Sciences and Exploration Directorate

Renata S Cumbee

(RESEARCH AST, FIELDS AND PARTICLES)

Renata S Cumbee's Contact Card & Information.
Email: renata.s.cumbee@nasa.gov
Phone: 301.614.5790
Org Code: 662
Address:
NASA/GSFC
Mail Code 662
Greenbelt, MD 20771
Employer:
NASA

Current Projects


Charge Exchange

X-ray Astrophysics

Education


2016, PhD, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia

2010, BS, Francis Marion University, Florence, South Carolina

Publications


Refereed

2020. "High-Precision Determination of Oxygen Kα Transition Energy Excludes Incongruent Motion of Interstellar Oxygen." Physical Review Letters 125 (24): 243001 [10.1103/physrevlett.125.243001] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "RGS Observations of Ejecta Knots in Tycho’s Supernova Remnant." The Astrophysical Journal 898 (2): L51 [10.3847/2041-8213/aba7c1] [Journal Article/Letter]

2020. "Roadmap on cosmic EUV and x-ray spectroscopy." Journal of Physics B: Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics 53 (9): 092001 [10.1088/1361-6455/ab69aa] [Journal Article/Letter]

2019. "High Forbidden-to-resonance Line Ratio of O vii Discovered from the Cygnus Loop." The Astrophysical Journal 871 (2): 234 [10.3847/1538-4357/aaf8a6] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Charge Exchange X-Ray Emission due to Highly Charged Ion Collisions with H, He, and H2: Line Ratios for Heliospheric and Interstellar Applications." The Astrophysical Journal 852 (1): 7 [10.3847/1538-4357/aa99d8] [Journal Article/Letter]

2017. "Line Ratios for Solar Wind Charge Exchange with Comets." The Astrophysical Journal 844 (1): 7 [10.3847/1538-4357/aa7752] [Journal Article/Letter]

2015. "A novel scenario for the possible X-ray line feature at ~3.5 keV." Astronomy & Astrophysics 584 L11 [10.1051/0004-6361/201527634] [Journal Article/Letter]

2014. "CAN CHARGE EXCHANGE EXPLAIN ANOMALOUS SOFT X-RAY EMISSION IN THE CYGNUS LOOP?." The Astrophysical Journal 787 (2): L31 [10.1088/2041-8205/787/2/l31] [Journal Article/Letter]

Non-Refereed

2020. "Status of x-ray imaging and spectroscopy mission (XRISM)." Space Telescopes and Instrumentation 2020: Ultraviolet to Gamma Ray [10.1117/12.2565812] [Proceedings]

2020. "Charge exchange, from the sky to the laboratory: A method to determine state‐selective cross‐sections for improved modeling." Astronomische Nachrichten 341 (2): 197-202 [10.1002/asna.202023778] [Journal Article/Letter]