(RESEARCH AST, FIELDS AND PARTICLES)
| Email: | brad.cenko@nasa.gov |
| Phone: | 301.286.4678 |
| Org Code: | 661 |
| Address: |
NASA/GSFC Mail Code 661 Greenbelt, MD 20771 |
| Employer: |
Astrophysicist, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (June 2013 - Present)
Adjunct Professor, Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD (June 2013 - Present)
Adjunct Professor, Department of Physics, George Washington University, Washington, DC (June 2017 - Present)
Principal Investigator, Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (February 2017 - Present)
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center - Greenbelt, MD
June 2013 - Present
University of Maryland - College Park, MD
June 2013 - Present
George Washington University - Washington, DC
June 2017 - Present
University of California, Berkeley - Berkeley, CA
August 2008 - June 2013
PhD (2008), Department of Physics, California Institute of Technology
Thesis: "The Energetics and Environments of Swift Gamma-Ray Bursts"
Advisors: Profs. Fiona Harrison and Shri Kulkarni
BA (2002), Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Harvard University
Thesis: "Multi-Layer Optics for the Next Generation of X-ray Missions"
Advisor: Dr. Suzanne Romaine
Research Corporation Scialog Fellow: 2015-2016
Robert H. Goddard Award, Scientific Achievement: 2015
Junior Fellow, Joint Space-Science Institute: 2013-Present
NASA Graduate Student Research Fellowship: 2005-2008
Recent Observational Puzzles from Tidal Disruption Flares
March 2019
University of Amsterdam Astronomy Colloquium
What multi-messenger observations of GW170817 have told us
2018
Joint Space-Science Institute - GWPAW 2018
Recent Observational Puzzles from Tidal Disruption Flares
November 2018
Caltech Astronomy Colloquium
Optical Surveys
November 2018
Eighth Fermi Symposium
Transients and MultiMessenger Astrophysics with HabEx
November 2018
HabEx
The Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory: Status and Prospects
October 2018
Time-Domain Astrophysics with Swift III
Kilonovae: An Observer's Perspective
July 2018
Neutron Star Merger Summer School
The Zwicky Transient Facility
June 2018
Northwestern University Department of Physics and Astronomy Colloquium
The Transient Universe as Seen by Swift
March 2018
Conference on the Transient Universe
UV and Optical Spectroscopy of Tidal Disruption Flares
September 2018
FlipperFest: A 60th Birthday Celebration for Alex Filippenko
2016. "AN ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRUM OF THE TIDAL DISRUPTION FLARE ASASSN-14li." The Astrophysical Journal 818 (2): L32 [10.3847/2041-8205/818/2/l32] [Journal Article/Letter]
2015. "iPTF14yb: THE FIRST DISCOVERY OF A GAMMA-RAY BURST AFTERGLOW INDEPENDENT OF A HIGH-ENERGY TRIGGER." The Astrophysical Journal 803 (2): L24 [10.1088/2041-8205/803/2/l24] [Journal Article/Letter]
2012. "SWIFT J2058.4+0516: DISCOVERY OF A POSSIBLE SECOND RELATIVISTIC TIDAL DISRUPTION FLARE?." The Astrophysical Journal 753 (1): 77 [10.1088/0004-637x/753/1/77] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "Supernova SN 2011fe from an exploding carbon–oxygen white dwarf star." Nature 480 (7377): 344-347 [10.1038/nature10644] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "A Possible Relativistic Jetted Outburst from a Massive Black Hole Fed by a Tidally Disrupted Star." Science 333 (6039): 203-206 [10.1126/science.1207150] [Journal Article/Letter]
2011. "AFTERGLOW OBSERVATIONS OFFERMILARGE AREA TELESCOPE GAMMA-RAY BURSTS AND THE EMERGING CLASS OF HYPER-ENERGETIC EVENTS." The Astrophysical Journal 732 (1): 29 [10.1088/0004-637x/732/1/29] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "The Palomar Transient Factory: System Overview, Performance, and First Results." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 121 (886): 1395-1408 [10.1086/648598] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "THE HOST GALAXIES OFSWIFTDARK GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: OBSERVATIONAL CONSTRAINTS ON HIGHLY OBSCURED AND VERY HIGH REDSHIFT GRBs." The Astronomical Journal 138 (6): 1690-1708 [10.1088/0004-6256/138/6/1690] [Journal Article/Letter]
2009. "A γ-ray burst at a redshift of z ≈ 8.2." Nature 461 (7268): 1254-1257 [10.1038/nature08459] [Journal Article/Letter]
2008. "An extremely luminous X-ray outburst at the birth of a supernova." Nature 453 469 [Full Text] [10.1038/nature06997] [Journal Article/Letter]
2006. "The Automated Palomar 60 Inch Telescope." Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 118 (848): 1396-1406 [10.1086/508366] [Journal Article/Letter]
2005. "The afterglow of GRB 050709 and the nature of the short-hard γ-ray bursts." Nature 437 (7060): 845-850 [10.1038/nature04189] [Journal Article/Letter]