Present PositionResearch Associate with UMBC/CRESST at NASA/Goddarad Space Flight Center Gravitational Astrophysics Laboratory (Code 663)Adviser: Dr. Demosthenes Kazanas Brief Bio2006-2008 -- NASA Postdoctoral Program (NPP) fellow administered by the Oak Ridge Associated Universities (ORAU)2005-2006 -- Adjunct Instructor, Montana State University-Bozeman, MT 2004-2006 -- Postdoctoral Researcher, Montana State University-Bozeman, MT Educational Background2005 Ph.D. (Physics) -- Department of Physics, Montana State University-Bozeman, MTResearch InterestsTheoretical High Energy X-ray Astrophysics, Active Galactic Nuclei, Compact Objects (Black Hole Physics), Fluid DynamicsCurrent ProjectsQuasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) from Spinning Black HolesMagnetohydrodynamic (MHD) Disk-Wind Model Relativistic Illumination Law from Accretion Disks General Relativistic Shock Formation in Accretion Flows Relativistic Iron Fluorescent Line from Accretion Disks Selected Publications"XMM-Newton Observations of NGC 4051: Temporal and Spectral Transition to the Faintest Phase in NGC 4051",Haba, Y., Liebmann, A. C., Fukumura, K., Kunieda, H. & Tsuruta, S. 2008, submitted to PASJ "Light Echoes in Kerr Geometry: A Source of High Frequency QPOs from Random X-ray Bursts", Fukumura, K. & Kazanas, D. 2008, ApJ, 679, 1413 "Mass Outflows from Dissipative Shocks in Hot Accretion Flows", Fukumura, K. & Kazanas, D. 2007, ApJ, 669, 85 "Accretion Disk Illumination in Schwarzschild and Kerr Geometries: Fitting Formulae", Fukumura, K. & Kazanas, D. 2007, ApJ, 664, 14 "Magnetohydrodynamic Shocks in Non-Equatorial Plasma Flows around a Black Hole", Fukumura K., Takahashi, M., & Tsuruta, S. 2007, ApJ, 656 "Standing Shocks in Transmagnetosonic Accretion Flows onto a Black Hole", Takahashi, M., Goto, J., Fukumura, K., Rilett, D., & Tsuruta, S. 2006, ApJ, 645, 1408 "Iron Kα Fluorescent Line Profiles from Spiral Accretion Flows in Active Galactic Nuclei", Fukumura, K., & Tsuruta, S. ApJ, 2004, 613, 700 "Isothermal Shock Formation in Nonequatorial Accretion Flows around Kerr Black Holes", Fukumura, K., & Tsuruta, S. ApJ, 2004, 611, 964 "Magnetohydrodynamic Shock Conditions for Accreting Plasma onto Kerr Black Holes I", Takahashi, M., Rilett, D., Fukumura, K., & Tsuruta, S. 2002, ApJ, 572, 950 Publications at the ADS website.
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