James Miller-Jones

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My research

X-ray binary jets

Relativistic jets are well-known in extragalactic radio astronomy. It is believed that such phenomena are powered supermassive black holes in the centres of the host galaxies. Accretion onto the compact object results in the formation of an accretion disk and the ejection of relativistic plasma in a collimated outflow. Analogues of such systems have been found in our own galaxy, except that instead of the central source being a 10⁷M_o black hole, it may be a stellar-mass black hole, or even a neutron star. Such systems have been nicknamed "Microquasars", indicating not only similar morphology to their massive namesakes, but also, it is believed, similar physics.

Doctoral research

My thesis was a case study at radio wavelengths of the Galactic X-ray binary system, Cygnus X-3. This system is located in the galactic plane in or behind one of the spiral arms at a distance of approximately 10kpc. The nature of the compact object it harbours is still uncertain, although the infrared spectrum of the source indicates that its companion is a Wolf-Rayet star of the WN7 subclass. It has an orbital period of 4.8 hours, and periodically undergoes huge radio outbursts, reaching fluxes of up to 20Jy.

Recent research

I have recently worked on high-resolution data of the quiescent X-ray binary V404 Cyg, attempting to resolve the jets inferred to exist in this low-luminosity system, and performing astrometric observations to measure the proper motion and parallax of the system. I am leading a large project with the VLBA to investigate the formation and evolution of relativistic jets in different classes of X-ray binary systems, and am working on a large low-frequency mosaic of the region of the Galactic Plane surrounding the Galactic Center.

Refereed Publications

• "The first accurate parallax distance to a black hole"
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Jonker, P.G., Dhawan, V., Brisken, W., Rupen, M.P., Nelemans, G. & Gallo. E.
  2009, ApJ, 706, L230
  arXiv:0910.5253


• "Probing the behaviour of the X-ray binary Cygnus X-3 with very-long-baseline radio interferometry"
  Tudose, V., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Fender, R.P., Paragi, Z., Sakari, C., Szostek, A., Garrett, M.A., Dhawan, V., Rushton, A., Spencer, R.E., & van der Klis, M.
  MNRAS, accepted
  arXiv:0909.2790


• "Following the 2008 outburst decay of the black hole candidate H1743-322 in X-ray and radio"
  Jonker, P.G., Miller-Jones, J., Homan, J., Gallo, E., Rupen, M., Tomsick, J., Fender, R.P., Kaaret, P., Steeghs, D.T.H., Torres, M.A.P., Wijnands, R., Markoff, S., & Lewin, W.H.G.
  MNRAS, accepted
  arXiv:0909.2632


• "A new perspective on GCRT J1745-3009"
  Spreeuw, H., Scheers, B., Braun, R., Wijers, R., Miller-Jones, J., Stappers, B., and Fender, R.
  2009, A&A, 502, 549
  arXiv:0903.3745, DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/200810449


• "The formation of the black hole in the X-ray binary system V404 Cyg"
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Jonker, P.G., Nelemans, G., Portegies Zwart S., Dhawan, V., Brisken, W. Gallo, E., & Rupen, M.P.
  2009, MNRAS, 394, 1440
  arXiv:0812.3327


• "Opacity effects and shock-in-jet modelling of low-level activity in Cygnus X-3"
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Rupen, M.P., Turler, M., Lindfors, E.J., Blundell, K.M., & Pooley, G.G.
  2009, MNRAS, 394, 309
  arXiv:0811.3377


• "Zooming in on a sleeping giant: milliarcsecond HSA imaging of the black hole binary V404 Cyg in quiescence"
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Gallo E., Rupen M.P., Mioduszewski A.J., Brisken W., Fender R.P., Jonker P.G., & Maccarone T.J.
  2008, MNRAS, 388, 1751
  arXiv:0805.4603


• "Coupled radio and X-ray emission and evidence for discrete ejecta in the jets of SS 433"
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Migliari, S., Fender, R.P., Thompson T.W.J., van der Klis M., & Mendez M.
  2008, ApJ, 682, 1141
  arXiv:0804.1337


• "Linking Jet Emission, X-ray States and Hard X-ray Tails in the Neutron Star X-ray Binary GX 17+2"
  Migliari, S., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Fender, R.P., Homan, J., Di Salvo, T., Rothschild, R.E., Rupen, M.P., Tomsick, J.A., Wijnands, R., & van der Klis, M.
  2007, ApJ, 671, 706
  arXiv:0708.2296


• "Radio observations of candidate magnetic O stars"
  Schnerr, R.S., Rygl, K.L.J., van der Horst, A.J., Oosterloo, T.A., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Henrichs, H.F., Spoelstra, T.A.Th., & Foley, A.R.
  2007, A&A, 470, 1105


• "The spectral energy distribution of quiescent black hole X-ray binaries: new constraints from Spitzer"
  Gallo, E., Migliari, S., Markoff, S., Tomsick, J., Bailyn, C., Berta, S., Fender, R., & Miller-Jones, J.
  2007, ApJ, 670, 600
  arXiv:0707.0028


• "GRO J1744-28, search for the counterpart: infrared photometry and spectroscopy"
  Gosling, A.J., Bandyopadhyay, R.M., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., & Farrell, S.A.
  2007, MNRAS, 380, 1511
  astro-ph/0703692


• "A highly polarised radio jet during the 1998 outburst of the black hole transient XTE J1748-288",
  Brocksopp, C., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Fender, R.P., & Stappers, B.W.
  2007, MNRAS, 378, 1111
  arXiv:0705.1125
  
  
• "Evidence for deceleration in the radio jets of GRS 1915+105?",
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Rupen, M.P., Fender, R.P., Rushton, A., Pooley, G.G., & Spencer, R.E.
  2007, MNRAS, 375, 1087
  astro-ph/0612211
  
  
• "First e-VLBI observations of Cygnus X-3",
  Tudose, V., Fender, R.P., Garrett, M.A., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Paragi, Z., Spencer, R.E., Pooley, G.G., van der Klis, M., & Szomoru, A.
  2007, MNRAS, 375, L11
  astro-ph/0611054
  
  
• "First e-VLBI observations of GRS 1915+105",
  Rushton, A., Spencer, R.E., Strong, M., Campbell, R.M., Casey, S., Fender, R.P., Garrett, M.A., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Pooley, G.G., Reynolds, C., Szomoru, A., Tudose, V., & Paragi, Z.
  2007, MNRAS, 374, L47
  astro-ph/0611049
  
  
• "A radio-emitting outflow in the quiescent state of A0620-00: implications for modelling low-luminosity black hole binaries",
  Gallo, E., Fender, R., Miller-Jones, J., Merloni, A., Jonker, S., Heinz, S., Maccarone, T., & van der Klis, M.
  2006, MNRAS, 370, 1351
  astro-ph/0605376
  
  
• "A transient relativistic radio jet from Cygnus X-1",
  Fender, R.P., Stirling, A.M., Spencer, R.E., Brown, I., Pooley, G.G., Muxlow, T.W.B., & Miller-Jones, J.C.A.
  2006, MNRAS, 369, 603
  astro-ph/0602307
  
  
• "Opening angles, Lorentz factors and confinement of X-ray binary jets",
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Fender, R.P., & Nakar, E.
  2006, MNRAS, 367, 1432
  astro-ph/0601482
  
  
• "Structure in the radio counterpart to the 2004 December 27 giant flare from SGR 1806-20",
  Fender, R.P., Muxlow, T.W.B., Garrett, M.A., Kouveliotou, C., Gaensler, B.M., Garrington, S.T., Paragi, Z., Tudose, V., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Spencer, R.E., Wijers, R.A.M., & Taylor, G.B.
  2006, MNRAS, 367, L6
  astro-ph/0511214
  
  
• "The XMM-Newton/Chandra monitoring campaign on the Galactic center region. Description of the program and preliminary results",
  Wijnands., R, in 't Zand, J.J.M., Rupen, M., Maccarone, T., Homan, J., Cornelisse, R., Fender, R., Grindlay, J., van der Klis, M., Kuulkers, E., Markwardt, C.B., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., & Wang, Q.D.
  2006, A&A, 449, 1117
  astro-ph/0508648
  
  
• "An Infrared Imaging Survey of the Faint Chandra Sources near the Galactic Centre",
  Bandyopadhyay, R.M., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Blundell, K.M., Bauer, F.E., Podsiadlowski, Ph., Gosling, A.J., Wang, Q.D., Pfahl, E., & Rappaport, S.
  2005, MNRAS, 364, 1195
  astro-ph/0509346
  
  
• "Multiple relativistic outbursts of GRS 1915+105: radio emission and internal shocks",
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A., McCormick, D.G., Fender, R.P., Spencer, R.E., Muxlow, T.W.B., & Pooley, G.G.
  2005, MNRAS, 363, 867
  astro-ph/0508230
  
  
• "Was the Narrow Line Seyfert 1 RGB J0044+193 ever radio loud?",
  Maccarone, T.J., Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Fender, R.P., & Pooley, G.G.
  2005, A&A, 433, 531
  astro-ph/0412414
  
  
• "Jet evolution, flux ratios and light-travel time effects",
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Blundell, K.M., & Duffy, P.
  2004, ApJ, 603, L21
  astro-ph/0401082
  
  
• "Time-sequenced Multi-Radio-Frequency Observations of Cygnus X-3 in Flare",
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Blundell, K.M., Rupen, M.P.,Mioduszewski, A.J., Duffy, P., & Beasley, A.J.
  2004, ApJ, 600, 368
  astro-ph/0311277
  A brief summary of this work can be found as the VLBA image of the month for January 2004.
  
  

Conference Proceedings

• "The proper motion and changing jet morphology of Cygnus X-3"
  Miller-Jones J.C.A., Sakari, C.M., Dhawan, V., Tudose, V., Fender, R.P., Paragi, Z., & Garrett, M.A.
  Proceedings of "Science and Technology of Long Baseline Real-Time Interferometry: The 8th International e-VLBI Workshop, EXPReS09", 22-26 June 2009, Madrid, Spain, PoS(EXPReS09)017
  arXiv:0909.2589
  
  
• Jet environments"
  Miller-Jones J.C.A.
  Proceedings of "VII Microquasar Workshop: Microquasars and Beyond", September 2008, Foca, Turkey (E. Kalemci, ed.), PoS(MQW7)043
  
  
• "High-resolution radio observations of X-ray binaries"
  Miller-Jones J.C.A.
  Proceedings of "The Universe under the Microscope - Astrophysics at High Angular Resolution", April 2008, Bad Honnef, Germany (R. Schoedel, A. Eckart, S. Pfalzner, and E. Ros, eds.)
  arXiv:0809.2583
  
  
• "Searching for the signatures of jet-ISM interactions in X-ray binaries"
  Miller-Jones J.C.A., Kaiser C.R., Maccarone T.J., Fender R.P., Kapinska A.D., Gunn K., Russell D.M., Brocksopp C., Sokoloski J.L., Stappers B.W., & Muxlow T.W.B.
  AIP Conf. Proc. 1010, "A Population Explosion: The Nature and Evolution of X-ray Binaries in Diverse Environments", 28 Oct. - 2 Nov. 2007, St. Petersburg Beach, FL (R.M. Bandyopadhyay, S. Wachter, D. Gelino, & C.R. Gelino, eds.)
  arXiv:0802.3446
  
  
• "Low-frequency radio observations of Galactic microquasars"
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Kapinska, A.D., Blundell, K.M., Stappers, B.W., Braun, R., and the LOFAR Transients Key Project collaboration
  Bursts, Pulses and Flickering: wide-field monitoring of the dynamic radio sky, Kerastari, Greece, June 12-15, 2007. Edited by J. Lazio. Published by Proceedings of Science: SISSA, Trieste (Italy).
  
  
• "The LOFAR Transients key project",
  Fender, R.P., and the LOFAR Transients collaboration
  VI Microquasar Workshop: Microquasars and Beyond, Como, Italy, September 18-22, 2006. Edited by T. Belloni. Published by Proceedings of Science: SISSA, Trieste (Italy).
  astro-ph/0611298
  
  
• "Deceleration in the radio jets of GRS1915+105?",
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Rupen, M.P., Fender, R.P., Rushton, A., Pooley, G.G., & Spencer, R.E.
  VI Microquasar Workshop: Microquasars and Beyond, Como, Italy, September 18-22, 2006. Edited by T. Belloni. Published by Proceedings of Science: SISSA, Trieste (Italy).
  
  
• "Post-outburst radio spectral evolution of Cygnus X-3",
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Blundell, K.M., Rupen, M.P., Beasley, A.J. & Mioduszewski, A.J.
  New Views on MICROQUASARS, the Fourth Microquasars Workshop, Institut d'Etudes Scientifiques de Cargese, Corsica, France, May 27 - June 1, 2002. Edited by Ph. Durouchoux, Y. Fuchs, and J. Rodriguez. Published by the Center for Space Physics: Kolkata (India), p. 209.
  astro-ph/0209369
  
  

Other

• "Radio upper limits for the accreting millisecond X-ray pulsar IGR J17511-3057"
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Russell, D.M., & Migliari, S.
  ATel 2232
  
• "Radio activity in H1743-322",
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A. et al.
  ATel 2062
  
• "Radio imaging campaign on newly-detected jets in GRS1915+105",
  Miller-Jones, J.C.A., Rupen, M.P., Trushkin S.A., Pooley, G.G., & Fender, R.P.
  ATel 758
  
  

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Non-astronomical

• "Asymptotic urinary tract colonisation predisposes to superficial wound infection in elective orthopaedic surgery",
  B.J. Ollivere, N. Ellahee, K. Logan, J.C.A. Miller-Jones, & P.W. Allen
  International Orthopaedics: Volume 33, Issue3 (2009), Page 847
  doi:10.1007/s00264-008-0573-4


• "Severity scoring in Carpal Tunnel Syndrome helps predict the value of conservative therapy",
  B.J. Ollivere, K. Logan, N. Ellahee, J.C.A. Miller-Jones, M. Wood & D.S. Nairn
  Journal of Hand Surgery (European Volume), Volume 34, Issue 4, p.511
  doi:10.1177/1753193409102380


• "Carpal Tunnel Syndrome: Is conservative therapy useful?",
  B. Ollivere, K. Logan, T. Taneja, J. Miller-Jones, N. Ellahee & D. Nairn
  2006, The Journal of Hand Surgery: Journal of the British Society for Surgery of the Hand, Volume 31, Supplement 1, p63-4
  doi:10.1016/j.jhsb.2006.03.022

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