Robert Daniel Ferdman---Publications   (download PDF)
Refereed publications
R. D. Ferdman, I. H. Stairs, D. C. Backer, M. Burgay, F. Camilo, N. D'Amico, P. Demorest, A. Faulkner, G. Hobbs, M. Kramer, D. R. Lorimer, A. G. Lyne, R. Manchester, M. A. McLaughlin, D. J. Nice, A. Possenti (2006). Mass measurement of PSR J1802-2124, an intermediate mass binary pulsar system. To be submitted to the Astrophysical Journal by the end of January 2007.
J. van Leeuwen, R. D. Ferdman, S. Meyer, I. H. Stairs (2006). A search for pulsars around low-mass white dwarfs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 374(4):1437-1440
M. Kramer, I. H. Stairs, R. N. Manchester, M. A. McLaughlin, A. G. Lyne, R. D. Ferdman, M. Burgay, D. R. Lorimer, A. Possenti, N. D. D'Amico, J. M. Sarkissian, G. B. Hobbs, J. E. Reynolds, P. C. C. Freire and F. Camilo (2006). New tests of general relativity from timing the double pulsar. Science, 314:97-102.
R. D. Ferdman, H. B. Richer, J. Brewer, G. G. Fahlman, B. K. Gibson, B. M. S. Hansen, M. E. Huber, R. A. Ibata, J. S. Kalirai, J. M. Matthews, R. M. Rich, J. F. Rowe, M. M. Shara, and P. B. Stetson (2003). Searching for variability in the globular cluster Messier 4. The Astronomical Journal. 127:380-384.
Non-refereed publications, proceedings, presentations, and posters
M. Kramer, I. H. Stairs, R. N. Manchester, M. A. McLaughlin, A. G. Lyne, R. D. Ferdman, M. Burgay, D. R. Lorimer, A. Possenti, N. D. D'Amico, J. M. Sarkissian, J. E. Reynolds, B. C. Joshi, P. C. C. Freire and F. Camilo (2006). Strong-field tests of gravity with the double pulsar. Annalen der Physik. 15:34-42.
R. D. Ferdman. Probing the stellar fossil record to study binary evolution. Talk, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society, 1-4 July 2006.
R. D. Ferdman, I. H. Stairs, D. C. Backer, M. Burgay, F. Camilo, N. D'Amico, P. Demorest, A. Faulkner, G. Hobbs, M. Kramer, D. R. Lorimer, A. G. Lyne, R. Manchester, M. McLaughlin, D. J. Nice, A. Possenti. Constraining binary stellar evolution with pulsar timing. American Astronomical Society Meeting 208, #4.08 (2006).
I. H. Stairs, M. Kramer, R. Manchester, M. McLaughlin, A. Lyne, R. Ferdman, M. Burgay, D. Lorimer, A. Possenti, N. D'Amico, B. Joshi, P. Freire, F. Camilo. Recent observations of the double pulsar. American Astronomical Society Meeting 208, #33.04 (2006).
A. Possenti, M. Burgay, N. D'Amico, A. Lyne, M. Kramer, M. McLaughlin, D. Lorimer, R. Manchester, F. Camilo, J. Sarkissian, P. Freire, B. C. Joshi, I. Stairs, R. Ferdman. Two years of work in the J0737-3039 laboratory. Astrophysical Source of High Energy Particles and Radiation. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 801, pp. 272-277 (2005).
M. Kramer, I. H. Stairs, R. N. Manchester, M. A. McLaughlin, A. G. Lyne, R. D. Ferdman, M. Burgay, D. R. Lorimer, A. Possenti, N. D'Amico, J. Sarkissian, B. C. Joshi, P. C. C. Freire, F. Camilo. Strong-field Tests of Gravity with the Double Pulsar. To appear in the proceedings of the annual meeting of the Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft, Berlin, 2005.
R. D. Ferdman. Constraining Neutron Star Masses from Pulsar Timing. Green Bank Telescope Lunch Talk Series, 1 June 2005.
R. D. Ferdman, I. H. Stairs, D. J. Nice, A. Lommen, D. C. Backer, P. Demorest, R. Ramachandran, and the Parkes Multibeam Pulsar Collaboration. He Ain't Heavy, He's My Degenerate Companion: Constraining Neutron Star Masses from Pulsar Timing. Poster, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society, 15-17 May 2005.
M. Kramer, D. R. Lorimer, A. G. Lyne, M. McLaughlin, M. Burgay, N. D'Amico, A. Possenti, F. Camilo, P. C. C. Freire, B. C. Joshi, R. N. Manchester, J. Reynolds, J. Sarkissian, I. H. Stairs, R. D. Ferdman. Testing GR with the Double Pulsar: Recent Results. Proceedings of The 22nd Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics. eConf C041213}, 0038 (2004) [arXiv:astro-ph/0503386].
R. D. Ferdman, I. H. Stairs, D. C. Backer, R. Ramachandran, P. Demorest, D. J. Nice, A. G. Lyne, M. Kramer, D. Manchester, A. Possenti, M. Burgay, M. MacLaughlin, D. Lorimer, B. C. Joshi, P. C. C. Freire, N. D'Amico, F. Camilo. High-Precision Timing of Several Millisecond Pulsars. American Astronomical Society Meeting 205, #111.01 (2004).
P. Demorest, R. Ramachandran, D. Backer, R. Ferdman, I. Stairs, D. Nice. Precision Pulsar Timing and Gravity Waves: Recent Advances in Instrumentation. American Astronomical Society Meeting 205, #149.01 (2004).
R. D. Ferdman, I. H. Stairs, D. C. Backer, R. Ramachandran, P. Demorest, and D~.J. Nice. Initial Observations with the Arecibo Signal Processor. Poster, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society Conference, 13-16 June 2004.
R. D. Ferdman, I. H. Stairs, D. C. Backer, R. Ramachandran, and D. J. Nice. ASP - A Next Generation Signal Processing System. Poster, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society Conference, 1-3 June 2003.
R. Ferdman, J. Brewer, B. M. S. Hansen, H. B. Richer, J. F. Rowe, and B. K. Gibson. Searching for Variability in the Globular Cluster Messier 4. American Astronomical Society Meeting 201, #07.17 (2003).
R. Ferdman, J. Brewer, G. G. Fahlman, H. B. Richer, J. F. Rowe, and B. K. Gibson. Searching for Variability in M4. Poster, Annual Meeting of the Canadian Astronomical Society Conference, 11-14 May 2002.