Massimillano Bonamente, Ph.D.

Professor, Physics and Astronomy

Contact

301 Sparkman Drive
Optics Building
Room 224
Huntsville, AL 35899
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256.824.1630
max.bonamente@uah.edu

Biography

I am a native of Italy and moved to the US for graduate school in 1997. After a brief stint back in the native country I moved back permanently to the US and I was naturalized in 2012. When I don't write papers, teach or take children to school I enjoy playing the classical guitar and run triathlons.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • Ph.D., Physics, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 2000
  • M.S., Physics, University of Alabama in Huntsville, 1999
  • B.S/M.S. Laurea degree (110/110 con lode) in EE from University of Perugia, Italy, 1996

Research Funding

  • PI, Archival Chandra project on WHIM absorption lines (2016) $50k
  • PI, NASA/MSFC cooperative agreement, (ongoing, since 2004), > $1M
  • Co-PI, U.S. Participation in the Extreme Universe Space Observatory (2013), $138k

Expertise

  • Observational Cosmology
  • Professor (since 2014)
  • Associate professor at UAH (2010-2014)
  • The Study of the Early Universe
  • Assistant professor at UAH (2007-2010)
  • Wavelengths from Microwaves to Gamma-Rays
  • Postdoc at NASA/MSFC (2001-2006)
  • Postdoc at Observatory of Catania, Italy (2000-2001)

Recent Publications

  • Ahoranta, J., and 9 colleagues 2019. Hot WHIM counterparts of FUV OVI absorbers: Evidence in the line-of-sight towards quasar 3C 273. arXiv e-prints arXiv:1912.06659, Astronomy and Astrophysics, in press.

  • Bonamente, M. 2019. Distribution of the C statistic with applications to the sample mean of Poisson data. arXiv e-prints arXiv:1912.05444, Journal of Applied Statistics, in press.

  • Bonamente, M., Ahoranta, J., Nevalainen, J., Holt, P. 2019. New Chandra Observations of PG 1116+215 to Investigate an Extragalactic O VIII WHIM Absorption Line. Research Notes of the American Astronomical Society 3, 75.

  • Nevalainen, J., and 10 colleagues 2019. To be or not to be: the case of the hot WHIMabsorption in the blazar PKS 2155-304 sight line. Astronomy and Astrophysics 621, A88.

  • Bonamente, M. 2018. Probability models of chance fluctuations in spectra of astronomical sources with applications to X-ray absorption lines. Journal of Applied Statistics,https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2018.1531976

  • Abdellaoui, G., and 359 colleagues 2017. Meteor studies in the framework of the JEM-EUSOprogram. Planetary and Space Science 143, 245.

  • Abdellaoui, G., and 364 colleagues 2017. Cosmic ray oriented performance studies for the JEM-EUSO first level trigger. Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research A 866, 150.

  • Nevalainen, J., and 6 colleagues 2017. Discovery of Galactic O iv and O v X-ray absorption due to transition temperature gas in the PKS 2155-304 spectrum. Astronomy and Astrophysics 605, A47.

  • Bonamente, M., Ahoranta, J., Tilton, E., Tempel, E., Morandi, A. 2017. Characterization of the warm-hot intergalactic medium near the Coma cluster through high-resolution spectroscopy of X Comae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 469,3984.

  • Morandi, A., Sun, M., Mulchaey, J., Nagai, D., Bonamente, M. 2017. Gas distribution and clumpiness in the galaxy group NGC 2563. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 469, 2423.