Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Maxim L Markevitch

((AST, FIELDS & PARTICLES))

Maxim L Markevitch's Contact Card & Information.
Email: maxim.markevitch@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.286.5947
Org Code: 662
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 662
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer:
NASA

Brief Bio


Maxim Markevitch has been an astrophysicist at the X-ray Astrophysics Laboratory in Goddard since 2011. He earned his PhD in physics in 1993 from the Space Research Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. He has worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Space and Astronautical Science in Japan, the University of Virginia, and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. From 1997 to 2010, he served as a staff astrophysicist at the Chandra X-ray Center.


Markevitch's scientific interests include the physics of galaxy clusters, cosmology, the nature of dark matter, and X-ray, radio, and microwave observations of galaxy clusters and the intergalactic medium. He has worked with X-ray data from space missions including Granat, ASCA, ROSAT, Chandra, XMM-Newton, Hitomi, and most recently XRISM, and participated in the in-orbit calibration and developed data analysis methods for several of them.


His technological interests include designing new X-ray missions (recently including Probe concepts AXIS and LEM and a small concept Cal X-1), and developing novel X-ray optics.

Awards


2020: Fellow of the American Astronomical Society

2008: Bruno Rossi Prize of the American Astronomical Society

1995: Main Award of the Russian Astronomical Society

Selected Publications


Refereed

2024. "Mapping the intracluster medium in the era of high-resolution X-ray spectroscopy." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 530 (4): 4234-4255 [10.1093/mnras/stae1022] [Journal Article/Letter]

2022. "A Candle in the Wind: A Radio Filament in the Core of the A3562 Galaxy Cluster." The Astrophysical Journal 934 (1): 49 [10.3847/1538-4357/ac7805] [Journal Article/Letter]

2021. "How Merger-driven Gas Motions in Galaxy Clusters Can Turn AGN Bubbles into Radio Relics." The Astrophysical Journal 914 (1): 73 [10.3847/1538-4357/abf7bc] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Discovery of a Giant Radio Fossil in the Ophiuchus Galaxy Cluster." The Astrophysical Journal 891 (1): 1 [10.3847/1538-4357/ab6a9d] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "Bow Shock in Merging Cluster A520: The Edge of the Radio Halo and the Electron–Proton Equilibration Timescale." The Astrophysical Journal 856 (2): 162 [10.3847/1538-4357/aab2aa] [Journal Article/Letter]

2018. "A deep X-ray look at Abell 2142 - viscosity constraints from Kelvin-Helmholtz eddies, a displaced cool peak that makes a warm core, and a possible plasma depletion layer." ApJ 868 45 [10.3847/1538-4357/aae921] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Hitomi Constraints on the 3.5 keV Line in the Perseus Galaxy Cluster." The Astrophysical Journal Letters 837 (1): L15 [10.3847/2041-8213/aa61fa] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "The quiescent intracluster medium in the core of the Perseus cluster." Nature 535 (7610): 117-121 [10.1038/nature18627] [Journal Article/Letter]

2016. "The merging galaxy cluster A520 — a broken-up cool core, a dark subcluster, and an X-ray channel." The Astrophysical Journal 833 (1): 99 [10.3847/1538-4357/833/1/99] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Detection of an unidentified emission line in the stacked X-ray spectrum of galaxy clusters." The Astrophysical Journal 789 (1): 13 [10.1088/0004-637x/789/1/13] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "Mapping the particle acceleration in the cool core of the galaxy cluster RXJ1720.1+2638." The Astrophysical Journal 795 (1): 73 [10.1088/0004-637x/795/1/73] [Journal Article/Letter]

2012. "Turbulence and radio mini-halos in the sloshing cores of galaxy clusters." The Astrophysical Journal 762 (2): 78 [10.1088/0004-637x/762/2/78] [Journal Article/Letter]

2010. "Stirring up the pot: can cooling flows in galaxy clusters be quenched by gas sloshing?." The Astrophysical Journal 717 (2): 908-928 [10.1088/0004-637x/717/2/908] [Journal Article/Letter]

2007. "Shocks and cold fronts in galaxy clusters." Physics Reports 443 (1): 1-53 [10.1016/j.physrep.2007.01.001] [Journal Article/Letter]

2007. "Resolving the Unresolved Cosmic X-Ray Background in the Chandra Deep Fields." The Astrophysical Journal 661 (2): L117-L121 [10.1086/519003] [Journal Article/Letter]

2006. "A Direct Empirical Proof of the Existence of Dark Matter." The Astrophysical Journal 648 (2): L109-L113 [10.1086/508162] [Journal Article/Letter]

2006. "The Origin of Cold Fronts in the Cores of Relaxed Galaxy Clusters." The Astrophysical Journal 650 (1): 102-127 [10.1086/506508] [Journal Article/Letter]

2005. "Bow Shock and Radio Halo in the Merging Cluster A520." The Astrophysical Journal 627 (2): 733-738 [10.1086/430695] [Journal Article/Letter]

2004. "Direct Constraints on the Dark Matter Self‐Interaction Cross Section from the Merging Galaxy Cluster 1E 0657−56." The Astrophysical Journal 606 (2): 819-824 [10.1086/383178] [Journal Article/Letter]

2003. "Chandra Spectra of the Soft X‐Ray Diffuse Background." The Astrophysical Journal 583 (1): 70-84 [10.1086/345347] [Journal Article/Letter]

2002. "A Textbook Example of a Bow Shock in the Merging Galaxy Cluster 1E 0657-56." The Astrophysical Journal 567 (1): L27-L31 [10.1086/339619] [Journal Article/Letter]

2001. "Nonhydrostatic Gas in the Core of the Relaxed Galaxy Cluster A1795." The Astrophysical Journal 562 (2): L153-L156 [10.1086/337973] [Journal Article/Letter]

2000. "Chandra Observation of Abell 2142: Survival of Dense Subcluster Cores in a Merger." The Astrophysical Journal 541 (2): 542-549 [10.1086/309470] [Journal Article/Letter]

1999. "A Differential X-Ray Gunn-Peterson Test Using a Giant Cluster Filament." The Astrophysical Journal 522 (1): L13-L16 [10.1086/312217] [Journal Article/Letter]

1998. "The Temperature Structure of 30 Nearby Clusters Observed with ASCA: Similarity of Temperature Profiles." The Astrophysical Journal 503 (1): 77-96 [10.1086/305976] [Journal Article/Letter]

1998. "The Lx‐T Relation and Temperature Function for Nearby Clusters Revisited." The Astrophysical Journal 504 (1): 27-34 [10.1086/306080] [Journal Article/Letter]

1996. "Abell 2163: Temperature, Mass, and Hydrostatic Equilibrium." The Astrophysical Journal 456 437 [10.1086/176668] [Journal Article/Letter]

1993. "Two sources of diffuse X-ray emission from the Galactic Centre." Nature 364 (6432): 40-42 [10.1038/364040a0] [Journal Article/Letter]

1991. "Do clusters of galaxies affect the spectrum of the microwave background?." The Astrophysical Journal 378 L33 [10.1086/186135] [Journal Article/Letter]

Non-Refereed

2022. "Line Emission Mapper (LEM): Probing the physics of cosmic ecosystems." White paper for a NASA Probe mission concept arXiv:2211.09827 [10.48550/arXiv.2211.09827] [Other]

2019. "Cal X-1: an absolute in-orbit calibrator for current and future X-ray observatories." Astro2020 Decadal survey, white paper arXiv:1907.12677 [10.48550/arXiv.1907.12677] [Other]