麻豆破解版

Kendrah Murphy

Associate Professor

Office: BTCIS 380B
Telephone: (518) 580-8121
Email: kmurphy1@skidmore.edu

Education

• B.A., Physics and Mathematics, 麻豆破解版 College
• M.A., Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University
• Ph.D., Physics & Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University

Research Interests

Professor Murphy's current research focuses on the X-ray spectral analysis of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN).  After graduating from 麻豆破解版 with majors in Physics and Mathematics, she earned her Ph.D. from the Physics and Astronomy Department at Johns Hopkins University.  While completing her doctoral studies, she gained experience in X-ray instrumentation and data analysis at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center and, as part of her dissertation work, developed a computational model of X-ray reprocessing in AGN that is now used extensively by the AGN community.  Prof. Murphy continued her research at the MIT Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research as a post-doctoral research associate before joining the 麻豆破解版 faculty in 2010.  She regularly works with 麻豆破解版 Physics students at all levels on AGN research.  Her research interests include: the analysis, interpretation, and modeling of X-ray data; Monte Carlo and numerical simulations of transmission and reflection (Compton scattering) in obscuring matter in AGN; the construction of spectral fitting routines using Monte Carlo simulations to model the putative torus in AGN; and numerical analyses of photons in Kerr metric to investigate observational measures of black-hole spin and emission line diagnostics.

Courses

• Introductory Physics I with Laboratory: Forces and Energy
• Introductory Physics II with Laboratory: Electrodynamics
• Modern Physics
• Mathematical & Computational Methods in Physics
• Classical Mechanics
• Electricity & Magnetism
• Quantum Mechanics
• Special Topics: Advanced Quantum Mechanics
• Physics Seminar
• Imagination, Innovation, & the Impossible (Scribner Seminar)

Selected Publications

The Nuclear X-ray Emission-line Structure in NGC 2992 Revealed by Chandra-HETG, Murphy, K. D., Nowak, M.A., & Marshall H. L. 2017, ApJ, 797, 120.

A Chandra-HETG View of MCG +8-11-11, Murphy, K. D. & Nowak, M.A. 2014, ApJ, 797, 12.

Monte Carlo Simulations of the Nickel K伪 Fluorescent Emission Line in a Toroidal Geometry, Yaqoob, T. & Murphy, K. D. 2011, MNRAS, 412, 1765.

The Energy Budget for X-ray to Infrared Reprocessing in Compton-thin and Compton-thick Active Galaxies, Yaqoob, T. & Murphy, K. D. 2011, MNRAS, 412, 835.

The Compton Shoulder of the Fe K伪 Fluorescent Emission Line in Active Galactic Nuclei, Yaqoob, T. & Murphy, K. D. 2011, MNRAS, 412, 277.

Soft X-ray Polarimeter Laboratory Tests, Murphy, K. D.,Marshall, H. L., Heilmann, R., Schultz, N., Jenks, K., Sommer, S. J. B., & Marshall, E. A. 2010, in conf. proc. of the SPIE, Vol. 7732, 108.

Broad-Band Soft X-ray Polarimetry, Marshall, H. L., Heilmann, R., Schultz, N., & K. D. Murphy 2010, in conf. proc. of the SPIE, Vol. 7732, 14.

NGC 2992 in an X-ray high state observed by XMM: Response of the Relativistic Fe K alpha Line to the Continuum, Shu, X. W., Yaqoob, T., Murphy, K. D., Braito, V., Wang, J. X., & Zheng, W., 2010, ApJ, 713, 1256.

On the efficiency of production of the Fe Ka emission line in neutral matter Yaqoob, T., Murphy, K. D., Miller, L., & Turner, T. J., 2010, MNRAS, 401, 411.

Broad-Band Soft X-ray Polarimetry, Marshall, H. L., Heilmann, R., Schultz, N., & K. D. Murphy 2009, in conf. proc. "The Coming of Age of X-ray Polarimetry", in press, arXiv:0908.0677.

An X-ray spectral model for Compton-thick toroidal reprocessors, Murphy, K. D. & Yaqoob, T. 2009, MNRAS, 397, 1549.

On the Prospect of Constraining Black Hole Spin Through X-ray Spectroscopy of Hotspots, Murphy, K. D., Yaqoob, T., Karas, V., & Dov藝ciak, M. 2009, ApJ, 701, 635.

NGC 2992 in an X-ray high state observed by XMM-Newton: Response of the relativistic Fe Ka line to the continuum, Shu, X. W., Yaqoob, T., Murphy, K. D., Braito, V., Wang, J. X., & Zheng, W. 2009, ApJ, in press.

On the efficiency of production of the Fe Ka emission line in neutral matter, Yaqoob, T., Murphy, K. D., Miller, L., & Turner, T. J. 2009, MNRAS, in press, arXiv:0909.0899

Monitoring the Violent Activity from the Inner Accretion Disk of the Seyfert 1.9 Galaxy NGC 2992 with RXTE, Murphy, K. D., Yaqoob, T., & Terashima, Y. 2007, ApJ, 666, 96.

Precision Fe Ka and Fe K炉Line Spectroscopy of the Seyfert 1.9 Galaxy NGC 2992 with Suzaku, Yaqoob, T., Murphy, K. D., Griffiths, G. E., Yoshito, H., Hajime, I., Takeshi, I., Kelley, R., Motohide, K., Markowitz, A., Mushotzky, R., et al. 2007, PASJ, 59, 283.

Non-Linear Effects in Transition Edge Sensors for X-ray Detection, Bandler, S. R., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Iyomoto, N., Kelley, R. L., Kilbourne, C. A, Murphy, K. D., Porter, F. S., Saab, T., & Sadleir, J. 2006, NIMPA, 559, 817.

Position-Sensitive Transition Edge Sensors, Iyomoto, N., Bandler, S. R., Brekosky, R. P., Chervenak, J. A., Figueroa-Feliciano, E., Finkbeiner, F. M., Kelley, R. L., Kilbourne, C. A., Lindeman, M. A., Murphy, K., Porter,F.S., Saab, T., Sadleir, J. E., & Talley, D. J. 2006, NIMPA, 559, 49.