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Ian M George

Associate Professor

Ph.D. University of Leicester (UK), 1988

Postdoctoral work at University of Cambridge (UK).

Director of Joint Center for Astrophysics (JCA)

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Room 410, Physics Bldg.
Department of Physics
Univ. Maryland Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
Phone: (410) 455-1518
Email: ian.george@umbc.edu

Research Interests

My Primary Research Interests centre on the study of the optical to Gamma-ray emission from Active Galactic Nuclei [more...]. This work is primarily observational, involving the reduction & interpretation of satellite data. [more...]. My recent work has concentrated on the observational evidence for, and theoretical implications of "Compton Reflection", relativistic Fe Kalpha lines and "warm-absorbers" in Seyfert Galaxies [more...].

I have had a number of papers published in the scientific literature: [Publication list ] As a member of the infamous (not disbanded) Team GnT, I collaborated with a number of astrophysicists throughout the world [more...].

Selected Publications

Over 100 publications in refereed journals, some of which are are occasionally read (see also ISI Highlycited.com), including:

X-ray Observations of Optically-Selected, Radio-Quiet Quasars I: The ASCA results
George, I.M., Turner, T.J., Yaqoob, T. Netzer, H., Laor, A., Mushotzky, R.F., Nandra, K., Takahashi, T.,
2000, ApJ, 531, 52
The X-ray Spectral Variability of the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 3227
George, I.M., Mushotzky, R.F., Turner, T.J., Yaqoob, T. Ptak, A., Nandra, K., Netzer, H.,
1998, ApJ, 509, 146
ASCA Observations of the Ionized Gas in the Seyfert Galaxy NGC 3783
George, I.M. Turner, T.J., Mushotzky, R.F., Nandra, K., Netzer, H.,
1998, ApJ, 503, 174
ASCA Observations of Seyfert-I galaxies: III The Evidence from Absorption & Emission due to Photoionized Gas
George, I.M., Turner, T.J., Netzer, H., Nandra, K., Mushotzky, R.F., Yaqoob, T.
1998, ApJS, 114, 73
Evidence for absorption due to highly-ionized gas in the radio-quiet quasar PG 1114+445
George, I.M., Nandra, K., Laor, A., Turner, T.J., Fiore, F., Netzer, H., Mushotzky, R.F.,
1997, ApJ, 491, 508
X-ray Reflection from Cold Matter in Active Galactic Nuclei and X-ray binaries
George, I.M., Fabian, A.C.
1991, MNRAS, 249, 352.
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