I am a Hubble and Joint Space Institute Fellow working at the University of Maryland Astronomy Department and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center. In 2015, I completed my PhD in Astronomy at the University of Cambridge.
I'm interested in the physics of how black holes grow, and how they affect their environments. Right now, I am studying the inner accretion flows near the event horizons of black holes, through X-ray spectral-timing observations of Active Galactic Nuclei and Tidal Disruption Events.
ekara (at) astro.umd.edu
Department of Astronomy(202) 739-1171
Kara E., Miller J.M., Reyonlds C.S., Dai L., 2016 Nature, 535
Kara E., Alston W. N.; Fabian A. C.; Cackett E. M.; Uttley P.; Reynolds C. S.; Zoghbi A., 2016 MNRAS, 462
Kara E., Fabian A.C., Lohfink A.M., Parker M.L., Walton D.J., Boggs S.E., Christensen F.E., Hailey C.J., Harrison F.A., Matt G., Reynolds C.S., Stern D., Zhang W.W., 2015 MNRAS, 449
Kara E., Zoghbi A., Marinucci A., Walton D.J., Fabian A.C., Risaliti G., Boggs S. E., Christensen F.E., Fuerst F., Hailey C.J., Harrison F.A., Matt G., Parker M.L., Reynolds C.S., Stern D., Zhang W.W., 2015 MNRAS, 446
Uttley P., Cackett E.M., Fabian A.C., Kara E., Wilkins D.R., 2014 Astronomy & Astrophysics Review, 22
Kara E., Fabian A.C., Marinucci A., Matt G., Parker M.L., Alston W., Brenneman L.W., Cackett E.M., Miniutti G., 2014 MNRAS, 445
Kara E., Cackett E.M., Fabian A.C., Reynolds C., Uttley P., 2014 MNRAS, 439
Kara E., Fabian A.C., Cackett E.M., Uttley P., Wilkins D.R., Zoghbi A., 2013 MNRAS, 434
Kara E., Fabian A.C., Cackett E.M., Miniutti G., Uttley P., 2013 MNRAS, 430
Kara E., Fabian A.C., Cackett E.M., Steiner J.F., Uttley P., Wilkins D.R., Zoghbi A., 2013 MNRAS, 428
Kara E., Errando M., Max-Moerbeck W., Aliu E., Böttcher M., Fortin P., Halpern J.P., Mukherjee R., Readhead A.C.S., Richards J.L., 2012 ApJ, 746