Portrait of Michael Coleman Miller

Michael Coleman Miller

Professor

301 405 1037
 mcmiller@umd.edu 1114 Physical Sciences Complex
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I grew up in Michigan and went to Caltech for graduate school, then the University of Illinois and the University of Chicago for my two postdocs. I joined UMd as an assistant professor in 1999 and was promoted to associate professor in 2004 and to professor in 2009. I am a theoretical high-energy astrophysicist who works on, for example, neutron stars, black holes, and gravitational radiation. I also have general interest in Bayesian statistics as applied to astronomy.
Research Areas:
High-energy astrophysics
Time Domain Astronomy
Research Centers & Collaborations: Center for Theory & Computation Joint Space-Science Institute
Facilities:
Supercomputing

Latest Papers

An Investigation of Systematic Effects from Background Priors on PSR J0740$+$6620 Radius Estimates using Synthetic NICER and XMM-Newton Data

| arXiv e-prints
Author(s): Holt, Isiah M., Miller, M. Coleman, Dittmann, Alexander J.
UMD Author(s): Michael Coleman Miller

A carbon-rich atmosphere on a windy pulsar planet

| arXiv e-prints
Author(s): Zhang, Michael, Beleznay, Maya, Brandt, Timothy D.
UMD Author(s): Michael Coleman Miller

Fast X-ray transient EP240315A from a Lyman-continuum-leaking galaxy at z ≈ 5

| Nature Astronomy
Author(s): Levan, Andrew J., Jonker, Peter G., Saccardi, Andrea, et. al
UMD Author(s): Michael Coleman Miller

Dense matter in neutron stars with eXTP

| Science China Physics, Mechanics, and Astronomy
Author(s): Li, Ang, Watts, Anna L., Zhang, Guobao, et. al
UMD Author(s): Michael Coleman Miller

Comparing the space densities of millisecond-spin magnetars and fast X-ray transients

| Astronomy and Astrophysics
Author(s): Biswas, Sumedha, Jonker, Peter G., Miller, M. Coleman, et. al
UMD Author(s): Michael Coleman Miller

EP250108a/SN 2025kg: A Jet-driven Stellar Explosion Interacting with Circumstellar Material

| The Astrophysical Journal
Author(s): Srinivasaragavan, Gokul P., Hamidani, Hamid, Schroeder, Genevieve, et. al
UMD Author(s): Michael Coleman Miller

A Method for Discovering QPOs in Power Spectra from Gamma-Ray Bursts

| 246th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
Author(s): Miller, M., Chirenti, Cecilia, Dichiara, Simone
UMD Author(s): Cecilia Chirenti, Michael Coleman Miller

Examples of QPOs in Gamma-Ray Bursts: discoveries and interpretation

| 246th Meeting of the American Astronomical Society
Author(s): Chirenti, Cecilia, Dichiara, Simone, Lien, Amy
UMD Author(s): Cecilia Chirenti, Michael Coleman Miller