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David Kaplan

  • Professor, Physics & Astronomy

Teaching Schedule

Course Num Title Meets
PHYSICS 309-001 Physics III: Modern Physics MW 11:30am-12:45pm

Research Interests

Professor Kaplan's research concerns multi-wavelength (radio, infrared, optical, X-ray) observations of a variety of types of young neutron stars such as isolated, thermally emitting neutron stars and magnetars. He is also working on detecting radio transients with the and the

Biographical Sketch

David Kaplan received his PhD in Astrophysics in 2004 from the California Institute of Technology. He was a Pappalardo Fellow in astrophysics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Kavli Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research (MKI) from 2004-2007. The following three years Kaplan was a Hubble Postdoctoral Fellow at MKI and at Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics (KITP) at the University of California, Santa Barbara.

Since 2010, David Kaplan has been at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee where he holds the rank of Professor. He is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

 

Selected Publications

Anumarlapudi, A., Kaplan, D. L., Rea, N., et al. "".  Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 542, 1208 (2025). 
Wang, Z., Rea, N., Bao, T., et al.. "".  Nature, 642, 583 (2025).
Lee, Y. W. J., Caleb, M., Murphy, T., et al. "".  Nature Astronomy, 9, 393 (2025).
Driessen, L. N., Pritchard, J., Murphy, T., et al.. "s".  Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 41, e084 (2024). 
Anumarlapudi, A., Dobie, D., Kaplan, D. L., et al. "".  The Astrophysical Journal, 974, 241 (2024).
Caleb, M., Lenc, E., Kaplan, D. L., et al. "".  Nature Astronomy, 8, 1159 (2024). 
Agazie, G., Anumarlapudi, A., Archibald, A. M., et al. "".  The Astrophysical Journal, 951, L8 (2023). 
Agazie, G., Alam, M. F., Anumarlapudi, A., et al.. "".  The Astrophysical Journal, 951, L9 (2023). 
Rose, K., Pritchard, J., Murphy, T., et al. "".  The Astrophysical Journal, 951, L43 (2023).
Murphy, T., Kaplan, D. L., Stewart, A. J., et al. ".  Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, 38, e054 (2021).
Erb, Dawn K., Berg, Danielle A., Auger, Matthew W., Kaplan, David L., Brammer, Gabriel, and Pettini, Max. 884.1 (2019): 7.
Hallinan, G., Corsi, A., Mooley, K.P., Hotokezaka, K., Nakar, E., Kasliwal, M.M., Kaplan, D.L., Frail, D.A., Myers, S.T., Murphy, T., De, K., Dobie, D., Allison, J.R., Bannister, K.W., Bhalerao, V., Chandra, P., Clarke, T.E., Giacintucci, S., Ho, A.Y.Q., Horesh, A., Kassim, N.E., Kulkarni, S.R., Lenc, E., Lockman, F.J., Lynch, C., Nichols, D., Nissanke, S., Palliyaguru, N., Peters, W.M., Piran, T., Rana, J., Sadler, E.M., and Singer, L.P.. (2017).
Kasliwal, M.M., Nakar, E., Singer, L.P., Kaplan, D.L., et al. (2017).
Abbott, B.P., Abbott, R., Abbott, T.D., Acernese, F., Ackley, K., Adams, C., Adams, T., Addesso, P., Adhikari, R.X., Adya, V.B., et al., , and Kaplan, David L.848. (2017): L12.
Swiggum, J.K., Kaplan, D.L., McLaughlin, M.A., Lorimer, D.R., Bogdanov, S., Ray, P.S., Lynch, R., Gentile, P., Rosen, R., Heatherly, S.A., Barlow, B.N., Hegedus, R.J., Vasquez Soto, A., Clancy, P., Kondratiev, V.I., Stovall, K., Istrate, A., Penprase, B., and Bellm, E.C.. 847. (2017): 25.
Lynch, C.R., Lenc, E., Kaplan, David L., Murphy, T., and Anderson, G.E.. 836. (2017): L30.
Deller, A.T., Vigeland, S.J., Kaplan, David L., Goss, W.M., Brisken, W.F., Chatterjee, S., Cordes, J.M., Janssen, G.H., Lazio, T.J.W., Petrov, L., Stappers, B.W., and Lyne, A.. 828. (2016): 8.
Kaplan, David L., Boyles, Jason, Dunlap, Bart H., Tendulkar, Shriharsh P., Deller, Adam T., Ransom, Scott M., McLaughlin, Maura A., Lorimer, Duncan R., and Stairs, Ingrid H.789.2 (2014): 119.
Kaplan, David L., H. van Kerkwijk, Marten, Koester, Detlev, Stairs, Ingrid H., Ransom, Scott M., Archibald, Anne M., Hessels, Jason W., and Boyles, Jason. 783.1 (2014): L23.
Tingay, Steven, MWA, , and Kaplan, David L.“The Murchison Widefield Array: the Square Kilometre Array Precursor at low radio frequencies” Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia, Cambridge University Press30.7 (2013).