Research: Published work
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4024-6967
First Author Publications
Brumback, M.C., Grefenstette, B.W, Buisson, D.J.K., Bachetti, M., Connors, R.,Jaodand, A., Krivonos, R., Ludlam, R., Madsen, K.K., Mastroserio, G., Tomsick, J.A., Wik, D. 2021. 2022. ApJ, 926, 187
“Extending the baseline for SMC X-1’s spin and orbital behavior with NuSTAR stray light”
Brumback, M.C., Hickox, R.C., Fürst, F.S., Pottschmidt, K., Tomsick, J.A., Wilms, J., Staubert, R., Vrtilek, S. 2021. ApJ. 909, 186
"A broad-band X-ray view of the precessing accretion disk and pre-eclipse dip in the pulsar Her X-1 with NuSTAR and XMM-Newton"
Brumback, M.C., Hickox, R.C., Fürst, F.S., Pottschmidt, K., Tomsick, J.A., Wilms, J. 2020. ApJ, 888, 125.
"Modeling the Precession of the Warped Inner Accretion Disk in the Pulsars LMC X-4 and SMC X-1 with NuSTAR and XMM-Newton"
Brumback, M.C., Hickox, R.C., Bachetti, M., Ballhausen, R. Fürst, F.S., Pike, S., Pottschmidt, K., Tomsick, J.A., Wilms, J. 2018. ApJL, 861, L7.
"Discovery of pulsation dropout and turn-on during the high state of the accreting X-ray pulsar LMC X-4"
Brumback, M.C., Hickox, R.C., Fürst, F.S., Pottschmidt, K., Hemphill, P., Tomsick, J.A., Wilms, J., Ballhausen, R. 2018. ApJ, 852, 132.
"A possible phase dependent absorption feature in the transient X-ray pulsar SAX J2103.5+4545."
Contributing Author Publications
Bachetti, M., Heida, M., Maccarone, T., Huppenkothen, D., Israel, G.L., Barret, D., Brightman, M., Brumback, M.C., et al. 2021. Submitted to ApJ.
“The extreme mass transfer and high magnetic field of the first ultraluminous pulsar M82 X-2”
Ludlam, R.M., Grefenstette, B.W., Brumback, M.C., Tomsick, J.A., Buisson, D.J.K., Coughenour, B.M., Mastroserio, G., et al. 2022. ApJ, 934, 1, 59.
"StrayCats. II. An Updated Catalog of NuSTAR Stray Light Observations"
Dage, K., Brumback, M.C., Neilsen, J., Hu, C-P., et al 2022. MNRAS, 514, 2, 5457.
“Monitoring Observations of SMC X-1’s Excursions (MOOSE) I: Program Description and Initial High-State Spectral Results”
Pike, S.N., Negoro, H., Tomsick, J.A., Bachetti, M., Brumback, M.C., et al., 2022. ApJ, 927, 190
“MAXI and NuSTAR observations of a low-luminosity X-ray transient in the GLIMPSE-C01 Cluster”
Staubert, R., Ducci, L., Fürst, F.S., Wilms, J., Rothschild, R.E., Pottschmidt, K., Brumback, M.C., Harrison, F. 2020 A&A, 642, A196.
"Cyclotron line energy in Hercules X-1: stable after the decay"
Bachetti, M., Maccarone, T.J., Brightman, M., Brumback, M.C., Fürst, F.S., Harrison, F.A., Heida, M., Israel, G.L., Middleton, M.J., Tomsick, J.A., Webb, N.A., Walton, D.J. 2019. ApJ, 891, 44.
"All at once: transient pulsations, spin down and a glitch from the Pulsating Ultraluminous X-ray Source M82 X-2 "
Pike, S.N., Harrison, F.A., Bachetti, M., Brumback, M.C., Fürst, F.S., Madsen, K.K., Pottschmidt, K., Tomsick, J.A., and Wilms, J. 2018. ApJ, 875, 144.
"Observing the transient pulsations of SMC X-1 with NuSTAR"