searching for the highest energy emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts (talk) Space Sciences Laboratory (UC Berkeley) Colloquium, 26 May 2006, Berkeley, CA Milagro Search for Very High Energy Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Swift Era (poster) 2005 Gamma Ray Bursts in the Swift Era Symposium, 29 November 2 December, 2005, Washington, DC Search for Very High Energy Emission from satellite-triggered GRBs with the Milagro Observatory (talk) 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC), 3 10 August, 2005, Pune, India Recent Results from the Milagro TeV Gamma-ray Observatory (talk) Rencontres de Moriond, Very High Energy Phenomena in the Universe, March 12-19, 2005, La Thuile, Italy Detection of TeV Gamma-Rays from Extended Sources with Milagro (poster) 22nd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, December Stanford, California Search for VHE emission from GRB with Milagro. (poster) Gamma 2004: International Symposium on High Energy Gamma-ray Astronomy, July Heidelberg, Germany The USA Experiment: X-ray Astrophysics at SLAC (talk) SCIPP Seminar, 1 March Santa Cruz, California Timing and Spectral studies of X-ray sources with USA (talk) FLASH Seminar, 11 April Santa Cruz, California X-ray Astronomy at SLAC (talk) I Encuentro Astrofisica Altas Energias, December Barcelona, Spain Astronomia de rayos X con el Unconventional Stellar Aspect (talk) 16 December Instituto de Fisica de Cantabria. Santander, Spain What is Circinus X-1? (poster) American Physical Society, April Meeting, jointly

12 Pablo M. Saz Parkinson p. 12 sponsored with the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American Astronomical Society, April Albuquerque, New Mexico USA Observations of the strange X-ray binary Circinus X-1. (poster) American Astronomical Society HEAD meeting, 5 10 November Honolulu, Hawaii Spatial Structure of Subharmonic Disturbances in a Cylinder Wake at Transitional Reynolds Numbers. (poster) D. Williams, A. Abouel-Fotouh, and P. Saz Parkinson, Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, November Atlanta, Georgia.