Dr. Alex Markowitz

Profile

Academic positionLecturer, Assistant Professor, Researcher
Research fieldsAstrophysics
Keywordsactive galaxies, Seyfert galaxies, X-rays, spectroscopy, accretion

Current contact address

CountryPoland
CityWarszawa
InstitutionPolish Academy of Sciences
InstituteNicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Centre

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Jörn WilmsDr. Remeis-Sternwarte Bamberg - Astronomisches Institut -, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Bamberg
Start of initial sponsorship01/11/2011

Programme(s)

2011Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme for Experienced Researchers

Publications (partial selection)

2014Paul Hemphill, Richard Rothschild, Alex Markowitz, Felix Fuerst, Katja Pottschmidt, Joern Wilms: A Clumpy Stellar Wind and Luminosity-Dependent Cyclotron Line Revealed by The First Suzaku Observation of the High-Mass X-ray Binary 4U 1538–522 . In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2014, 14-28
2014Alex Markowitz, Mirko Krumpe, Robert Nikutta: First X-ray-Based Statistical Tests for Clumpy-Torus Models: Eclipse Events from 230 Years of Monitoring of Seyfert AGN . In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2014, 1403-1458
2014Victoria Grinberg, Katja Pottschmidt, Moritz Boeck, Christian Schmid, Michael Nowak, Philip Uttley, John Tomsick, Jerome Rodriguez, Natalie Hell, Alex Markowitz, Arash Bodaghee, Marion Cadolle Bel, Richard Rothschild, Joern Wilms: Long-Term Evolution of Cygnus X-1: VI. Energy-Resolved Variability 1999–2011 . In: Astronomy and Astrophysics , 2014, 1-19
2014Elena Marchese, Valentina Braito, James Reeves, Roberto Della Ceca, Alessandro Caccianiga, Alex Markowitz, Guido Risaliti, Paola Severgnini, T. Jane Turner : The Variable Ionized Absorber in the Seyfert 2 Mrk 348 . In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 2014, 2806-2815
2014Elizabeth Rivers, Alex Markowitz, Richard Rothschild, Aya Bamba, Yasushi Fukazawa, Takashi Okajima, James Reeves, Yuichi Terashima, Yoshihiro Ueda: Tracking the Complex Absorption in NGC 2110 with two Suzaku Observations . In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2014, 126-133
2013Richard Rothschild, Alex Markowitz, Paul Hemphill, Isabel Caballero, Katja Pottschmidt, Matthias Kuehnel, Joern Wilms, Felix Fuerst, Victor Doroshenko, Ascension Camero-Arranz: Observations of the High Mass X-ray Binary A0535+26 in Quiescence . In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2013, 19-26
2012Elizabeth Rivers, Alex Markowitz, Refiz Duro, Richard Rothschild A Suzaku Observation of Mkn 590 Reveals a Vanishing Soft Excess . In: The Astrophysical Journal, 2012, 63-68
2012Adam Patrick, James Reeves, Delphine Porquet, Alex Markowitz, Valentina Braito, Andrew Lobban: A Suzaku Survey of Iron K Lines in Seyfert 1 AGN . In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 2012, 2522-2565
2012Francesco Tombesi, Rita Sambruna, Alan Marscher, Svetlana Jorstad, Christopher Reynolds, Alex Markowitz: Comparison of Ejection Events in the Jet and Accretion Disk Outflows in 3C 111 . In: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society , 2012, 754-761