Emrah Kalemci Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences Faculty Member (216) 483 9614 ekalemci@sabanciuniv.edu
Jobs

Faculty Member


Education

BSc Physics, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey MSc Physics, University of California, San Diego, USA PhD Physics, University of California, San Diego, USA

Areas of Interest

High Energy Astrophysics, black hole binaries, instrumentation

Memberships

Turkish Astronomical Society, American Astronomical Society, SPIE

Publications at SU
Article
Kalemci, Emrah and Diaz Trigo, M. and Öztaban, Efe and Abbasi, Ahmed Abdullah and Stanke, T. and Tomsick, J. A. and Maccarone, T. J. and Saraçyakupoğlu, Atakan and Von Nussbaum, E. and Miller-Jones, J. C .A. and Bahçeci, B. (2025) "Dust scattering halo of 4U 1630-47: high resolution X-ray and mm observations constrain source and molecular cloud distances", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.543, No.3, 3073-3088 (SCI)
Remillard, Ronald A. and Hernanz, Margarita and Zand, Jean In t. and Ray, Paul S. and Bonvicini, Valter and Brandt, Søren and Brandt, Terri and Carmona, Alex and Evangelista, Yuri and Franco, Daniel Alvarez and Froning, Cynthia and Galvez, José Luis and De Geronimo, Gianluigi and Grim, Martin and Kalemci, Emrah and Kuiper, Lucien and Kuvvetli, Irfan and MacCarone, Thomas J. and Nowosielski, Witold and Pasham, Dheeraj R.R. and Patruno, Alessandro and Persyn, Steven C. and Roming, Peter W.A. and Santangelo, Andrea and Schanne, Stephane and Tenzer, Christoph and Wilson-Hodge, Colleen A. and Zampa, Gianluigi and Zwart, Frans (2024) "The STROBE-X wide field monitor instrument", Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems, Vol.10, No.4 (SCI)
Altıngün, Ali Mürteza and Kalemci, Emrah and Öztaban, Efe (2023) "A simulation study for the expected performance of Sharjah-Sat-1 payload improved X-Ray Detector (iXRD) in the orbital background radiation", Experimental Astronomy, Vol.56, No.1, 117-140 (SCI)
Kalemci, Emrah and Altıngün, Ali Mürteza and Bozkurt, Ayhan and Aslan, Alim Rüstem and Yalçın, Refik and Gökalp, Kaya and Veziroğlu, Nezih Kaan and Fernini, Ilias and Manousakis, Antonios and Yaşar, Ali and Diba, Milad and Karabulut, Boğaç and Çatal, Egemen and Öztekin, Onur (2023) "The improved x-ray detector (iXRD) on Sharjah-Sat-1, design principles, tests and ground calibration", Experimental Astronomy, Vol.56, No.1, 99-116 (SCI)
Özbey Arabacl, M. and Kalemci, Emrah and Dinçer, T. and Bailyn, C. D. and Altamirano, D. and Ak, T. (2022) "Multiwavelength observations of MAXI J1820+070 during its outburst decay and subsequent mini-outburst", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.514, No.3, 3894-3909 (SCI)
Altıngün, Ali Mürteza and Kalemci, Emrah (2022) "Optimization study of the electrode design of a 5 mm thick orthogonal-strip CdZnTe detector system", Nuclear Instruments and Methods in Physics Research, Section A: Accelerators, Spectrometers, Detectors and Associated Equipment, Vol.1027 (SCI)
Russell, David M. and Casella, Piergiorgio and Kalemci, Emrah and Vahdat Motlagh, Armin and Saikia, Payaswini and Phirboy, Saarah Fatima and Maitra, Dipankar (2020) "The appearance of a compact jet in the soft-intermediate state of 4U 1543-47", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.495, No.1, 182-191 (SCI)
Vahdat-Motlagh, Armin and Kalemci, Emrah and Maccarone, Thomas J. (2019) "Investigating state transition luminosities of Galactic black hole transients in the outburst decay", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.485, No.2, 2744-2758 (SCI)
In't Zand, Jean J. M. and Kalemci, Emrah (2019) "Observatory science with eXTP", Science China: Physics, Mechanics & Astronomy (SI), Vol.62, No.2 (SCI)
Kalemci, Emrah (2018) "Summary of the past, present and future of the X-ray astronomy", European Physical Journal Plus, Vol.133, No.10 (SCI)
Kalemci, Emrah and Maccarone, Thomas J. and Tomsick, John A. (2018) "A dust-scattering halo of 4U 1630-47 observed with chandra and swift: new constraints on the source distance", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.859, No.2 (SCI)
Egron, Elise and Pellizzoni, A. and Giroletti, M. and Righini, S. and Stagni, M. and Orlati, A. and Migoni, C. and Melis, A. and Concu, R. and Barbas, L. and Buttaccio, S. and Cassaro, P. and De Vicente, P. and Gawronski, M. P. and Lindqvist, M. and Maccaferri, G. and Stanghellini, C. and Wolak, P. and Yang, J. and Navarrini, A. and Loru, S. and Pilia, M. and Bachetti, M. and Iacolina, M. N. and Buttu, M. and Corbel, S. and Rodriguez, J. and Markoff, S. and Wilms, J. and Pottschmidt, K. and Bel, M. Cadolle and Kalemci, Emrah and Belloni, T. and Grinberg, V. and Marongiu, M. and Vargiu, G. P. and Trois, A. (2017) "Single-dish and VLBI observations of Cygnus X-3 during the 2016 giant flare episode", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.471, No.3, 2703-2714 (SCI)
Fürst, Felix and Tomsick, J. A. and Yamaoka, K. and Dauser, T. and Miller, J. M. and Clavel, M. and Corbel, S. and Fabian, A. and Garcia, J. and Harrison, F. A. and Loh, A. and Kaaret, P. and Kalemci, Emrah and Migliari, S. and Miller-Jones, J. C. A. and Pottschmidt, K. and Rahoui, F. and Rodriguez, J. and Stern, D. and Stuhlinger, M. and Walton, D. J. and Wilms, J. (2016) "GRS 1739-278 observed at very low luminosity with XMM-Newton and NuSTAR", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.832, No.2 (SCI)
Del Santo, Melania and Belloni, Tomaso and Tomsick, John A. and Sbarufatti, Boris and Cadolle Bel, Marion and Casella, Piergiorgio and Castro-Tirado, Alberto and Corbel, Stephane and Grinberg, Victoria and Homan, Jeroen and Kalemci, Emrah and Motta, Sara and Munoz-Darias, Teo and Pottschmidt, Katja and Rodriguez, Jerome and Wilms, Joern (2016) "Spectral and timing evolution of the bright failed outburst of the transient black hole Swift J174510.8-262411", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.456, No.4, 3585-3595 (SCI)
Rahoui, Farid and Tomsick, John A. and Coriat, Mickael and Corbel, Stephane and Fürst, Felix and Gandhi, Poshak and Kalemci, Emrah and Migliari, Simone and Stern, Daniel and Tzioumis, Anastasios K. (2015) "Optical and near-infrared spectroscopy of the black hole swift J1753.5-0127", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.810, No.2 (SCI)
Tomsick, John A. and Rahoui, Farid and Kolehmainen, Mari and Miller-Jones, James and Fürst, Felix and Yamaoka, Kazutaka and Akitaya, Hiroshi and Corbel, Stephane and Coriat, Mickael and Done, Chris and Gandhi, Poshak and Harrison, Fiona, A. and Huang, Kuiyun and Kaaret, Philip and Kalemci, Emrah and Kanda, Yuka and Migliari, Simone and Miller, Jon M. and Moritani, Yuki and Stern, Daniel and Uemura, Makato and Urata, Yuji (2015) "The accreting black hole swift J1753.5-0127 from radio to hard x-ray", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.808, No.1 (SCI)
Kalemci, Emrah and Arabacı, Mehtap Ö. and Güver, Tolga and Russell, David M. and Tomsick, John A. and Wilms, Joern and Weidenspointtner, Georg and Kuulkers, Erik and Falanga, Maurizio and Dinçer, Tolga and Drave, Sebastian and Belloni, Tomaso and Coriat, Mickael and Lewis, Fraser and Munoz-Darias, Teo (2014) "Multiwavelength observations of the black hole transient Swift J1745-26 during the outburst decay", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.445, No.2, 1288-1298 (SCI)
Dinçer, Tolga and Kalemci, Emrah and Tomsick, John A. and Buxton, Michelle M. and Bailyn, Charles D. (2014) "Complete multiwavelength evolution of galactic black hole transients during outburst decay II: compact jets and x-ray variability properties", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.795, No.1, 74-82 (SCI)
Tomsick, John A. and Yamaoka, Kazutaka and Corbel, Stephane and Kalemci, Emrah and Migliari, Simone and Kaaret, Phillip (2014) "A delayed transition to the hard state for 4U 1630-47 at the end of its 2010 outburst", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.791, No.1 (SCI)
Kalemci, Emrah and Dinçer, Tolga and Tomsick, John A. and Buxton, Michelle M. and Bailyn, Charles D. and Chun, Yoon Young (2013) "Complete multiwavelength evolution of galactic black hole transients during outburst decay I: conditions for "compact" jet formation", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.779, No.2 (SCI)
Chun, Yoon Young and Dinçer, Tolga and Kalemci, Emrah and Güver, Tolga and Tomsick, John A. and Buxton, Michelle M. and Brocksopp, Catherine and Corbel, Stephane and Cabrera-Lavers, Antonio (2013) "Multiwavelength observations of the black hole transient XTE J1752-223 during its 2010 outburst decay", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.770, No.1 (SCI)
Stiele, Holger and Belloni, Tomaso and Kalemci, Emrah and Motta, Sara (2013) "Relations between x-ray timing features and spectral parameters of galactic black hole x-ray binaries", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.429, No.3, 2655-2661 (SCI)
Özbey Arabacı, Mehtap and Kalemci, Emrah and Tomsick, John A. and Halpern, Jules and Bodaghee, Arash and Chaty, Sylvain and Rodriguez, Jerome and Rahoui, Farid (2012) "Investigating the optical counterpart candidates of four integral sources localized with Chandra", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.761, No.1 (SCI)
Tomsick, John A. and Bodaghee, Arash and Chaty, Sylvain and Rodríguez, Jerome and Rahoui, Farid and Halpern, Jules and Kalemci, Emrah and Arabacı, Mehtap Özbey (2012) "Localizing integral sources with Chandra: x-ray and multi-wavelength identifications and energy spectra", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.754, No.2 (SCI)
Dinçer, Tolga and Kalemci, Emrah and Buxton, Michelle M. and Bailyn, Charles D. and Tomsick, John A. and Corbel, Stephane (2012) "X-Ray, optical, and infrared observations of GX 339-4 during its 2011 decay", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.753, No.1, 55-62 (SCI)
Buxton, Michelle M. and Bailyn, Charles D. and Capelo, Holly L. and Chatterjee, Ritaban and Dinçer, Tolga and Kalemci, Emrah and Tomsick, John A. (2012) "Optical and near-infrared monitoring of the black hole x-ray binary GX 339-4 during 2002-2010", The Astronomical Journal, Vol.143, No.6 (SCI)
Feroci, Marco and Stella, L. and Van der Klis, M. and Courvoisier, T. J.-L. and Hernanz, M. and Hudec, R. and Santangelo, A. and Walton, D. and Zdziarski, A. and Barret, D. and Belloni, T. and Braga, J. and Brandt, S. and Budtz-Jrgensen, C. and Campana, S. and Den Herder, J.-W. and Huovelin, J. and Israel, G. L. and Pohl, M. and Ray, P. and Vacchi, A. and Zane, S. and Argan, A. and Attina, P. and Bertuccio, G. and Bozzo, E. and Campana, R. and Chakrabarty, D. and Costa, E. and De Rosa, A. and Del Monte, E. and Di Cosimo, S. and Donnarumma, I. and Evangelista, Y. and Haas, D. and Jonker, P. and Korpela, S. and Labanti, C. and Malcovati, P. and Mignani, R. and Muleri, F. and Rapisarda, M. and Rashevsky, A. and Rea, N. and Rubini, A. and Tenzer, C. and Wilson-Hodge, C. and Winter, B. and Wood, K. and Zampa, G. and Zampa, N. and Abramowicz, M. A. and Alpar, M. Ali and Altamirano, D. and Alvarez, J. M. and Amati, L. and Amoros, C. and Antonelli, L. A. and Artigue, R. and Azzarello, P. and Bachetti, M. and Baldazzi, G. and Barbera, M. and Barbieri, C. and Basa, S. and Baykal, A. and Belmont, R. and Boirin, L. and Bonvicini, V. and Burderi, L. and Bursa, M. and Cabanac, C. and Cackett, E. and Caliandro, G. A. and Casella, P. and Chaty, S. and Chenevez, J. and Coe, M. J. and Collura, A. and Corongiu, A. and Covino, S. and Cusumano, G. and D'Amico, F. and Dall'Osso, S. and De Martino, D. and De Paris, G. and Di Persio, G. and Di Salvo, T. and Done, C. and Dovciak, M. and Drago, A. and Ertan, Ünal and Fabiani, S. and Falanga, M. and Fender, R. and Ferrando, P. and Della Monica Ferreira, D. and Fraser, G. and Frontera, F. and Fuschino, F. and Galvez, J. L. and Gandhi, P. and Giommi, P. and Godet, O. and Göğüş, Ersin and Goldwurm, A. and Götz, D. and Grassi, M. and Guttridge, P. and Hakala, P. and Henri, G. and Hermsen, W. and Horak, J. and Hornstrup, A. and In 't Zand, J. J. M. and Isern, J. and Kalemci, Emrah and Kanbach, G. and Karas, V. and Kataria, D. and Kennedy, T. and Klochkov, D. and Kluzniak, W. and Kokkotas, K. and Kreykenbohm, I. and Krolik, J. and Kuiper, L. and Kuvvetli, I. and Kylafis, N. and Lattimer, J. M. and Lazzarotto, F. and Leahy, D. and Lebrun, F. and Lin, D. and Lund, N. and Maccarone, T. and Malzac, J. and Marisaldi, M. and Martindale, A. and Mastropietro, M. and McClintock, J. and McHardy, I. and Mendez, M. and Mereghetti, S. and Miller, M. C. and Mineo, T. and Morelli, E. and Morsink, S. and Motch, C. and Motta, S. and Munoz Darias, T. and Naletto, G. and Neustroev, V. and Nevalainen, J. and Olive, J. F. and Orio, M. and Orlandini, M. and Orleanski, P. and Ozel, F. and Pacciani, L. and Paltani, S. and Papadakis, I. and Papitto, A. and Patruno, A. and Pellizzoni, A. and Petracek, V. and Petri, J. and Petrucci, P. O. and Phlips, B. and Picolli, L. and Possenti, A. and Psaltis, D. and Rambaud, D. and Reig, P. and Remillard, R. and Rodriguez, J. and Romano, P. and Romanova, M. and Schanz, T. and Schmid, C. and Segreto, A. and Shearer, A. and Smith, A. and Smith, P. J. and Soffitta, P. and Stergioulas, N. and Stolarski, M. and Stuchlik, Z. and Tiengo, A. and Torres, D. and Török, G. and Turolla, R. and Uttley, P. and Vaughan, S. and Vercellone, S. and Waters, R. and Watts, A. and Wawrzaszek, R. and Webb, N. and Wilms, J. and Zampieri, L. and Zezas, A. and Ziolkowski, J. (2011) "The large observatory for x-ray timing (LOFT)", Experimental Astronomy (Sl), Vol.34, No.2, 415-444 (SCI)
Coriat, Mickael and Corbel, Stephane and Buxton, Michelle M. and Bailyn, Charles D. and Tomsick, John A. and Körding, Elmar and Kalemci, Emrah (2009) "The infrared/X-ray correlation of GX 339-4: probing hard X-ray emission in accreting black holes", Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Vol.400, No.1, 123-133 (SCI)
Butler, Suzanne C. and Tomsick, John A. and Chaty, Sylvain and Heras, Juan A. Zurita and Rodriguez, Jerome and Walter, Roland and Kaaret, Philip and Kalemci, Emrah and Özbey, Mehtap (2009) "Identifications of five INTEGRAL sources via optical spectroscopy", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol.698, No.1, 502-508 (SCI)
Erdeve, Işıl and Kalemci, Emrah and Alpar, M. Ali (2009) "Hard X-Ray flux upper limits of central compact objects in supernova remnants", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol.696, No.2, 1792-1797 (SCI)
Çalışkan, Şirin and Kalemci, Emrah and Baring, Matthew G. and Boggs, Steven E. and Kretschmar, Peter (2009) "Search for redshifted 2.2 MeV neutron capture line from A0535+262 in outburst", The Astrophysical Journal, Vol.694, No.1, 593-598 (SCI)
Joinet, Angelique and Kalemci, Emrah and Senziani, Fabio (2008) "Hard X-ray emission of the microquasar GRO J1655-40 during the rise of its 2005 outburst", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.679, 655-663 (SCI)
Migliari, Simone and Tomsick, John A. and Markoff, Sera and Kalemci, Emrah (2007) "Tracing the jet contribution to the mid-IR over the 2005 outburst of GRO J1655-40 via broadband spectral modeling", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.670, 610-623 (SCI)
Joinet, Angelique and Jourdain, Elizabeth and Malzac, Julien and Roques, Jean Pierre and Corbel, Stephane and Rodriguez, Jerome and Kalemci, Emrah (2007) "Hard X-ray emission of the microquasar GX 339-4 in the low/hard state", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.657, No.issue , 400-408 (SCI)
Kalemci, Emrah and Boggs, Steven E. and Kouveliotou, Chryssa and Finger, Mark H. and Baring, Matthew (2007) "Search for polarization from the prompt gamma-ray emission of GRB 041219a with SPI on INTEGRAL", Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Vol.169, No.1, 75-82 (SCI)
Renaud, Matthieu and Gros, Aleksandra and Lebrun, Francois and Terrier, R. and Goldwurm, A. and Reynolds, Stephen and Kalemci, Emrah (2006) "Imaging extended sources with coded mask telescopes: application to the INTEGRAL IBIS/ISGRI instrument", Astronomy and Astrophysics, Vol.456, No.1, 389-394 (SCI)
Kalemci, Emrah and Reynolds, Stephen and Boggs, Steven E. and Lund, Niels and Chenevez, Jerome and Renaud, Matthieu and Rho, J. (2006) "X-Ray observations of SN 1006 with INTEGRAL", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.644, No.issue , 274-278 (SCI)
Gelino, Dawn M. and Balman, Şölen and Kızıloğlu, Ümit and Yılmaz, Arda and Kalemci, Emrah and Tomsick, John A. (2006) "The inclination angle and mass of the black hole in XTE J1118+480", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.642, No.issue , 438-442 (SCI)
Kalemci, Emrah and Boggs, Steven E. and Milne, Peter A. and Reynolds, Stephen (2006) "Searching for annihilation radiation from SN 1006 with SPI on INTEGRAL", Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol.640, No.issue , L55-L57 (SCI)
Kalemci, Emrah and Tomsick, John A. and Rothschild, Richard E. and Pottschmidt, Katja and Corbel, Stephane and Kaaret, Philip (2006) "The galactic black hole transient H1743-322 during outburst decay: connections between timing noise, state transitions, and radio emission", Astrophysical Journal, Vol.639, No.Part 1, 340-347 (SCI)
Kalemci, Emrah and Tomsick, John A. and Buxton, M. M. and Rothschild, Richard E. and Pottschmidt, Katja and Corbel, Stephane and Brocksopp, C. and Kaaret, Philip (2005) "Multiwavelength observations of the Galactic black hole transient 4U 1543-47 during outburst decay: state transitions and jet contribution", The Astrophysical journal, Vol.622, No.1, 508-519 (SCI)
Book Section / Chapter
Kalemci, Emrah and Kara, Erin and Tomsick, John A., "Black holes: timing and spectral properties and evolution", Handbook of X-ray and Gamma-Ray Astrophysics, Bambi, Casimo and Santangelo, Andrea (eds.), Singapore: Springer Singapore, March 2024, 3939-3981
Working Paper / Technical Report
Casella, Piergiorgio and Fender, Rob and Coriat, Mickael and Kalemci, Emrah and Motta, S. and Neilsen, J. and Ponti, G. and Begelman, M. and Belloni, T. and Koerding, E. and Maccarone, T. J. and Petrucci, P. O. and Rodriguez, J. and Tomsick, J. and Bhattacharyya, S. and Bianchi, S. and Del Santo, M. and Donnarumma, I. and Gandhi, P. and Homan, J. and Jonker, P. and Kalamkar, M. and Malzac, J. and Markoff, S. and Migliari, S. and Miller, J. and Miller-Jones, J. and Poutanen, J. and Remillard, R. and Russell, D. M. and Uttley, P. and Zdziarski, A., "The physics of accretion-ejection with LOFT", January 2015
McConnell, Mark and Baring, Matthew G. and Bellazzini, Ronaldo and Bloser, Peter F. and Costa, Enrico and Dennis, Brian and Depaola, Gerardo and Dovciak, Michal and Elsner, Ron and Emslie, A. Gordon and Hartmann, Dieter H. and Hill, Joanne and Hunter, Stanley and Kalemci, Emrah and Kanbach, Gottfried and Karas, Vladimir and Kaaret, Philip and Kaspi, Victoria and Kippen, R. Marc and Kurfess, James and Longo, Francesco and Marshall, Herman and Matt, Giorgio and O’Dell, Stephen and Pavlov, George and Poutanen, Juri and Produit, Nicolas and Sakamoto, Takanori and Toma, Kenji and Weisskopf, Martin C. and Wunderer, Cornelia and Zhang, Bing, "X-ray and gamma-ray polarimetry", January 2009, Sabancı University ID:2009astro2010S.198M
Publications Prior to SU

5. E. Kalemci, J.A. Tomsick, M. Buxton, R.E. Rothschild, K. Pottschmidt, S. Corbel, C. Brocksopp, P. Kaaret, "Multi-wavelength observations of Galactic black hole transient 4U 1543-47 during outburst decay: state transitions and jet formation", 2005, APJ, 622, 508

6. E. Kalemci, J.A. Tomsick, R.E. Rothschild, K. Pottschmidt, P. Kaaret, "A close look at the state transitions of Galactic black hole transients during outburst decay", 2004, APJ, 603, p231

7. E. Kalemci, J.A. Tomsick, R.E. Rothschild, K. Pottschmidt, S. Corbel, R. Wijnands, J.M. Miller, P. Kaaret, "X -ray temporal properties of XTE J1650-500 during outburst decay", 2003, ApJ, 586, p419

8. E. Kalemci, J.A. Tomsick, R.E. Rothschild, K. Pottschmidt, P. Kaaret, "X-ray observations of XTE J1550-564 during the decay of the 2000 outburst. II. Timing", 2001, ApJ, 563, p239.