Dr. J.J. Brainerd
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I have published numerous articles in refereed journals and conference proceedings. The primary topics of these articles are gamma-ray bursts and x-ray pulsars. The articles listed as primary articles present my research; the articles listed as secondary articles are articles presenting ensemble research or research in which I had a minor part. The journal notation is ApJ for The Astrophysical Journal, ApJL for The Astrophysical Journal Letters, and ApJS for The Astrophysical Journal Supplement. Other journals and the conference proceedings are given by their full names.
Brainerd, J. J., 2000, ApJ, 538, 628-637: “A Plasma Instability Theory of Gamma-Ray Burst Emission.”
Brainerd, J. J., Preece, R. D., Briggs, M. S., Pendleton, G. N., & Paciesas, W. S., 1998, ApJ, 501, 325-338: “Using BATSE Observations to Test the Compton Attenuation Spectral Theory of Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1998, ApJL, 496, L67-L70: “Physical Constraints on GRB 970508 from Its Radio Afterglow.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1997, ApJ, 487, 96-113: “The Cosmological Signatures and Flux Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts with a Broad Luminosity Distribution.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1996, ApJ, 473, 974-984: “The Superiority of the Two-Point Correlation Function over the Nearest Neighbor Analysis as a Test for Gamma-Ray Burst Repetition.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1996, ApJ, 456, 449-450: “An Estimate of the Motion-Induced Dipole Moment in the Spatial Distribution of Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts.”
Meegan, C. A., Hartmann, D. H., Brainerd, J. J., Briggs, M., Paciesas, W., Pendleton, G., Kouveliotou, C., Fishman, G., Blumenthal, G., & Brock, M., 1995, ApJL, 446, L15-L18: “Do Gamma-Ray Burst Sources Repeat?”
Brainerd, J. J., Meegan, C. A., Briggs, M. S., Pendleton, G. N., & Brock, M. N., 1995, ApJL, 441, L39-L42: “Time Dependent Clustering Analysis of the Second BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1994, ApJL, 428, L1-L3: “Mimicking within Euclidean Space a Cosmological Time Dilation of Gamma-Ray Burst Durations.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1994, ApJ, 428, 21-27: “Producing the Universal Spectrum of Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts with the Klein-Nishina Cross Section.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1993, ApJ, 410, 507-514: “The Signature of the Cosmological Redshift in Population Studies of Gamma-Ray Burst Spectra.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1992, ApJL, 394, L33-L36: “Synchrotron Emission from a Cosmological Jet as a Model of Gamma-Ray Bursts.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1992, Nature, 355, 522: “Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Galactic Halo.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1992, ApJ, 384, 545-559: “Multiple Resonant Scattering in the Compton Upscatter Model of Gamma-Ray Bursts.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1991, ApJL, 379, L57-L59: “The Inability of the Resonant Compton Upscattering Model of Gamma-Ray Bursts to Produce a Third Cyclotron Harmonic.”
Brainerd, J. J., & Meszaros, P., 1991, ApJ, 369, 179-190: “Dynamic Effects on Cyclotron Scattering in Pulsar Accretion Columns.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1989, ApJ, 345, 978-996: “Cyclotron Emission From AM Herculis Binaries: A Variable Magnetic Field, Variable Temperature Model.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1989, ApJL, 341, L67-L69: “Resonant Compton Scattering and X-Ray Suppression in Gamma-Ray Bursts.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1989, ApJ, 338, 281-295: “Single Photon Pair Production in Gamma-Ray Bursts.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1987, ApJ, 320, 714-725: “Quantum Synchrotron Spectra From Semi-Relativistic Electrons in Teragauss Magnetic Fields.”
Brainerd, J. J., & Petrosian, V., 1987, ApJ, 320, 703-713: “Analytic and Numerical Calculations of Quantum Synchrotron Spectra from Relativistic Electron Distributions.”
Brainerd, J. J., & Lamb, F. K., 1987, ApJL, 317, L33: “The Effect of an Electron Scattering Cloud on the Amplitude of X-Ray Pulsations Produced by Beaming.”
Brainerd, J. J., & Lamb, D. Q., 1987, ApJ, 313, 231-262: “Synchrotron Emission and Gamma-Ray Bursts.”
Brainerd, J. J., 2000, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: 5th Huntsville Symposium, Huntsville, Alabama 1999, AIP Conf. Proc. 526, ed. R. M. Kippen, R. S. Mallozzi, & G. J. Fishman (New York: AIP), 455-459: “A Plasma Instability Theory of Prompt Gamma-Ray Burst Radiation.”
Brainerd, J. J., Pendleton, G., Mallozzi, R., Briggs, M. S. & Preece, R. D., 2000, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: 5th Huntsville Symposium, Huntsville, Alabama 1999, AIP Conf. Proc. 526, ed. R. M. Kippen, R. S. Mallozzi, & G. J. Fishman (New York: AIP), 150-154: “The Role of the BATSE Instrument Response in Creating the GRB E-Peak Distribution.”
Brainerd, J. J., & Preece, R. D., 2000, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: 5th Huntsville Symposium, Huntsville, Alabama 1999, AIP Conf. Proc. 526, ed. R. M. Kippen, R. S. Mallozzi, & G. J. Fishman (New York: AIP), 480-484: “Redshifts and Compton Attenuation.”
Brainerd, J. J., 2000, in Proceedings of the 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, Paris, France, 14-18 December 1998, ed. E. Aubourg, T. Montmerle, J. Paul, & P. Peter, Nucl. Phys. B Proc. Suppl., 80, CD-ROM, 06/06: “A Plasma Instability Theory of GRB Emission.”
Brainerd, J. J., Pendleton, G., Mallozzi, R., Briggs, M. S., Preece, R. D., 2000, in Proceedings of the 19th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics and Cosmology, Paris, France, 14-18 December 1998, ed. E. Aubourg, T. Montmerle, J. Paul, & P. Peter, Nuclear Physics B Proceedings Supplements, 80, CD-ROM, 06/07: “The Role of the BATSE Instrument Response in Creating the GRB E-Peak Distribution.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1998, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: 4th Symposium, Huntsville, AL 1997, AIP Conf. Proc. 428, ed. C. A. Meegan, R. D. Preece, & T. M. Koshut (New York: AIP), 545-547: “Source Confusion in Optical Searches for GRB Counterparts.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1998, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: 4th Symposium, Huntsville, AL 1997, AIP Conf. Proc. 428, ed. C. A. Meegan, R. D. Preece, & T. M. Koshut (New York: AIP), 727-731: “Radio Constraints on Shell Afterglow Theories.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1998, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: 4th Symposium, Huntsville, AL 1997, AIP Conf. Proc. 428, ed. C. A. Meegan, R. D. Preece, & T. M. Koshut (New York: AIP), 752-755: “Cooling Synchrotron Spectra and GRB Theory.”
Brainerd, J. J., & Kippen, R. M., 1998, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: 4th Symposium, Huntsville, AL 1997, AIP Conf. Proc. 428, ed. C. A. Meegan, R. D. Preece, & T. M. Koshut (New York: AIP), 226-230: “Upper Limits on Gamma-ray Burst Repetition.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1996, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: 3rd Symposium, Huntsville, AL 1995, AIP Conf. Proc. 384, ed. C. Kouveliotou, M. S. Briggs, & G. J. Fishman (New York: AIP), 330-334: “Comparison of Two Burst-Repetition Tests.”
Brainerd, J. J., Preece, R. D., Briggs, M. S., Pendleton, G. N., & Paciesas, W. S., 1996, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: 3rd Symposium, Huntsville, AL 1995, AIP Conf. Proc. 384, ed. C. Kouveliotou, M. S. Briggs, & G. J. Fishman (New York: AIP), 148-152: “Testing the Compton Attenuation Theory of Gamma-Ray Burst Spectra.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1994, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: Second Workshop, Huntsville, AL 1993, AIP Conf. Proc. 307, ed. G. J. Fishman, J. J. Brainerd, & K. Hurley (New York: AIP), 346-350: “The Compton Attenuation Model of Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts.”
Brainerd, J. J., Paciesas, W. S., Meegan, C. A., & Fishman, G. J., 1994, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: Second Workshop, Huntsville, AL 1993, AIP Conf. Proc. 307, ed. G. J. Fishman, J. J. Brainerd, & K. Hurley (New York: AIP), 122-126: “The Nearest Neighbors of BATSE Gamma-Ray Bursts: Narrowing the Possibilities.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1992, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: Huntsville, AL 1991, AIP Conf. Proc. 265, ed. W. S. Paciesas & G. J. Fishman (New York: AIP), 252-256: “The Limitations of Resonant Compton Scattering as a Gamma-Ray Burst Model.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1992, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: Observations, Analyses, and Theories, ed. C. Ho, R. I. Epstein, & E. E. Fenimore (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press), 337-344: “X-Ray Suppression in Gamma-Ray Bursts through Resonant Compton Scattering.”
Brainerd, J. J., 1990, in Accretion-Powered Compact Binaries, ed. C. Mauche (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press), 343: “Cyclotron Heating Above the AM Herculis Accretion Shock.”
Brainerd, J. J., Lamb, F. K., & Shibazaki, N., 1987, in Relativistic Astrophysics: Proceedings of the 13th Texas Symposium, ed. M. Ulmer (World Scientific Publishers): “Recent Progress in Understanding QPO Sources.”
Brainerd, J. J., & Lamb, D. Q., 1983, in Cataclysmic Variables and Low-Mass X-Ray Binaries: Proceedings of the Seventh North American Workshop, ed. D. Q. Lamb & J. Patterson (Dordrecht: Reidel), 347: “Orientations of AM Her Stars from Their Polarization Properties: The Case of the Missing AM Her Stars.”
Brainerd, J. J., Pendleton, G. N., Mallozzi, R., Briggs, M. S. & Preece, R. D., 1999: “The BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst E-Peak Distribution.”
Briggs, M. S., Pendleton, G. N., Kippen, R. M., Brainerd, J. J., Hurley, K., Connaughton, V., & Meegan, C. A., 1999, ApJS, 122, 503-518: “The Error Distribution of BATSE GRB Locations.”
Paciesas, W. S., Meegan, C. A., Pendleton, G. N., Briggs, M. S., Kouveliotou, C., Koshut, T. M., Lestrade, J. P., McCollough, M., Brainerd, J. J., Hakkila, J., Henze, W., Preece, R. D., Connaughton, V., Kippen, R. M., Mallozzi, R. S., & Fishman, G. J., 1999, ApJS, 22, 465-495: “The Fourth BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog (Revised).”
Rubin, B. C., Fishman, G. J., Harmon, B. A., Waite, J. H., Link, R., Zhang, S. N., Brainerd, J. J., Pendleton, G. N., Meegan, C. A., & Paciesas, W. S., 1996, Icarus, 121, 479-483: “Limits on Hard X-Ray Emission from the Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 Impact on Jupiter.”
Meegan, C. A., Pendleton, G. N., Briggs, M. S., Kouveliotou, C., Koshut, T. M., Lestrade, J. P., Paciesas, W. S., Henze, W., McCollough, M., Brainerd, J. J., Horack, J. M., Hakkila, J., Preece, R. D., Mallozzi, R. S., & Fishman, G.J., 1996, ApJS, 106, 65-110: “The Third BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog.”
Briggs, M. S., Pendleton, G. N., Brainerd, J. J., Connaughton, V., Kippen, R. M., Meegan, C. A., & Hurley, K., 1998, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: Fourth Symposium, Huntsville, AL 1997, ed. C. A. Meegan, R. D. Preece, & T. M. Koshut (New York: AIP), 104-108: “BATSE GRB Location Errors.”
Meegan, C. A., Paciesas, W. S., Pendleton, G. N., Briggs, M. S., Kouveliotou, C., Koshut, T. M., Lestrade, J. P., McCollough, M., Brainerd, J. J., Hakkila, J., Henze, W., Preece, R. D., Connaughton, V., Kippen, R. M., Mallozzi, R. S., & Fishman, G. J., 1998, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: Fourth Symposium, Huntsville, AL 1997, ed. C. A. Meegan, R. D. Preece, & T. M. Koshut (New York: AIP), 3-9: “The 4B BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog.”
Meegan, C. A., Fishman, G. J., Harmon, B. A., Horack, J. M., Wilson, R. B., Brainerd, J. J., Briggs, M. S., Paciesas, W. S., Pendleton, G. N., Kouveliotou, C., & Hakkila, J., 1996, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: Third Symposium, Huntsville, AL 1995, ed. C. Kouveliotou, M. S. Briggs, & (New York: AIP), 291-300: “EREBUS: An Experiment to REveal the BUrster Sites.”
Meegan, C. A., Pendleton, G. N., Briggs, M. S., Kouveliotou, C., Koshut, T. M., Lestrade, J. P., Paciesas, W. S., McCollough, M., Brainerd, J. J., Horack, J. M., Hakkila, J., Henze, W., Preece, R. D., Mallozzi, R. S., & Fishman, G. J., 1996, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: Third Symposium, Huntsville, AL 1995, ed. C. Kouveliotou, M. S. Briggs, & G. J. Fishman (New York: AIP), 291-300: “The BATSE 3B Catalog.”
Fishman, G. J., Brainerd, J. J. & Hurley, K., 1994, Preface to Gamma-Ray Bursts: Second Workshop, Huntsville, AL 1993, ed. G. J. Fishman, J. J. Brainerd, & K. Hurley (New York: AIP).
Brainerd, J.J., 1993, Physics Today, 46, 84: review of “High Energy Radiation from Magnetized Neutron Stars” by P. Meszaros.
Gamma-Ray Bursts: Second Workshop, Huntsville, AL 1993, ed. G. J. Fishman, J. J. Brainerd, & K. Hurley (New York: AIP), 1994.
Brainerd, J. J., “Synchrotron Emission Models for Gamma-Ray Burst Sources, the Determination of the Orientations of AM Herculis Binaries, and Non-adiabatic Shocks on Magnetic White Dwarfs,” 1985, Harvard University, supervised by D. Q. Lamb.