Brightman, Murray

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• Brightman, Murray and Jaimes, Joahan Castañeda, el al. (2026) Fast X-Ray Transients in NuSTAR Data; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 999; No. 1; 75; 10.3847/1538-4357/ae3f31
• Hu, Yifan and Brightman, Murray, el al. (2025) Hard X-Ray Emission in AU Mic Flares: A Minor Contributor to Planetary Atmospheric Escape; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 995; No. 2; 189; 10.3847/1538-4357/ae1971
• Walton, D. J. and Bachetti, M., el al. (2025) A New Broadband Spectral State in the Ultraluminous X-ray Source Holmberg IX X-1; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Vol. 543; No. 3; 2902-2916; 10.1093/mnras/staf1609
• Assef, R. J. and Stalevski, M., el al. (2025) A massive gas outflow outside the line of sight: Imaging polarimetry of the blue excess Hot Dust-Obscured Galaxy W0204–0506; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Vol. 702; A124; 10.1051/0004-6361/202555245
• El Byad, Hamza and Bachetti, Matteo, el al. (2025) A NuSTAR Study of Quasiperiodic Oscillations from the Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources in M82; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 989; No. 2; 202; 10.3847/1538-4357/aded8a
• Annuar, A. and Alexander, D. M., el al. (2025) The Compton-thick AGN population and the NH distribution of low-mass AGN in our cosmic backyard; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Vol. 540; No. 4; 3827-3849; 10.1093/mnras/staf956
• Hernández-García, Lorena and Chakraborty, Joheen, el al. (2025) Discovery of extreme quasi-periodic eruptions in a newly accreting massive black hole; Nature Astronomy; Vol. 9; No. 6; 895-906; 10.1038/s41550-025-02523-9
• Boorman, Peter G. and Gandhi, Poshak, el al. (2025) The NuSTAR Local AGN N_H Distribution Survey (NuLANDS). I. Toward a Truly Representative Column Density Distribution in the Local Universe; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 978; No. 1; 118; 10.3847/1538-4357/ad8236
• García, Javier A. and Stern, Daniel, el al. (2024) The high energy X-ray probe (HEX-P): science overview; Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences; Vol. 11; 1471585; 10.3389/fspas.2024.1471585
• Boorman, Peter G. and Stern, Daniel, el al. (2024) An Intermediate-mass Black Hole Hidden behind Thick Obscuration; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 975; No. 2; 230; 10.3847/1538-4357/ad7f56
• Sánchez-Sáez, P. and Hernandez-Garcia, L., el al. (2024) SDSS1335+0728: The awakening of a ~10⁶ M⊙ black hole; Astronomy & Astrophysics; Vol. 688; A157; 10.1051/0004-6361/202347957
• Earnshaw, Hannah P. and Bachetti, Matteo, el al. (2024) Return to the Forgotten Ultraluminous X-Ray Source: A Broadband NICER+NuSTAR Study of NGC 4190 ULX-1; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 968; No. 2; 111; 10.3847/1538-4357/ad43d9
• Sánchez-Sáez, P. and Hernandez-Garcia, L., el al. (2024) SDSS1335+0728: The awakening of a ~10⁶ M⊙ black hole; Astronomy & Astrophysics; 10.1051/0004-6361/202347957
• Saade, M. Lynne and Brightman, Murray, el al. (2024) NuSTAR Observations of Candidate Subparsec Binary Supermassive Black Holes; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 966; No. 1; 104; 10.3847/1538-4357/ad372e
• Brightman, Murray and Margutti, Raffaella, el al. (2024) The high energy X-ray probe (HEX-P): sensitive broadband X-ray observations of transient phenomena in the 2030s; Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences; Vol. 10; 1292656; 10.3389/fspas.2023.1292656
• Grefenstette, Brian W. and Brightman, Murray, el al. (2023) Early Hard X-Rays from the Nearby Core-collapse Supernova SN 2023ixf; Astrophysical Journal Letters; Vol. 952; No. 1; L3; 10.3847/2041-8213/acdf4e
• Shivkumar, Hinna and Jaodand, Amruta D., el al. (2023) SN2019wxt: An Ultrastripped Supernova Candidate Discovered in the Electromagnetic Follow-up of a Gravitational Wave Trigger; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 952; No. 1; 86; 10.3847/1538-4357/acd5d5
• Brightman, Murray and Hameury, Jean-Marie, el al. (2023) A New Sample of Transient Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources Serendipitously Discovered by Swift/XRT; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 951; No. 1; Art. No. 51; 10.3847/1538-4357/acd18a
• Fürst, F. and Walton, D. J., el al. (2023) Probing the nature of the low state in the extreme ultraluminous X-ray pulsar NGC 5907 ULX1; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Vol. 672; Art. No. A140; 10.1051/0004-6361/202245048
• Walton, D. J. and Reynolds, M. T., el al. (2022) X-ray absorption and reprocessing in the z ∼ 2.5 lensed quasar 2MASS J1042+1641; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Vol. 516; No. 4; 5997-6008; 10.1093/mnras/stac2554
• Bachetti, Matteo and Heida, Marianne, el al. (2022) Orbital Decay in M82 X-2; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 937; No. 2; Art. No. 125; 10.3847/1538-4357/ac8d67
• Assef, R. J. and Bauer, F. E., el al. (2022) Imaging Polarization of the Blue-excess Hot Dust-obscured Galaxy WISE J011601.41–050504.0; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 934; No. 2; Art. No. 101; 10.3847/1538-4357/ac77fc
• Earnshaw, Hannah P. and Brightman, Murray, el al. (2022) The Variability Behavior of NGC 925 ULX-3; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 934; No. 1; Art. No. 42; 10.3847/1538-4357/ac79b0
• Brightman, Murray and Kosec, Peter, el al. (2022) An 8.56 keV Absorption Line in the Hyperluminous X-Ray Source in NGC 4045: Ultrafast Outflow or Cyclotron Line?; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 929; No. 2; Art. No. 138; 10.3847/1538-4357/ac5e37
• Earnshaw, Hannah P. and Madsen, Kristin K., el al. (2022) Reconstruction of the NuSTAR PSF Using Single-laser Metrology; ISBN 978-1-6654-3760-8; 2022 IEEE Aerospace Conference (AERO); 1-8; 10.1109/aero53065.2022.9843468
• Kamraj, Nikita and Brightman, Murray, el al. (2022) X-Ray Coronal Properties of Swift/BAT-selected Seyfert 1 Active Galactic Nuclei; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 927; No. 1; Art. No. 42; 10.3847/1538-4357/ac45f6
• Brightman, Murray and Bachetti, Matteo, el al. (2022) Evolution of the Spin, Spectrum and Superorbital Period of the Ultraluminous X-Ray Pulsar M51 ULX7; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 925; No. 1; Art. No. 18; 10.3847/1538-4357/ac3829
• Earnshaw, Hannah P. and Madsen, Kristin K., el al. (2022) Reconstruction of the NuSTAR point spread function using single-laser metrology; Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems; Vol. 8; No. 1; Art. No. 014009; 10.1117/1.jatis.8.1.014009
• Bachetti, Matteo and Heida, Marianne, el al. (2021) The extreme mass transfer and high magnetic field of the first ultraluminous pulsar M82 X-2; 10.48550/arXiv.2112.00339
• Makhathini, S. and Mooley, K. P., el al. (2021) The Panchromatic Afterglow of GW170817: The Full Uniform Data Set, Modeling, Comparison with Previous Results, and Implications; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 922; No. 2; Art. No. 154; 10.3847/1538-4357/ac1ffc
• Yao, Yuhan and Kulkarni, S. R., el al. (2021) A Comprehensive X-Ray Report on AT2019wey; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 920; No. 2; Art. No. 121; 10.3847/1538-4357/ac15f8
• Middleton, M. J. and Walton, D. J., el al. (2021) NuSTAR reveals the hidden nature of SS433; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Vol. 506; No. 1; 1045-1058; 10.1093/mnras/stab1280
• Jiang, Jiachen and Baloković, Mislav, el al. (2021) A highly accreting low-mass black hole hidden in the dust: Suzaku and NuSTAR observations of the NLS1 Mrk 1239; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Vol. 505; No. 1; 702-712; 10.1093/mnras/stab1306
• Buchner, Johannes and Brightman, Murray, el al. (2021) Physically motivated X-ray obscurer models; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Vol. 651; Art. No. A58; 10.1051/0004-6361/201834963
• Fürst, F. and Walton, D. J., el al. (2021) Long-term pulse period evolution of the ultra-luminous X-ray pulsar NGC 7793 P13; Astronomy and Astrophysics; Vol. 651; Art. No. A75; 10.1051/0004-6361/202140625
• Balasubramanian, Arvind and Corsi, Alessandra, el al. (2021) Continued Radio Observations of GW170817 3.5 yr Post-merger; Astrophysical Journal Letters; Vol. 914; No. 1; Art. No. L20; 10.3847/2041-8213/abfd38
• Brightman, Murray and Ward, Charlotte, el al. (2021) A Luminous X-Ray Transient in SDSS J143359.16+400636.0: A Likely Tidal Disruption Event; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 909; No. 2; Art. No. 102; 10.3847/1538-4357/abde34
• Vasilopoulos, Georgios and Koliopanos, Filippos, el al. (2021) Chandra Probes the X-Ray Variability of M51 ULX-7: Evidence of Propeller Transition and X-Ray Dips on Orbital Periods; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 909; No. 1; Art. No. 50; 10.3847/1538-4357/abda49
• Walton, D. J. and Heida, M., el al. (2021) A new transient ultraluminous X-ray source in NGC 7090; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Vol. 501; No. 1; 1002-1012; 10.1093/mnras/staa3666
• Baloković, M. and Harrison, F. A., el al. (2020) NuSTAR Survey of Obscured Swift/BAT-selected Active Galactic Nuclei. II. Median High-energy Cutoff in Seyfert II Hard X-Ray Spectra; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 905; No. 1; Art. No. 41; 10.3847/1538-4357/abc342
• Brightman, Murray and Earnshaw, Hannah, el al. (2020) Swift Monitoring of M51: A 38 day Superorbital Period for the Pulsar ULX7 and a New Transient Ultraluminous X-Ray Source; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 895; No. 2; Art. No. 127; 10.3847/1538-4357/ab7e2a
• Walton, D. J. and Pinto, C., el al. (2020) The unusual broad-band X-ray spectral variability of NGC 1313 X-1 seen with XMM–Newton, Chandra, and NuSTAR; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Vol. 494; No. 4; 6012-6029; 10.1093/mnras/staa1129
• Rodríguez Castillo, G. A. and Israel, G. L., el al. (2020) Discovery of a 2.8 s Pulsar in a 2 Day Orbit High-mass X-Ray Binary Powering the Ultraluminous X-Ray Source ULX-7 in M51; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 895; No. 1; Art. No. 60; 10.3847/1538-4357/ab8a44
• Earnshaw, Hannah P. and Heida, Marianne, el al. (2020) The (Re)appearance of NGC 925 ULX-3, a New Transient ULX; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 891; No. 2; Art. No. 153; 10.3847/1538-4357/ab77b8
• Pintore, F. and Marelli, M., el al. (2020) The Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources Population of the Galaxy NGC 7456; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 890; No. 2; Art. No. 166; 10.3847/1538-4357/ab6ffd
• Kara, E. and Pinto, C., el al. (2020) Discovery of a soft X-ray lag in the ultraluminous X-ray source NGC 1313 X-1; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Vol. 491; No. 4; 5172-5178; 10.1093/mnras/stz3318
• Brightman, Murray and Walton, Dominic J., el al. (2020) Spectral Evolution of the Ultraluminous X-Ray Sources M82 X-1 and X-2; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 889; No. 1; Art. No. 71; 10.3847/1538-4357/ab629a
• Earnshaw, Hannah P. and Grefenstette, Brian W., el al. (2019) A broadband look at the old and new ULXs of NGC 6946; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 881; No. 1; Art. No. 38; 10.3847/1538-4357/ab20cd
• Brightman, M. and Bachetti, M., el al. (2019) Breaking the limit: Super-Eddington accretion onto black holes and neutron stars; 10.48550/arXiv.1903.06844
• Brightman, M. and Baloković, M., el al. (2018) A Long Hard-X-Ray Look at the Dual Active Galactic Nuclei of M51 with NuSTAR; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 867; No. 2; Art. No. 110; 10.3847/1538-4357/aae1ae
• Rampadarath, H. and Soria, R., el al. (2018) Jets, arcs, and shocks: NGC 5195 at radio wavelengths; Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society; Vol. 476; No. 3; 2876-2889; 10.1093/mnras/sty390
• Kosec, P. and Brightman, M., el al. (2017) Investigating the Evolution of the Dual AGN System ESO 509-IG066; Astrophysical Journal; Vol. 850; No. 2; Art. No. 168; 10.3847/1538-4357/aa932e