Adjunct Professor Emeritus Professor of Physics,
Iowa State University
Research Interests
My general research interest is observational high energy
astrophysics. Most recently I have been involved in the analysis of
archival satellite data, using instruments on the Gamma Ray
Observatory (mostly EGRET) and various X-ray satellites (Rosat, RXTE,
XMM, and Chandra). My X-ray work has resulted in the discovery of 10
previously unknown X-ray binary pulsars. In 2007 the Gamma-Ray Large Area
Space Telescope (GLAST) with an order-of-magnitude improvement over
EGRET is scheduled to be launched. I intend to be an active user of
its public database searching for previously unknown gamma-ray pulsars.
Education and History
B.S.: M.I.T. 1955
Ph. D.: University of Kentucky, 1963
Argonne National Laboratory 1963-67
Iowa State University 1967-96
California Institute of Technology 1996-2004
University of Kentucky 2004-
Selected Publications
D.A.Lewis, R.C.Lamb, and S.D. Biller,
"Phase Coherence for TeV/PeV Binary
Sources," Astrophysical Journal, 269, 479 (1991)
R.C.Lamb, "Overview of TeV Gamma Ray Observations",
Space Science Reviews,
75, 53, (1996)
R.C.Lamb and D.J.Macomb, "Point Sources of GeV Gamma Rays",
Astrophysical Journal, 488, 872, (1997)
A.M.Chandler, D.T.Koh, R.C.Lamb, D.J.Macomb, J.R.Mattox,
T.A.Prince, and
R.S.Ray, "A Search for Radio-Quiet Gamma-ray Pulsars",
Astrophysical Journal
556, 59 (2001)
R.C.Lamb, D.W.Fox, D.J.Macomb, T.A.Prince,
"Discovery of a Possible
Anomalous X-ray Pulsar in the Small Magellanic Cloud",
Astrophysical Journal
Letters, 574, 29L (2002)
W.A.Majid, R.C.Lamb, D.J.Macomb,
"X-ray Pulsars in the Small Magellanic
Cloud", 609, 133 (2004)
