James Miller-jones
Associate professor
Department of Physics and Astronomy
Curtin University
Australia
Biography
James Miller-Jones is an expert in jets and accretion physics, working on jet launching around accreting stellar-mass compact objects, both in Galactic X-ray binaries and in ultraluminous X-ray sources in nearby galaxies. After completing his undergraduate degree and his PhD at the University of Oxford, he pursued his research career in the Netherlands and the USA before moving to Curtin University in 2010, where he now works as an Associate Professor. He heads the Accretion Physics project at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR), and is currently the Acting Science Director at the Curtin Institute of Radio Astronomy.
Research Interest
Jet launching around accreting compact objects, X-ray binaries and accretion physics, Radio transients, Astrometry and black hole natal kicks and Very Long Baseline Interferometry
Publications
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Strader, J., L. Chomiuk, T. J. Maccarone, J. C. A. Miller-Jones, and A. C. Seth. 2012. "Two stellar-mass black holes in the globular cluster M22." Nature 490 (7418): 71-73.
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Miller-Jones, J. C. A., G. R. Sivakoff, D. Altamirano, M. Coriat, S. Corbel, V. Dhawan, H. A. Krimm, R. A. Remillard, M. P. Rupen, D. M. Russell, R. P. Fender, S. Heinz, E. G. Kording, D. Maitra, S. Markoff, S. Migliari, C. L. Sarazin, and V. Tudose. 2012. "Disc-jet coupling in the 2009 outburst of the black hole candidate H1743-322." Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 421 (1): 468-485.
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Miller-Jones, J. C. A., G. R. Sivakoff, C. Knigge, E. G. Kording, M. Templeton, and E. O. Waagen. 2013. "An accurate geometric distance to the compact binary SS Cygni vindicates accretion disc theory." Science 340 (6135): 950-952.
