Neutron Star Papers (Refereed):

• SGRs/AXPs:
  • HST Observations of SGR 0526-66: New Contraints on Accretion and Magnetar Models (Kaplan, D. L. et al 2001, ApJ, 556, 399)
  • Deep Radio, Optical, and Infrared Observations of SGR 1900+14 (Kaplan, D. L., Kulkarni, S. R., Frail, D. A., & van Kerkwijk, M. H. 2002, ApJ, 566, 378)
  • High-Resolution X-ray and Radio Observations of SGR 1900+14 in the Immediate Aftermath of a Giant Flare (Fox, D. W., Kaplan, D. L., Kulkarni, S. R., & Frail, D. A. 2001, ApJ, submitted)
  • Precise Chandra Localization of the Soft Gamma-ray Repeater SGR 1806-20 (Kaplan, D. L., Fox, D. W., Kulkarni, S. R., Gotthelf, E. V., Vasisht, G., & Frail, D. A. 2002, ApJ, 564, 935)
  • The Quiescent Counterpart of the Soft Gamma-ray Repeater SGR 0526-66 (S. R. Kulkarni, D. L. Kaplan, H. L. Marshall, D. A. Frail, T. Murakami & D. Yonetoku 2003, ApJ, 585, 948)
  • A debris disk around an isolated young neutron star (Z. Wang, D. Chakrabarty, & D. L. Kaplan 2006, Nature, 440, 772)
• Nearby Isolated Neutron Stars:
  • X-Ray Timing of the Enigmatic Neutron Star RX J0720.4-3125 (D. L. Kaplan, S. R. Kulkarni, M. H. van Kerkwijk, & H. L. Marshall 2002, ApJL, 570, 79)
  • The Parallax and Proper Motion of RX J1856.5-3754 Revisited (D. L. Kaplan, M. H. van Kerkwijk, & J. Anderson 2002, ApJ, 571, 447)
  • A Probable Optical Counterpart for the Isolated Neutron Star RX J1308.6+2127 (D. L. Kaplan, S. R. Kulkarni, & M. H. van Kerkwijk 2002, ApJL, 579, 29)
  • The Optical Counterpart of the Isolated Neutron Star RX J1605.3+3249 (D. L. Kaplan, S. R. Kulkarni & M. H. van Kerkwijk 2003, ApJL, 588, 33)
  • The Nearby Neutron Star RX J0720.4-3125 from Radio to X-rays (D. L. Kaplan, M. H. van Kerkwijk, H. L. Marshall, B. A. Jacoby, S. R. Kulkarni & D. A. Frail 2003, ApJ, 590, 1008)
  • A Strong, Broad Absorption Feature in the X-ray Spectrum of the Nearby Neutron Star RX J1605.3+3249 (M. H. van Kerkwijk, D. L. Kaplan, M. Durant, S. R. Kulkarni, & F. Paerels 2004, ApJ, 608, 432)
  • A Coherent Timing Solution for the Nearby Isolated Neutron Star RX J0720.4-3125 (D. L. Kaplan & M. H. van Kerkwijk 2005, ApJL, 628, 45)
  • A Coherent Timing Solution for the Nearby Isolated Neutron Star RX J1308.6+2127/RBS 1223 (D. L. Kaplan & M. H. van Kerkwijk 2005, ApJL, 635, 65)
  • Magnetic Hydrogen Atmosphere Models and the Neutron Star RX J1856.5-3754 (W. C. G. Ho, D. L. Kaplan, P. Chang, M. van Adelberg, and A. Y. Potekhin 2007, MNRAS, 375, 821)
  • The Distance to the Isolated Neutron Star RX J0720.4-3125 (D. L. Kaplan, M. H. van Kerkwijk, J. Anderson 2007, ApJ, 660, 1428)
  • Spectral and Rotational Changes in the Isolated Neutron Star RX J0720.4-3125 (M. H. van Kerkwijk, D. L. Kaplan, G. G. Pavlov, and K. Mori 2007, ApJ, 659, L149)
  • Accurate X-ray position and multiwavelength observations of the isolated neutron star RBS1774 (Rea, N., Torres, M. A. P., Jonker, P. G., Mignani, R. P., Zane, S., Burgay, M., Kaplan, D. L., Turolla, R., Israel, G. L., and Steeghs, D. 2007, MNRAS, 379, 1484)
  • Timing the Nearby Isolated Neutron Star RX J1856.5-3754 (van Kerkwijk and Kaplan 2008, ApJL, 673, 163)
• Neutron Stars in Supernova Remnants
  • Search for an Near-IR Counterpart to the Cas A X-ray Point Source (Kaplan, D. L., Kulkarni, S. R., & Murray, S. S. 2001, ApJ, 558, 270)
  • An X-ray Search for Compact Central Sources in Supernova Remnants I: SNRs G093.3+6.9, G315.4-2.3, G084.2+0.8, & G127.1+0.5 (D. L. Kaplan, D. A. Frail, B. M. Gaensler, E. V. Gotthelf, S. R. Kulkarni, P. O. Slane, & A. Nechita 2004, ApJS, 153, 269)
  • PSR B1951+32: A Bow Shock-confined X-Ray Nebula, a Synchrotron Knot, and an Optical Counterpart Candidate (D.-S. Moon, J.-J. Lee, S. S. Eikenberry, B.-C. Koo, S. Chatterjee, D. L. Kaplan, J. J. Hester, J. M. Cordes, Y. A. Gallant, & L. Koch-Miramond 2004, ApJL, 610, 33)
  • An X-ray Search for Compact Central Sources in Supernova Remnants II: Six Large Diameter SNRs (D. L. Kaplan, B. M. Gaensler, S. R. Kulkarni, & P. O. Slane 2006, ApJS, 163, 344)
  • A Near-Infrared Search for Counterparts to Three Pulsars in Young Supernova Remnants (D. L. Kaplan and D.-S. Moon 2006, ApJ, 644, 1056)
  • A Search for the X-ray Counterpart of the Unidentified gamma-ray Source 3EG J2020+4017 (2CG078+2) (M. C. Weisskopf, D. A. Schwartz, A. Carraminana, L. Carrasco, D. L. Kaplan, W. Becker, R. F. Elsner, G. Kanbach, S. L. O'Dell, and A. F. Tennant 2006, ApJ, 652, 387)
  • A Search for Fallback Disks in Four Young Supernova Remnants (Z. Wang, D. L. Kaplan, and D. Chakrabarty 2007, ApJ, 655, 261)
  • A Precise Proper Motion for the Crab Pulsar, and the Difficulty of Testing Spin-Kick Alignment for Young Neutron Stars (D. L. Kaplan, S. Chatterjee, B. M. Gaensler, and J. Anderson 2008, ApJ, 677, 1201)
• X-ray Binaries:
  • The X-Ray Position and Optical Counterpart of the Accretion-powered Millisecond Pulsar XTE J1814-338 (Krauss, M. I., Wang, Z., Dullighan, A. Juett, A. M., Kaplan, D. L., Chakrabarty, D, van Kerkwijk, M. H., Steeghs, D., Jonker, P. G., & Markwardt, C. B. 2005, ApJ, 627, 910)
  • Long-Wavelength Excesses in Two Highly-obscured High-Mass X-ray Binaries: Evidence for Circumstellar Dust (D. L. Kaplan, D.-S. Moon, and W. T. Reach 2006, ApJ, 649, L107)
  • Lost and Found: A New Position and Infrared Counterpart for the X-ray Binary Scutum X-1 (D. L. Kaplan, A. M. Levine, D. Chakrabarty, E. H. Morgan, D. K. Erb, B. M. Gaensler, D.-S. Moon, and P. B. Cameron 2007, ApJ, 661, 437)
  • The long-term evolution of the spin, pulse shape, and orbit of the accretion-powered millisecond pulsar SAX J1808.4-3658 (J. M. Hartman, A. Patruno, D. Chakrabarty, D. L. Kaplan, C. B. Markwardt, E. H. Morgan, P. S. Ray. M. van der Klis, and R. Wijnands 2007, ApJ, 675, 1468)
  • The Rich Mid-Infrared Environments of Two Highly-Obscured X-ray Binaries: Spitzer Observations of IGR J16318-4848 and GX 301-2 (D.-S. Moon, D. L. Kaplan, W. Reach, F. Harrison, J.-E. Lee, and P. Martin 2007, ApJ, 671, L53)
• Other Papers:
  • Green Bank Telescope Measurement of the Systemic Velocity of the Double Pulsar Binary J0737-3039 and Implications for Its Formation (Ransom, S. M., Kaspi, V. M., Ramachandran, R., Demorest, P., Backer, D. C., Pfahl, E. D., Ghigo, F. D., & Kaplan, D. L. 2004, ApJL, 609, 71)
  • Twenty-One Millisecond Pulsars in Terzan 5 Using the Green Bank Telescope (Ransom, S. M., Hessels, J. W. T., Stairs, I. H., Freire, P. C. C., Camilo, F., Kaspi, V. M., & Kaplan, D. L. 2005, Science, 307, 892)
  • The GBT Pulsar Spigot (Kaplan, D. L., Escoffier, R. P., Lacasse, R. J., O'Neil, K., Ford, J. M., Ransom, S. M., Anderson, S. B., Cordes, J. M., Lazio, T. J. W., & Kulkarni, S. R. 2005, PASP, 117, 643)
  • A Shot in the Dark: A Technique for Locating the Stellar Counterparts of Damped Lyman Alpha Absorbers (J. M. O'Meara, H.-W. Chen, & D. L. Kaplan 2006, ApJL, 642, 9)
  • Optical Detection of Two Intermediate-Mass Binary Pulsar Companions (B. A. Jacoby, D. Chakrabarty, M. H. van Kerkwijk, S. R. Kulkarni, & D. L. Kaplan 2006, ApJL, 640, 183)
  • Also see papers using the GBT Pulsar Spigot
• Thesis:
  • "The Diversity of Neutron Stars": Download PDF, or you can buy it

NVSS Papers:

• Planetary Nebulae in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (Condon, J. J., Kaplan, D. L. 1998, ApJS, 117, 361)
• Infrared Planetary Nebulae in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (Condon, J. J., Kaplan, D. L., Terzian, Yervant, 1999, ApJS, 123, 219)
• Pulsars in the NRAO VLA Sky Survey (Kaplan, D. L., Condon, J. J., Arzoumanian, Z., Cordes, J. M. 1998 ApJS 119, 75)
• Compact Radio Sources with the Steepest Spectra (Kaplan, D. L., Cordes, J. M., Condon, J. J., Djorgovski, S. G., 2000, ApJ, 529, 859)
• Radio Morphologies & Spectra of Compact Radio Sources with the Steepest Spectra (Kaplan, D. L., Cordes, J. M., Condon, J. J., 2000, ApJS, 126, 37)

Neutron Star Papers (Non-refereed/Conference Proceedings):

• The Steep Spectrum Pulsar Population (Kaplan, D. L., Cordes, J. M., Condon, J. J. 2000, in Pulsar Astronomy - 2000 and Beyond, ASP Conference Series, Vol. 202;  (San Francisco: ASP). Edited by M. Kramer, N. Wex, and N. Wielebinski, p. 35)
• Chandra Observations of SGRs (Kaplan, D. L. 2001, in "Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters: The Rome 2000 Mini-Workshop", MemSAI, 73, 496)
• Chandra Observations of SGRs (Kaplan, D. L. 2001, ITP Conference on Spin, Magnetism and Cooling of Young Neutron Stars)
• Where Are The Soft Gamma-ray Repeaters? (Kaplan, D. L. 2002, in "Neutron Stars in Supernova Remnants", ASP Conference Series, Vol. 271, Eds. P. O. Slane and B. M. Gaensler)
• The Radio-Quiet Neutron Star RX J0720.4-3125 (Kaplan, D. L. 2002, in "Radio Pulsars")
• IGR/XTE J17464-3213: Magellan optical upper limits (Steeghs, S., Miller, J. M., Kaplan, D., & Rupen, M. 2003, ATel, 141, 1)
• IGR/XTE J17464-3213: New radio position and optical counterpart (Steeghs, S., Miller, J. M., Kaplan, D., & Rupen, M. 2003, ATel, 146, 1)
• Optical Observations of Isolated Neutron Stars (Kaplan, D. L. 2003, in "Physics and Astrophysics of Neutron Stars", Santa Fe, August 2003)
• Searching for Stellar Remnants in Supernova Remnants (D. L. Kaplan 2003, in "Compact Stars: Quest For New States of Dense Matter", World Scientific Publishing Co., Eds. D. K. Hong, C.-H. Lee, H. K. Lee, D.-P. Min, T.-S. Park, and M. Rho, 75)
• Searching for Compact Objects in Supernova Remnants: Initial Results (Kaplan, D. L., Kulkarni, S. R., Frail, D. A., Gaensler, B. M., Slane, P. O., & Gotthelf, E. V. 2004, IAUS 218 "Young Neutron Stars and Their Environments", Eds. F. Camilo and B. M. Gaensler, 123)
• Isolated neutron stars: Magnetic fields, distances, and spectra (M. H. van Kerkwijk & D. L. Kaplan 2006, proceedings of "Isolated Neutron Stars: from the Interior to the Surface", edited by D. Page, R. Turolla and S. Zane, Ap&SS, 308, 191)
• Nearby, Thermally Emitting Neutron Stars (D. L. Kaplan, to appear in the proceedings of "40 Years of Pulsars: Millisecond Pulsars, Magnetars, and More", August 12-17, 2007, McGill University, Montreal, Canada)

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