Faculty | Alex T. Deibel
Visiting Assistant Professor
Ph.D. Astrophysics,
Michigan State University, 2017
Contact Information:
Department of Astronomy
Indiana University
Swain West 408
727 East Third Street
Bloomington, IN 47405
Phone: (812) 856-3931
Email: adeibel [at] indiana.edu
Biographical Information
Alex Deibel joined the IU Astronomy Department in August 2017. He earned his Bachelor’s degrees in Astronomy and Interdisciplinary Physics from the University of Michigan in 2010. He earned a Master’s degree in Astrophysics at Michigan State University in 2012 and a Ph.D. in Astrophysics at Michigan State University in 2017.
Research Interests
Dr. Deibel’s primary research areas are in theoretical nuclear astrophysics and theoretical stellar astrophysics. Much of his research involves numerical models of neutron stars and uses X-ray observations of these objects to model their interiors. He is a collaborating member in the Joint Institute for Nuclear Astrophysics — Center for the Evolution of the Elements (http://jinaweb.org).
Teaching
- A100: The Solar System
- A103: The Search for Life in the Universe
Selected Publications
- Deep crustal heating by neutrinos from the surface of accreting neutron stars
Fattoyev, F. J., Brown, E. F., Cumming, A., Deibel, A., Horowitz, C. J., Li, B.-A., Lin, Z. 2019, PhysRevC, 98, 025801. - Nuclear Reactions in the Crusts of Accreting Neutron Stars
Lau, R., Beard, M. et al., 2018, ApJ, 859, 62. - Different Accretion Heating of the Neutron Star Crust during Multiple Outbursts in MAXI J0556-332
Parikh, A. S., Homan, J. et al. 2017, ApJ, 851, L28. - Late time cooling of neutron star transients and the physics of the inner crust
Deibel, A., Cumming, A., Brown, E. F., Reddy, S. 2017, ApJ, 839, 95. - Constraints on bygone nucleosynthesis of accreting neutron stars
Meisel, Z., Deibel, A., 2017, ApJ, 837, 73. - Neutron star crustal cooling in KS 1731-260 14.5 years into quiescence
Merritt, R. L., Cackett, E. M., Brown, E. F., Page, D., Cumming, A. et al. (including A. Deibel), 2016, ApJ, ,833, 186 - Ocean g-modes on transient neutron stars
Deibel, A., 2016, ApJ, 832, 44. - Urca cooling pairs in the neutron star ocean and their effect on superbursts
Deibel, A., Meisel, Z., Schatz, H., Brown, E. F., Cumming, A., 2016, ApJ, 831, 13.
