Dr. Michael D. Stage Five College Astronomy Dept. Fellow Department of Astronomy University of Massachusetts Amherst PhD., MIT 2003 B.S. with honors, Caltech, 1997 Astronomers: do you know where I am?                         or here is probably even harder?

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Astronomy Classes:
Spring 2008

Astronomy 100:
Fall 2006
Spring 2007

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Astrophysics Research:

Chandra X-ray Center: Chandra Discovers Cosmic Pinball Machine(press release)

Cosmic ray diffusion near the Bohm limit in the Cassiopeia A supernova remnant
Nature Physics, 2, pp614-619, doi:10.1038/nphys391
In this issue, intoductory blurb by Don Ellison, original preprint (at arXiv) and final article.

FITS format files of the major image maps presented in the article will be made available at this site in the future.

Find my MIT co-authors and colleagues: Glenn E. Allen, John C. Houck, and John E. Davis. 
This paper from the International Cosmic Ray Conference 2007 shows where we will be going next with this project. 

Learn more about S-Lang and ISIS, the programming language and software which made our analysis of 1.1 million seconds of Chandra X-Ray Observatory data possible.  Here's the ApJS paper on the non-thermal models (or the arXiv version).

Thermal Emission from Remnant Ejecta
I'm currently working with Daniel Q. Wang on a new study of a somewhat peculiar supernova remnant G93.3+6.9 observed by the new Suzaku X-ray Telescope and recently presented results at Suzaku 2007 (Dec. 2007).

Radio Galaxy Survey
I'm also working with Stephen Schneider on some simulations to help understand the detection limits of the fields in the  Arecibo Galaxy Environment Survey (AGES) which you can read more about in this preprint.

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