Faculty

CLAUDE CANIZARES
Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics
Vice President for Research and Associate Provost
Associate Director for MIT of the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center

CLAUDE R. CANIZARES, Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics; Vice President for Research and Associate Provost; Associate Director for MIT of the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center

Name: Claude R. Canizares

Title(s): Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics
Vice President for Research and Associate Provost
Associate Director for MIT of the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center

Email: crc@mit.edu

Phone: (617) 253-3206

Assistant: Gail Monahan (617) 253-6495

Address:

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
77 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. 3-234
Cambridge, MA 02139

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Area of Physics:

Compact Objects: X-ray, Cosmology: X-ray

Research Interests

Professor Canizares is the Vice President for Research and Associate Provost and the Bruno Rossi Professor of Physics at MIT. He has overall responsibility for research activity and policy at the Institute.  He oversees more than a dozen interdisciplinary research laboratories and centers, including the MIT Lincoln Laboratory, the Koch Institute for Intergrative Cancer Research, the Plasma Science and Fusion Center, the Research Laboratory of Electronics, the Institute for Soldier Nanotechnology, the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research & Technology, the Francis Bitter Magnet Laboratory, the Haystack Observatory and the Division of Health Sciences and Technology.  The Technology Licensing Office, the International Scholars Office and the Division of Comparative Medicine, among others, report to Professor Canizares. He also has policy oversight for the Office of Sponsored Programs.  In addition, Professor Canizares is a member of several MIT committees: Academic Council and the Academic Appointments committee, the Committee for Renovation and Space Planning, the Conflict of Interest Management Group, the International Advisory Committee, and the Research Policy Committee.

Claude Canizares is the Associate Director of the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center and a principal investigator on NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, having led the development of the Chandra High Resolution Transmission Grating Spectrometer. Canizares’s main research interests are high resolution x-ray spectroscopy and plasma diagnostics of supernova remnants and clusters of galaxies, X-ray studies of dark matter, X-ray properties of quasars and active galactic nuclei, and observational cosmology. He is author or co-author of more than 200 scientific papers.

Biographical Sketch

Claude Canizares earned his BA, MA and PhD in physics from Harvard University. He came to MIT as a postdoctoral fellow in the Physics Department in 1971 and joined the faculty in 1974. Canizares has received several awards, including decoration for Meritorious Civilian Service to the United States Air Force, two NASA Public Service Medals, and the Goddard Medal of the American Astronautical Society.

Selected Publications

  • Disk-dominated States of 4U 1957+11: Chandra, XMM-Newton, and RXTE Observations of Ostensibly the Most Rapidly Spinning Galactic Black Hole. M.A. Nowak, A. Juett, J. Homan, Y. Yao, J. Wilms, N.S. Schulz, and C.R. Canizares. ApJ 689 No 2, 1199-1214, 2008.
  • Heating in an Extended Accretion Disk Corona Along the Z-Pattern in Cyg X-2. N.S. Shulz, D.P. Huenemoerder, L. Ji, M. Nowak, Y. Yao, and C.R. Canizares. ApJ 692 No 2, L80-L83, 2009.
  • High-Resolution X-ray Spectroscopy of SNR 1987A: Chandra LETG and HETG Observations in 2007, S.A. Zhekov, R. McCray, D. Dewey, C.R. Canizares, K.J. Borkowski, D.N. Burrows, S. Park. ApJ 692 1190-1204, 2009.
  • High-Resolution X-Ray Spectroscopy of the Multiphase Interstellar Medium toward Cyg X-2., Y. Yao, N.S. Shulz, M.F. Gu, M. A. Nowak and C.R. Canizares. ApJ 696 (2) 1418-30, 2009.
  • X-ray Emission and Corona of the Young Intermediate Mass Binary q1 Ori E.  D.P. Huenemoerder, N.S. Schulz, P. Testa, A. Kesich, C. R. Canizares, ApJ 707 942-953, 2009.
  • Spatially Resolved Chandra HETG Spectroscopy of the NLR Ionization Cone in NGC 1068. D.A. Evans, P.M. Ogle, H.L. Marshall, M.A. Nowak, S. Bianchi, M. Guainazzi, A.L. Longinotti, D. Dewey, N.S. Schulz, M.S. Noble, J. Houck, C.R. Canizares, Proceedings of "X-ray Astronomy 2009: Present Status, Multi-Wavelength Approach and Future Perspectives", Bologna, Italy, September 7-11, 2009, AIP, A. Comastri, M. Cappi, and L. Angelini (eds.)
  • Confirmation of X-Ray Absorption by WHIM in the Sculptor Wall. T. Fang, D. A. Buote, P.J. Humphrey, C.R. Canizares, L. Zappacosta, R. Maiolino, ApJ 714 1715-1724, 2010.
  • Dynamical Ne K Edge and Line Variations in the X-Ray Spectrum of the Ultra-compact Binary 0 4U 0614+091. N. S. Schulz, M. P. Nowak, D. Chakrabarty, C. R. Canizares, Submitted to ApJ May, 2010.
  • Implications of X-Ray Line Variations for 4U1822-371. L. Ji, N. S. Schulz, M. A. Nowak, C. R. Canizares, submitted to ApJ July 2010.
  • A Census of Baryons and Dark Matter in an Isolated, Milky Way-sized Elliptical Galaxy. P.H. Humphrey, D.A. Boute, C.R. Canizares, A.C. Fabian, J. M. Miller, submitted to ApJ Oct. 2010